{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10.xml", "sha256": "1846f370baa974aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "preceding_text": "\"Focus\" is a high-quality leaflet and I am sure that no one would regard it as junk mail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10.xml", "sha256": "1846f370baa974aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": " 41, can the right hon. Gentleman confirm whether raising the maximum level of the fine and the maximum level of imprisonment, as I mentioned earlier, will relate to all forms of fly-tipping, not just hazardous or non-hazardous waste? Can he also confirm that offences under clause 41 are arrestable offences, so that perpetrators of the crime, not just vehicles, can be apprehended and seized—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10.xml", "sha256": "1846f370baa974aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Eight years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": ". Clause 44 also relates to immediate seizure, and we would hope that an arrestable offence would be extended to those provisions. Clause 46 provides powers to stop and search a vehicle and its contents, but is again silent on whether the equal power of arrest in relation to suspected perpetrators will be granted. I remind the House that the Government have been in power for almost 18 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Not during Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Not during Question Time. [Interruption.] From time to time, the Speaker needs advice. I must get advice, and there is no point in anyone shouting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.5.3", "colnum": "5", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": ", when the security situation in Iraq is very serious indeed. It is not sufficient for the Secretary of State to do this; it should be a statement. Many colleagues on both sides of the House would like the opportunity to press him on this. Will the Secretary of State give a guarantee that he will come back to the House and turn this into a proper statement so that all colleagues today might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.5.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman missed the answer that I gave to the previous question—perhaps he prepared his question well in advance of today's Defence questions. But this is Defence questions and I simply do not understand why in the course of Defence questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "er. On an issue of such importance, the practice of the House has been that notice is given of a statement, and a detailed statement is made, in response to which hon. Members are entitled to ask detailed questions. On this occasion, we understand that an extra 650 troops are to be deployed to Iraq, but we have no further details of their objectives or their location. That is unsatisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "The Government have been in power for quite a long time and seem to have woken up to some of the issues. On fly-tipping, I am not opposed to all the measures in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the sort of issue that we want to explore in Committee. There are situations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) is in discussions with Wrigley's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "preceding_text": "\"Focus\" is a high-quality leaflet and I am sure that no one would regard it as junk mail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": " 41, can the right hon. Gentleman confirm whether raising the maximum level of the fine and the maximum level of imprisonment, as I mentioned earlier, will relate to all forms of fly-tipping, not just hazardous or non-hazardous waste? Can he also confirm that offences under clause 41 are arrestable offences, so that perpetrators of the crime, not just vehicles, can be apprehended and seized—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-10", "file": "debates2005-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "94f0da7c56904fca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Eight years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": ". Clause 44 also relates to immediate seizure, and we would hope that an arrestable offence would be extended to those provisions. Clause 46 provides powers to stop and search a vehicle and its contents, but is again silent on whether the equal power of arrest in relation to suspected perpetrators will be granted. I remind the House that the Government have been in power for almost 18 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-10a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11.xml", "sha256": "d84ab3c23e86f654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "I recall that when I was the Committee's Whip it was difficult to persuade many Members to attend, but it has held useful meetings on a number of matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11.xml", "sha256": "d84ab3c23e86f654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "We do not accept that there is a case for compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11.xml", "sha256": "d84ab3c23e86f654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see my hon. Friend back in his place after his absence. He must make his own judgment about the circumstances in which I am making this statement. In the 26 years in which I have been in this House, however, I have heard some statements that compare with the one that I have just made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11.xml", "sha256": "d84ab3c23e86f654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "leman also raised the question of this House suspending the privileges and parliamentary allowances of Sinn Fein Members. First, I have already said in my statement that the Government will consider a range of possibilities in the coming days, and I think the House would agree that we need to take some time to consider the most effective way of bringing pressure to bear on the republican movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11.xml", "sha256": "d84ab3c23e86f654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "my statement that the Government will consider a range of possibilities in the coming days, and I think the House would agree that we need to take some time to consider the most effective way of bringing pressure to bear on the republican movement. [Hon. Members: \"Why?\"] Not least because we need to discuss a number of the issues relating to sanctions and penalties with the Irish Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8c26ddb0bf8c32a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Rosemary McKenna", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rosemary McKenna", "preceding_text": "May I wholeheartedly agree with my right hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8c26ddb0bf8c32a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "I recall that when I was the Committee's Whip it was difficult to persuade many Members to attend, but it has held useful meetings on a number of matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8c26ddb0bf8c32a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "It should not be for the Modernisation Committee to lecture the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8c26ddb0bf8c32a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "It should not be for the Modernisation Committee to lecture the House— [Interruption.] The responses of Members of Parliament to the Procedure Committee's questionnaire showed that only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.162.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8c26ddb0bf8c32a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Guantanamo Bay", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see my hon. Friend back in his place after his absence. He must make his own judgment about the circumstances in which I am making this statement. In the 26 years in which I have been in this House, however, I have heard some statements that compare with the one that I have just made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8c26ddb0bf8c32a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "leman also raised the question of this House suspending the privileges and parliamentary allowances of Sinn Fein Members. First, I have already said in my statement that the Government will consider a range of possibilities in the coming days, and I think the House would agree that we need to take some time to consider the most effective way of bringing pressure to bear on the republican movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-11", "file": "debates2005-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8c26ddb0bf8c32a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "my statement that the Government will consider a range of possibilities in the coming days, and I think the House would agree that we need to take some time to consider the most effective way of bringing pressure to bear on the republican movement. [Hon. Members: \"Why?\"] Not least because we need to discuss a number of the issues relating to sanctions and penalties with the Irish Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-11a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12.xml", "sha256": "d9ef57624f128af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12.281.8", "colnum": "281", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The south-east.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Any judgment about how many houses are needed in the north-east will be considered not only by the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12.281.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12.xml", "sha256": "d9ef57624f128af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "o responded rapidly. There is a danger—we saw it with the tsunami disaster and we are seeing it here again—of imagining that we can deal with such forces of nature, solve every problem and hold back the consequences in Canute style. There is also a danger, and the hon. Member for North Tayside (Pete Wishart) came close to it, as do his party colleagues, of sitting in the comfort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12.xml", "sha256": "d9ef57624f128af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "re grateful for them. For example, in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, among the many initiatives, we have objective 1 integrated area plans, the much-appreciated neighbourhood renewal programmes and health action zones, the healthy towns initiatives, healthy living initiatives, market town initiatives, coastal town initiatives, vital villages, Sure Start, the Cornwall action team for jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12.xml", "sha256": "d9ef57624f128af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "ves, vital villages, Sure Start, the Cornwall action team for jobs—[Hon. Members: \"Labour.\"] We also have neighbourhood nursery schemes, the parish paths partnership, partnership development funds, the skills development fund, the rural key fund, rural renaissance initiatives, the community champions fund, community chest, the community empowerment fund and the safer communities initiatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.281.8", "colnum": "281", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The south-east.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Any judgment about how many houses are needed in the north-east will be considered not only by the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.281.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.288.6", "colnum": "288", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the Deputy Prime Minister replies, I say to the House that the noise is intolerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.288.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Both the Chancellor and I have dismissed what is in books as the tittle-tattle that it is. Let us turn to another policy issue. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said yesterday that it is time that we focused on the people's priorities, so let us focus on one: mortgages. Will he confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.292.6", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.292.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ave economic stability and success. When he was a member of the last Government, there were two recessions. People remember the negative equity, the high mortgages and the 3 million unemployed. They remember what happened under the last Conservative Government, and they remember something else that I have not mentioned before—that he was the Minister responsible for introducing the poll tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Precisely the same. It will be a manifesto that makes sure that we continue the huge economic record, that we continue the investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Benefit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "hedules, this is a small and relatively straightforward Bill, even taking into account the regulations and changes to the tax credits system that will accompany it. However, it raises a number of detailed and important questions that I shall deal with in a moment. I am afraid that that will probably be the most boring part of my speech for some hon. Members who are not so interested in the detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "EU OBJECTIVE 1 REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "re grateful for them. For example, in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, among the many initiatives, we have objective 1 integrated area plans, the much-appreciated neighbourhood renewal programmes and health action zones, the healthy towns initiatives, healthy living initiatives, market town initiatives, coastal town initiatives, vital villages, Sure Start, the Cornwall action team for jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "EU OBJECTIVE 1 REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "ves, vital villages, Sure Start, the Cornwall action team for jobs—[Hon. Members: \"Labour.\"] We also have neighbourhood nursery schemes, the parish paths partnership, partnership development funds, the skills development fund, the rural key fund, rural renaissance initiatives, the community champions fund, community chest, the community empowerment fund and the safer communities initiatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-12", "file": "debates2005-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "87b2a9faad76b181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "EU OBJECTIVE 1 REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "What is my hon. Friend's assessment of the effect of such doom-mongering on morale and enthusiasm in the business, voluntary and public sectors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-12a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13.xml", "sha256": "43db7f7e04275bdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "There are no more efficient dairy farmers than in Cheshire, especially in Congleton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13.xml", "sha256": "43db7f7e04275bdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "61 and schedule 2; and the guidance issued by the Office of Fair Trading mentioned in clauses 19, 30 and 41. How will those different jurisdictions work together as a coherent system of consumer protection? Is the OFT guidance on the fitness of consumer credit companies for a licence sufficient? Will it leave businesses feeling informed and prepared, when the primary legislation states only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13.xml", "sha256": "43db7f7e04275bdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": " charged in such examples could pass a fairness test. I therefore agree with the Government's approach. The Committee that the right hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall) chairs has been active on the issue in the past year or two. My hon. Friend the Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) , who serves on the Committee, has also been active and kept me apprised of much of the Committee's activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13.xml", "sha256": "43db7f7e04275bdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "t. She also provided warnings about debt, and I echo her remarks. The right hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) discussed interest rate charges. I have not been persuaded yet and want to return to this point, but his argument for a statutory instrument to allow the Minister, whoever they may be—an election may well be coming up—to impose a ceiling on interest rates was persuasive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that many of us on the Opposition Benches are not seeking to score political points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "There are no more efficient dairy farmers than those in Cheshire, especially in Congleton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.440.4", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Foreign Secretary will want to keep the House informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.440.6", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I agree. I, too, am delighted to see the Father of the House back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.440.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.440.6", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You can't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I agree. I, too, am delighted to see the Father of the House back. [Interruption.] I do mean it. I have a great deal of respect for him. The more he wants to heckle me, with the Speaker's permission, the happier I will be. I just want to ask him a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.440.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "m—and sometimes at him—at the Dispatch Box. It would have been helpful to know that the Secretary of State was not listed to appear, and that today's arrangements were pre-planned. I am somewhat relieved to hear that she did not have to choose between being in London with the Prime Minister or in Africa with the Chancellor; instead, she decided to strike out on her own and go to India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": " on her own and go to India. [Interruption.] Labour Members clearly do not like being reminded of the proper courtesies of the House. People have always wanted things that they cannot immediately afford, and there will always be others on hand with money to lend to them—at a cost. We cannot at all times follow Polonius's famous injunction in \"Hamlet\" to \"Neither a borrower, nor a lender be\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "61 and schedule 2; and the guidance issued by the Office of Fair Trading mentioned in clauses 19, 30 and 41. How will those different jurisdictions work together as a coherent system of consumer protection? Is the OFT guidance on the fitness of consumer credit companies for a licence sufficient? Will it leave businesses feeling informed and prepared, when the primary legislation states only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": " charged in such examples could pass a fairness test. I therefore agree with the Government's approach. The Committee that the right hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McFall) chairs has been active on the issue in the past year or two. My hon. Friend the Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) , who serves on the Committee, has also been active and kept me apprised of much of the Committee's activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-13", "file": "debates2005-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "76354fc9d1ab684b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "t. She also provided warnings about debt, and I echo her remarks. The right hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) discussed interest rate charges. I have not been persuaded yet and want to return to this point, but his argument for a statutory instrument to allow the Minister, whoever that may be—an election may well be coming up—to impose a ceiling on interest rates was persuasive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-13a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-17", "file": "debates2005-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "a268c84203ce235e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.536.7", "colnum": "536", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "We have made it clear that switch-off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.536.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-17", "file": "debates2005-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "a268c84203ce235e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to get involved in this, because I must be one of the few non-lawyers in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-17", "file": "debates2005-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "a268c84203ce235e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.562.4", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "If the House of Lords decides that it wishes its presiding officer—whatever he will be called—to be the present Lord Chancellor, but the Prime Minister decides that the Lord Chancellor's office should be held by a Member of the House of Commons, how will the Government square that circle?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-17", "file": "debates2005-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "a268c84203ce235e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The position is clear. We are committed to the preservation of the office of Lord Chancellor in a form in which he is both a lawyer and a Member of the Lords. That is fundamental, and I believe and trust that we would take action to restore the office. As for the supreme court, we must see what the position is when a Conservative Government come to office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-17", "file": "debates2005-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "a268c84203ce235e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.583.4", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " supreme court will cost £30 million to set up. I suspect that that is a highly conservative figure. If we have understood him correctly, the court is heading straight into the Middlesex Guildhall, which is the one place that the Law Lords who support the idea of a supreme court do not want to go, because it would send out all the wrong signals about what they are and how they operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.583.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-17", "file": "debates2005-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "a268c84203ce235e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed. Of course, the Law Lords are helped in their work by the fact that they are present in the House of Lords, so they are intimately aware of current trends in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-17", "file": "debates2005-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "a268c84203ce235e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "his is a very important Bill. On the Floor of the House, where these things are traditionally discussed, we will be able to discuss only fragments of the Bill, and those fragments have been selected for us not by discussion between Front-Bench Members, but by the proposal of Ministers. I acquit the Under-Secretary of State of responsibility. I suppose that he did not know; it was not his decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-17", "file": "debates2005-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "a268c84203ce235e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "ecially useful when talking about the role of the Lord Chancellor. The Lord Chancellor's role is something else. We could have a courts Department, but if we go back only 20, 30 or 40 years—before the Lord Chancellor's Department, or, now, the Department for Constitutional Affairs, became such a spending leviathan—all the arguments that the Minister put forward at 3.30 pm fall to bits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-17a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18.xml", "sha256": "3ee788684c9d5460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.678.6", "colnum": "678", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend has seen an article in one of today's newspaper suggesting that we suppressed a report about the number of accident and emergency attendances that are alcohol-related. In fact, it is completely untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.678.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18.xml", "sha256": "3ee788684c9d5460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.680.4", "colnum": "680", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " of more patient power and choice of provider, allied with the investment that the Government have put in. So the capacity and the reform, including NHS foundation trusts, have resulted in more, quicker and better quality health care for most people. I recognise that there is still a long way to go, but I promise that this Government, God and the electorate willing, will continue to improve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.680.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18.xml", "sha256": "3ee788684c9d5460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.680.6", "colnum": "680", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "her principle that, I am afraid, divides us—that people in this country, in line with the founding principle of the national health service, which they still support, should maintain equal access to health care, free at the point of need. We are absolutely committed to that, and we absolutely refute charging for any operations through the national health service, which is the proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18.xml", "sha256": "3ee788684c9d5460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.680.6", "colnum": "680", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "nal health service, which they still support, should maintain equal access to health care, free at the point of need. We are absolutely committed to that, and we absolutely refute charging for any operations through the national health service, which is the proposal— [Interruption.] As Conservative Members are trying to intervene, let me read from their document on the right to choose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18.xml", "sha256": "3ee788684c9d5460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Not for a moment. I have only a limited voice left. The drugs that I am taking are legal, but they do not save it from wearing out quickly with this flu.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18.xml", "sha256": "3ee788684c9d5460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Not for a moment. I have only a limited voice left. The drugs that I am taking are legal, but they do not save it from wearing out quickly with this flu. [Interruption.] Magic mushrooms will not help either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18.xml", "sha256": "3ee788684c9d5460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "ribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) and I certainly add my voice to those in praise of him. My hon. Friend the Member for Central Fife (Mr. MacDougall) spoke with the authentic voice of his community. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) has yet again educated us in such a way that makes many of us wish that we had been his pupils at Salford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "\"This was a decision we never wished to make and it is a highly regrettable position to find ourselves in. We have been proactive in our discussions with the Department of Health but the traffic has almost been entirely one way. To continue would be to devalue NHS dentistry and to let down the dentists we represent.\" Under this Government, NHS dentistry is devalued and dentists are let down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.678.6", "colnum": "678", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend has seen an article in one of today's newspaper suggesting that we suppressed a report about the number of accident and emergency attendances that are alcohol related. In fact, it is completely untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.678.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "I agree with the Government. We are all aware that there are problems arising from binge drinking. That is why we are the first Government to set out a harm reduction strategy, and the first Government to produce a comprehensive White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.680.4", "colnum": "680", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " of more patient power and choice of provider, allied with the investment that the Government have put in. So the capacity and the reform, including NHS foundation trusts, have resulted in more, quicker and better quality health care for most people. I recognise that there is still a long way to go, but I promise that this Government, God and the electorate willing, will continue to improve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.680.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.680.6", "colnum": "680", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ciple that, I am afraid, divides us—that people in this country, in line with the founding principle of the national health service, which they still support, should continue to have equal access to health care, free at the point of need. We are absolutely committed to that, and we absolutely refute charging for any operations through the national health service, which is the proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.680.6", "colnum": "680", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "th service, which they still support, should continue to have equal access to health care, free at the point of need. We are absolutely committed to that, and we absolutely refute charging for any operations through the national health service, which is the proposal— [Interruption.] As Conservative Members are trying to intervene, let me read from their document on the right to choose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "While my right hon. Friend considers the Swedish experience, which has seen a recent relatively large increase in drug use, will he also consider the Portuguese experience? In 2001, Portugal decriminalised all drugs, which meant an immediate drop in the number of prosecutions from 2,005 to fewer than 13 in the last year. Drug deaths have also halved and the number of AIDS cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.700.6", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is impossible to argue that the abuse of class A drugs, which is what we are principally talking about in the Bill, does not cause harm to society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.700.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.700.8", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Fewer. I beg hon. Members' pardon; I stand corrected by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.700.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Not for a moment. I have only a limited voice left. The drugs that I am taking are legal, but they do not save it from wearing out quickly with this flu.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Not for a moment. I have only a limited voice left. The drugs that I am taking are legal, but they do not save it from wearing out quickly with this flu. [Interruption.] Magic mushrooms will not help either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.703.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.705.2", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " lips and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes . . . if you mean the drink the same which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our aged and infirm, and allows us to build highways, hospitals and schools—then certainly, I am in favour of it. This is my view and I will not compromise.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": "se near perfect laboratory conditions, however, the application of those unstable substances had unpredictable outcomes on different personalities. Clearly, even under those conditions, we did more damage than good. Whatever else is true, we must try to educate our youth on how to avoid the use of drugs—and I include alcohol. Let me say bluntly that the idea of having 24-hour licences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-18", "file": "debates2005-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "89f4a2d3ce0bb887", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "ribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) and I certainly add my voice to those in praise of him. My hon. Friend the Member for Central Fife (Mr. MacDougall) spoke with the authentic voice of his community. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) has yet again educated us in such a way that makes many of us wish that we had been his pupils at Salford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-18a.773.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Luke", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that one way of increasing the accountability of Ministers to the people of Northern Ireland and making the workings of the House more accessible to them would be for the sittings of the Northern Ireland Grand Committee to take place in Northern Ireland during the suspension?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " on our policy: we will keep the Small Business Service, not cut it. We will keep the new deal, not cut it. We will keep the money that goes into regeneration, not cut it, and we will keep the money that goes into health care and not cut it. We will never promise to cut taxes and spend more—the promises that the previous Conservative Government made. What did they end up with? Boom and bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Clelland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Clelland", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that what has been described as the finest music auditorium in the world is not in Paris, not in Rome, not in New York, and not even in London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am pretty sure that English Partnerships is not on the list of 168.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.823.5", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Two hundred and thirty-five?\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " useful function. We are merging bodies that can be merged and getting rid of bodies that provide no value for taxpayers' money. It is a good list of 168 bodies, and I am sure that the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mr. Hall) would agree that the whole lot could go. We will also get rid of 235 bureaucratic posts, although I accept that some of the Labour party's funders will find that controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.823.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I shall make a few opening remarks, and then I shall be only too happy to give way to the right hon. Gentleman. I want to say a few words to the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) , the shadow Chief Secretary. I am a great admirer of the hon. Gentleman. In the serried ranks of the Opposition, he is a precocious talent among all those grey locks, and I enjoy his speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "e only too happy to give way to the right hon. Gentleman. I want to say a few words to the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) , the shadow Chief Secretary. I am a great admirer of the hon. Gentleman. In the serried ranks of the Opposition, he is a precocious talent among all those grey locks, and I enjoy his speeches. [Interruption.] He is certainly younger than me, and he may be better looking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.827.7", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I will not give way at the moment. What we have not yet had, and I ask for some reassurance on this point now, is sight of the full James report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.827.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes or no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Once again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I shall not go down that road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "million in 2004–05 as result of improved Highways Agency contracting and other measures. Crucially, the Ministry of Defence will deliver over £400 million in savings through improved defence logistics. What we have not heard—it may be that we will get a clearer take on this when the James report is published, not in the form of a slide presentation in a battered folder but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.834.5", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " eat their hats or humble pie—they are more likely to eat hats than they are to eat humble pie. If the hon. Gentleman can identify the chair in the real world, rather than in the fevered imagination of those in Conservative party central office, on the day many years hence—20 or 30 years' time—when he eventually achieves ministerial office, I will buy him a chair for that office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.834.5", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "e likely to eat hats than they are to eat humble pie. If the hon. Gentleman can identify the chair in the real world, rather than in the fevered imagination of those in Conservative party central office, on the day many years hence—20 or 30 years' time—when he eventually achieves ministerial office, I will buy him a chair for that office. [Interruption.] That is the extent of my offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.855.3", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Since when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "preceding_text": "by investment rather than cuts. Any programme designed to cut out the chance of increasing the number of dentists will not help the situation. That seems painfully obvious. The reality is that nowadays we are living with the lowest inflation since the 1960s. Interest rates are at their lowest for 40 years and we are living through the longest period of economic growth that anyone can recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Except Jim.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "preceding_text": "that Hollywood primary school has recently been refurbished and that Colmore junior school, which achieved excellent results recently, has just recruited new classroom assistants and teachers. They will tell me that the secondary schools have more resources than ever and urge me to tell the Chief Secretary and his colleagues to continue on that path. I have not heard one commentator endorse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Value for Taxpayers' Money", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "preceding_text": "s and regeneration in some of the most run-down parts of Birmingham are the kind of people who would be thrown on the scrapheap. Of course, as we heard yesterday at Health questions, the Conservatives would also like to sack the accountants who work in the health service—the very people who are capable of tracking budgets, trying to avoid waste and ensuring value for money. I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-19", "file": "debates2005-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fcac3779d8735e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Farming and Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "Let me make it clear that that does not mean a charge on farmers, as the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) implied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-19a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20.xml", "sha256": "b310660f541d98e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I believe that it is important to get the names right. That is why the Army spent so much time examining the issue. There was a whole process of consultation within the Army, which the Army Board took into account. Not everyone agrees with what we are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20.xml", "sha256": "b310660f541d98e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " we can identify £80 million of waste at St. Athan. My hon. Friend the Member for Gosport (Mr. Viggers) made an excellent point about the lack of depth in the reserve, which was echoed by my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson) . I want my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) to know that I used to take parachute and free-fall courses at Brize Norton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a8147b9977d2bf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": " discipline in the classroom and good teaching, and children learning in a good learning environment. Over the next few weeks and months I intend to draw attention to Conservative policies, which would wreak havoc on our plans for school discipline, on our measures to tackle truancy and open up university access for all children, and on our support for working parents in East Anglia and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a8147b9977d2bf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I believe that it is important to get the names right. That is why the Army spent so much time examining the issue. There was a whole process of consultation within the Army, which the Army Board took into account. Not everyone agrees with what we are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a8147b9977d2bf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "d reaffirmed at the beginning of the week, is to spend more money in the defence budget on the front line. We will also produce money from savings in other Departments to go to the front line. I always think that the Minister would make a good music hall act because he changes between being serious and becoming a knockabout Scottish comedian—he is the Harry Lauder of the Ministry of Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a8147b9977d2bf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "r reports on problems at Deepcut and on bullying in the Army ended up and who took responsibility for them. If there is to be discipline, it should start at the top. Discipline and a duty of care should be exercised from the top downwards. It is beyond belief that for years the MOD was in a state of denial and thought the problems would go away. That was the failure that so depressed the families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a8147b9977d2bf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "t for years the MOD was in a state of denial and thought the problems would go away. That was the failure that so depressed the families. [Interruption.] I can understand the Minister for the Armed Forces muttering under his breath that he does not want to hear it. He did not want to hear the intervention earlier. He did not want to hear what the parents of the dead soldiers had been saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a8147b9977d2bf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " we can identify £80 million of waste at St. Athan. My hon. Friend the Member for Gosport (Mr. Viggers) made an excellent point about the lack of depth in the reserve, which was echoed by my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson) . I want my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) to know that I used to take parachute and free-fall courses at Brize Norton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-20", "file": "debates2005-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a8147b9977d2bf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "consist of essential military and civilian staff who work together very closely. Realistically, to make savings on that scale the Conservatives would be forced to make some £900 million of cuts in vital logistics and procurement. That would weaken our defence capabilities and lead to massive job cuts in British industry. It is clear that the sums have not been thought through properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-20a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24.xml", "sha256": "7ab45a87b161a030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is a great pity that the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) does not do the research to substantiate her allegations. As for a housing crisis, I do not think that anyone doubted that there was one in 1997 when we came to office. There was negative equity, the public sector had been robbed of 1.8 million houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24.xml", "sha256": "7ab45a87b161a030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is a great pity that the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) does not do the research to substantiate her allegations. As for a housing crisis, I do not think that anyone doubted that there was one in 1997 when we came to office. There was negative equity, the public sector had been robbed of 1.8 million houses— [Interruption.] Can you shut up for a second while I explain the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24.xml", "sha256": "7ab45a87b161a030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "es report seems to suggest that the Conservatives will slash another £500 million out of the housing programme. When they launched their programme in November, they probably did not tell her that the James report was coming out in January and would effectively slash her proposals in the new housing document. I thought it was quite offensive when the hon. Lady talked about key worker ghettos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "2004—the precise month in which the hon. Gentleman says that he wrote to me—contact centres handling new and repeat claims answered on average 80 per cent. of calls within 20 seconds, which is inside the target time frame. I will look into the difficulties that the hon. Gentleman says some his constituents have experienced, but without his drawing it specifically to my attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.8.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "rm answer—the pension protection fund—would not have been put in place if we had listened to the shadow Secretary of State and declined to give the Pensions Bill a Second Reading. The financial assistance scheme is an emergency package of £400 million of public money. We would like more money from the private sector and we are working hard to get a scheme up and running in April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Homes for All: Five-year Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "sible. So I am asking English Partnerships to hold a competition, challenging the contractors and house builders to produce a well-designed, environmentally efficient home for £60,000 without sacrificing safety or quality. Next week at the sustainable communities summit in Manchester, English Partnerships will exhibit a house that shows that high standards can be delivered at low cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Homes for All: Five-year Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is a great pity that the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) does not do the research to substantiate her allegations. As for a housing crisis, I do not think that anyone doubted that there was one in 1997 when we came to office. There was negative equity, the public sector had been robbed of 1.8 million houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Homes for All: Five-year Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is a great pity that the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) does not do the research to substantiate her allegations. As for a housing crisis, I do not think that anyone doubted that there was one in 1997 when we came to office. There was negative equity, the public sector had been robbed of 1.8 million houses— [Interruption.] Can you shut up for a second while I explain the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Homes for All: Five-year Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "es report seems to suggest that the Conservatives will slash another £500 million out of the housing programme. When they launched their programme in November, they probably did not tell her that the James report was coming out in January and would effectively slash her proposals in the new housing document. I thought it was quite offensive when the hon. Lady talked about key worker ghettos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Homes for All: Five-year Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's comments. Having read the press reports, I do not confirm that there was a battle going on about that at all. It made for good, exciting press chat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Homes for All: Five-year Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-24", "file": "debates2005-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "1972410cb2a1d011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.92.4", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geraldine Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraldine Smith", "preceding_text": " I have played on them many times, and I have to declare an interest and say that I have won, so it is possible to win on such a machine. The House may be interested to hear that I won a cuddly bulldog with a Union Jack, which I passed on to the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Rosindell) as a Christmas present. The machines provide a great deal of fun for children. They make a rainy day in Morecambe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-24a.92.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25.xml", "sha256": "f25c8f5ec286c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "That is the same kind of argument as saying, for example, that we may as well legalise drugs because we are driving people underground to buy them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25.xml", "sha256": "f25c8f5ec286c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": " people underground to buy them. [Hon. Members: \"It is not the same.\"] Well, it is a parallel argument, which I do not accept. In transposing the directive we are acting on Food Standards Agency advice. We must remember that producers are there to serve consumers, and it should be in producers' interest to ensure the safety of consumers. The measure has a more liberalising effect on the EU market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25.xml", "sha256": "f25c8f5ec286c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "The Lib Dems will support the motion, but it was strange and even sad that although the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) began his speech by talking the language of cross-party consensus, he then, within a few sentences, provoked party differences for polemical reasons. I do not think that that will help the food supplement case at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25.xml", "sha256": "f25c8f5ec286c1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Succession to the Crown and Retirement of the Sovereign", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ck to singing. Not only does he make a nicer noise and rather more sense then, but he generally reads from a better script. If I had had that text before me when I was a schoolmaster many years ago, I would have given it a gamma minus as a sixth-form essay and would not have allowed it to be discussed at great length. My hon. Friend has produced a most extraordinary tissue of ridiculous arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "impact on binge drinking through the type of measure that I have announced. That is why the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers accompanied my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on the platform of last Friday's press conference to commit ACPO as a whole to implementing the measures and making them work. I can tell the House confidentially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is either being disingenuous himself or his brain is not working as well as I had hoped it might work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.235.4", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "Shadow Cabinet, eh?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.235.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not any more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "The internet is a challenge, and it always poses problems for regulation, as I am sure my hon. Friend is aware. It also provides a route for people to bypass safeguards, and we must consider what measures we can take. It is up to the Government to make sure that the health of the consumer comes first. If people wish to ignore that advice, it is a free country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "That is the same kind of argument as saying, for example, that we may as well legalise drugs because we are driving people underground to buy them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": " people underground to buy them. [Hon. Members: \"It is not the same.\"] Well, it is a parallel argument, which I do not accept. In transposing the directive we are acting on Food Standards Agency advice. We must remember that producers are there to serve consumers, and it should be in producers' interest to ensure the safety of consumers. The measure has a more liberalising effect on the EU market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "The Lib Dems will support the motion, but it was strange and even sad that although the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) began his speech by talking the language of cross-party consensus, he then, within a few sentences, provoked party differences for polemical reasons. I do not think that that will help the food supplement case at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "That is the worry about the new European agency: that it will, if I may use an old hunting term, \"roll the lady over\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "That is the worry about the new European agency: that it will, if I may use an old hunting term, \"roll the lady over\". [Laughter.] I will withdraw that remark, Mr. Deputy Speaker. That makes two. I was trying to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-25", "file": "debates2005-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "04ce62bbe8e20a8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-25a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26.xml", "sha256": "7fa4acffc75dfb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26.311.2", "colnum": "311", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "He was indeed a revolutionary in various respects, though rather an eccentric revolutionary. I think that I am right in saying that he used to stand naked in front of his windows to expose himself to the community as a whole. I am not sure that there is anybody doing that at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26.311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26.xml", "sha256": "7fa4acffc75dfb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "ld be shut down. The new hours have shrunk the parliamentary week, interfered with MPs' activities, undermined public access, made no difference to women wanting to come here and reduced contact between MPs and Ministers, not to mention contact among MPs. The new hours have destroyed one of the greatest debating chambers in the world and the Modernisation Committee should vote for the change back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "The Under-Secretary is living in cloud cuckoo land because the British Dental Association says that the number of NHS dentists in Wales is \"at an all-time low.\" Is he convinced that Rhodri Morgan's third choice as Assembly Health Minister, who has already admitted that he has no policy ideas, can improve matters in any way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.294.10", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "As the son of an Irish immigrant, may I point out to the Prime Minister that my first born was delivered by an Egyptian immigrant, and that my GP for 25 years was a Sri Lankan immigrant? Does he agree that we should celebrate the contributions made by immigrants to British society?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.294.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I think it is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " the right hon. and learned Gentleman why. The problem with asylum, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman well knows, is not the number of genuine refugees; it is people coming into this country claiming to be genuine refugees who are in fact economic migrants. Now, every single point he raised about our system is wrong, but let me ask him yet again, as we are having a debate about policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.295.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " country that it will handle them, the answer was: \"No, of course not.\" The shadow Chancellor, when asked, \"Where is it?\" answered, \"I have no idea\". The shadow Home Secretary said that \"it was an island or a peninsula or . . . somewhere\". I say that we deal with the abuses but let genuine refugees in. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman is saying that we should process them all abroad, where?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "What are the characteristics of old Labour that he dislikes so much?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.311.2", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Measures to Combat Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "He was indeed a revolutionary in various respects, though rather an eccentric revolutionary. I think that I am right in saying that he used to stand naked in front of his windows to expose himself to the community as a whole. I am not sure that there is anybody doing that at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.331.7", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Westminster Hall is part of the scrutiny to which we subject Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.331.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.340.6", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I believe that it used to be possible to spread out the day better, especially on Tuesday, which I think is the busiest day. All the most difficult debates take place on Tuesday or Wednesday, and Tuesdays attract a great many Committee meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.340.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "bates. What this debate boils down to, however, is whether we should return to our former hours on Tuesdays. I do not think that we should deliberately try to create a stressful pattern of life for Members of Parliament. I am not necessarily one to pray in aid the views of psychologists, but it has been suggested that the new hours on Tuesdays are more psychologically stressful than the old hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ings, which were bound to be unsuitable anyway. In fact, as historical statistics show, the moment of interruption was midnight from 1888, when it was introduced, to 1906 and it was not changed to 10 o'clock, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, until 1946. If the old Tuesday hours are so unacceptable, I have to ask the rhetorical question why there is no pressure to change the Monday hours as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "liamentary and constituency duties without neglecting this Chamber. Much to my wife's anger and chagrin, I invariably come to London on a Sunday, so that I can be in my office by half-past 7 on a Monday morning to work. The new hours have made it impossible for me to maintain the same connection and service with the individuals and bodies outside this House with which and with whom I am connected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "kes an extremely telling point. Let me return to what late night sittings on Tuesdays would mean. In the year before we moved to the new hours, the House sat on 201 days. On 78 of those days it sat beyond 10.30 pm. Sometimes it was closer to midnight; very occasionally it was after midnight. That is what people will be voting for today if they vote for a return to the old hours on a Tuesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": "Although I have some sympathy with what the hon. Gentleman has said, it has nothing to do with what I propose in the amendment. The amendment will allow Members locally who are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.373.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "ld be shut down. The new hours have shrunk the parliamentary week, interfered with MPs' activities, undermined public access, made no difference to women wanting to come here and reduced contact between MPs and Ministers, not to mention contact among MPs. The new hours have destroyed one of the greatest debating chambers in the world and the Modernisation Committee should vote for the change back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-26", "file": "debates2005-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c97515c2f84ef313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.377.3", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Standing Orders, but we would push votes and debates after the moment of interruption up to midnight and even beyond. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Reading, West (Mr. Salter) for analysing what happened in previous Sessions. The results show that we went beyond the moment of interruption 78 times in 2003, and that debates often finished after midnight, even before votes were held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-26a.377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-27", "file": "debates2005-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "0d78328a053ea9e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-27a.465.5", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "der. The Conservative Front Bench is all over the place in its policy on identity cards, as there is complete disagreement between the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Home Secretary. That may well be reflected in the chaos among Tory Back Benchers and the filibustering in Committee. On the question of sitting hours, I am grateful that the right hon. Gentleman voted in the same Lobby as me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-27a.465.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-31", "file": "debates2005-01-31.xml", "sha256": "bc0c1528abb1af65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Clause 1 — The rule of law", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "n a little thin over the years, could equally be appointed Lord Chancellor. By the skin of our teeth, we have just escaped the possibility that the Lord Chancellor could be someone convicted in South Africa of being involved in an attempted coup against the Government of Equatorial Guinea—the son of a former Prime Minister. Happily, he has only a hereditary baronetcy, but it is pretty close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-31", "file": "debates2005-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "52a098535e2608ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31a.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — 1st Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is kicking the ball way out of the baseball park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31a.648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-31", "file": "debates2005-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "52a098535e2608ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — 1st Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "n a little thin over the years, could equally be appointed Lord Chancellor. By the skin of our teeth, we have just escaped the possibility that the Lord Chancellor could be someone convicted in South Africa of being involved in an attempted coup against the Government of Equatorial Guinea—the son of a former Prime Minister. Happily, he has only a hereditary baronetcy, but it is pretty close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-31", "file": "debates2005-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "52a098535e2608ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — 1st Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "I had no intention of speaking in this debate. I wandered into the Chamber and thought that I would listen and learn from more learned hon. Friends and colleagues, but I feel as if I have wandered into some bizarre little world of its own. People keep sidling up to me and asking, \"What are you doing here? You aren't a lawyer.\" I think that I am quite unusual in this Chamber in not being a lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-01-31", "file": "debates2005-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "52a098535e2608ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — 1st Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "The Minister notes that he is not a lawyer, which is indeed a relief. Nevertheless, there is a preponderance of lawyers present, particularly on the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-01-31a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01.xml", "sha256": "c2b623737c48cb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Clause 20 — The Supreme Court", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " we are putting them into a building that is the very opposite of what they wanted. It is a matter of slight speculation, but one can draw some inferences from what Lord Bingham said as to what those Law Lords who are in favour of turning themselves into a supreme court want. My impression is that they want a building that is distinguished in appearance, probably modern if it could be found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01.xml", "sha256": "c2b623737c48cb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Clause 20 — The Supreme Court", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "? Could the president, but not the other members, be made a life peer? We need some clarification from the Government about those matters. As I understand it, it is not intended that the Lord Chief Justice should cease to be a peer but perhaps the Government intend that to happen. That must follow if we are moving towards a total separation of powers. I hope that we can engage with that in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01.xml", "sha256": "c2b623737c48cb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Clause 20 — The Supreme Court", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "rth and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) advertised his speech as a short one, but it ran to 19 minutes; mine will be shorter than that. The first question to ask is why we are paying the price of a ministerial brainstorm that occurred during a botched reshuffle. Abolishing the Lord Chancellor and the issues arising from that proposal have resulted in a Bill of 227 pages. The major associated cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " we are putting them into a building that is the very opposite of what they wanted. It is a matter of slight speculation, but one can draw some inferences from what Lord Bingham said as to what those Law Lords who are in favour of turning themselves into a supreme court want. My impression is that they want a building that is distinguished in appearance, probably modern if it could be found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "That raises some interesting questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ttom of the Victoria Tower, where judgments can be produced and distributed, and which, once one knows where it is, is a hive of activity and industry. There appear to be motivated staff who are happy to work in the building. Overall, those facilities are provided for the princely sum, on which the Minister will correct me if it is wrong, of £168,000, leaving out the judicial salaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "? Could the president, but not the other members, be made a life peer? We need some clarification from the Government about those matters. As I understand it, it is not intended that the Lord Chief Justice should cease to be a peer but perhaps the Government intend that to happen. That must follow if we are moving towards a total separation of powers. I hope that we can engage with that in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "We can debate that issue and express our views but, in the end, if the Government get their Bill, they can implement the proposal. In a rare moment of accord, we have tabled no amendments in Committee to a Government proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "We can debate that issue and express our views but, in the end, if the Government get their Bill, they can implement the proposal. In a rare moment of accord, we have tabled no amendments in Committee to a Government proposal— [Interruption.] No, that is no precedent for the future —not even for the short period before we are the Government and Labour are the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "rth and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) advertised his speech as a short one, but it ran to 19 minutes; mine will be shorter than that. The first question to ask is why we are paying the price of a ministerial brainstorm that occurred during a botched reshuffle. Abolishing the Lord Chancellor and the issues arising from that proposal have resulted in a Bill of 227 pages. The major associated cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "nt Committee work of both Houses. I am looking around the Chamber to see whether I can spot Members who have served on Joint Committees at the same time as I have. In fact, the hon. and learned Member for Redcar (Vera Baird) and I served together on the Joint Committee considering the draft Corruption Bill. That was chaired by a retired Law Lord, but sitting Law Lords have chaired such Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Lord Slynn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "see whether I can spot Members who have served on Joint Committees at the same time as I have. In fact, the hon. and learned Member for Redcar (Vera Baird) and I served together on the Joint Committee considering the draft Corruption Bill. That was chaired by a retired Law Lord, but sitting Law Lords have chaired such Committees. [Interruption.] If Lord Bridge was a sitting Lord, I take that back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ional doctrines in the House, to give effect to the latest, inconsistent, clearly and unambiguously expressed Act of Parliament, which would say, for example, that notwithstanding the European Communities Act 1972, we would legislate in relation to immigration and asylum, thereby immediately removing all the current controversies. I should be grateful if the Minister addressed that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the Government should agree with the right hon. Gentleman's position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-01", "file": "debates2005-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "0239633e0574a664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that. I, too, am very persuasive, but I suspect that in a few moments that will not necessarily result in the conclusion of the debate going in my favour. Persuasion is not enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-01a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have told the House before: the Leader of the Opposition does not have to answer any questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Actually, I have a great deal of sympathy with the hon. Gentleman's point, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I want to answer the point that the hon. Gentleman has made. There should be a level of policing for each area consistent with that area's needs. We should not have to see, as we do at the moment, a reduced level of policing, or abstractions to deal with every incident in the big cities, which denude rural areas of the police that they need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "dash;I know this, because I was the person doing the banging on the desk—was that we were to have no extra police officers. That is why so many of us are extremely dubious indeed about the offers of tens of thousands of police officers that are pouring from the Conservatives. We know that when the Conservatives were in office the reality was that the shires did not get extra police officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "ks. I have no problem whatever, particularly with my constable's hat on, in seeing clerks doing the secretarial work that needs to be done to back up the men and women out on the beat. It is an entirely proper function but I take issue with the amount of bureaucracy that is required of our policemen and women at virtually any hour of the day or night. It is said that police numbers have increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "rgate seafront or the lady in Herne Bay high street want. They want those size 10 boots out there and those mark 1 policemen's eyes on the streets, doing the job that they are trained very well to do. They do not want them to spend seven minutes standing on a street corner filling in a stop form. If I, as a policeman, were to stop six people, I would have to spend some 45 minutes filling in forms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": " funded locally is wrong. I am sorry to say that in such blunt terms. The extra costs resulting from asylum seekers were also raised by the hon. Gentleman. I do not have the detail, but I am happy to supply it to him, so perhaps he might be generous enough to say that I have satisfied three quarters of his queries. I hope he is a happier man than he was when he came into the Chamber earlier today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "its work force. All credit to the force for being innovative and imaginative in doing that. The hon. Gentleman also raised the issue of recorded crime. He might not know that half of all recorded violence results in no injury to the person at all. It is important that we make that distinction. I welcome the support of the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) for the settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "osition that authorities in the south of England have been penalised by the grant distribution formula. There is no truth whatever in that claim. The figures speak for themselves. Many southern authorities are benefiting from some of the largest increases: Wiltshire, with a 9.4 per cent. increase; West Berkshire, with an 11.3 per cent. increase; and Wokingham, with a 13.2 per cent. increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.936.9", "colnum": "936", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Such a foreign national would make a lot of contributions to the national Exchequer, which funds the grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.936.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "There seems to be a growing consensus, at least on the Government Benches, that this is a fair and generous settlement. Perhaps that is to be expected, but it is not a sentiment that I acknowledge or recognise; nor is it shared by my constituents in East Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "sk him to reconsider his decision not to meet a delegation from Southend, because the impact of having 20,000 fewer people on the census than there actually are is tragic in financial terms. The Minister of State may laugh, but there is nothing funny about the issue. I represent a huge number of elderly people. In fact, my constituency has more people aged between 100 and 120 than any other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02.xml", "sha256": "927ecf00f888ec83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Clarke", "preceding_text": "ed item would be picked up within 24 hours. So under a Conservative-led council, lawful citizens of Northampton can pay £12 to have their items collected within a week, while others can dump them outside, phone them in as fly-tipped and have them picked up within 24 hours. That is the level of competence that we are dealing with in Northampton, against the backdrop of a very poor settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": " my local authority will transform every secondary school by investing £325 million, which was opposed by the local Tories. It is spending more than £200 million providing decent homes for tenants, which was opposed by the Tories, and building a £20 million leisure centre in my town centre, which was opposed by the Tories. Apart from admiring their kamikaze-style manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Because we believed that in those circumstances it was necessary to do it because the actual law was unclear. The law, however, in relation to the right of defence against burglary has now been made crystal clear by the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.835.4", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The question is: are there householders who are being prosecuted for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.835.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have told the House before that the Leader of the Opposition does not have to answer any questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.836.4", "colnum": "836", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I will answer it, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.836.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.838.3", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " keep that going along with skills support and the new deal for the unemployed. We must ensure that the Jobcentre Plus programme, which is helping many people off benefit and into work, is not cut savagely. The Conservative party's programme, which we will obviously not endorse, would lead to massive cuts in the very front-line services that help to get unemployed people off benefit and into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.838.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that we may be approaching a general election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "DWP (Five-year Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Where can I begin, Mr. Speaker? I certainly give the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) 10 out of 10 for sheer effrontery. He asks what has been happening since 1997. The entire Conservative party should be sitting here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "DWP (Five-year Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " years—and the merger of the Benefits Agency and the Employment Service, which gave us a foundation for pathways to work. If the hon. Gentleman wants to find out what we have been doing, and why ours is the right approach, he should visit a pathways to work area. He knows a thing or two about the issues—and to be fair, he is probably more to the left on them than the rest of his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "DWP (Five-year Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Actually, I have a great deal of sympathy with the hon. Gentleman's point, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "ody services are run in the most cost-efficient way, to free up police officers for the front line, but also to free up some of those resources that are currently used for custody purposes for other important policing activities. These are very much operational matters, but I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman supports our move towards civilianisation and our modernisation of custody procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I want to answer the point that the hon. Gentleman has made. There should be a level of policing for each area consistent with that area's needs. We should not have to see, as we do at the moment, a reduced level of policing, or abstractions to deal with every incident in the big cities, which denude rural areas of the police that they need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "dash;I know this, because I was the person doing the banging on the desk—was that we were to have no extra police officers. That is why so many of us are extremely dubious indeed about the offers of tens of thousands of police officers that are pouring from the Conservatives. We know that when the Conservatives were in office the reality was that the shires did not get extra police officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "s. I have no problem whatever, particularly with my constable's hat on, in seeing clerks doing the secretarial work that needs to be done to back up the men and women out on the beat. It is an entirely proper function, but I take issue with the amount of bureaucracy that is required of our policemen and women at virtually any hour of the day or night. It is said that police numbers have increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "rgate seafront or the lady in Herne Bay high street want. They want those size 10 boots out there and those mark 1 policemen's eyes on the streets, doing the job that they are trained very well to do. They do not want them to spend seven minutes standing on a street corner filling in a stop form. If I, as a policeman, were to stop six people, I would have to spend some 45 minutes filling in forms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": " funded locally is wrong. I am sorry to say that in such blunt terms. The extra costs resulting from asylum seekers were also raised by the hon. Gentleman. I do not have the detail, but I am happy to supply it to him, so perhaps he might be generous enough to say that I have satisfied three quarters of his queries. I hope he is a happier man than he was when he came into the Chamber earlier today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "its work force. All credit to the force for being innovative and imaginative in doing that. The hon. Gentleman also raised the issue of recorded crime. He might not know that half of all recorded violence results in no injury to the person at all. It is important that we make that distinction. I welcome the support of the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) for the settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "osition that authorities in the south of England have been penalised by the grant distribution formula. There is no truth whatever in that claim. The figures speak for themselves. Many southern authorities are benefiting from some of the largest increases: Wiltshire, with a 9.4 per cent. increase; West Berkshire, with an 11.3 per cent. increase; and Wokingham, with a 13.2 per cent. increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "No; the point that I was making is that every authority is receiving a real-terms increase in grant on a like-for-like basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Titanic\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "roduced an arrangement under which we reduced the grant entitlement for all authorities above the floor by a much more modest amount than would have applied under the ceilings arrangement. This is the first year of the new system and I obviously want to reflect on how it operates before I consider any further changes. As hon. Members will recognise, I could change the deck chairs every year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.936.9", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Such a foreign national would make a lot of contributions to the national Exchequer, which funds the grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.936.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "The Minister is trying to have his cake and eat it. He is trying to say that revaluation will happen, but that it will not be the same as in Wales. What the House and the electorate would like to know is how revaluation will be designed. We want to know the Government's policy on revaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "There seems to be a growing consensus, at least on the Government Benches, that this is a fair and generous settlement. Perhaps that is to be expected, but it is not a sentiment that I acknowledge or recognise; nor is it shared by my constituents in East Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "sk him to reconsider his decision not to meet a delegation from Southend, because the impact of having 20,000 fewer people on the census than there actually are is tragic in financial terms. The Minister of State may laugh, but there is nothing funny about the issue. I represent a huge number of elderly people. In fact, my constituency has more people aged between 100 and 120 than any other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Tony Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Clarke", "preceding_text": "ed item would be picked up within 24 hours. So under a Conservative-led council, lawful citizens of Northampton can pay £12 to have their items collected within a week, while others can dump them outside, phone them in as fly-tipped and have them picked up within 24 hours. That is the level of competence that we are dealing with in Northampton, against the backdrop of a very poor settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-02", "file": "debates2005-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e163fd247c1ca8cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "a real champion for his constituency in standing up for youth and play facilities. I hope that the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition that runs the council in Birmingham gets the decision right, to ensure that facilities are protected for young people. My hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster) , whom I have met on many occasions to discuss the particular issue that he raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-02a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03.xml", "sha256": "b1db5831a909d58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I just mentioned the shadow Minister for deregulation who has congratulated us on our record on the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03.xml", "sha256": "b1db5831a909d58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I just mentioned the shadow Minister for deregulation who has congratulated us on our record on the economy—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] This is the answer to the question. The right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) mentioned the problems that he thought we were creating. Businesses are reluctant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03.xml", "sha256": "b1db5831a909d58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.986.7", "colnum": "986", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": " billion black hole to fill. The Chief Secretary has just confirmed to us that the IFS is well worth listening to, and it says the figure is £11 billion. Everybody knows that Labour would try and do it without people noticing. A windfall tax on oil and gas would fit Labour's bill. We have had questions this afternoon on that tax, and a refusal, point blank, to rule it out. We have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.986.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03.xml", "sha256": "b1db5831a909d58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n Europe that he does not want the issue to be discussed. The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked about the new gender institute. Of all the issues that he could have highlighted, he fixed on that one. I will tell him why the institute is needed. Even the Conservatives' policy for the European Union accepts the free movement of workers and of people. That means that in increasing numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03.xml", "sha256": "b1db5831a909d58d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "New Clause 1 — Regulations Made by the Treasury: Qualifying Courses", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "ecific. We are in no way arguing for an enlargement of the advertising budget—quite the opposite. We want to spend the money far more effectively, and one way of doing that would be to advertise the list that we advocate in new clause 1. That might not please the advertising department of The Guardian, but it might help a large number of young people who are deciding on their career futures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.973.8", "colnum": "973", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Christine Russell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christine Russell", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. Today, many of my constituents have travelled down from Chester to attend the \"Make Poverty History\" rally, which I believe will be addressed in an hour's time by the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. I am sure that all Labour Members welcome him to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.973.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. He will know that in his constituency we now have the lowest interest rates, inflation and unemployment for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I just mentioned the shadow Minister for deregulation who has congratulated us on our record on the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I just mentioned the shadow Minister for deregulation who has congratulated us on our record on the economy—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] This is the answer to the question. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the problems that he thought we were creating. Businesses are reluctant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.982.5", "colnum": "982", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The number of Sure Start centres in the programme will rise first from 550 to 1,000, then to 2,000 and then to 2,500, and they are all properly financed, as the hon. Gentleman can see from our programme. As for the Conservative party's programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.982.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n Europe that he does not want the issue to be discussed. The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked about the new gender institute. Of all the issues that he could have highlighted, he fixed on that one. I will tell him why the institute is needed. Even the Conservatives' policy for the European Union accepts the free movement of workers and of people. That means that in increasing numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to write to the right hon. Gentleman about the merits of this regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "rt of a leak when the question to which the hon. Gentleman referred was put to him. I think he is entitled to do that. If he or any other Cabinet Minister is challenged on the record by journalists, of course they cannot remain silent in the middle of any story that is beginning to run. It is interesting that instead of concentrating on the substance of the policies and arguing their merits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1036.2", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "I will not and I hope that hon. Members will do their best to ensure that they vote promptly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1036.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1036.2", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "I will not and I hope that hon. Members will do their best to ensure that they vote promptly— [Interruption.] By doing that, they can help to achieve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1036.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-03", "file": "debates2005-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "16923b26495b1e39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Child Benefit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "ecific. We are in no way arguing for an enlargement of the advertising budget—quite the opposite. We want to spend the money far more effectively, and one way of doing that would be to advertise the list that we advocate in new clause 1. That might not please the advertising department of The Guardian, but it might help a large number of young people who are deciding on their career futures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-03a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-04", "file": "debates2005-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2a7fa74d402dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. and gallant Gentleman for allowing me to intervene. He is far too decent a human being to try to mislead the House and I do not suggest that he would ever do so, but is he unaware that Sir Ian Blair made the first statement at about twenty past 8 in the morning, whereas the leaflet was not issued until 11 o'clock that morning? Would it not, therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-04", "file": "debates2005-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2a7fa74d402dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "I was not going to refer to the hon. Gentleman's personal grief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-04", "file": "debates2005-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2a7fa74d402dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "I favour any force short of grossly disproportionate force. It is a simple test. It has been established by eminent lawyers who know much more about the matter than I do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-04", "file": "debates2005-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2a7fa74d402dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1082.5", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "ister coming from? Is he, like the Home Secretary, flying in the face of public opinion? Is he responsible, with the Home Secretary, for the shameless buffeting of the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner? If this were a Labour private Member's Bill, I have no doubt that it would go through without opposition, on the nod, for the common sense that it is. The Bill stands above party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1082.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-04", "file": "debates2005-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2a7fa74d402dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1095.4", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "First, I am not going to lose my seat on 5 May . With most of my colleagues—in fact, like all my colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1095.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-04", "file": "debates2005-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2a7fa74d402dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": " as to imply that we are saying that burglary is the householder's fault. I cannot believe that anyone would suggest such a thing, and my hon. Friend is right. Working with the police is far better than trying to replace them. My hon. Friend mentioned additional locks and security methods. Let me make a case for Battersea dogs' home. For many years I had a wonderful mixed-breed dog called Trotsky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-04", "file": "debates2005-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2a7fa74d402dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "No, no. I have listened very carefully to every intervention and all that has been said this morning. The hon. Member for Newark and I, and possibly my hon. Friend the Member for Hazel Grove (Mr. Stunell) , are the only Members who have stayed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-04", "file": "debates2005-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4fb2a7fa74d402dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "No, no. I have listened very carefully to every intervention and all that has been said this morning. The hon. Member for Newark and I, and possibly my hon. Friend the Member for Hazel Grove (Mr. Stunell) , are the only Members who have stayed— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) will have ample opportunity to make his own speech. I would encourage him to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-04a.1141.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-07", "file": "debates2005-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d432c3f44925e476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "I have looked carefully at the record of proceedings on the Act as it went through the House in 2000. In the time that I had available this morning, I could not find any suggestion that the issue of service registration was raised by the Conservatives at the time or that they took an opportunity to vote against the terms of the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-07", "file": "debates2005-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d432c3f44925e476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Five-year Asylum Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "n which we admit people to the UK, whether temporarily or permanently, and we must do more to ensure that we operate an effective control to prevent those who do not meet our criteria from getting here, and to ensure that they leave when they are no longer entitled to be in the UK. Lack of confidence in our systems of control can foster bigotry of whatever kind, and it is our responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-07", "file": "debates2005-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d432c3f44925e476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1195.5", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Five-year Asylum Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not really have a view on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1195.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-07", "file": "debates2005-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d432c3f44925e476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1205.5", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "rgued cogently and coherently that all faith groups, particularly their own, should be protected from what is, in any normal sense of the term, incitement to racial hatred expressed through religious means. They have been led to believe that not only will this proposition from the Government deal with that mischief, but that it will effectively provide them with a blasphemy law of their own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-07", "file": "debates2005-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d432c3f44925e476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1216.6", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I take issue with that. It was not a question of making a valid criticism of the religion. In the context of Salman Rushdie, the issue was the abusive words that he deliberately used, which were written in phonetic Urdu, criticising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-07", "file": "debates2005-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d432c3f44925e476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bonkers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": " Parliament, disruption to the life of community, a security risk or a risk to the safety of members of the public. The Government also agree with the point raised by the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) in amendments Nos. 2 and 3: that imposing conditions on demonstrators on the ground that they spoil the visual aspect of the area is a difficult judgment for police officers to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-07", "file": "debates2005-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d432c3f44925e476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "It will be open for people to demonstrate outside the designated area, away from Parliament square.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-07a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08.xml", "sha256": "b323c8b1f3871982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I am not carrying any Hansard references with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08.xml", "sha256": "b323c8b1f3871982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "ifesto. I am afraid, however, that people will not have a chance to vote for us in England. I am very pleased indeed that the Liberal Democrats have called for this Opposition day debate. I acknowledge that they have used such debates to introduce such matters in the House, whereas the Government have been rather remiss in providing debates on climate change. The usual suspects are in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08.xml", "sha256": "b323c8b1f3871982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08.1441.3", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "saved God knows how many lives as a result of their intelligence work. In conclusion, the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden repeated something that is often said in this debate. He said that by compromising our civil liberties we are giving some kind of victory to the terrorists— changing our way of life and giving up some of our freedoms is a victory for terrorism. No, it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08.1441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, \"Like Norway,\" but I am wondering what sort of fund it would be when it would have an annual shortfall of more than £4 billion, even if every single penny of North sea oil revenue were allocated to Scotland, which would be unlikely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "I think that the Deputy Minister said that there needed to be a mature debate. Most of us in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman should exaggerate; the figures are not quite as bad as he suggests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1357.7", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Climate Change and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "With that particular method of construction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1357.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Climate Change and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I am not carrying any Hansard references with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Climate Change and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on reading out the Whips' brief, but if he thinks that that causes the remotest embarrassment on the Opposition Benches, he will have to think again. I will set out well before the election some specific measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1381.5", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Climate Change and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "I am open-minded about nuclear power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1381.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Climate Change and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "ifesto. I am afraid, however, that people will not have a chance to vote for us in England. I am very pleased indeed that the Liberal Democrats have called for this Opposition day debate. I acknowledge that they have used such debates to introduce such matters in the House, whereas the Government have been rather remiss in providing debates on climate change. The usual suspects are in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Belmarsh Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "That is why we are having this debate. The right hon. Gentleman should concede that my view on this matter is pretty unambiguous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-08", "file": "debates2005-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "268c236ed6536bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1441.3", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Belmarsh Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "d God knows how many lives as a result of their intelligence work. In conclusion, the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden repeated something that is often said in this debate. He said that by compromising our civil liberties we are giving some kind of victory to the terrorists—that changing our way of life and giving up some of our freedoms is a victory for terrorism. No, it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-08a.1441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09.xml", "sha256": "e2cbdb4b0ebdff42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ed through argument and long discussion in the House, by our testing the argument to show what is happening. As that is not the case, it will be difficult for me to vote for the Bill. In fact, it will be impossible for me to vote for it, because I am flatly opposed to this European verbiage-mountain of a constitution. My Eurosceptic friends have put it to me that I should maintain the ranks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09.xml", "sha256": "e2cbdb4b0ebdff42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09.1624.2", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "Minister in the strongest possible terms my anger at how I have been treated by the Highways Agency over the last few days. On Monday, I requested the latest information on traffic volumes to prepare for this debate. After several prevaricating and clarifying conversations, my office was informed at nearly 5 pm this afternoon that the Minister's office had refused to release the information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09.1624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1488.4", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "an option appraisal to look at the best way of ensuring that their housing is brought up to the decent homes standard in a reasonable period. I should have thought that he, like other Members, would want to support proposals that would achieve the decent homes standard in the quickest way, whether that is through retention by the local authority or a stock transfer to a registered social landlord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1488.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, I want to return to the point that the right hon. and learned Gentleman made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "NHS Funding", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "dash;of the statement. It consisted of 25 paragraphs but he could have said it in one, because in fact, there is no extra money when compared with known planned NHS expenditure through to 2007–08. This is simply an attempt by the Secretary of State to divide the cake differently and—surprise, surprise—there is an election coming, so we are to have \"spearhead\" primary care trusts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "NHS Funding", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "red with known planned NHS expenditure through to 2007–08. This is simply an attempt by the Secretary of State to divide the cake differently and—surprise, surprise—there is an election coming, so we are to have \"spearhead\" primary care trusts. [Interruption.] I wonder whether those trusts are located in the Labour-held seats that the Government are worried about. One pity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1511.0", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "NHS Funding", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "king it much more efficient. It is free at the point of need, and in addition we are buying in bulk to push the price down and to give the patient the choice of quicker access to services. That is precisely why we have halved waiting times, and why we have taken 340,000 people off the waiting lists that we inherited from the Conservatives. Ultimately, it will be the choice of the individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1512.5", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "NHS Funding", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Yes, it may be long overdue, but for 20 years under the Conservative Government, such an increase was never given. The hon. Gentleman is now being given a 31.2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "NHS Funding", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": ". However, if we look at the detailed lists, we see that Southend PCT, in the Thames gateway area, gets the bare minimum, while Castle Point and Rochford PCT gets only a fraction more. May I tell him, without rancour, that given the massive house-building programme envisaged for the Thames gateway by the Deputy Prime Minister, the increases, while welcome, are nowhere near enough to provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "NHS Funding", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "o the bare minimum, I take it that he means the 9.1 per cent. and 10.1 per cent. increases that he is getting. It is news to me that that is the bare minimum, especially compared with the amounts handed out in the years of the Conservative Government. I hope that he welcomes the £35 million extra for Castle Point and Rochford PCT and the £17 million for Maldon and South Chelmsford PCT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1542.2", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The result of the Government's policies has been drift and failure. Hon. Members should not take my word for it but listen to Derek Scott, the Prime Minister's trusted chief economic adviser for six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "urage my hon. Friends to have a touch of humility when they address the question. Speaking as someone who was Foreign Secretary and, for a while, president of the Party of European Socialists, I know left-wing colleagues on the continent quite well. It may surprise my hon. Friends to hear it, but our continental partners do not think of Britain as a beacon of pioneering left-wing government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1554.0", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "has confirmed, that have been transferred to majority voting. They include the whole area of criminal justice, including criminal procedures, rules of evidence and rights of the accused. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman not think that that is a significant advance into a new area by the EU, particularly as such matters will be decided by majority voting, perhaps in defiance of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "Well, as the Foreign Secretary says—not sotto voce, but magna voce from the Treasury Bench—we have either the right of veto or the opt-out. Let us suppose that the House decided to abolish jury trial. None of the provisions to which the right hon. Gentleman referred would prevent it from doing so. I hope that it is highly unlikely that the House would want to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1558.0", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "e been transferred to the EU in an alarming number of areas. When my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the Opposition proposed a limit on the number of immigrants to this country a couple of weeks ago—there will be different opinions in the House about the merits of that proposal—the European Commission made it clear that he would not have the power to implement such a limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has immense knowledge of this subject, and that sounds like the correct interpretation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ed through argument and long discussion in the House, by our testing the argument to show what is happening. As that is not the case, it will be difficult for me to vote for the Bill. In fact, it will be impossible for me to vote for it, because I am flatly opposed to this European verbiage-mountain of a constitution. My Eurosceptic friends have put it to me that I should maintain the ranks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I say to the hon. Member who is trying to leave the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1600.0", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "ll know, however, the list of 63 extensions of qualified majority voting is on the record. It includes such things as social security, structural and cohesion funds, agriculture and fisheries, transport, space policy, energy, culture, tourism, sport, civil protection—and much more that I do not have time to read into the record. Those are all new transfers to qualified majority voting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for making it clear that we are both talking about an increased transfer of powers from the House and the United Kingdom to the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1608.7", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1608.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1608.9", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "d perhaps leave debate on the constitutional treaty itself for another day. Tonight the House must fundamentally decide whether it wants to move Britain forward, not back. Forty years ago, a Labour leader announced that entering Europe would mean the end of 1,000 years of English history. Rab Butler, a Conservative leader, said that while he respected the reference to 1,000 years of history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1608.9", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "But I leave that for a later debate. What an amazing language this is: the nuclear option from the right hon. Member for Wokingham and the world at the feet of the right hon. Member for Wells: pressing the nuclear button and dictating to Europe. Wokingham and Wells, the Ant and Dec of the anti-European movement. At least Robert Kilroy-Silk, our former colleague, was honest when he described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-09", "file": "debates2005-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "33c3d0af850e9eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1624.2", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "A14", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "Minister in the strongest possible terms my anger at how I have been treated by the Highways Agency over the last few days. On Monday, I requested the latest information on traffic volumes to prepare for this debate. After several prevaricating and clarifying conversations, my office was informed at nearly 5 pm this afternoon that the Minister's office had refused to release the information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-09a.1624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10.xml", "sha256": "03f7e510d7a75617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " I defer to my hon. Friend the Father of the House, with his 40 years of experience, but surely he must recognise that we were the first Government to permit a vote on going to war; no previous Government had done that. That is important. It was an important debate. We have always reported to the House, and given every opportunity for hon. Members, including my hon. Friend, to express their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10.xml", "sha256": "03f7e510d7a75617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10.1673.0", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "May I draw my right hon. Friend's attention to a report out this morning from the Community Security Trust which records a record increase in violent anti-Semitic assaults in the UK, including 28 incidents against Jewish school children and Jewish schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10.1673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10.xml", "sha256": "03f7e510d7a75617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "uses, Amendments relating to Clauses 1 to 23, Amendments relating to Clause 26, Amendments relating to Clauses 33 to 45, new Schedules, Amendments relating to Schedules 1 and 2 4.30 p.m. on that day. Amendments relating to Clauses 27 to 32 and any remaining proceedings on consideration 5.00 p.m. on that day. The motion is intended to assist the House in using the time that we have available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "However hard the Secretary of State tries to mislead people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "However hard the Secretary of State tries to mislead people—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—about the Conservative party's attitude to emissions trading, nothing will stop us telling the truth about the Government's failures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1637.4", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I reject utterly any suggestion that I misled the House. All I did was remind it that the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "t silently prompt the Members carrying them. Clearly, many Members use these devices and they serve a useful purpose, provided that they are unobtrusive. But I am not prepared to accept the use of electronic devices to communicate outside the Chamber nor to act as an aide-memoire by a Member participating in proceedings. This also applies to the wearing of earpieces used to receive messages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": ", I defer to my hon. Friend the Father of the House, with his 40 years of experience, but surely he must recognise that we were the first Government to permit a vote on going to war; no previous Government had done that. That is important. It was an important debate. We have always reported to the House and given every opportunity for hon. Members, including my hon. Friend, to express their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "May I draw my right hon. Friend's attention to a report out this morning from the Jewish Community Security Trust which records a record increase in violent anti-Semitic assaults in the UK, including 28 incidents against Jewish school children and Jewish schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely. The rise in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "uses, Amendments relating to Clauses 1 to 23, Amendments relating to Clause 26, Amendments relating to Clauses 33 to 45, new Schedules, Amendments relating to Schedules 1 and 2 4.30 p.m. on that day. Amendments relating to Clauses 27 to 32 and any remaining proceedings on consideration 5.00 p.m. on that day. The motion is intended to assist the House in using the time that we have available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1674.5", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "he Committee, why the Bill comes before the House with certain parts of it unscrutinised by the Committee. The opportunity was there for that to be done and significant progress was made on large parts of the Bill in short measure in Committee. However, a significant part of the Committee's consideration was taken away by filibustering, which was identified by the Chairman and responded to by him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1674.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": ". As a result, we had to divide the timetable today to ensure that all parts of the Bill are properly scrutinised. That is the purpose of the motion. It is a consequence of what was done in Committee. On Second Reading, the official Opposition voted in favour of the principle of the Bill. We know that the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) is in favour of ID cards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that he made a serious point about the disabling of minority parties? If minority parties are not represented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1703.5", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": " I probe? The answer is simple—it would be helpful when looking at the cost of the whole scheme to know what the cost of the commissioner and his staff will be. At the end of the day, someone must pay. There was an exchange in Committee when the Minister said that the issue had very little to do with taxpayers' money because the burden would be on the individual to pay for the service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1728.4", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "in effect, what has just happened in terms of the Government's restriction of time motion? Nine amendments, duly selected by Mr. Speaker or the Chairman of Ways and Means, were down for debate, in order, yet as a result of the timetable motion we have not even been allowed to start that debate. The timetable motion is so restrictive that the Minister did not even have time to introduce them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-10", "file": "debates2005-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a465944e9eb7a680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1746.2", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "o require the public to possess and produce an identity card, or to notify change of address for National Registration purposes\".—[ Official Report, 21 February 1952; Vol. 496, c. 415 .] That was a popular policy. Our policy of getting a grip and asking questions about the identity card is also right. That abolition of ID cards in 1951 came on the back of the case of Clarence Willcock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-10a.1746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-21", "file": "debates2005-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d72ccd81ed33af39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": ": third time lucky. That is the third time that my hon. Friend has asked that question. I have visited Bolsover and we are trying to work towards a solution so that my hon. Friend's constituency will have the swimming complex that used to be there. We will continue to work towards that. I will take up the matter with my officials and I hope that he will not have to raise it at Question Time again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-21", "file": "debates2005-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d72ccd81ed33af39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.39.5", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": " Labour Members, I must point out that only one or two of her colleagues are on the Labour Benches at the moment, so she might regret making that remark. Also, Conservative reinforcements are arriving as we speak. The amendment would add flexibility in regard to when gating orders could be made, and would allow for them to be made if the owner and occupier of the dwelling in question agreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.39.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-21", "file": "debates2005-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d72ccd81ed33af39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ommittee, unlike the hon. Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) , the Minister and one or two other Members present. Unfortunately, my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Matthew Green) has been detained, so I have taken his place. However, it was with great interest that I prepared for this debate, read Hansard reports of proceedings in Committee and listened to the hon. Member for Vale of York.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-21", "file": "debates2005-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d72ccd81ed33af39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "The Minister confirms the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup and I have consistently made: either there was sufficient consultation and the Bill has been well thought out in a consistent and comprehensive manner, or the Bill has been rushed through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-21", "file": "debates2005-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "d72ccd81ed33af39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "rways and major routes, we see mobile advertisement boards sprouting up on the sides of old lorries and so on. They blight our local environments and communities. I am also concerned about fly-tipping. As my right hon. Friend has a fantastic grasp of geography he will know of the example that I am about to give: Leeds lane in my constituency, which links Wakefield road with Swillington lane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-21a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22.xml", "sha256": "3de851ce22715821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am afraid to say that the right hon. Gentleman has confirmed what I said at the beginning. He and his party are in the do-nothing camp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22.xml", "sha256": "3de851ce22715821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ircumstances. At what point does the FAS stop and the PPF take over? The Minister has caused considerable confusion on that point over the past six months, so it would be helpful to hear his comments about that. I hope that it will not be too outrageous if I speak briefly about the other motion—on guaranteed minimum pensions, often regarded as a technical subject for nerds and anoraks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22.xml", "sha256": "3de851ce22715821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": " contracted out of the state system. People who contracted out and whose company pension schemes are winding up are experiencing many problems in securing the basic GMP. I hope that the Minister will comment briefly on that when he winds up. He will recall that in one of our least exciting parliamentary question and answer sessions, I put a question to the Secretary of State on 9 June 2004 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22.xml", "sha256": "3de851ce22715821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.220.4", "colnum": "220", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "n 15 and 22 weeks. I am not aware how long it takes at the moment. The annual report and accounts for the CSA showed an outstanding debt of £720 million in March 2004, with a further £947 million classified as uncollectable. My Committee had a lot to say about that, but I shall not go into all the details on this occasion. We had much to say about the failings of enforcement and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22.xml", "sha256": "3de851ce22715821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Clause 1 — Aggravated supply of controlled drug", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " confiscation instead. The idea was to give police more time to tackle the trade in hard drugs such as heroin. But Scotland Yard chiefs believe the switch has sent out the 'wrong message' to criminal gangs, who are now focusing their attention on the softer drug. 'One of the biggest growth areas in the shifting of organised crime towards cannabis importation,' a senior Yard source said yesterday.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.144.7", "colnum": "144", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the Minister's reply is simply not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.144.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.144.7", "colnum": "144", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the Minister's reply is simply not good enough. [Laughter.] It is not. Labour Members should realise that four months ago the French Government purchased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.144.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am afraid to say that the right hon. Gentleman has confirmed what I said at the beginning. He and his party are in the do-nothing camp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "I have indicated more than once in the House that I believe that there are absolute linkages between the IRA and Sinn Fein at all levels. My hon. Friend might also have heard me say in the media today that I do not intend to talk about individuals or individual cases in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "had vibration white finger provide another example of a case in which we awarded compensation for the first time. Still another example is the Aberfan fund. The Coal Board took money from Aberfan families to clear the tips that killed their children, and nothing was done in 18 years, but we restored it after just three months in government. We have a good track record in dealing with these claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "I welcome the debate and I am grateful to the Secretary of State for setting out the Government's proposals on the uprating of benefits, which we will not oppose. We always wait to see whether the Liberal Democrats decide to oppose the increase in the value of the pension, but perhaps they are not going to repeat that mistake this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "g out such a perverse act. We welcome the extra benefits and there is added drama to today's debate. The Secretary of State has chosen to debate the pension uprating on the day that the Conservatives launch the pensioners chapter of our manifesto. Of course I realise, Madam Deputy Speaker, that it would be out of order to take the House through all the imaginative proposals in that document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ircumstances. At what point does the FAS stop and the PPF take over? The Minister has caused considerable confusion on that point over the past six months, so it would be helpful to hear his comments about that. I hope that it will not be too outrageous if I speak briefly about the other motion—on guaranteed minimum pensions, often regarded as a technical subject for nerds and anoraks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": " contracted out of the state system. People who contracted out and whose company pension schemes are winding up are experiencing many problems in securing the basic GMP. I hope that the Minister will comment briefly on that when he winds up. He will recall that in one of our least exciting parliamentary question and answer sessions, I put a question to the Secretary of State on 9 June 2004 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.220.4", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "n 15 and 22 weeks. I am not aware how long it takes at the moment. The annual report and accounts for the CSA showed an outstanding debt of £720 million in March 2004, with a further £947 million classified as uncollectable. My Committee had a lot to say about that, but I shall not go into all the details on this occasion. We had much to say about the failings of enforcement and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "It is certainly an extrapolation in the sense that we are doing so well in tackling unemployment and raising the employment rate. We want—I am trying to think of a phrase that might sum it up—we want to go forward, not back, and we intend to go forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman that hundreds of companies and pension schemes would knock on our door and say, \"The company is doing all right. We are solvent, but we have a black hole in our pension scheme, and we understand that the financial assistance scheme can bail us out.\" That would be nonsense and a slippery slope to the nationalisation of all financial risk. It is simply not credible. Moving on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I am trying to be fair, and that question and the workers' sense of injustice are both perfectly reasonable. However, those of us who frame social policy and who examine the financial implications and perverse consequences of taking the wrong decision must be tough-minded. Where an employer is solvent, they should take responsibility for supporting the pension scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "dvantage that we should create. I contrast that record with the Conservative position. We are proud of our record on employment, but many people remember the Conservative party as the party of mass unemployment. We will listen carefully and critically to its proposals on council tax, but many people remember it as the party of the poll tax, for which its current leader took special responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "It is so good to see that the Minister has done her job properly on the first group of amendments on Report. The fact that, in order to do her job properly, she had to take more than two thirds of the entire time available for that group shows that she has been badly let down by her Whips Office. Again, we have lost valuable time for discussing this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is a Third Reading debate with a limited amount of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-22", "file": "debates2005-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "9176b5255b63a020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " confiscation instead. The idea was to give police more time to tackle the trade in hard drugs such as heroin. But Scotland Yard chiefs believe the switch has sent out the 'wrong message' to criminal gangs, who are now focusing their attention on the softer drug. 'One of the biggest growth areas in the shifting of organised crime towards cannabis importation,' a senior Yard source said yesterday.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-22a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23.xml", "sha256": "1cd8c4a408bed8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "here were cross-party talks on this issue and it was clear that agreement could have been reached that results at A-level and GCSE would be printed loud and clear on the front of the diploma. That would have preserved the integrity of those exams while still enabling other achievements in vocational qualifications, longer-term projects and basic skills to be properly recognised. Why instead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23.xml", "sha256": "1cd8c4a408bed8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "ly discuss on Monday. I was saddened by the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) . I acknowledge his strength of feeling, but if that was his last speech in the House, it is a shame that he could not have spoken about a more constructive subject and offered something more positive. I really felt that his contribution was very sad indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23.432.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.301.2", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, we can't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "in connection with terrorist activity in this country. There is a serious security threat to this country. That is the view of our security services and chief police officers, particularly those concerned with terrorism. It is important, therefore, that we take the necessary measures, while respecting civil liberties, to protect the nation's security. We can debate the matter over and again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "aised precisely that issue. That is, no doubt, why he did not do that when in office. However, the second point, which is completely different, relates to the use of control orders. The right hon. and learned Gentleman mentioned the Newton committee, which specifically recommends such provisions. Therefore, the issue between us is this: it does not matter how much time for scrutiny there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate not just the hospice that the hon. Gentleman referred to but the hospice movement in general on the magnificent work that it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Education and Skills (14 to 19)", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Education and Skills (14 to 19)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "here were cross-party talks on this issue and it was clear that agreement could have been reached that results at A-level and GCSE would be printed loud and clear on the front of the diploma. That would have preserved the integrity of those exams while still enabling other achievements in vocational qualifications, longer-term projects and basic skills to be properly recognised. Why instead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Education and Skills (14 to 19)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "Why instead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Education and Skills (14 to 19)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is asking a long question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "First, I set out yesterday in the House—I hope that the hon. Gentleman studied what I said in detail—a series of papers addressing precisely the point that he raised. Secondly, he simply does not accept the seriousness of our situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "As I have said on a number of occasions, I like to make my speech in little chunks and then give way to a group of Members; that is what I will do, if the House will permit me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "for the legal process of this country. You will be settling for a judicial process that is not a true one. That is the problem. Judges are there to make decisions based on legally admissible evidence; they are not there to make decisions on intelligence. Judges cannot be expected to assess intelligence, but the orders will operate only on the basis of intelligence, so it is foolish to think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "ed on legally admissible evidence; they are not there to make decisions on intelligence. Judges cannot be expected to assess intelligence, but the orders will operate only on the basis of intelligence, so it is foolish to think— [Interruption.] You would do better to adopt a position of outright opposition to the orders rather than taking the route that you are following at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-23", "file": "debates2005-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "58d8e8f1b5839fd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "ly discuss on Monday. I was saddened by the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) . I acknowledge his strength of feeling, but if that was his last speech in the House, it is a shame that he could not have spoken about a more constructive subject and offered something more positive. I really felt that his contribution was very sad indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-23a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-24", "file": "debates2005-02-24.xml", "sha256": "38b079c2025d6bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Campbell", "preceding_text": "ablish why it is the case. Setting aside the one-off basis of the Bill, the Minister must find better ongoing ways of getting young people to fill in electoral forms. We must collectively remove our heads from the sand. Younger people by and large do not rush home on a Thursday night to watch the politics show with Andrew Neil and two of our fellow hon. Members. They are just not interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-24", "file": "debates2005-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "09db591601e6ce84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-24", "file": "debates2005-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "09db591601e6ce84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am afraid Tory snow is just the same as Labour snow. It mucks the system up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-24", "file": "debates2005-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "09db591601e6ce84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "if there was a Government amendment, it would be easier to handle that, but I guess that other amendments will have been tabled for Monday, and if they are selected by Mr. Speaker, they can be considered. Let us look at the time that Parliament as a whole, both the Lords and Commons, are devoting to the measure. It is an emergency Bill. We have to bring it in and get Royal Assent before 14 March .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-24", "file": "debates2005-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "09db591601e6ce84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "As I have said before, the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, of which the Prevention of Terrorism Bill affects only one section, was given three days in the House, and the Bill has been given two days. Further time in which to examine the Bill will be available after it returns from the House of Lords, if there are Lords amendments for the Commons to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-24", "file": "debates2005-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "09db591601e6ce84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Registration (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"1974.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "There was a happy occasion when that happened. It caused some confusion on the mainland in February 1973—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-24", "file": "debates2005-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "09db591601e6ce84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Registration (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Campbell", "preceding_text": "ablish why it is the case. Setting aside the one-off basis of the Bill, the Minister must find better ongoing ways of getting young people to fill in electoral forms. We must collectively remove our heads from the sand. Younger people by and large do not rush home on a Thursday night to watch the politics show with Andrew Neil and two of our fellow hon. Members. They are just not interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-24a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-25", "file": "debates2005-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "5e26f59df26ef019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-25a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Because nobody listens to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-25a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-25", "file": "debates2005-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "5e26f59df26ef019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-25a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "ful education campaign—the sort of campaign that might prevent more young people from starting to smoke cannabis and getting into the habit of taking it. It is different from emphasising punishment and conviction. When I was young, I simply thought that bad things would never happen to me. I thought that if I did naughty things, I would never get caught. I thought that I would live for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-25a.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-25", "file": "debates2005-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "5e26f59df26ef019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-25a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "School Meals and Nutrition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": " Friend is right. Many parents, myself included, would like to see higher standards of nutrition and healthy eating in schools, but does he agree that children, particularly if they can be attracted to the healthy eating habit, may expect higher standards of nutrition in the home? One of the problems is that, with too many parents, if they were handed a leek they would not know what to do with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-25a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-25", "file": "debates2005-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "5e26f59df26ef019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-25a.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Right of Reply and Press Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. This is an unexpected opportunity to promote my Bill. I extend a word of sympathy to the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnorshire (Mr. Williams) , who cannot be here today. I believe that his wife is ill disposed. Not ill disposed—I mean indisposed. She may be ill disposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-25a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never had to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ipped away the FAS from the measure and introduced another Bill. That means that we would be starting the process of getting the necessary legislation only now, with the result that people would have had to wait far longer. Some of the schemes go back to the days when the Conservative party was in power. It never contemplated offering compensation to people in the position that we are considering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.645.8", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Will the Minister give way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we can have a good debate this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.645.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.647.7", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I propose to press on. I have no more to add to the programme motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.647.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.651.5", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for clarifying that. It appears to the Chair that both documents that have been referred to have been made available in the appropriate ways to which the House is accustomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If I may say so to the right hon. Lady, there is a method for doing these things. If hon. Members wish to have documents relating to the debate, it is more orderly for those to be collected and not distributed while the occupant of the Chair is on his feet. The programme motion before the House is precedent to the business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I advise the House that we are now moving into Committee. We must complete that process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I respect my right hon. Friend, but there is an important qualitative difference between deprivation of liberty as defined by the European convention on human rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for conceding the qualitative difference involved in the deprivation of liberty. The point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.714.6", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "he Home Office, there is little chance of the suspect having an opportunity to dispose of the matter of which he is accused. This is not an ad hominem point. If my right hon. Friend were Home Secretary for life, I might be slightly more relaxed about the powers, but he will not be. Other people will become Home Secretary. It is theoretically possible that it may even be someone from another party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.714.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "t stank of terrorism. It is absurd for the Home Secretary to rely on the Badat case, which went all the way to the Old Bailey and produced a change of plea today, and to bounce off that and claim that the Conservative party is soft on terrorism. We know that that is absurd and so does he. We all accept the need to protect the nation from terrorist activities by foreign people and British citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "I beg to report that the Committee has gone through the Bill and directed me to report the same without amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I happily accept your ruling, Madam Deputy Speaker, because it allows me to move on to the main burden of the points that I want to make. We must remember why we are considering the Bill: we are considering it because the whole of this country, and not the Government or the Labour party, faces a terrorist threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.771.7", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "No. Should those threats be ignored, as I contend the Conservative Opposition seek to ignore them? Should the measures be amended, as the Liberal Democrats, in fairness to them, have argued throughout the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.771.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.771.9", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I conclude by referring to the core fact that we should all take account of what our electors sent us here to do. Our electors sent us here to protect the liberties of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.771.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.771.11", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "f Opposition Members during the debate— \"In opposing the Government's Bill and saying that Parliament should take longer to consider the matter, the Conservatives are playing politics, rather than displaying a genuine concern for civil liberties\". 53 per cent. in The Daily Telegraph poll said yes, it is true that the Conservatives are playing politics and 29 per cent. said no. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.771.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "r throughout. As for the charge made against the Government by many hon. Members that the Bill is further evidence that we are instinctively authoritarian and do not care enough about civil liberties, the poll for The Daily Telegraph shows that 33 per cent. of people agree with that, while 50 per cent. disagree. Why do I cite those figures in this Third Reading debate? For one simple reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "cannot answer for the Home Secretary, but I believe that he said earlier that he is willing to look at the schedule's wording. However, it is a shame that that has to be done in another place, rather than here. Round-tripping of the sort that my hon. Friend describes would clearly be unacceptable, because that would be getting into the territory of Executive action untrammelled by judicial review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Picking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Picking", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is discussing the merit and credit of the House, but does he agree that the House took a decision? He may think that the decision was discredited and that it was not what he wanted to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend misses my point. The Bill is of enormous importance. It started by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-02-28", "file": "debates2005-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d7294e1e82ab4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think we ought to finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-02-28a.783.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01.xml", "sha256": "32854c6fb6627436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Bus Services (Quality Contracts Schemes)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ment No. 355, which gives a few traditionalists on this side of the Committee the opportunity to form a square against the horde of modernisers led by the Minister and ably supported by the hon. and learned Member for Dudley, North (Ross Cranston) and the hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) , who want to destroy the last vestiges of tradition that surround the law. I am not a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01.xml", "sha256": "32854c6fb6627436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Bus Services (Quality Contracts Schemes)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says with complete confidence that no Lord Chancellor has ever held any other ministerial post; my officials and I will look back through the history books to double-check that assertion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01.xml", "sha256": "32854c6fb6627436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Bus Services (Quality Contracts Schemes)", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "Hang on—wait a minute. The hon. Gentleman will attend an Asian function in the House this Saturday. He attended Baisakhi last year. I think that he even put a turban on his head in the middle of Baisakhi. He says to the ethnic minority community that his party is in favour of diversity, yet he comes to the House and votes against diversity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01.xml", "sha256": "32854c6fb6627436", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Bus Services (Quality Contracts Schemes)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "o allow their ideas, policies and legislation to be discussed and tested. It seems to me that a majority of 165 should allow a Government to be generous in their accommodation of other people's arguments, because they always know that they will win—that the compliant majority will deliver—and ought occasionally to do the decent thing and listen to arguments that they find unattractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": " it plays straight into Mr. Mugabe's hands, as one of the planks of his electoral platform is that the opposition in Zimbabwe are British stooges. Of course that is not the case, but every time the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his hon. Friends start making their mouths go, it rather gives that impression. He is well aware that we have not been at all silent on what is going on in Zimbabwe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.805.8", "colnum": "805", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is wearing proudly on St. David's day the sign of the leek—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.805.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.844.2", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": " non-statutory means. The amendments to the Pluralities Act 1838, the Ecclesiastical Leasing Act 1842, the Inclosure Act 1859, the City of London (Guild Churches) Act 1952 and the Pastoral Measure 1983 are consequential on that transfer, and change statutory references to the Lord Chancellor in provisions relating to patronage to reflect the decision to transfer such matters to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.844.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "e lawyer, because many challenges could be made in court that Ministers were not doing their jobs properly. This will be the first time that we have this modernist oath saying, in effect, \"I am going to look after the buildings as well\". If that is really what it means, it makes one's great moment a bit banal. One arrives at the end of one's career, with the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ment No. 355, which gives a few traditionalists on this side of the Committee the opportunity to form a square against the horde of modernisers led by the Minister and ably supported by the hon. and learned Member for Dudley, North (Ross Cranston) and the hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) , who want to destroy the last vestiges of tradition that surround the law. I am not a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "But not in a ministerial context, and I am surprised that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says with complete confidence that no Lord Chancellor has ever held any other ministerial post; my officials and I will look back through the history books to double-check that assertion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "Hang on—wait a minute. The hon. Gentleman will attend an Asian function in the House this Saturday. He attended Baisakhi last year. I think that he even put a turban on his head in the middle of Baisakhi. He says to the ethnic minority community that his party is in favour of diversity, yet he comes to the House and votes against diversity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-01", "file": "debates2005-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "26bfe4136db601dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "o allow their ideas, policies and legislation to be discussed and tested. It seems to me that a majority of 165 should allow a Government to be generous in their accommodation of other people's arguments, because they always know that they will win—that the compliant majority will deliver—and ought occasionally to do the decent thing and listen to arguments that they find unattractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-01a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02.xml", "sha256": "77c25e5983ca63c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman has simply read out a list that was read out earlier, and some of those apply to some councils, but not all to all councils. All of them have been taken into account, and, as he will know, local government has received a 33 per cent. real-terms increase in grant under the Government, whereas when the Conservative party was in power, local government faced cuts year on year on year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02.xml", "sha256": "77c25e5983ca63c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "asis and without any change to the grant regime, local income tax in Somerset would not be affordable for many families. She said that the council would need a substantial increase in grant. Frankly, if the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton has not calculated how he would distribute grant, he cannot say precisely how much people would have to pay in local income tax, compared with council tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02.xml", "sha256": "77c25e5983ca63c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "use people, but funnily enough, one thing that does not confuse people is the demand that they receive through the letterbox. When they open up the letter, they see how much council tax they have to pay. On that matter, there is no confusion. For a band E property in Ribble Valley in 1997, people had to pay £746; today, they have to pay £1,206. There is no confusion there at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02.xml", "sha256": "77c25e5983ca63c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "h;by 70 per cent.—since the Government came to power in 1997. I want to concentrate mainly on pensioners, but they are not the only ones to suffer. First-time buyers are also being clobbered one way or another. They are getting clobbered now because they have to pay stamp duty, which has not kept pace with inflation. Many people buying their first homes are truly being clobbered by it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.939.4", "colnum": "939", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "There is certainly no lack of pride in Wales in celebrating St. David's day. The pattern of bank and public holidays in the United Kingdom is well established and accepted, and the Government have no plans to change it. It is estimated that it would cost about £2 billion to have an additional bank holiday in the UK. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.939.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.940.3", "colnum": "940", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, for the first time since figures have been produced in this country, unemployment in Clwyd, South is less than 2 per cent., which is considered full employment? Is he further aware that under the Tories, when I was elected to Parliament in 1987, the figure was 16 per cent? There are not a lot of Conservative Members here today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.940.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": ", but I note that the former Welsh Language Board chairman, Rhodri Williams, said: \"We have not supported calls for a new Welsh Language Act. We believe it's through persuasion that we can get companies to use the language.\" I realise that that does not directly address the hon. Gentleman's point, but it should be taken into account in the context of the overall legislative status of the language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.944.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am about to do so, thank you very much. If we were to do what the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West (Mr. Kennedy) suggested, we would have to explain where we got the money from. His proposal, as I understand it, is to take that money from top-rate taxpayers by raising their rate to 50 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.951.7", "colnum": "951", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his 40th birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.951.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.951.7", "colnum": "951", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his 40th birthday. [Interruption.] I would commiserate if he were 50, but he can still be congratulated on his 40th. In respect of St. David's day, I hate to be a spoilsport, but there are strong arguments for public holidays for many things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.951.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is no fault of any Official of the House that the statement has not been circulated. The Vote Office received the statement only recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.978.4", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "Who brought it in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.978.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.978.5", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "I do not think that this is funny, Mr. Deputy Speaker. This is a serious matter of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "sal has been carefully thought out. It is, as the Institute for Fiscal Studies pointed out, fully costed and fully funded. I reassure the hon. Lady that the discount for pensioners, which I am about to deal with in more detail, would come on top of the existing council tax benefit, single person's discount and, as my hon. Friend the Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) confirmed, winter fuel payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " record and their non-credible proposals. We should put the record straight about the council tax in 2005–06. Who would have thought, after listening to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) , that according to the estimates of the much-respected Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, we will see in the coming year the lowest council tax increases for 11 years and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I want to make a bit of progress. This situation has been achieved with no help at all from the Conservative party. It has gone wobbly on capping, conveniently forgetting its record in government, and its councils have the lamentable record of making the largest council tax increases. The figures speak for themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "That report from the Audit Commission is a year and a half out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman has simply read out a list that was read out earlier, and some of those apply to some councils, but not all to all councils. All of them have been taken into account and, as he will know, local government has received a 33 per cent. real-terms increase in grant under the Government, whereas when the Conservative party was in power, local government faced cuts year on year on year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1001.6", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a second, but I want the next Conservative Member who intervenes on me to answer this question: what have they got against pensioners in Scotland and Wales that they refuse to give them any discount? I know that they are not doing very well in Wales in Scotland, but this policy shows that they have given up completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1001.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "nd Wales. I am no expert in local government finance, but my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) , who is also my office mate and a former local government Minister, undoubtedly is, and I pay tribute to his work on this issue. We have taken a look at the impact on council tax in the south-east. Sadly, because he is no longer a Minister—in my view, he should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "asis and without any change to the grant regime, local income tax in Somerset would not be affordable for many families. She said that the council would need a substantial increase in grant. Frankly, if the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton has not calculated how he would distribute grant, he cannot say precisely how much people would have to pay in local income tax, compared with council tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "That is not perfectly clear. If people do not pay council tax because they receive the full benefit, they do not get the discount; if they pay part of their council tax, they will get part of the discount according to some rather unclear form of calculation. Some of the richest people living in some of the most valuable houses will receive the full amount of discount—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "use people, but funnily enough, one thing that does not confuse people is the demand that they receive through the letterbox. When they open up the letter, they see how much council tax they have to pay. On that matter, there is no confusion. For a band E property in Ribble Valley in 1997, people had to pay £746; today, they have to pay £1,206. There is no confusion there at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "h;by 70 per cent.—since the Government came to power in 1997. I want to concentrate mainly on pensioners, but they are not the only ones to suffer. First-time buyers are also being clobbered one way or another. They are getting clobbered now because they have to pay stamp duty, which has not kept pace with inflation. Many people buying their first homes are truly being clobbered by it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Hospital-acquired Infections", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "We are using figures produced by the Government's chief scientist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Hospital-acquired Infections", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "d the opportunity in the press conference to comment on the revealing statement by his colleague, the absent shadow Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) , when last June he said: \"I don't believe the NHS statistics. Occasionally I bend them when they are helpful.\" Perhaps the fact that he is not here means that he dare not show his face and respond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Hospital-acquired Infections", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "The reason why the Opposition keep raising this matter has nothing to do with the issuing of statistics, nor with its having been raised with them by members of the public—many issues are raised with us—and everything to do with denigrating the NHS and providing a setting in which they can undermine public confidence in it in order to remove £2 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1047.5", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Hospital-acquired Infections", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "The reason why we are tackling these issues is that we were left with an NHS starved of investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1047.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Hospital-acquired Infections", "cue_speaker": "Phyllis Starkey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phyllis Starkey", "preceding_text": "Is not my hon. Friend the Minister worried about Conservative Members' level of scientific understanding? They cannot understand the difference between hospital-acquired infections as a group and MRSA. That led to their suggesting that the figure that you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-02", "file": "debates2005-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "62db7e31520959e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Hospital-acquired Infections", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. That would be devastating for many of our achievements. We have put £570 million extra into cancer treatment, for example, and anyone who considers the £2 billion that would come out can see the scale of the damage that would be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-02a.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1085.5", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "Given that in a debate in Westminster Hall on 19 January the Minister said: \"gas supplies might be tight if demand rises to high levels in the coming winter or the one after that,\"—[ Official Report, 19 January 2005; Vol. 429, c. 265WH .] is it not important to halt the decline in the mining industry? I am thinking particularly about pit closures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1085.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I am astonished that the right hon. Gentleman should seek to attack our export credits agency by comparison with the United States. If there is any difference in the support provided, it is only because a larger subsidy is given in the United States. As for the recent court case, we did not lose it; we settled it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Hamilton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hamilton", "preceding_text": ", one of my hon. Friends mentioned that it is the 20th anniversary of the miners' decision to return to work. I was unfortunate enough not to return to work, because I was sacked along with just fewer than 1,000 people. On Monday, the BBC showed a good and fair programme about the miners in the face of great opposition from Conservative Members. At the end of that programme, the Iron Maiden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I certainly do—I represent a mining community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1111.3", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I would not want the right hon. Gentleman to go off in a relaxed mood at any time, though I have considerable affection for him as a parliamentary performer and, actually, not a bad bloke, despite his dodgy views on the European Union—and just about everything else, for that matter. Since the right hon. Gentleman asks about health, it gives me the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House knows that, under your watchful gaze, Mr. Speaker, he is a guardian of the traditions and civilities of this House. Will he therefore make a statement about the growing practice of Members tabling questions solely for the purpose of electoral gain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that there is a possibility of a large number of jobs being lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"New clause 4.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "eded in the definition of interest rates. New clause 2(1) refers to the Office of Fair Trading publishing, \"at least annually, the range of interest rates\", but which interest rates? There are different ways of calculating annual percentage rates, so that interest rate X offered by one credit card company is not the same as interest rate X offered by another, because of the small print on the APR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": " very little relation to our preceding debate. He then raises some issues that have been discussed—in particular, he expressed his concern about the need to review regulation. I tabled amendments expressly to deal with that matter, yet the hon. Gentleman's party tabled no such amendments. If he is so concerned about regulation, why did he not ensure that some amendments were tabled about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-03", "file": "debates2005-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "2585c8d9cd49d5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "nsiderable courtesy. Throughout the different stages of the Bill, he made regular contact with me and, I am sure, with other Members, to inform us of progress and liaise in order to ensure the smooth progress of the Bill. We have all had the opportunity to express our views in an orderly and constructive way. I have to say that the Government could well use the Minister in other Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-03a.1178.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07.xml", "sha256": "1644bef4ce4fe50e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "Gun crime is very low in this country. It has increased in recent years, but the rate of increase has gone down, and the number of fatalities caused by handguns has decreased considerably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07.xml", "sha256": "1644bef4ce4fe50e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07.1328.2", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "ervention. His point is well made. What we want in all our communities is not charity. We do not want permanent dependence on any funding source, whether at central Government or European level. We want help to help ourselves. The Government are right to stress that in their statements on regional economic policy. Developing endogenous potential—indigenous potential—is the way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07.1328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07.xml", "sha256": "1644bef4ce4fe50e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07.1336.4", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Jealousy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "id that goes to the poorest countries—I respect the work that the Government have been doing on that—it will still be necessary to consider the mathematical equations of poverty in arriving at the decision on where the money should go. We have heard an excessive amount of ideology this afternoon, including the hyper-inflated peroration of the hon. Member for East Carmarthen and Dinefwr", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07.1336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4c49f7623b4ef7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "Gun crime is very low in this country. It has increased in recent years, but the rate of increase has gone down, and the number of fatalities caused by handguns has decreased considerably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4c49f7623b4ef7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1295.0", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that some of the most byzantine legislation emanates from Europe, and will he urge our European colleagues to reflect further on the lessons that we have learned from our tax rewrite system here to see if they can improve their legislation by writing it in that format?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4c49f7623b4ef7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "s scheduled work and there is at least one more income tax Bill to come, before the team moves on to capital and corporation taxes. I can certainly give a commitment today that a future Conservative Government would ensure that it received all the support that it needed. We would like the process to go even further and build on the work of the rewrite project by promoting tax simplification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4c49f7623b4ef7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Future European Union Finances", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "ted by arms sales policies that definitely do nothing to promote the right relationships between Governments. On that score, I agree with what the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, North said, and I also accept what he said about the constitution. The sooner Europe has a constitution that limits and codifies the different roles and governance, the better. I hope that we will achieve that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4c49f7623b4ef7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1328.2", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Future European Union Finances", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "ervention. His point is well made. What we want in all our communities is not charity. We do not want permanent dependence on any funding source, whether at central Government or European level. We want help to help ourselves. The Government are right to stress that in their statements on regional economic policy. Developing endogenous potential—indigenous potential—is the way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4c49f7623b4ef7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Future European Union Finances", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ocument, and it was also mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) . That argument—that the EU gets to spend only 1 per cent. of GNI, whereas member states get to spend 45 per cent. of GDP—bears no weight at all. It is a fatuous argument and it undermines the Commission's document. After all, the Commission is not trying to create a superstate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4c49f7623b4ef7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1336.4", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Future European Union Finances", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Jealousy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "id that goes to the poorest countries—I respect the work that the Government have been doing on that—it will still be necessary to consider the mathematical equations of poverty in arriving at the decision on where the money should go. We have heard an excessive amount of ideology this afternoon, including the hyper-inflated peroration of the hon. Member for East Carmarthen and Dinefwr", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-07", "file": "debates2005-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4c49f7623b4ef7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Future European Union Finances", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "Over what period would my hon. Friend expect expenditure on the CAP to fall to zero? If it did not fall to zero over that period, would he be in favour of withdrawing the UK from the European Union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-07a.1342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1377.0", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Clelland", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware how welcome it is that a British Government have finally woken up, 50 years after its invention in this country, to the important role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "e and support that, because the more questions that can be asked of the company, the better its management will be. Nevertheless, since it took over from Railtrack—the Conservatives are probably the only group of people left in this country who support that company—it has become much more efficient and accountable, and is running its responsibilities far better than Railtrack ever did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And in raising money!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "The safety camera partnerships have been extremely successful in reducing casualties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1385.8", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "The Government are keen to see the Thames used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1385.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "counts will be published, and I understand that they will be more detailed than before. They will be laid before the House in due course. As the hon. Gentleman knows, however, expenditure on private offices varies according to the number of Ministers in the Cabinet Office at any one time. If it will help the hon. Gentleman, I can give him some historical figures relating to the current Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1388.8", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "What I regard as remarkably poor value for money is the Opposition Front-Bench team. In all my time at this Dispatch Box, given my responsibilities for the co-ordination of Government policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1388.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Dumbing down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I think that, by opening the civil service to as wide a range of talent as possible, we can boost excellence in the civil service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1390.2", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The answer is yes, yes, yes. Of course entry to the civil service is based on merit. The idea that a question about opening up the civil service to the whole of society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It seems that we are extending Question Time. Those in the Table Office are Officers of the House of the highest standard. They reject questions only if they go against the rules of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1391.5", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Do you agree that as the Tory Opposition receive £4 million a year of taxpayers' money, they should be bright enough to table questions without having to beg you to tell them how to do the job they are paid to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "ring the debate on such a proposal in Committee, I was delighted that the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso) , who speaks for the Liberal Democrats, enthusiastically supported my idea. He brought to that debate much experience of what it is like in the more barren parts of Scotland, where he believes that HGVs should be able to travel at 50 mph, rather than 40 mph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " for their job or occupation. I accept that for some people the consequences can be grave, but sometimes the injustice is compounded by the fact that the total number of penalty points is the result of a series of relatively minor speeding incidents. Some hon. Members have been subject to the totting up of points, after being convicted of a series of minor infringements of road traffic laws—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": "knew about the wait. If someone happened to draw up when the lights turned from green to red, he knew that the time allowed for a lorry to go all the way down to the bottom and back up the other side at 5 mph and for traffic to pass in the opposite direction would be 15 minutes. One simply turned off the engine and used the time productively. Occasionally, one might have used a mobile phone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "bing in nature and is intended to tease out from the Minister whether the Government are considering best practice in reducing accidents and considering the experience of other countries. Being a Conservative, I always hesitate to argue for more red tape, especially when my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) , the Cabinet Minister for deregulation, is sitting behind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "as pleased to see that the Select Committee did not fall into the trap of saying, \"We know it is unsafe, but if we want fitter children, we should allow this practice to continue.\" What the Committee wants and what I want is for more children to cycle, but to cycle safely. In conclusion, the Minister must realise that the slaughter of youngsters—I do not use emotive language—must stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am not exactly sure when the research will be available. It will certainly be published, however, and we want to make sure that we investigate the matter in some detail. Although the right hon. Gentleman has expressed his concern about this matter, and it is devastating when it occurs even if it is a relatively small problem, we do not have the information about how often it happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1480.0", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the Minister for the way in which he has conducted the Bill's passage in Committee and through this House. I should also like to say how much we will miss him when he retires from this House at the coming election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-08", "file": "debates2005-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "15f261372d1b0354", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1483.2", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": "have been calling for such a road safety measure for about three years, so it would be churlish of me to pick it apart. There are many good things in the Bill, although they are not all set out precisely as I might want. However, the broad thrust of the Bill and what it seeks to do are good. There were some missed opportunities. I have alluded to some aspects that might have been dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-08a.1483.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09.xml", "sha256": "d12d9d6ad372d2c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "bars of Beethoven's fifth symphony, which presaged the news and used to go out around the world. It was heard by the resistance in France. The BBC was a great national institution of which I and my parents were proud. I thus approach this debate on the BBC more in sorrow than in anger. I was brought up on Reith and Reithian principles. I was brought up hearing the news read by Alvar Liddell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09.xml", "sha256": "d12d9d6ad372d2c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "bles everyone in the country, whether rich or poor, to watch the best programming. That could not be achieved without a universal licence fee, as can be seen in other countries that do not have the same system of funding and rely more on subscription services for providing the best programming. I believe that, although the licence fee may have a regressive tinge, it is important in ensuring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09.1558.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ound;800 million, working towards the 0.7 per cent. target, focusing on the poorest, promoting good government, championing freer and fairer trade, and delivering faster and deeper debt relief. I believe in establishing a broad, honest cross-party consensus so that the United Kingdom can unite in action to address the challenges of global poverty. Will the Secretary of State confirm that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1506.2", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "olicy expertise. Will he consider seconding DFID officials to those countries where we now give aid mostly through budget support, in order to help them and their Governments to work up policy more effectively and to increase their capacity? DFID has more fast-stream civil servants than any other Department in Whitehall; perhaps they could be shared with some of the countries to which we give aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1506.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1507.4", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1507.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1509.3", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I have the newspaper report here. The Prime Minister was asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1509.5", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister was asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1509.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1514.3", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "vice today, but I can tell her that when people in this country see the investment going into the health service, the new hospitals being built, the extra nurses and doctors, waiting lists and waiting times coming down, and cancer and cardiac deaths declining, and then compare that with the Conservatives' proposals to take money out of the health service and to subsidise private health care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day—1st Part] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2004–05 — Future of the BBC", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no. More\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "mparable: five symphony orchestras, which we simply would not have in this country without the BBC—including, if I may be territorial, the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester—and the proms. All right, the BBC inherited the proms from Henry Wood, but it continues them. I will just make one self-indulgent point—it may well be the only self-indulgent point that I make in my contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day—1st Part] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2004–05 — Future of the BBC", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "r 1,000 jobs indirectly attributed to the presence of BBC Wales. Its reputation for excellence is continually enhanced, as it was last night with the launch of the new series of \"Dr Who\", which took place in Cardiff, complete with Daleks on view. I understand that there will be a further showing in London next week for Members of Parliament who would like to see the next episode of the new series.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day—1st Part] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2004–05 — Future of the BBC", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "bars of Beethoven's fifth symphony, which presaged the news and used to go out around the world. It was heard by the resistance in France. The BBC was a great national institution of which I and my parents were proud. I thus approach this debate on the BBC more in sorrow than in anger. I was brought up on Reith and Reithian principles. I was brought up hearing the news read by Alvar Liddell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day—1st Part] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2004–05 — Future of the BBC", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ables everyone in the country, whether rich or poor, to watch the best programming. That could not be achieved without a universal licence fee, as can be seen in other countries that do not have the same system of funding and rely more on subscription services for providing the best programming. I believe that although the licence fee may have a regressive tinge, it is important in ensuring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Berwick-upon-Tweed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "on. and learned Friend has made two perfectly appropriate proposals: first, that the defendant should have a better choice of special advocate to represent him or her; and secondly, that the defendant should have more information about the hearing as it proceeds. Both are precisely the sort of proposal to which I referred in response to the right hon. Gentleman for the north-east of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1578.3", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I believe that the Home Secretary has to have prime position with regard to the question of whether an executive action against terrorist suspects is involved and has to be sustained. Does he accept that the mess that has been created by the Bill has been the result of our accepting the European convention on human rights, which is at the heart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely correct and I can tell the House that it was his intervention, and that of one or two others, that convinced me that this was the right course for the Government to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1595.3", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I turn finally to the other Lords amendments. The remainder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1595.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1608.9", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ior ranks of the police service. So it would be wise if he were to take notice of what has been said. There are basic principles on which we must be clear when we look at this legislation. We have said all along—I repeat the point for the benefit of the hon. Member for Watford (Claire Ward) —that we recognise that a threat exists, and we want to find the right mechanisms to address it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1608.9", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " benefit of the hon. Member for Watford (Claire Ward) —that we recognise that a threat exists, and we want to find the right mechanisms to address it. [Interruption.] That is the principal responsibility of any Government—and, indeed, of any Parliament—and part of the response to it is ensuring that the measures that we put in place are commensurate with the risks involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1615.3", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might be saying that the Government Front Bench is misleading me, but my view, after reading the amendments, is that the Secretary of State will make an application to a judge for a non-derogating order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1615.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "n of trust. I listened to the Prime Minister today when he asserted, as he often does, that only he and his Home Secretary can judge the security of the citizen, the security of this nation and the balance between the two. I do not accept that proposition. As my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) pointed out, he took us to war on a supposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-09", "file": "debates2005-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "101a022572b48978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "dence in a Government whose assertions put at risk our liberty, freedom, custom and history. I stand by those things that have seen us through the most desperate hours in the life of this nation. The security of this nation is secure in our hands if we have access to due process. This Government have sought to strike away the most fundamental liberties that we need to secure our own freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-09a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1717.0", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "If I understand the hon. Gentleman correctly, it is a matter of principle for him that those who are either unable or choose not to take their seats in the House should not have office access. I presume that if it really is a matter of principle for him, those who are suspended from the House should also be denied access to their offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "I was one of those miscreants, Mr. Deputy Speaker, who informed your Office during the debate that I would like to speak. I apologise for that, and will speak as briefly as I can. I did so because I was loth to speak in the debate until I had heard what other hon. Members had said. I know that it is unusual to listen to other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ct the mandate of that electorate. That overrides the issue of whether they are full Members. We must respect the view of the people who elected them by a majority. I should tell my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) that a side issue is taxpayers' money. I accept that, but those who voted for Sinn Fein also pay taxes and may want some of it spent on their Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1737.0", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ee vote. The hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) , in her brave speech, asserted that it would be a free vote. The hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) said the same and I know that it will be a free vote for the official Opposition. I would like confirmation from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he winds up, that it will be a free vote on the Government side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "amendment passed in the other place is an offence against the excellent current reviewer, Lord Carlile of Berriew, and the work he is doing in carrying that through. To suggest he is not doing good work in this matter was a serious mistake by the Lords, in my opinion. I am determined that we insist on our disagreement with the amendments so as to maintain the existence of the independent reviewer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " If the Government believed that civil liberties were important in this country they would consent to a sunset clause, if only to come back in 12 months' time and explain why, reluctantly, they had to continue with these measures. The fact that they will not taints the entire way in which the Government have approached this matter. I am left with the unpleasant sensation that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1809.0", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "o Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity\". In the light of what has occurred, when the Prime Minister gave a clear account that the security service had said that it was against the sunset clause, yet we now know from the Minister that that is not the case, clearly the Prime Minister must come here and apologise to the House. He must correct the information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1816.2", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ouse of Lords backed, to change the burden of proof.\" He said \"either\" and \"or\". He continued: \"That would not be wise; it would be contrary to the strong advice given to us by our security services and our police, and I am simply not prepared to do it.\"—[ Official Report , 9 March 2005; Vol. 431; c. 1510 .] That was clearly referring to both the amendments. There is another quotation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1817.1", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "t are against the direct advice that we are receiving.\"—[ Official Report, 9 March 2005; Vol. 431, c. 1511 .] The Prime Minister is in the precincts—he voted in the previous Division. Is there any precedent for a Prime Minister who is present in the precincts of this Palace, and against whom such accusations have been made, to fail to have the courage to come to the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1822.2", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I simply want to make it clear that when the Prime Minister was responding to the issue about the sunset clause, he said: \"I do not agree with the sunset clause, for this simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "We are engaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1840.4", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ay to me—as you noticed, Mr. Deputy Speaker—because he knew that I would raise that point. All that he could do was come up with a cheap jibe. The plain fact is that the Home Secretary knows that the Bill must be subjected to a sunset clause, but I ask the House to consider the central problem with the Bill: it is dependent on the application of the European convention on human rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1840.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f0c0516d27be9f82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1862.14", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The trouble is, the Home Secretary spoke to the wrong person. That, I have to say, is, as far as I am aware, the full extent of the Home Secretary's approach to Opposition parties. Certainly, it is so in so far as my own party is concerned. I take this opportunity, therefore, seeing that the Home Secretary has never engaged in the sort of discussions that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10.1862.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1666.1", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman speaks about a buoyant economy. Who is responsible for a buoyant economy? I am grateful for the gratitude he expresses to the Government. In his own constituency, would he not congratulate us also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1686.0", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "s within the House on extra judicial protection, but the Government will not allow the fact that the Conservatives are playing politics with people's security to put us in a position of neglecting the safety and security of our citizens. The House of Lords is inviting the House of Commons to put its and the Conservative party's interests ahead of those of our constituents, but we will not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1689.2", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Of course I want adequate time for discussion and the right hon. Gentleman is entitled to press me on the matter, as is any other hon. Member. However, the debate on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill will continue today and may continue for a long time if the Conservative-controlled House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1689.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1694.3", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Cross Benchers are all Tories!", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate on the use of exaggerated language? Can the Leader of the House explain his referring a few minutes ago to \"a Conservative-controlled House of Lords,\" when the numbers in the Lords are as follows: Conservative 209, Labour 207, Cross Benchers 187, Liberal Democrats 68 and others 36? How can he describe that as a Conservative-controlled House of Lords?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1696.2", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I hope that we can have a Second Reading debate on the Bill which, as my hon. Friend says, is an important measure dealing not only with discrimination against people with disabilities and women, and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or race, but with discrimination on grounds of age or religion. The latter will support the Muslim community, which has felt besieged in recent times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1696.2", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "tion against people with disabilities and women, and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or race, but with discrimination on grounds of age or religion. The latter will support the Muslim community, which has felt besieged in recent times. [Interruption.] I hope that the measure will be passed. If Labour is re-elected, the Bill will certainly get Royal Assent as soon as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1701.3", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is shaking his head, so is it now Conservative policy to deny postal voters the right to apply for postal votes and to vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1714.6", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Support For Members Who Have Chosen Not To Take Their Seats", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "It is a sunset clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1714.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1717.0", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Support For Members Who Have Chosen Not To Take Their Seats", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "If I understand the hon. Gentleman correctly, it is a matter of principle for him that those who are either unable or choose not to take their seats in the House should not have office access. I presume that if it really is a matter of principle for him, those who are suspended from the House should also be denied access to their offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1721.3", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Support For Members Who Have Chosen Not To Take Their Seats", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "nce or criminal activity, and that those could be considered to constitute a violation of the ceasefire. This is why we are here, because I think we have to recognise that Sinn Fein must be brought to account for what has been going on with the IRA, but here is the irony: had we not given those facilities in the first place, we would not have the sanction to impose now. And the double irony—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1724.2", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Support For Members Who Have Chosen Not To Take Their Seats", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) . Usually, we are in agreement, but I am not in agreement with his views today, although I understand his reasons for saying what he said. I noticed that he said that the Liberal Democrats would have a free vote. I do not think that the Labour party will have a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Support For Members Who Have Chosen Not To Take Their Seats", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "I was one of those miscreants, Mr. Deputy Speaker, who informed your Office during the debate that I would like to speak. I apologise for that, and will speak as briefly as I can. I did so because I was loth to speak in the debate until I had heard what other hon. Members had said. I know that it is unusual to listen to other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Support For Members Who Have Chosen Not To Take Their Seats", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ct the mandate of that electorate. That overrides the issue of whether they are full Members. We must respect the view of the people who elected them by a majority. I should tell my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) that a side issue is taxpayers' money. I accept that, but those who voted for Sinn Fein also pay taxes and may want some of it spent on their Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1737.0", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Support For Members Who Have Chosen Not To Take Their Seats", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ee vote. The hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) , in her brave speech, asserted that it would be a free vote. The hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) said the same and I know that it will be a free vote for the official Opposition. I would like confirmation from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he winds up, that it will be a free vote on the Government side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1762.1", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I will make available in general terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry indeed that the hon. Gentleman should seek to cast doubt on the security services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1763.8", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman is not talking about leaks and all that side of things. The figures that he quotes are actually set out in the financial memorandum and the regulatory impact assessment that we put before the House when we published the measure. They are entirely public documents and one would think that a competent Opposition would have studied them carefully before considering the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1763.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "The main reason for that is an important one, which relates to a discussion that we held earlier. The events of 9/11 and those that followed were particularly significant. Paul Condon resigned as Metropolitan Police Commissioner before that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "amendment passed in the other place is an offence against the excellent current reviewer, Lord Carlile of Berriew, and the work he is doing in carrying that through. To suggest he is not doing good work in this matter was a serious mistake by the Lords, in my opinion. I am determined that we insist on our disagreement with the amendments so as to maintain the existence of the independent reviewer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1771.4", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "There is no distinction to be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1771.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1772.8", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "Precisely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1772.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "No, I have already given way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1775.5", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "No, we do not have time. The hon. Gentleman voted for the timetable motion, which prevents debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1775.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1777.3", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "I am sorry but I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1777.3", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "I am sorry but I will not. [Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"] I do not have time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1777.7", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I used the words that my right hon. Friend attributed to me, but I know what she means. No one is 100 per cent. satisfied that the measure is perfect, but my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary said that he will introduce a new Bill next year, in any event. Surely we ought to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1777.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1798.0", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "Yes. The Security Service is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1798.0", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "Yes. The Security Service is concerned—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Let me answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1798.6", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "The Minister tried to distinguish between a total deprivation of liberty—house detention—and a restriction on liberty, that is, a non-derogating order. Does she not understand that the Human Rights Act 1998, which the Government introduced, makes it clear that any such conduct could amount to a penalty under that legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1798.9", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I should like to move on to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1798.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1799.2", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the sunset clause would not ensure that. My third amendment would ensure that in relation to our annual renewal, the Secretary of State would be required to consult the independent reviewer of the Act before making an order to renew the powers to make control orders for up to a further year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1799.2", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "Act before making an order to renew the powers to make control orders for up to a further year. [Interruption.] We believe that the provisions we are putting into the Bill to review the operation of the Act are right and appropriate, but my amendment requires the Secretary of State to consult the independent reviewer of the Act before making his order to renew the powers. We think that this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1800.5", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can confirm that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1800.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1805.3", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary knows that we consider this legislation poorly drafted and bad, so the first thing that we will do when we get into office is to find a means of replacing it with something that allows the security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1805.3", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "not given the slightest indication of even engaging in that process. There is the question of prosecuting. There is the question of using intercept evidence. There is a question, if nothing else, if I may say to the Home Secretary, about putting in the things that at the moment he refuses to have in this legislation. The sooner we can get rid of control orders and this type of measure, the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1805.6", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "But as I said to the Minister—I said it two weeks ago and I say it again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1805.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ard issue. If the Government believed that civil liberties were important in this country they would consent to a sunset clause, if only to come back in 12 months' time and explain why, reluctantly, they had to continue with these measures. The fact that they will not taints the entire way in which they have approached this matter. I am left with the unpleasant sensation that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1807.6", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "Just to clarify this for the hon. Gentleman, Baroness Hayman, who moved the 12-month sunset clause, has said that the unelected House should give way at this point to the views of the elected House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1807.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1807.7", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " to accept this inadequate legislation—described clearly as inadequate from the Dispatch Box in another place and implied by Ministers in this place, as well—and that there is no proposal to make that legislation come to the end of its natural life next year so that it can be replaced by better legislation. Let us look at amendment (a), which the Minister did not greatly amplify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1807.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1807.7", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "d he said \"No\"—in frank contradistinction to what the Prime Minister said on Wednesday at the Dispatch Box in Prime Minister's questions. It was nonsense when the Prime Minister said it then. The Lord Chancellor has let the cat out of the bag. There is no argument that we should not have the clause. We should. That is why it is right that the amendments should go back to another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1807.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1808.0", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "sense when the Prime Minister said it then. The Lord Chancellor has let the cat out of the bag. There is no argument that we should not have the clause. We should. That is why it is right that the amendments should go back to another place— [Interruption.] The Minister is shaking her head. Perhaps we should have an answer. Will she tell us? Have the security services recommended that or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1807.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I have already made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I have already made it clear— [Interruption.] Yes. The security services have told us that they want control orders. They have not said that they want a sunset clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.0", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity\". In the light of what has occurred, when the Prime Minister gave a clear account that the security services had said that it was against the sunset clause, yet we now know from the Minister that that is not the case, clearly the Prime Minister must come here and apologise to the House. He must correct the information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman will know that the Chair has no power to command the presence of any particular Minister at any particular time. I suggest to the House that these are matters of judgment, which will continue to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.3", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I want to make one point. The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) seemed deliberately to misunderstand the points made in interventions by my hon. Friends. Earlier, the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) spoke about a serious interference in liberty. I went through to hear the debate in the other place and the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.5", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Elevation!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the House that levity has its place, but probably not at six minutes past 2 in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.6", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "What we are seeing from Opposition Members is the effect of the grape, rather than anything else. I remind the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1809.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have given the Leader of the Opposition some latitude to put that on the record. However, I must say to the right hon. and learned Gentleman that the Chair has no power to command a Minister to attend the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1811.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1811.4", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "sh;that cannot be gainsaid. However, even if there were a slip of the tongue and that was not quite what the Prime Minister meant, if he respected the seriousness of the issue he would be here to listen to our debate and defend the way in which he had expressed himself. The problem is that on previous occasions the Prime Minister has appeared not to tell exactly the truth in certain circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1816.0", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Home Secretary invited us to read the passage from Hansard that led to the previous exchanges. This is what the Prime Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1816.2", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "r by the House of Lords, and which the Conservatives in the House of Lords backed, to change the burden of proof.\" He said \"either\" and \"or\". He continued: \"That would not be wise; it would be contrary to the strong advice given to us by our security services and our police, and I am simply not prepared to do it.\" That was clearly referring to both the amendments. There is another quotation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.0", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. and learned Gentleman must be very clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.1", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "re against the direct advice that we are receiving.\"—[ Official Report, 9 March 2005; Vol. 431, c. 1510-11 .] The Prime Minister is in the precincts—he voted in the previous Division. Is there any precedent for a Prime Minister who is present in the precincts of this Palace, and against whom such accusations have been made, to fail to have the courage to come to the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.2", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I understand the right hon. and learned Gentleman's point of order but it only adds to a point of order that has already been made this evening. Everybody in the Chamber, and those outside, will have heard the point of order. The Chair has no responsibility for bringing Ministers or Prime Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.5", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I want to make it clear to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.5", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "aker. I want to make it clear to the House— [Interruption.] It is an important matter for the record of the House. The words that the Leader of the Opposition read out are followed by several statements by the Prime Minister. He said: \"The point of principle is on the control orders and the burden of proof.\"—[ Official Report, 9 March 2005; Vol. 431, c. 1511 .] He goes on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1818.2", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. All those matters are becoming a continuation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1818.2", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. All those matters are becoming a continuation— [Interruption.] Order. There are serious matters before the House and it behoves us to behave properly when we discuss issues of such gravity. All that is happening now is an extension of the previous debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.0", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I just want to make it clear that when the Prime Minister was responding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I said earlier that we are debating a very serious matter. I have already heard two points of order from the Opposition side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.2", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I simply want to make it clear that when the Prime Minister was responding to the issue about the sunset clause, he said: \"I do not agree with the sunset clause, for this simple\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.3", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not want to repeat myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.4", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said: \"I do not agree with the sunset clause, for this simple reason: it is important that we send a clear signal now that this legislation is on the statute book and will remain on the statute book.\"—[ Official Report, 9 March 2005; Vol. 431, c. 1511 .] He made no reference to the advice of the Security Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.5", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1822.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1827.5", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1827.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1830.5", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's latter comments were on message, but I suspect that his initial remarks were off message, as far as Labour Members are concerned. First, those laws are good laws.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1833.4", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1833.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1833.4", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "No. [Interruption.] I will not take an intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1833.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "We are engaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1839.3", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "and partly by a number of Members who did vote for the Government but perhaps have made it clear that we wanted to see changes made. This Chamber has improved the Bill. We have now reached a situation where there are differences of opinion between the House and another place, but none that justify the House now conceding to the other place. We may well be fighting an election in a few weeks' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1840.2", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend is completely right. He demonstrates the fact that the Bill itself is fundamentally flawed. That is why the Bill must be subjected to a sunset clause, but in subjecting it to a sunset clause we shall then have an opportunity, during the time that this is available, to consider the proper basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1840.3", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Conversations are breaking out in the House. I cannot hear the hon. Gentleman who is addressing the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1840.4", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ay to me—as you noticed, Mr. Deputy Speaker—because he knew that I would raise that point. All that he could do was come up with a cheap jibe. The plain fact is that the Home Secretary knows that the Bill must be subjected to a sunset clause, but I ask the House to consider the central problem with the Bill: it is dependent on the application of the European convention on human rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1840.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1854.0", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am busy enough looking after the affairs of this Chamber. What goes on outside the Chamber is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1856.10", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: That does not add up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "fourth round of ping-pong. The will of this elected House has been consistent and strong, particularly on the two issues that remain outstanding between here and the Lords. Voting in the other place on those two issues has been as follows. On the so-called sunset clauses, the first Division resulted in a 150 majority against. That majority reduced subsequently to 85, then to 68, and finally to 71.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1856.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1861.2", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely correct, and it was he who raised in the debates in the House the desirability of all-party discussions after the general election to try to bring the difficult task of terrorism legislation to the state of affairs where it was dealt with on a non-partisan basis—something that used to exist when the Labour party was in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1861.3", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " Home Secretary appears to be giving a fairly binding obligation to introduce legislation that this House can consider in a proper, ordered fashion, with time for debate, this winter. I am sure he accepts that it would be rather shameful if his party were to win the election and go back on that. If the Conservative party were to win the election, it is committed to introducing similar legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1862.14", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The trouble is, the Home Secretary spoke to the wrong person. That, I have to say, is, as far as I am aware, the full extent of the Home Secretary's approach to Opposition parties. It is certainly the case in so far as my own party is concerned. I take this opportunity, therefore, seeing that the Home Secretary has never engaged in the sort of discussions that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1862.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1863.5", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I merely point out that the process of debate, in which I thought this House was supposed to engage, does seem to have enabled us to narrow some issues, so I hope that the right hon. Member for Swansea, East (Donald Anderson) will bear with me while I raise again with the Home Secretary the issues relating to the standard of proof.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1864.14", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " believe that the matter would be capable of being resolved. I urge the right hon. Gentleman at this eleventh hour to do just that. He sketched out a timetable for his future legislation that, if I may say so, is undoubtedly helpful in explaining to the House how the Government intend to go about their business. However, there is no reason why that timetable cannot be married with a sunset clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1864.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I have to say to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1866.3", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1866.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I have listened carefully to the Home Secretary's words this afternoon. Had he made those proposals with such clarity some hours ago, or even some days ago, we might have saved an awful lot of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1868.4", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "mentioned. However, we have now reached the point at which, whatever the procedural faults of the past, we are narrowing the issues and coming close to consensus. The matter is now one of judgment and balance. In my view, we all recognise the nature of the threat. I was impressed by what my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Mr. Dhanda) said about the shoe bomber in his own constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1868.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "of days on which the House will be sitting before November. Even on March, it would impose an arbitrary timetable. In my judgment, the step-by-step approach that my right hon. Friend has reasonably proposed achieves the same end in a far more acceptable way. This will separate the sheep from the goats. It will certainly separate those whose motives are to embarrass the Government from those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-10", "file": "debates2005-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "4d6a070f6d03a455", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1871.0", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "I have hesitated to participate in this debate because I am not a lawyer, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-10a.1871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-14", "file": "debates2005-03-14.xml", "sha256": "709a5f36b060bd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "on to getting rid of 168 quangos. The Labour party must be clear about this. It is putting on its websites the claim that the Conservative party is committed to removing £35 billion from public services. That is the statement. However, we should bear in mind that £23 billion of that £35 billion is actually part of the Gershon process, so is the Labour party taking the view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-14", "file": "debates2005-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f5589e304c8275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Commission for Africa", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "rnments. Commissioner Anna Tibijuka made a telling comment in that respect when she described how the promise offered by Tanzania's independence was squandered after donor Governments spent a fortune on infrastructure projects that were either not completed because money was stolen, or wasted because they were irrelevant to the country's needs, such as a motorway that went from nowhere to nowhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-14", "file": "debates2005-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f5589e304c8275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Commission for Africa", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "because they were irrelevant to the country's needs, such as a motorway that went from nowhere to nowhere. [Interruption.] Does the Secretary of State believe that the recommendation in our manifesto of channelling aid through non-governmental organisations and civic organisations, as well as Governments, would produce both greater accountability and the more cost-effective use of available funds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-14", "file": "debates2005-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f5589e304c8275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Commission for Africa", "cue_speaker": "Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I have not had a chance to read the whole report—its size indicates the magnitude of the task. I want to pick up just one point. On page 385—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-14", "file": "debates2005-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f5589e304c8275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "to getting rid of 168 quangos. The Labour party must be clear about this. It is putting on its websites the claim that the Conservative party is committed to removing £35 billion from public services. That is the statement. However, we should bear it in mind that £23 billion of that £35 billion is actually part of the Gershon process, so is the Labour party taking the view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-14", "file": "debates2005-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f5589e304c8275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "eld raised a serious issue in relation to the chief inspector continuing to report to the Select Committee. I spoke to him privately and want to reassure the House by repeating what I said to him—that the chief inspector absolutely will continue to report to the Select Committee. That relationship of Ofsted to Parliament is very important, and there is no intention whatever for it to change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-14", "file": "debates2005-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f5589e304c8275e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "EDUCATION FUNDING (LEICESTERSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will doubtless tell the good people of North-West Leicestershire—I am sure that they write to him on this issue, just as they write to me in Blaby—that everything in the garden is rosy and absolutely fantastic. I was going to mention this later, but I will tell him now about a primary school that I visited last summer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-14a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-15", "file": "debates2005-03-15.xml", "sha256": "16febd3991e6e71c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-15.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "se, the Prime Minister and others who make that sort of point are overlooking a number of things. They pray in aid four inquiries. One was carried out by the Foreign Affairs Committee, of which I am a member. It and I were subjected to considerable criticism for the way in which we pursued our inquiries. On another occasion, I would be prepared to explain and elaborate all the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-15.197.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-15", "file": "debates2005-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7aebbbbb10b6bab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-15a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "posals put forward and supported by many hon. Members? Do the Government accept, in the light of last week's discussions in both Houses about the primacy of the Commons, that the present hybrid composition of the House of Lords is entirely their creation? Is it not up to them, therefore, to change the composition of the other place if they do not like what they see? Can the Minister tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-15a.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-15", "file": "debates2005-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7aebbbbb10b6bab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-15a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inquiries Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "ve caused some disquiet, but I shall not dwell on that. I am glad that the Government have responded in the other place to some of the concerns. The balance of the Bill has shifted satisfactorily because of that and I do not accept that this is another example of the Executive wanting to extend their power to every part of public life, even to inquiries. That overstates the case unhelpfully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-15a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-15", "file": "debates2005-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "7aebbbbb10b6bab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-15a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inquiries Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "se, the Prime Minister and others who make that sort of point are overlooking a number of things. They pray in aid four inquiries. One was carried out by the Foreign Affairs Committee, of which I am a member. It and I were subjected to considerable criticism for the way in which we pursued our inquiries. On another occasion, I would be prepared to explain and elaborate all the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-15a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16.xml", "sha256": "d6f36b75ba181f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that anyone would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16.xml", "sha256": "d6f36b75ba181f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ing employment in a very important sector of the economy—manufacturing—and it has been absorbed largely in the public sector, by all those people who are directors of communication, co-ordination and something else who organise conferences for health service workers and so on. Those completely new jobs have arisen in the public sector. Hon. Members can read about them in The Guardian .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that response and for making time to visit my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that response and for making time to visit my constituency. [Interruption.] I am sure that that visit will have convinced him that Labour is delivering decent homes and environments for all. What is his Department doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.244.4", "colnum": "244", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This noise is unfair to the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me just tell him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "strate the value of the many targeted police initiatives around the country . . . The fall in violent crime shown by the British Crime Survey is particularly encouraging.\" Now let us go back to the right hon. and learned Gentleman's claim that he will put more police officers into Nottinghamshire. How is that consistent with freezing the Home Office budget and with £35 billion-worth of cuts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " the £35 billion-worth of cuts. Let me quote from the shadow Chancellor, who said a few days ago that, by the end of the sixth year, the Conservatives would be spending \"about £35 billion less per year\" than the Government. I should have thought that that was very clear, so how will the right hon. and learned Gentleman increase the number of police officers while freezing their budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.247.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tory gain.", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Perham", "preceding_text": "What action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What we are doing is introducing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.253.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "eds a Government who will invest in front-line services, not a Labour party that hires more bureaucrats and sets up more quangos. People will face a clear choice at the election: more waste and higher taxes under Labour or lower taxes and value for money with the Conservatives. That is the battleground at this election. That is what this election is going to be all about. And I say, \"Bring it on.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.270.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "t entire time, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will allow me to say humbly from the Opposition Front Bench that the whole House will miss my right hon. Friend in future. After hearing in detail what he said, I think that we on the Conservative Benches will miss him particularly and I take this opportunity to place those comments on record and thank the hon. Gentleman for his courtesy in giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that anyone would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-16", "file": "debates2005-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "3864416edb4daa2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ing employment in a very important sector of the economy—manufacturing—and it has been absorbed largely in the public sector, by all those people who are directors of communication, co-ordination and something else who organise conferences for health service workers and so on. Those completely new jobs have arisen in the public sector. Hon. Members can read about them in The Guardian .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-16a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman very much. On Second Reading of the Constitutional Reform Bill this week, virtually no Conservatives were present and they gave no serious scrutiny to the Bill because they are just playing games, as the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) knows. He also knows that consistently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "se to £24 billion. In the 2004 Budget, the deterioration carried on and the deficit was up to £33 billion. The latest figure in yesterday's Budget is that public sector borrowing in the year coming to an end is £34.4 billion. That gets to the heart of our challenge to the Chancellor and his Treasury team about the way they have managed the public finances despite achieving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "out a half—more than 2 million—will receive only the family element and therefore no assistance? The Chancellor is putting his money into complicated means tests, not into the general payment. The Chancellor sets great store by the child tax credit, but I hope that we will hear from the Minister who is responsible for the system something about what is really going on with tax credits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "stance? The Chancellor is putting his money into complicated means tests, not into the general payment. The Chancellor sets great store by the child tax credit, but I hope that we will hear from the Minister who is responsible for the system something about what is really going on with tax credits. [Interruption.] Many families have found themselves in financial distress, after being chased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor said yesterday, borrowing is set to reduce. When we compare the amount of borrowing in this country with the borrowing in our competitor countries, our record is very good because we have far less of it. Conservative Members might want to reflect on the fact that 10 years ago—it is curious that none of them mentioned this—their equivalent borrowing was £90 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": " won a seat from the Scottish nationalists. I was sitting with my right hon. Friend the Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) , who had got rid of an independent Labour candidate, and the pair of us still believed that we had won the election in a manner of speaking. It was only when Lord Howe got to the part of his Budget speech where VAT was increased to 17.5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "onest Labour party poster would say under the photograph of Lady Thatcher, \"Cured the sick man of Europe\". Under John Major's face, it would say, \"Created the golden economic legacy that the Government inherited\". Under my right hon. and learned Friend's picture it would say, \"Building the better Britain we deserve\". That would be the correct poster to display outside Worcester Shrub Hill station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "of the tax system under Lady Thatcher, underpin our new economic success. The second reason, which is perhaps more interesting for Labour Members, is \"the post-ERM transformation in macro-economic policy designed to deliver low inflation and economic stability.\" Many of us were wrong about that. We believed in the exchange rate mechanism and thought it was a good idea. I remember that I did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17.xml", "sha256": "335ad6d648f60d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "tuency have no buses. What good is free bus travel if there are no buses to catch? That is the real scandal. The money should have been used instead to develop innovative, community-based transport schemes that would benefit all elderly people without access to cars and the young people in rural England who are caught without proper transport. I suspect that I have spoken almost long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I should point out that that there is something like £25 million of new spend involved, and that Customs and Excise takes the lead on this matter. I believe that the number of prosecutions is now seven, rather than six—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.391.5", "colnum": "391", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "New equipment is coming on line, and I can tell the hon. Gentleman that there are now nine sniffer dogs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "Bush meat constitutes a very small percentage—about 3 per cent.—of the illegal imports that we are worried about. We are concerned about it, which is one of the reasons why we have increased by 100 the number of dedicated customs officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman very much. On Second Reading of the Constitutional Reform Bill this week, virtually no Conservatives were present and they gave no serious scrutiny to the Bill because they are just playing games, as the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) knows. He also knows that consistently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Well, obviously for the first year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "se to £24 billion. In the 2004 Budget, the deterioration carried on and the deficit was up to £33 billion. The latest figure in yesterday's Budget is that public sector borrowing in the year coming to an end is £34.4 billion. That gets to the heart of our challenge to the Chancellor and his Treasury team about the way they have managed the public finances despite achieving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "out a half—more than 2 million—will receive only the family element and therefore no assistance? The Chancellor is putting his money into complicated means tests, not into the general payment. The Chancellor sets great store by the child tax credit, but I hope that we will hear from the Minister who is responsible for the system something about what is really going on with tax credits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "stance? The Chancellor is putting his money into complicated means tests, not into the general payment. The Chancellor sets great store by the child tax credit, but I hope that we will hear from the Minister who is responsible for the system something about what is really going on with tax credits. [Interruption.] Many families have found themselves in financial distress, after being chased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.428.4", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "It is no good the Paymaster General shaking her head. That is what those families experienced. I do not understand why she continues to shake her head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor said yesterday, borrowing is set to reduce. When we compare the amount of borrowing in this country with the borrowing in our competitor countries, our record is very good because we have far less of it. Conservative Members might want to reflect on the fact that 10 years ago—it is curious that none of them mentioned this—their equivalent borrowing was £90 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to hear that the Conservatives intend to go around Dover promising to sell off the trust port, as that will be music to ears of my hon. Friend the Member for Dover. As I said, the Conservatives had a spot of bother with that policy last time around. I noticed that the hon. Gentleman did not deny that he has a frozen budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": " won a seat from the Scottish nationalists. I was sitting with my right hon. Friend the Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) , who had got rid of an Independent Labour candidate, and the pair of us still believed that we had won the election in a manner of speaking. It was only when Lord Howe got to the part of his Budget speech where VAT was increased to 17.5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "onest Labour party poster would say under the photograph of Lady Thatcher, \"Cured the sick man of Europe\". Under John Major's face, it would say, \"Created the golden economic legacy that the Government inherited\". Under my right hon. and learned Friend's picture it would say, \"Building the better Britain we deserve\". That would be the correct poster to display outside Worcester Shrub Hill station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.468.5", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "of the tax system under Lady Thatcher, underpin our new economic success. The second reason, which is perhaps more interesting for Labour Members, is \"the post-ERM transformation in macro-economic policy designed to deliver low inflation and economic stability.\" Many of us were wrong about that. We believed in the exchange rate mechanism and thought it was a good idea. I remember that I did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-17", "file": "debates2005-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "0daa7d67b851324a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "tuency have no buses. What good is free bus travel if there are no buses to catch? That is the real scandal. The money should have been used instead to develop innovative, community-based transport schemes that would benefit all elderly people without access to cars and the young people in rural England who are caught without proper transport. I suspect that I have spoken almost long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-17a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-18", "file": "debates2005-03-18.xml", "sha256": "d2d38f0da7bb1a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "Welsh devolution measure. We are fervent supporters of the Assembly and its power, so when we have a proposal before us to allow the Welsh Assembly to mitigate the damage caused by passive smoking, it gets a tick in two boxes. I want to express the particular support for the measure of my hon. Friends the Members for Brecon and Radnorshire (Mr. Williams) and for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-18", "file": "debates2005-03-18.xml", "sha256": "d2d38f0da7bb1a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I take note of what you say, Madam Deputy Speaker. How do we proceed from here in a sensible manner, bearing in mind the complexities of the situation and the strong feelings that have been expressed, both for and against a ban?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-18", "file": "debates2005-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e91b4ae1ac09e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "ple's cigarette smoke and I do not want the curtains to smell of cigarette smoke. Indeed, on the last occasion I went to Blackpool for the Conservative party conference—an occasion of fond memory—the very pillow on which I had to lay my head at night stank of cigarette smoke, presumably because the last 15 occupants of the room used the pillow as some of form of cigarette filter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-18", "file": "debates2005-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e91b4ae1ac09e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18a.539.4", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "Just in case my birthday friend, the right hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) , is trying give a false impression about my candour, may I make it clear that I answered his question entirely properly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18a.539.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-18", "file": "debates2005-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e91b4ae1ac09e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "Welsh devolution measure. We are fervent supporters of the Assembly and its power, so when we have a proposal before us to allow the Welsh Assembly to mitigate the damage caused by passive smoking, it gets a tick in two boxes. I want to express the particular support for the measure of my hon. Friends the Members for Brecon and Radnorshire (Mr. Williams) and for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-18", "file": "debates2005-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e91b4ae1ac09e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I take note of what you say, Madam Deputy Speaker. How do we proceed from here in a sensible manner, bearing in mind the complexities of the situation and the strong feelings that have been expressed, both for and against a ban?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-18a.564.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21.xml", "sha256": "9ef537c6b0bb6c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ive, concept, and I hope that all political parties will support it. No one knows what will happen to them after the election or what role they will have in the House. For the past eight years, however, I have attended the annual ritual of the Chancellor's Budget. I was very impressed the first year, but less impressed the second. I may have become a little more cynical and a little less gullible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21.xml", "sha256": "9ef537c6b0bb6c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21.638.6", "colnum": "638", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to the hon. Gentleman but then I want to move on quickly. One of the fundamental reasons why Conservative Governments have often struggled with the economy is that—probably with the exception of the transfer of power that will happen on 6 May —every Conservative Government have inherited a shambles from the previous Labour Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21.638.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "Well, I do not know about the last part of the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.590.5", "colnum": "590", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A grand slam\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "Thank you for that protection, Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend knows that our commitment to two hours of quality physical activity and sport for every child, every week from the age of five to 16 is probably one of the biggest investment programmes in school sport that there has ever been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.590.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.590.5", "colnum": "590", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Another grand slam.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ours of quality physical activity and sport for every child, every week from the age of five to 16 is probably one of the biggest investment programmes in school sport that there has ever been—[Hon. Members: \"A grand slam\"]—and it has to be added to the £60 million investment going out to various governing bodies to develop club to school links, which is another major investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.590.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.590.7", "colnum": "590", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Grand Slam!", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "While I welcome the figures that the Minister mentioned about grass-roots football, does he agree that the sums of money in the highest reaches of professional football are so substantial that more should be done to draw it down through the lower leagues and into grass-roots and school football?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "A number of my hon. Friends have asked me from a sedentary position to congratulate the Welsh on the grand slam, which I do. The team played some fantastic rugby not only in the final, but also in the games running up to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.593.7", "colnum": "593", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman be surprised to hear that, in Lichfield cathedral, for example, there were 83 concerts last year? Some 5,000 people attended those concerts and recitals and a further 10,000 people came to the Close in Lichfield to visit the mediaeval market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.593.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "s interesting to note that the hon. Gentleman is giving an entire speech on education without mentioning his party's policy of introducing vouchers, under which money can be taken out of the state system and put into the private sector. He asks me where I came across the £1 billion figure, and I can tell him. I got it from Lord Blackwell, head of the No. 10 policy unit between 1995 and 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ive, concept, and I hope that all political parties will support it. No one knows what will happen to them after the election or what role they will have in the House. For the past eight years, however, I have attended the annual ritual of the Chancellor's Budget. I was very impressed the first year, but less impressed the second. I may have become a little more cynical and a little less gullible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.638.6", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to the hon. Gentleman but then I want to move on quickly. One of the fundamental reasons why Conservative Governments have often struggled with the economy is that—probably with the exception of the transfer of power that will happen on 6 May —every Conservative Government have inherited a shambles from the previous Labour Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.638.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman reads the record, he will see that that is not what I said. I am providing the House with an indication of the huge scale of £35 billion-worth of savings in Government spending and pointing out that deep cuts will inevitably follow if any Government set out on that path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-21", "file": "debates2005-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "293e6d53d568e7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "This is an interesting conclusion to our debate. It takes the Tory spending plans and their whole claim to economic credibility further into the realms of fantasy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-21a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22.xml", "sha256": "6fb69aa5bf8cbf75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": " a lot of time worrying about the straw men that the Government put up, which pretend to be Conservative policies but which bear no relation to the reality of our proposals. The \"new Labour\" spin machine was whirring at full throttle this morning as we heard about the imaginary Conservative plans to decimate Government support for science and research and development. Back in the real world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22.xml", "sha256": "6fb69aa5bf8cbf75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": ". I stress from the start that we should work in meaningful consultation with the trade unions and tell them that we would continue with natural wastage, redeployment and retraining. If we as a Government were serious about that, we could bring down the numbers within a few years. Gold plating has been referred to. We were meant to be reducing that back in 1997–98, and I am sure that we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22.xml", "sha256": "6fb69aa5bf8cbf75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "is during the Secretary of State's speech. The Government have clearly discovered, as we did when we looked into the matter, that the vast majority of beneficiaries of the exemption are big property developers in Canary Wharf. Indeed, one of the largest beneficiaries in the past few months has been a big commercial development in High Holborn. We are not talking about shopkeepers in Salford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22.xml", "sha256": "6fb69aa5bf8cbf75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "cretary of State for Trade and Industry—there have been several; the Chancellor does not seem to be happy with any of them for long—who said: \"I am currently reviewing all regulations\". He bravely announced: \"We have started that process.\"—[ Official Report, 25 March 1999 : Vol. 328, c. 509–11.] Then we come to 2001 and a new Secretary of State for Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "So far as I am aware, the only party in this House that proposes to levy charges for NHS treatment is Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.734.2", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Skills White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "lifications. Since 1997, the number of adults with level 2 qualifications has gone up from 65 to 72 per cent., and the number of adults with NVQ level 3 qualifications has gone up from 43 to 50.8 per cent. Clearly, there is more to do. We have to tackle the backlog of adult skills, and we have set out our policy. We are investing in a national employer training programme, which will provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.734.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Skills White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State's weasel words about level 3 will, I suspect, provoke a hollow laugh in the college sector. Is she not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Indian Ocean Tsunami", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Again, I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her commendation of the Foreign Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "rybody will have heard the comments he has made and our sympathy will go out to everybody who was involved in that incident. The Front Bench will have heard those remarks, but it is not the Chair's job to insist that Ministers come to the House to make statements. However, no doubt they will bear in mind what the hon. and learned Gentleman has said, and the general situation. We now come to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "rainwashed by the spin to which Labour is addicted, it started in the final quarter of 1992. The solid foundation on which the UK's macro-economic stability was built, and on which British business so vitally depends, was in fact established during the last four and a half years of the previous Conservative Government. What has Labour done while building on our golden legacy? The Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ess so vitally depends, was in fact established during the last four and a half years of the previous Conservative Government. What has Labour done while building on our golden legacy? The Chancellor— [Interruption.]— and in domestic matters his sidekicks, the Prime Minister and a string of Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry, have presided over the largest trade deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House listened with civility to the Secretary of State making her speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "stening to individual business men and women, to business organisations and, of course, to our own panel of senior business practitioners and economists. Based on their input and advice, we have published a series of reports on how to reverse the flow of over-regulation. Our reports, which are accessible on www.conservatives.com/policies , have been welcomed by all the major employer bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "British Chambers of Commerce. After listening to British businesses' concerns about the stock of existing regulation, we have also announced plans to introduce deregulatory Budgets and a deregulation Bill containing specific measures to reduce the volume of regulation introduced by the Labour Government. We shall include that Bill in the first Queen's Speech of an incoming Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "nd a lot of time worrying about the straw men that the Government put up, which pretend to be Conservative policies but which bear no relation to the reality of our proposals. The new Labour spin machine was whirring at full throttle this morning as we heard about the imaginary Conservative plans to decimate Government support for science and research and development. Back in the real world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": ". I stress from the start that we should work in meaningful consultation with the trade unions and tell them that we would continue with natural wastage, redeployment and retraining. If we as a Government were serious about that, we could bring down the numbers within a few years. Gold-plating has been referred to. We were meant to be reducing that back in 1997–98, and I am sure that we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "is during the Secretary of State's speech. The Government have clearly discovered, as we did when we looked into the matter, that the vast majority of beneficiaries of the exemption are big property developers in Canary Wharf. Indeed, one of the largest beneficiaries in the past few months has been a big commercial development in High Holborn. We are not talking about shopkeepers in Salford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "cretary of State for Trade and Industry—there have been several; the Chancellor does not seem to be happy with any of them for long—who said: \"I am currently reviewing all regulations\". He bravely announced: \"We have started that process.\"—[ Official Report, 25 March 1999 : Vol. 328, c. 509–11.] Then we come to 2001 and a new Secretary of State for Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I am on record as saying that I would like to spend £12 billion less than the Chancellor in 2007–08 and to use £8 billion of it to stop his tax rises in the next cycle and £4 billion to produce tax cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "o her then historic position in the Treasury as the first woman ever to sit on the Treasury Benches as a Treasury Minister. If she recalls, we followed each other around the studios on that day. We had a good old go, as was our wont, but she made an enormous impact on the Treasury, and she made a subsequent impact on this House. She is a groundbreaker in every respect, and she will be much missed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "made an enormous impact on the Treasury, and she made a subsequent impact on this House. She is a groundbreaker in every respect, and she will be much missed. [Hon. Members: \" Hear, hear.\"] I also pay tribute to the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Sir Sydney Chapman) . I went to Chipping Barnet, unsuccessfully, in the course of the last general election in an attempt to unseat the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "t on this House. She is a groundbreaker in every respect, and she will be much missed. [Hon. Members: \" Hear, hear.\"] I also pay tribute to the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Sir Sydney Chapman) . I went to Chipping Barnet, unsuccessfully, in the course of the last general election in an attempt to unseat the hon. Gentleman. [Hon. Members: Shame.\"] Call me old fashioned; I am a politician—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "and the shadow Chancellor, but particularly my hon. Friends the Members for Hornsey and Wood Green and for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz). It has been an honour and a privilege to serve Brent, South in this place, and I am grateful for the opportunities and friendships it has afforded me. Those have been 18 deeply fulfilling years, and I look back on them with much happiness. Now to the task in hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "atements were confirmed again, for the avoidance of doubt, only last week. When asked whether he would cut public spending by £35 billion, the shadow Chancellor replied: \"You get to those vast figures by the fifth year\". If he is not denying having said any of those things, why does he ask us where we get the figure of £35 billion from? That is where we get it—from his own mouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-22", "file": "debates2005-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f51b405c0946637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The slide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "We will not pay for our defence by getting rid of potted plants. The reality is here in front of me; is there something else that we need to know? The James review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-22a.829.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-23", "file": "debates2005-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca286fc93f6592f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "py day ceremonies. They were very impressive as they talked about the difficulties from which they had suffered. It is right to provide these elderly people with council house assistance, council tax concessions, the pensioners' free bus pass and other benefits. We have recognised their contribution, but sadly, it will be greatly affected by the Opposition's policy of £35 billion cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-23", "file": "debates2005-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca286fc93f6592f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "For the simple reason that we are reviewing the council tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-23", "file": "debates2005-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca286fc93f6592f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.876.6", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is true that violent crime has increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.876.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-23", "file": "debates2005-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca286fc93f6592f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman says that we will be judged on crime. It has fallen by 30 per cent., but doubled under the Tories. Asylum applications have fallen, but were considerably higher under Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-23", "file": "debates2005-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca286fc93f6592f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ter.] To put the record right for the penny scribblers in the Gallery, I mean that when the Leader of the Opposition was Home Secretary, asylum applications were far higher. We inherited a difficult problem, but the number of applications is much lower now. Will the right hon. Gentleman give credit to our policies? If people are to judge on 5 May —the election will be on 5 May , will it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.878.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-23", "file": "debates2005-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca286fc93f6592f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "is constituency. Today, I have announced that another £60 million-odd will go into the pathfinder programmes in the other areas that I have announced before. To that extent, we think that those capital programmes are important; they are making a difference in jobs and the quality of life. I am bound to say, though, that certainly if we get the £35 billion in cuts from the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.880.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-03-23", "file": "debates2005-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca286fc93f6592f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Yes, I certainly could say that it is a model that we could follow. I might also say that we are now at 12.30 pm, and entering the tranquillity period—I hope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-23", "file": "debates2005-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca286fc93f6592f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Council Tax Capping", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman appears to know that there is to be an election in 43 days' time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-23a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24.xml", "sha256": "8b1148c0d943e5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ears. I remind him that when we came to office we were still living with the aftermath of the beef war, which probably stands out as the epitome of a failed European policy. All he ever did in Europe, and the only position he ever adopted that anyone remembers, was to stand out against the European social chapter, and against paid holidays and decent terms and conditions for British workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24.xml", "sha256": "8b1148c0d943e5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1031.2", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Are any other hon. Members queuing up to admit to their positive role?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1031.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24.xml", "sha256": "8b1148c0d943e5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I would love to have the opportunity to watch Chelsea secure another fine victory over a leading European club, but whether that is possible depends on my right hon. and hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24.xml", "sha256": "8b1148c0d943e5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " a company is deciding where to relocate, the Government's view of the strategic importance of the road and rail network is one of its considerations. Inward investment in the south-west will therefore be seriously compromised by the fact that the Government are cutting off the south-west from what they see as the important areas of the country. On this issue, I feel like a grumpy old woman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24.xml", "sha256": "8b1148c0d943e5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julia Drown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Drown", "preceding_text": "f the House, which are important. There is a huge danger, because it is always easy to vote for more hours of debating time, but hard to ask for them to be reduced so that we can spend time more efficiently. However, we clearly could do that. There have been more than 1,200 Divisions during this Parliament, but we could have the predicted the results of virtually all of them before they were held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24.xml", "sha256": "8b1148c0d943e5eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "myself, spent a great deal of time talking about Members who are leaving the Commons, but we should bear in mind the situation of the young hopefuls in every party who, even as we speak, are gearing up to try to enter the House of Commons for the first time. Who can forget the ordeal of the selection process? Who can forget the task of forging a campaign team from a variety of volunteer activists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Then the hon. Gentleman must leave the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Attorney-General (Advice on Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Saddam Hussein that \"serious consequences\" would follow in respect of a further material breach. It was the judgment of the Attorney-General—and I may say, although I am not the Government legal adviser, it was my judgment based on my intense knowledge of the negotiating history of resolution 1441—that the effect of 1441 was to revive the authority of resolutions 678 and 687 and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Attorney-General (Advice on Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "iating history of resolution 1441—that the effect of 1441 was to revive the authority of resolutions 678 and 687 and— [Interruption.] Well, we did not get a second resolution because it was not possible, but it was never needed legally, and I made that very clear to the House—crystal clear, on the record—when I reported the passage of 1441 to the House on 24 November 2002 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Attorney-General (Advice on Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ly drawn than she suggests. The Attorney-General was actually present in the Cabinet—I re-examined the minutes this morning—and offered the clear view that military action in respect of Iraq, as of 17 March , was lawful. I recall that my right hon. Friend was there and voted in favour of military action—and I am glad that she did. The Attorney-General was there to take questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Attorney-General (Advice on Iraq)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "oday. Does the Foreign Secretary accept that, under the rules and conventions of the House and under the rules of ministerial conduct, it is the Prime Minister—I see him in his place now—who is responsible for deciding on the disclosure of the Attorney-General's advice and for rectifying any misleading statements that may have been made? I tabled a question to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ears. I remind him that when we came to office we were still living with the aftermath of the beef war, which probably stands out as the epitome of a failed European policy. All he ever did in Europe, and the only position he ever adopted that anyone remembers, was to stand out against the European social chapter, and against paid holidays and decent terms and conditions for British workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that we shall certainly pay careful attention to what he and his colleagues said. It was not raised either at the summit or at the margins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "at I made earlier—because I have looked at the situation in Sudan very carefully—as I did, too, when I visited the country. The Security Council and the resolution we have managed to pass there will be extremely important, but the only thing that will stop what is happening in Sudan is the presence of a sufficient number of well-armed people able to keep the combatants apart and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1022.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I would love to have the opportunity to watch Chelsea secure another fine victory over a leading European club, but whether that is possible depends on my right hon. and hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " a company is deciding where to relocate, the Government's view of the strategic importance of the road and rail network is one of its considerations. Inward investment in the south-west will therefore be seriously compromised by the fact that the Government are cutting off the south-west from what they see as the important areas of the country. On this issue, I feel like a grumpy old woman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1060.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "myself, spent a great deal of time talking about Members who are leaving the Commons, but we should bear in mind the situation of the young hopefuls in every party who, even as we speak, are gearing up to try to enter the House of Commons for the first time. Who can forget the ordeal of the selection process? Who can forget the task of forging a campaign team from a variety of volunteer activists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " glad to see that the hon. Gentleman is dissenting. I am put in mind of one memorable Adjournment debate, when he was a Minister responding to a colleague of mine. The debate was about bell ringing. He opened his remarks by saying that that colleague, whose name I will not mention, was the man who had \"put the camp back into campanology.\"—[ Official Report , 20 May 1998; Vol. 312, c. 1080 .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-03-24", "file": "debates2005-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "a34d4dd72073d4c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "f constituency issues. I hope that he makes it to the Benfleet club this evening. I will take up his specific point on the hospice—his request for an increase of the 1.8 per cent. for the Littlehaven hospice to the average of 5 per cent. from his primary care trust. I could, of course, point out the increases in funding that the Government have provided for hospices, and I have just done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-03-24a.1090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04.xml", "sha256": "d047f23cd8bc1049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "y at the Carlton club. When I arrived, Harold Macmillan, who was then Prime Minister, was sitting alone at the members' table, as he often did—perhaps twice a week—but not always alone. He beckoned me over, so I went and sat next to him and said that it looks as though Gaitskell may be dying. Those were the days when party leaders were interested in what Back Benchers had to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04.xml", "sha256": "d047f23cd8bc1049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Service Ombudsman (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "year appointment there might be a danger of not getting the right people for the job, but that is the term for which we are elected as Members of Parliament, so I am not sure whether we get the right people for the job. Perhaps the Government are trying to argue for an extension of Parliaments to seven years, as under the Septennial Act 1715. The President of France serves a seven-year term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04.xml", "sha256": "d047f23cd8bc1049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICES OMBUDSMAN (WALES) BILL [LORDS] (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "e losing their jobs and schools were suffering. To repatriate £100 million of Welsh money back to London was outrageous. That is not all. On top of all this, the Conservatives want to take at least £60 million from the NHS in Wales to subsidise those who can afford to pay for private treatment in the first place—money that is being used to pay for 2,400 nurses or 660 consultants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04.xml", "sha256": "d047f23cd8bc1049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1172.4", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICES OMBUDSMAN (WALES) BILL [LORDS] (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will find that incidences of drug crime increased from 9,425 in 2001 to 10, 268 in 2003. Those are the latest published figures on drug crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04.xml", "sha256": "d047f23cd8bc1049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1173.6", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICES OMBUDSMAN (WALES) BILL [LORDS] (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "he posters do not include that addendum, but the question is: have the people of Wales become safer? The sad fact is that they have not. They are not safer and crime is going up, especially violent crime, gun crime and drug-related crime. That is an important point and people who are about to vote at the election have every right to have their fears discussed publicly in places such as this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1173.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04.xml", "sha256": "d047f23cd8bc1049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICES OMBUDSMAN (WALES) BILL [LORDS] (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Huw Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Edwards", "preceding_text": "y that there has been a significant improvement in the farming community since then. There has been improvement in farm incomes in the livestock sector, notwithstanding the fact that there are still serious problems in the dairy sector, particularly in the price that dairy producers are able to get for their raw milk. I did not hear the speech of the hon. Member for Leominster (Mr. Wiggin) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04.1216.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "ognise that if he really wants to promote more job opportunities for young people and to do something about the 1 million young people who have simply disappeared off the register and who are not on the new deal, in work, in training or in education, he must talk to his fellow Ministers about stemming the tide of bureaucracy, paperwork and regulations that actively discourage many employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "There are one or two things to get out of the way in the next few weeks before we anticipate what is in the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Right Hon. Lord Callaghan KG", "cue_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "t the Carlton club. When I arrived, Harold Macmillan, who was then Prime Minister, was sitting alone at the members' table, as he often did—perhaps twice a week—but not always alone. He beckoned me over, so I went and sat next to him and said that it looked as though Gaitskell might be dying. Those were the days when party leaders were interested in what Back Benchers had to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Right Hon. Lord Callaghan KG", "cue_speaker": "Jack Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Cunningham", "preceding_text": "had met Jim only a couple of times and was sitting in the Members' Dining Room with some contemporaries when a message came to me that Jim would like me to become his Parliamentary Private Secretary. Of course, only the grandees in opposition had a PPS in those days. I said that I would like to think about it, and the messenger, Gregor Mackenzie, said, \"I wouldn't be taking too long if I was you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "year appointment there might be a danger of not getting the right people for the job, but that is the term for which we are elected as Members of Parliament, so I am not sure whether we get the right people for the job. Perhaps the Government are trying to argue for an extension of Parliaments to seven years, as under the Septennial Act 1715. The President of France serves a seven-year term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "n an extraordinary turnaround, as my hon. Friend the Member for West Carmarthen and South Pembrokeshire (Mr. Ainger) will confirm. More than twelve years ago, when I first campaigned for him at elections, the heart had been ripped out of the Pembrokeshire economy. What is true of that area is true of north-west Wales, as I shall demonstrate later. Only last week, I was in Anglesey and Clwyd, West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ic failure, mass unemployment, public spending cuts, high interest rates and high mortgages. They are pledged to make £35 billion of cuts in public spending—that is, £50 million of cuts for every constituency in Wales, or up to £2 billion less public spending in Wales, at a time when we need sustained investment in our public services and social and economic infrastructure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "e losing their jobs and schools were suffering. To repatriate £100 million of Welsh money back to London was outrageous. That is not all. On top of all this, the Conservatives want to take at least £60 million from the NHS in Wales to subsidise those who can afford to pay for private treatment in the first place—money that is being used to pay for 2,400 nurses or 660 consultants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1166.5", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "inance that we have set aside, and there is no certainty that they will be built under a Conservative Government because the Conservative party is pledged to cut spending year upon year upon year. As for the Liberal Democrats, they say that they will scrap the new deal, which has helped 70,000 people in Wales into work, especially young people, including in the hon. Gentleman's constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Nothing surprises me about the Liberal Democrats when they get into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The Assembly Minister for Finance, Local Government and Public Services, Sue Essex, behaved responsibly in making sure that council tax payers in Cardiff did not get a huge tax rise under the Liberal Democrat council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1172.4", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will find that incidents of drug crime increased from 9,425 in 2001 to 10, 268 in 2003. Those are the latest published figures on drug crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1173.6", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "he posters do not include that addendum, but the question is: have the people of Wales become safer? The sad fact is that they have not. They are not safer and crime is going up, especially violent crime, gun crime and drug-related crime. That is an important point and people who are about to vote at the election have every right to have their fears discussed publicly in places such as this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1173.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1179.9", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I apologise if I was not clear. I have expressed an opinion in the past, from over the border. I have been asked how I would vote if I had a vote. I would vote for abolition, but that is not the policy of my party, which is one of holding a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1179.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1180.7", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "Oh yes I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1180.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "inister will go at least as far as saying that he will consider those concerns. For a bonus for 10, it would be excellent if he was willing to meet and discuss those concerns with the objectors. I enjoyed the contribution of the hon. Member for Leominster, but did not understand it. He said that despite the cuts in public spending that his party promised, the budget in Wales would be immune—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1191.3", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I was, but I am happy with that. I got an A in economics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "at actually happened when the Conservatives were in government: crime doubled. If that is a testimony to failed policies, so be it. This debate is not primarily about crime, but I counsel Conservatives to recognise that the best guide to future behaviour is past experience. Therefore, there is a long way to go for many of us before we can believe that the Conservatives' policies will reduce crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Huw Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Edwards", "preceding_text": "y that there has been a significant improvement in the farming community since then. There has been improvement in farm incomes in the livestock sector, notwithstanding the fact that there are still serious problems in the dairy sector, particularly in the price that dairy producers are able to get for their raw milk. I did not hear the speech of the hon. Member for Leominster (Mr. Wiggin) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-04", "file": "debates2005-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "6668428a312d7a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "is coming in Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom, and I hope that the Leader of the House will at least be able to address some of the points made in that important case. Turning to the subject matter of today's debate, I hope to touch on as many of the issues raised as possible, but I have agreed to speak for only about 10 minutes so that the Minister will have more than ample time to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-04a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05.xml", "sha256": "408ce13de918b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " the west of England, scared to death about the Liberal Democrat challenge, even in Devizes. He has made it clear that he does not want a common foreign and security policy and has said that it is absurd. Without the common foreign and security policy and our engagement inside the European Union there would have been no common policy on Zimbabwe, no sanctions against it and no arms embargo.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05.xml", "sha256": "408ce13de918b1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "s phrase, \"when legislative time is available\". Some of us have fought since then to ensure that legislative time would be made available. We have not quite made it under the gate as it closes on this Parliament, but I hope that we will revert to it as a matter of great urgency in the next. I am encouraged by the response to my question by my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1252.6", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e have long suggested that there is such a divergence of view. The disappointment for some in Iran and some in the United States is that the United Kingdom, France and Germany have clearly kept together. On military action, I have made it clear beyond peradventure that we can conceive of no circumstances in which military action against Iran would be justified. I cannot be clearer than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1252.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n the west of England, scared to death about the Liberal Democrat challenge, even in Devizes. He has made it clear that he does not want a common foreign and security policy and has said that it is absurd. Without the common foreign and security policy and our engagement inside the European Union there would have been no common policy on Zimbabwe, no sanctions against it and no arms embargo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am trying to answer. The hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) has been a Member much longer than me and is a much more distinguished parliamentarian than me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1273.5", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, you were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes. I was not suggesting in any way that he—or any other hon. Member—was seeking to turn his back on the Muslim community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1273.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1277.2", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Postal Voting", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "That sentence casts a somewhat different light on the particular observation. In terms of the weakness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Postal Voting", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What safeguards?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I speak for all my Birmingham Labour parliamentary colleagues when I utterly condemn the disgraceful and fraudulent behaviour in two wards in Birmingham. I welcome the safeguards that my right hon. Friend has announced today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "s phrase, \"when legislative time is available\". Some of us have fought since then to ensure that legislative time would be made available. We have not quite made it under the gate as it closes on this Parliament, but I hope that we will revert to it as a matter of great urgency in the next. I am encouraged by the response to my question by my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ash;not only weeks, but months or years sooner. However, I pay tribute to the Secretary of State and her Ministers for much of the work that has been done on equality issues. We discuss those issues week after week, and much progress has been made, which I welcome. Also welcome is my expectation that in a few weeks' time, when my colleagues and I are sitting on the other side of the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ordon failed to answer the question, and he has thought up a really good answer. Perhaps he has worked out in the intervening period that his party might be trying to position itself in some form of coalition in the weeks ahead. That is extremely interesting. I commend him on trying to sort out a difficult situation. It might well come to that. The hon. Gentleman for Sheffield, Hillsborough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-05", "file": "debates2005-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "07f7efffa3bfe894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that that was patently obvious. The reason is that that would force people to stay and die in hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-05a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "There has been a serious problem with dentistry, but it is a result of the problems that we inherited, which we are trying to put right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Labour Members are cheering the Prime Minister now, but let us find out what they really think of him. How many of them are putting his photo on their election addresses? Hands up! One, two, three, four, five, six. Does not that tell us all we need to know about they really think of him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1415.3", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I think that although we did pretty well on this score, we could have done with even fewer Tories sitting opposite. But since the hon. Gentleman has given me the opportunity, I will tell him what I do not regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1416.3", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to point out that in constituencies such as his, during the 18 years of Conservative Government, there were unemployed people and two recessions which hit constituencies in Wales particularly hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1438.4", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I do not need much temptation to go into detail, but I understood that my brief for this afternoon was to resist temptation. I find the blandishments of the hon. Member for Buckingham absolutely irresistible. What concerns me is why he would favour the affirmative resolution procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "rt of the constitution. Decisions are taken in No. 10 or Whitehall and it is assumed that Parliament will do what it is told within whatever time scale the Executive are gracious enough to grant. Whether it is convenient for the Executive branch to allow us four hours, two and a half hours or two and a half minutes does not really matter. Our role in legislation is no longer taken seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " due entirely to this Government's policy. I do not accept that what happened was the inevitable result of rising life expectancy or of the 1998 stock market fall. There have been much more serious crashes in the past 50 years, including the devastating collapse in 1974 and 1975 and the small falls in the early 1980s and early 1990s. Moreover, the increase in life expectancy has been steady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "t took only minutes to flip through the Red Book and discover, for example, that the £200 allowance for the over-65s to compensate them for a huge increase in council tax over the past eight years will be implemented for one year only. When the Chief Secretary was challenged on that very point in an interview on, I believe, Budget day, he said, \"Well, all our measures are only for one year.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06.xml", "sha256": "237ba120304224d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "ion Member has, because we have had it for only a few hours—illustrates the bigger problem. Successive Finance Bills have ended up reducing wealth creation—complicated, difficult to understand, loading enforcement costs on a range of wealth creators in the country. I cannot do better than to end with the words of the Prime Minister's former chief economic adviser on exactly that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "There has been a serious problem with dentistry, but it is a result of the problems that we inherited, which we are trying to put right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1404.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "Following on from that, with Wales being governed by the Labour party and Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman pursues the question again when the truth is that the health budget in Wales has more than doubled under Labour. We recruited more nurses and consultants, and waiting times are coming down. Under Labour, the health service is safe, but it would be in a dire position if the people of Britain voted Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"£500!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "Unlike the plans of the hon. Gentleman's party, pensioners in Wales will get £200 to help offset their council tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1408.10", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "nt? The preferred public spending of the outgoing Tory Government was wasteful, shameful spending to prop up unemployment. As the economy has stabilised and grown, that public spending has been turned into Sure Start schemes, doctors, nurses, teachers, pensions and benefits that people have come to expect from the Labour Government. What advice can the Prime Minister give to my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1408.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "rited a situation where, when he was Home Secretary, it took 20 months to process an asylum claim and the number of removals was one in 10. Yes, it is true that we need to control immigration, but the way to do it is not his proposal of halving the immigration budget. Yes, immigration is an issue. Yes, it is important that we discuss it, but it is an issue that should be dealt with, not exploited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Labour Members are cheering the Prime Minister now, but let us find out what they really think of him. How many of them are putting his photo on their election addresses? Hands up! One, two, three, four, five, six. Does not that tell us all we need to know about what they really think of him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1410.4", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me just remind the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about his record. Let us look at his record. I will tell him about his record: taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about his record. Let us look at his record. I will tell him about his record: taxes—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about his record. Let us look at his record. I will tell him about his record: taxes—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; crime—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; immigration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about his record. Let us look at his record. I will tell him about his record: taxes—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; crime—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; immigration—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; waiting times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about his record. Let us look at his record. I will tell him about his record: taxes—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; crime—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; immigration—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; waiting times—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; MRSA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Up\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about his record. Let us look at his record. I will tell him about his record: taxes—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; crime—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; immigration—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; waiting times—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; MRSA—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; truancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about his record. Let us look at his record. I will tell him about his record: taxes—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; crime—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; immigration—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; waiting times—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; MRSA—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; truancy—[Hon. Members: \"Up\"]. Let us have a look at what has gone down: take-home pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " his record. Let us look at his record. I will tell him about his record: taxes—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; crime—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; immigration—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; waiting times—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; MRSA—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; truancy—[Hon. Members: \"Up\"]. Let us have a look at what has gone down: take-home pay—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " him about his record: taxes—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; crime—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; immigration—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; waiting times—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; MRSA—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; truancy—[Hon. Members: \"Up\"]. Let us have a look at what has gone down: take-home pay—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; pensions—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; productivity growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "; crime—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; immigration—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; waiting times—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; MRSA—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; truancy—[Hon. Members: \"Up\"]. Let us have a look at what has gone down: take-home pay—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; pensions—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; productivity growth—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; manufacturing employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "n—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; waiting times—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; MRSA—[Hon. Members: \"Up.\"]; truancy—[Hon. Members: \"Up\"]. Let us have a look at what has gone down: take-home pay—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; pensions—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; productivity growth—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; manufacturing employment—[Hon. Members: \"Down.\"]; detection rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " government, we are locking up teachers not yobs, our voting system resembles a banana republic's, and pensioners who cannot find an NHS dentist are reduced to pulling out their own teeth. Is there not now a clear choice at this election: rewarding this Prime Minister for eight years of broken promises or choosing a Government who will take action on the things that matter to hard-working Britons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1415.3", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I think that although we did pretty well on this score, we could have done with even fewer Tories sitting opposite. But since the hon. Gentleman has given me the opportunity, I will tell him what I do not regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1416.3", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to point out that in constituencies such as his, during the 18 years of Conservative government, there were unemployed people and two recessions which hit constituencies in Wales particularly hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1416.5", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "thing for the hon. Gentleman to raise. As far as I am aware, in Nottinghamshire there are actually more than 200 more police officers than in March 1997, and more than 100 community support officers. What is more, as a result of our proposals to invest in public services for the future, as opposed to the Conservatives' proposal to take £35 billion in cuts out of our spending programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1416.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "lp us so much in everything we do. I thank them for their work throughout this Parliament. I also thank the officers at Conservative headquarters who help me with the necessary research in my role. I join the tribute that the Leader of the House paid yesterday to the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Mr. Tyler) , who has had a long career here and is now retiring. We wish him well in his retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "to recognise the way in which we have listened to the industry and sought to work with it in identifying effectively and in a focused way the undoubted abuse of the system that was taking place and in responding to it. I hope that there is support on both sides of the House for the British film industry. I well remember when I was shadow Economic Secretary, sitting on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1438.4", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I do not need much temptation to go into detail, but I understood that my brief for this afternoon was to resist temptation. I find the blandishments of the hon. Member for Buckingham absolutely irresistible. What concerns me is why he would favour the affirmative resolution procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1438.6", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " the pre-Budget report stage. UNICO, which the hon. Gentleman knows is the University Companies Association, says that feedback to the draft legislation, which we published as long ago as February this year, has been \"Overall, very positive\" and people have found \"very little to complain about.\" I fancy it did not take into account the seemingly infinite capacity of the hon. Gentleman to complain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1438.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1439.5", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I do not want to engage in retrospective analysis of the Budget presentation. We made the position clear at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1439.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "rt of the constitution. Decisions are taken in No. 10 or Whitehall and it is assumed that Parliament will do what it is told within whatever time scale the Executive are gracious enough to grant. Whether it is convenient for the Executive branch to allow us four hours, two and a half hours or two and a half minutes does not really matter. Our role in legislation is no longer taken seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " due entirely to this Government's policy. I do not accept that what happened was the inevitable result of rising life expectancy or of the 1998 stock market fall. There have been much more serious crashes in the past 50 years, including the devastating collapse in 1974 and 1975 and the small falls in the early 1980s and early 1990s. Moreover, the increase in life expectancy has been steady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "t took only minutes to flip through the Red Book and discover, for example, that the £200 allowance for the over-65s to compensate them for a huge increase in council tax over the past eight years will be implemented for one year only. When the Chief Secretary was challenged on that very point in an interview on, I believe, Budget day, he said, \"Well, all our measures are only for one year.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "ion Member has, because we have had it for only a few hours—illustrates the bigger problem. Successive Finance Bills have ended up reducing wealth creation—complicated, difficult to understand, loading enforcement costs on a range of wealth creators in the country. I cannot do better than to end with the words of the Prime Minister's former chief economic adviser on exactly that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "he impact tobacco smuggling was having on their business . . . In the limited opportunity left to you because of the restricted time I would urge you to question Her Majesty's Government's thinking on this subject, and speak up for the small retailers whose livelihood is severely threatened as a result of these Budgetary proposals.\" On that basis, I would like to ask the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-06", "file": "debates2005-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d953d1e8149b3060", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "e I would urge you to question Her Majesty's Government's thinking on this subject, and speak up for the small retailers whose livelihood is severely threatened as a result of these Budgetary proposals.\" On that basis, I would like to ask the Financial Secretary— [Interruption.] Oh, I see that the Economic Secretary, who has direct responsibility for these matters, is now in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-06a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07.xml", "sha256": "2cff74e99c477370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07.1565.4", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on the efforts that she and her colleagues are making in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07.1565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07.xml", "sha256": "2cff74e99c477370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07.1565.4", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": ", when the Opposition try to dress up cheap political points on such a serious matter as this, and rediscover the manufacturing industry, which they wanted to abandon for so long, not least because this country still has the most successful automotive assembly industry in Europe, in which foreign businesses are more than willing to put their money, rather than just the mouthings of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07.1565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07.xml", "sha256": "2cff74e99c477370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07.1586.7", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "d address without the power to detain. These amendments provide such flexibility so that CSO powers can be tailored to meet local needs under the direction of chief officers. The other matter that I bring to the attention of the House relates to Parliament square. It was evident on Second Reading, in Committee and on Report that there was passionate feeling on the issue on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07.1586.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1564.0", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the right hon. Lady that we must not make mention of the policies of the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1565.4", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on the efforts that she and her colleagues are making in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1565.4", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "n, when the Opposition try to dress up cheap political points on such a serious matter as this, and rediscover the manufacturing industry which they wanted to abandon for so long, not least because this country still has the most successful automotive assembly industry in Europe, in which foreign businesses are more than willing to put their money, rather than just the mouthings of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1579.2", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": " party and, if necessary, even though my own party was involved, with you. What concerns my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) and me, and surely many people, is that as a result of a speech made outside the House—so it is clearly not a matter of privilege—a Member of Parliament has been denied the opportunity of standing for his party in the general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1584.4", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "he following amendments to the attention of the House. On powers of arrest, the amendments to schedule 7 and 18 simply make further consequential amendments and repeals in respect of existing powers of arrest made redundant by the new framework in clause 106. In relation to the identification of the British tsunami casualties, dealt with in amendments Nos. 27 and 44, the House will be aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman says, devolution creates different systems. We discussed this in Committee at some length and we must recognise and live with it. I have nothing more to add on this subject. As I said, at one point I lost my place, but apparently not many Members realised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1586.7", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "d address without the power to detain. These amendments provide such flexibility so that CSO powers can be tailored to meet local needs under the direction of chief officers. The other matter that I bring to the attention of the House relates to Parliament square. It was evident on Second Reading, in Committee and on Report that there was passionate feeling on the issue on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1586.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1589.0", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "it of form on these matters. I have been arrested on demonstrations in both Trafalgar square and Parliament square, and on both occasions I was not prosecuted. In fact, on one occasion I was represented by my right hon. Friend the Member for Brent, South (Mr. Boateng) , and I received compensation from the Metropolitan police for wrongful arrest. I just wanted to get my form on the record as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-04-07", "file": "debates2005-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "535676eae9679646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "International Organisations Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for hon. Members' comments, which are important. I will not rise to the remarks made by the right hon. and learned Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) , who was sorely missed at Tuesday's final Foreign Affairs questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-04-07a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-05-11", "file": "debates2005-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "51ac84c5636b5b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.2.2", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "Under the provisions of Standing Order No. 1A , I am now required to ascertain whether Mr. Michael J. Martin is willing to be chosen as Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-11", "file": "debates2005-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "51ac84c5636b5b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.2.3", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Michael Martin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Martin", "preceding_text": "hanan. With your wealth of experience, I have always been impressed by the fact that Members from every side of the House listen when you speak. Because of your dedicated work with the British-American parliamentary group, you are well respected in the American Congress and in the Senate of the United States. I would also wish the outgoing Father of the House, Tam Dalyell, a very happy retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.2.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-11", "file": "debates2005-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "51ac84c5636b5b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.3.1", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Anne Moffat", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Moffat", "preceding_text": "It's in the bag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.3.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-11", "file": "debates2005-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "51ac84c5636b5b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.3.2", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Michael Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Martin", "preceding_text": "w that I think that it is right and fitting that a Cabinet Minister, and any Minister, who has some new statement to make, should make that statement here, on the Floor of the House. Her Majesty's official Opposition have built-in rights and privileges that the House has rightly given them. I say to those from minority parties represented here today, however, that their voices must be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.3.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-11", "file": "debates2005-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "51ac84c5636b5b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Applause", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "ew, that this Speaker treats all of us the same. He is a fair man, a kind man, a House of Commons man. I commend him to the House. Question put and agreed to Resolved, That Mr. Michael J. Martin do take the Chair of this House as Speaker. Whereupon Mr. Alan Williams left the Chair, and Mr. Michael J. Martin was taken out of his place and conducted to the Chair by Mrs. Angela Browning and Ann Keen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-11", "file": "debates2005-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "51ac84c5636b5b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.5.1", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ven the prospect of more than a little danger. You are following in the footsteps of previous Speakers who have been forcibly expelled from this House, imprisoned or even beheaded. The strain of being Speaker comes in many guises. There were reports that Mr. Speaker Fitzroy would remark to himself in a voice audible at least to the two Front Benches, \"When is this boring fellow going to sit down?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.5.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-11", "file": "debates2005-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "51ac84c5636b5b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I came to this House more than 35 years ago, when I sat on the Government Benches. I was judged very swiftly by the Speaker, who said that I spoke too loud and that the Lords were having trouble carrying out their business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-11a.9.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "uency to the tidal river Trent, where it was transferred on to Humber sloops for its trip to Westminster. The people of the Rother valley are open, honest and not afraid to speak their minds—something that I am always happy to be reminded of in election campaigns, unnerving as they can be. The last campaign was the sixth election victory for Labour that I have secured in Rother Valley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "y great service in Opposition as a spokesperson on energy, employment and then health. He continues to serve Parliament with distinction, in particular on the Intelligence and Security Committee, and well merits his status as a Privy Councillor. My right hon. Friend clearly had a great destiny, as he was born in Redcar. I know the school that he used to attend. It is a very good school—now .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "rity Committee, and well merits his status as a Privy Councillor. My right hon. Friend clearly had a great destiny, as he was born in Redcar. I know the school that he used to attend. It is a very good school—now . [Laughter.] It was somewhat ahead of its time, because in his days there, children were searched for guns and knives on the way in. If they did not have any, they were given some.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": " had a great destiny, as he was born in Redcar. I know the school that he used to attend. It is a very good school—now . [Laughter.] It was somewhat ahead of its time, because in his days there, children were searched for guns and knives on the way in. If they did not have any, they were given some. [Laughter.] I would not say that it was a tough school, but it was appointed its own coroner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": " will bring opportunity for all and fairness much closer. But, despite the fact that I dislike deadlines, it is possible to talk too much. Once a judge commented to a jury: \"In Mrs. Baird's closing address there were no wasted words—she used every one I know at least twice.\" He later added: \"Though I\" very much \"enjoyed listening to her arguments, I was sorry to miss my children growing up\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "collapsed. On public services, we had the spectacle of the Conservatives being willing to do doing anything other than engage in debate on their flagship vouchers policies. The oddest thing about the election was that we were more interested in discussing Tory policy than the Tories were. Where are those policies now? Who will defend cutting £35 billion from Labour's spending programmes now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ing to do doing anything other than engage in debate on their flagship vouchers policies. The oddest thing about the election was that we were more interested in discussing Tory policy than the Tories were. Where are those policies now? Who will defend cutting £35 billion from Labour's spending programmes now? [Interruption.] I am being told, \"Get on.\" I assume that that policy has gone now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " Not that the Liberal Democrats are any better. I understand that they have ditched the policies on which they fought the election, instituted a major policy review and now have a policy blank page. If they take my advice, the page will remain that way—it is more in keeping with their politics. Theirs is the party of Gladstone, Lloyd George, Beveridge, Keynes and, now, Brian Sedgemore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": " to the hon. Gentleman, given that we have all been through the democratic experience, is that the Liberal Democrats, who are in the coalition Executive in Scotland, must be doing something right because they are now, for the first time ever in a general election, second in Scotland. I am also delighted to say that the Scottish National party, like Plaid Cymru in Wales, is emphatically down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Absolutely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": " see how dark the backward stream A little moment passed so smiling.\" We spend much of our time on events that happened a long time ago. It is proper and right that we should celebrate the 60th anniversary of the ending of the war in Europe and, in July, the ending of the war in Japan. I often wonder whether it is proper and right that we should celebrate Trafalgar day 200 years after that battle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": " in a Committee upstairs, with no opportunity of amending it. In addition, the Northern Ireland Assembly, which is costing a large sum of money, must be brought into force. Even if the Executive cannot be up and running, the Assembly needs to scrutinise measures endorsed by this House. That would be the appropriate democratic procedure and in the best interests of government. My final point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": " be a great loss to us. I have had five private Member's Bills so far and if I am as lucky in this Parliament as I have been in the past my next one will be the letter-box Bill. Having delivered thousands of leaflets over four weeks, I want to see legislation stipulating that letter-boxes should be horizontal and in the middle of the door, with no brushes, so that the leaflets go through smoothly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-17", "file": "debates2005-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "e6af4596a99b6d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "he electoral system has already been mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Blaby, and I am also very concerned about postal votes. It seems that a number of people who did not ask for them received them; that some who wanted them did not receive them; and that others received more than one. We must therefore listen seriously to what the Electoral Commission has to say about the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-17a.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18.xml", "sha256": "a7bb6c6b1f2ccb34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Second Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "e that address aspects of the yob culture that blights the lives of so many of them. The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe made the point, first, that there are rather a lot of Bills and, secondly, that we have had a tendency to rush them through and that they sometimes come here ill-drafted. That has been the case for a long time. It happened under his Government as much as under ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18.xml", "sha256": "a7bb6c6b1f2ccb34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Second Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "lliance. This will include continuing to modernise and transform NATO to face its new 21st century challenges. I am delighted that one of the decisions that we took in the strategic defence review, which was implemented by my right hon. Friend the former Secretary of State for Defence, was the purchase of the C-17, or rather the leasing of the C-17 heavy and very large aircraft for strategic lift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18.xml", "sha256": "a7bb6c6b1f2ccb34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Second Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "he strategic direction of the multinational force, who was generous with his praise not only for the British armed forces but for the work of civilian staff in the reconstruction effort and for the leadership role played by my predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield (Mr. Hoon) in that effort. In Iraq, we remain committed to assisting the new Government in stabilising the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18.xml", "sha256": "a7bb6c6b1f2ccb34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Second Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives said that they would make £1.8 billion of efficiency savings, but nobody believed that they could take £1.8 billion out of the Ministry of Defence by saving paper clips and making sure that staff used one pen rather than two per fortnight. At best, they would have frozen defence expenditure, and they would probably have cut it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "t that sometimes I do not agree with them. I have noted the point that the right hon. Gentleman raised yesterday about the extensive briefing made available to the press on the legislative programme in the Queen's Speech. If there is proper information about the Government's programme available from official sources, I would expect such material to be made available to Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.152.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "e that address aspects of the yob culture that blights the lives of so many of them. The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe made the point, first, that there are rather a lot of Bills and, secondly, that we have had a tendency to rush them through and that they sometimes come here ill-drafted. That has been the case for a long time. It happened under his Government as much as under ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "e know what the contrast is now. We introduced a £3.7 billion increase in defence expenditure under my predecessor, now the Leader of the House. We know that we have reconfigured the British armed forces, with all their failings, in the strategic defence review, which was lauded internationally as well as here. We know that during the election there was no debate whatsoever on defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "lliance. This will include continuing to modernise and transform NATO to face its new 21st century challenges. I am delighted that one of the decisions that we took in the strategic defence review, which was implemented by my right hon. Friend the former Secretary of State for Defence, was the purchase of the C-17, or rather the leasing of the C-17 heavy and very large aircraft for strategic lift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "charge of the strategic direction of the multinational force, who was generous with his praise not only for the British armed forces but for the work of civilian staff in the reconstruction effort and for the leadership role played by my predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield in that effort. In Iraq, we remain committed to assisting the new Government in stabilising the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " no one in my respect for General Jackson and the other chiefs of staff. The decisions were taken by Ministers and I fully accept responsibility for that, and for implementing them. But I make it plain that, in terms of the advice that we received about the reconfiguration of the infantry battalions and modernising them so that we did not incorporate within a severely pressed defence budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "It will come as no surprise that I do speak to the First Sea Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "agues. First of all, they slashed the budget by 30 per cent. in real terms in the 10 years before Labour came to power. I may not hold him personally responsible, but he supported the Government. Incidentally, some of that happened during his period as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the admirable Lady Thatcher, who talked a good game, and cut Britain's defence budget as no one ever had before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-18", "file": "debates2005-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "f0a956d3bfcb5f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives said that they would make £1.8 billion of efficiency savings, but nobody believed that they could take £1.8 billion out of the Ministry of Defence by saving paper clips and making sure that staff used one pen rather than two per fortnight. At best, they would have frozen defence expenditure, and they would probably have cut it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-18a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19.xml", "sha256": "833cb459e771898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I too welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his new position, not just because he has been a close friend of mine for nearly 30 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19.xml", "sha256": "833cb459e771898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Third Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not a side issue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "That is something of a side issue, but I shall try to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19.xml", "sha256": "833cb459e771898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Third Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "promoter of, Wimbledon. He was truly Wimbledon's voice in this place, and in both those endeavours I intend to try to emulate him. It is a testament to his work that his name lives on in buildings and roads throughout Wimbledon. Various large office blocks are named after him. One of his memorials from grateful constituents is the Sir Cyril Black Way, which I trod during the recent campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19.xml", "sha256": "833cb459e771898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Third Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "of an airport that needs a lot of careful watching. In due course I want to find out what is meant by another wonderful piece of Government language: \"A Bill to modernise the management of common land\". When I hear a Labour Government talking about modernising and management, I tend to think that they mean nationalisation or bringing into Government control. I hope that I can be disabused of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19.xml", "sha256": "833cb459e771898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Third Day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "rd; the Consumer Council for Water; Food from Britain; the Gangmasters Licensing Authority; the Horticultural Development Council; the Home-grown Cereals Authority; the Milk Development Council; the Meat and Livestock Commission; the National Forest Company; the national park authority for establishing a national park in England; the Sea Fish Industry Authority; and the Wine Standards Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "80dcaabe2dd5d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I too welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his new position, not just because he has been a close friend of mine for nearly 30 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "80dcaabe2dd5d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Industry and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not a side issue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "That is something of a side issue, but I shall try to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "80dcaabe2dd5d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Industry and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman is giving a commitment that no Conservative council will follow a particular line and that Conservative Front Benchers will determine the actions of every council up and down the country. Our position is perfectly plain. We have a presumption in favour of wind power, both onshore and offshore, but of course not every site is appropriate. Of course, there are areas where wind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "80dcaabe2dd5d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Industry and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "promoter of, Wimbledon. He was truly Wimbledon's voice in this place, and in both those endeavours I intend to try to emulate him. It is a testament to his work that his name lives on in buildings and roads throughout Wimbledon. Various large office blocks are named after him. One of his memorials from grateful constituents is the Sir Cyril Black way, which I trod during the recent campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "80dcaabe2dd5d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Industry and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "f an airport that needs a lot of careful watching. In due course, I want to find out what is meant by another wonderful piece of Government language: \"A Bill to modernise the management of common land\". When I hear a Labour Government talking about modernising and management, I tend to think that they mean nationalisation or bringing into Government control. I hope that I can be disabused of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "80dcaabe2dd5d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Industry and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "rd; the Consumer Council for Water; Food from Britain; the Gangmasters Licensing Authority; the Horticultural Development Council; the Home-grown Cereals Authority; the Milk Development Council; the Meat and Livestock Commission; the National Forest Company; the national park authority for establishing a national park in England; the Sea Fish Industry Authority; and the Wine Standards Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-19", "file": "debates2005-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "80dcaabe2dd5d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.385.6", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Industry and the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "st to achieve that. I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman was in his place when I had a little dust-up with the hon. and learned Member for Harborough, but it very much part of the Government's approach to legislation that Bills should be ready before they are introduced into the House. It is my hope that the Bill will be able to be scrutinised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-19a.385.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23.xml", "sha256": "f59a1fa29c7ed4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.402.6", "colnum": "402", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I simply say to the right hon. Gentleman that he needs to listen. We recognise that this is a serious matter, but Thames Valley police currently has a record strength of 4,160 officers. There is still sleakage out to the Met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.402.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23.xml", "sha256": "f59a1fa29c7ed4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fourth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "That will be published when the Bill is published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23.xml", "sha256": "f59a1fa29c7ed4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fourth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ne myself\". Do those quotes condone the acts of suicide bombers? Would those people have been charged under the new powers? Are we about to lock them up? The first quote is from the wife of the Prime Minister, and the second is from Jenny Tonge, when she was a Member of the House. As much as I have my differences with the individuals in question, I do not believe that we should be locking them up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23.xml", "sha256": "f59a1fa29c7ed4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fourth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": " It is beautiful and attractive, as are the people. I recall one particular doorstep on which I was campaigning early one morning. I knocked on the door and a beautiful young lady answered. She seemed stunned to see me, and I was certainly stunned, but also delighted, to see her—thinking that I was her boyfriend, she had come to the door completely naked. I have lost my train of thought now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23.xml", "sha256": "f59a1fa29c7ed4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fourth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "able subsequent accident investigation or public inquiry showed that disaster could have been prevented had the company or organisation involved taken steps to ensure that it operated safe systems of work within a strong safety culture. There is a common law offence of corporate manslaughter or culpable homicide in Scotland, and in England this offence can be committed by companies or individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23.xml", "sha256": "f59a1fa29c7ed4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fourth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "How do you know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23.521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.400.6", "colnum": "400", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is right about the need to focus on enforcement, but his question illustrates a fundamental divide in the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.400.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.402.6", "colnum": "402", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I simply say to the right hon. Gentleman that he needs to listen. We recognise that this is a serious matter, but Thames Valley police currently has a record strength of 4,160 officers. There is still sleakage out to the Met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.402.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is quite right that she did not give me any notice of that point of order. However, I am reliably assured that her questions will be received and answered here on the Floor of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "s for which the Home Office is responsible, particularly violent crime, the criminal justice system, immigration and asylum, all of which are legitimate and proper matters for public debate, including in an election campaign—however, not the kind of irresponsible scare-mongering campaigning that we saw, in which some parties used dishonest statistics intended to demoralise communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "ich are legitimate and proper matters for public debate, including in an election campaign—however, not the kind of irresponsible scare-mongering campaigning that we saw, in which some parties used dishonest statistics intended to demoralise communities— [Interruption.]— used inconsistent and economically illiterate promises, put forward impractical and inoperable policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "ible scare-mongering campaigning that we saw, in which some parties used dishonest statistics intended to demoralise communities— [Interruption.]— used inconsistent and economically illiterate promises, put forward impractical and inoperable policies— [Interruption.]— used inflammatory language and mobilised undercover sentiment appealing to the dark side of people's lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.420.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "What I notice about the passport service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "That will be published when the Bill is published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I did not see the intervention by the Derbyshire chief constable, but I did see that by the chief constable of North Wales police, which, I think, made a similar point. He said that violent crime is not growing because of the change in the basis on which such crime is measured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ne myself\". Do those quotes condone the acts of suicide bombers? Would those people have been charged under the new powers? Are we about to lock them up? The first quote is from the wife of the Prime Minister, and the second is from Jenny Tonge, when she was a Member of the House. As much as I have my differences with the individuals in question, I do not believe that we should be locking them up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " they do to stop someone using one of the 20,000 access points to the database to put in a programme, commonly known as a virus? Let us say, for the sake of argument, that such a virus would make my biometrics, if they were interrogated, lead to the answer \"yes\" to any identity, so I could claim to be Charles Clarke, Michael Howard, Tony Blair or whoever, and the database would say yes every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "t have about what responsibilities kick in between 16, 17 and 18. A married couple will no longer be able to put a knife on their wedding list if they get married at 17. We need to consider such issues, but I am sympathetic to the Home Secretary's position. We should also consider the problem of purchasing knives on the internet. My researchers did some cruising on the internet this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Thanks to a Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "its headquarters and in the immediate vicinity of Newbury. It is a model of corporate responsibility, and there is scarcely a school or voluntary body that has not received substantial funding from the Vodafone Group Foundation in recent years. We are extremely proud of our new hospital in West Berkshire, which was opened last year. It was opened thanks to the hard work of many local people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "able subsequent accident investigation or public inquiry showed that disaster could have been prevented had the company or organisation involved taken steps to ensure that it operated safe systems of work within a strong safety culture. There is a common law offence of corporate manslaughter or culpable homicide in Scotland, and in England this offence can be committed by companies or individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "nly one third of the specials quota has been met, yet all the police community support officers to whom I have spoken would be delighted to get rid of their uniform and become special constables were they to be given a salary. If we give those people a salary, we will have people who are trained and have the power of arrest, unlike police community support officers, which is policing on the cheap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ur to Opposition Members that they cannot complain about the lack of affordable housing while denouncing plans for new building as the end of civilisation as we know it. The hon. Member for Meriden said that she opposed house building in the south-east but the Tory election manifesto for London says that they will continue to support the Thames gateway elements of the sustainable communities plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.523.2", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": " allow us to help more people into home ownership. I would have thought that that would have support on both sides of the House. On regeneration, Labour believes that good housing and social regeneration must go together. It is people, not houses, who make communities. That is why the Government are committed, in every part of the country, to extend the drive to tackle anti-social behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-23", "file": "debates2005-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1e2fc77cb3d32a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Home Affairs and Communities", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hartlepool.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. I do not know whether he is raising a London-specific issue, but the creation of high-quality sports facilities—\"sports\" being broadly defined—is essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-23a.524.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ow we could provide specific additional help to get technologies and other forms of support through to front-line staff in order to deliver improved infection control. The Government are also proposing a partial ban on smoking in public places—a typical Labour Government approach in that the rhetoric is all there, but the actual proposal is utterly unworkable. Apart from anything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.566.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No, we will not—[Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] There are two perfectly viable ways of proceeding: either having a legislative ban everywhere, or move forward on a voluntary basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "tempted me into the health sphere, and—kicking and screaming—I agreed to take on a new challenge. It is therefore my pleasure to take part for the first time as an MP in a major debate on health. I welcome the Secretary of State and her ministerial team to their roles or their new roles, as applicable. The House might not be aware that the right hon. Lady and I have some history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "s the danger that if we simply penalise hospital managers or staff, who often have limited room for manoeuvre, we may penalise the wrong people. We will look hard at what the Government have promoted, but practical measures can be taken to tackle these important areas. Having taken on this role barely a week ago it would presumptuous of me to lecture the House on the answers to all these problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": ". is a good day's work. Upper Bann was created in 1983. I follow Mr. Harold McCusker and Mr. David Trimble, two very different men who did things their own different ways. For my part, I shall do things my way. However David Trimble was thought of back home, and whatever verdict the people of Northern Ireland ultimately delivered on him, I know that there are many here who held him in high esteem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": ", Turkey, Cyprus, Kurdistan, Pakistan and India, and many people from the nations of eastern Europe, including those within and outside the EU. That lends itself to a range of cuisine that I enjoy eating, as hon. Members can perhaps tell from my figure. I was heartened to read in some literature from the House that there is a Members' weight watchers group; perhaps I shall join it in a year or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady will obviously know, we have just lost an election and we have to look at all the policies that we had. We think that what we put forward at the election had great merit and that the principles were right, but we are beginning a policy review, which is the right thing to do after an election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "mber for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) made a remarkable maiden speech on that point. In many ways, we have had a friendly debate, but perhaps the most friendly moment was when he said that he was not as fragrant and beautiful as Virginia Bottomley, and the Minister for Schools, the right hon. Member for Redditch (Jacqui Smith) shouted, from a sedentary position, \"Well, you're not so bad yourself.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ment. He supports parental choice; so do we. He supports school freedom; so do we. He sounds admirable, and as he started life in the Social Democratic party he can presumably rely on support from all parts of the House. As someone in the other place said, he started in the SDP, now he is in the Labour party and he is introducing Tory policy. Truly, he is a man for all seasons. It is a pity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.656.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "d than simply whether to continue the education policies that were recently rejected by the electorate. I fear that his most difficult challenge will be deciding whether to stand in the forthcoming Tory leadership election, or to let this one go and run to be Leader of the Opposition in a Labour fourth term. I see that the hon. Gentleman has brought many of his hon. Friends with him tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "als and health services. Indeed, several of them lobbied for more resources, especially in the health service. I was most impressed by some of the contributions from Labour Members, although there were also outstanding contributions by other hon. Members. My hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, East (Mrs. James) gave a passionate and personal speech about her life in Swansea and her campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24.xml", "sha256": "8e6ca5bf7baa678e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) to his place for the first time on the Front Bench, and I welcome his appointment. He is well informed on these issues and takes a serious minded view of them and I look forward to the debates that we will have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24.670.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.537.7", "colnum": "537", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Tuesday 7 June .", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Tuesday 7 June . Motion made, That so much of the Lords Message [19th May] as relates to the London Local Authorities Bill [ Lords ] be now considered. That this House concurs with the Lords in their Resolution.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.537.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "In relation to manifestos, it seems to me from a casual reading of the results that more people found something to be pleased about in our manifesto than they did in the Conservative manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "atter. As I have said to the House many times, no Government, faced with a cost that had escalated from £200 million to £900 million, could simply sign a cheque on that basis. As the consensus has now broken—let us return to happier times—I remind the hon. Gentleman that he stood on an election platform that included a commitment to cut public spending by £35 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Next time. There has been almost a clean sweep in the Department of Health, except for Lord Warner in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "imary angioplasty so that instead of patients having thrombolysis when they have a heart attack, they go straight to angioplasty, opening up their arteries so that the long-term outcomes are dramatically better even than with thrombolysis. The pilot project found that a surprisingly large volume of work would have to be done. As we went around the country, the first thing that we discovered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " a new type of antibiotic to beat MRSA. The hon. Gentleman is a scientist so he will appreciate that rather than being a normal antibiotic, the drug impacts on the DNA of the bacterium. If the drug is successful in use, the bacterium will not be able progressively to develop resistance to it by reproducing, so it could be a very effective antibiotic. Has the Department of Health taken an interest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " has done nothing about it. In December 2003, the chief medical officer said that £3 million would be spent on additional research to support infection control activity. I understand that as of last week, little of that money has been spent. We learnt many things during the election campaign, but I shall now say a word or two about the specific legislation highlighted in the Gracious Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ow we could provide specific additional help to get technologies and other forms of support through to front-line staff in order to deliver improved infection control. The Government are also proposing a partial ban on smoking in public places—a typical Labour Government approach in that the rhetoric is all there, but the actual proposal is utterly unworkable. Apart from anything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.566.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No, we will not—[Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] There are two perfectly viable ways of proceeding: either having a legislative ban everywhere, or move forward on a voluntary basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that when public money is used to treat patients of the NHS through private sector provision, they remain NHS patients? In what sense are people taken out of the NHS or the maintained education sector if the taxpayer buys better care and better education for patients and pupils from providers best placed to meet their needs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "tempted me into the health sphere, and—kicking and screaming—I agreed to take on a new challenge. It is therefore my pleasure to take part for the first time as an MP in a major debate on health. I welcome the Secretary of State and her ministerial team to their roles or their new roles, as applicable. The House might not be aware that the right hon. Lady and I have some history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.578.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": ". is a good day's work. Upper Bann was created in 1983. I follow Mr. Harold McCusker and Mr. David Trimble, two very different men who did things their own different ways. For my part, I shall do things my way. However David Trimble was thought of back home, and whatever verdict the people of Northern Ireland ultimately delivered on him, I know that there are many here who held him in high esteem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": ", Turkey, Cyprus, Kurdistan, Pakistan and India, and many people from the nations of eastern Europe, including those within and outside the EU. That lends itself to a range of cuisine that I enjoy eating, as hon. Members can perhaps tell from my figure. I was heartened to read in some literature from the House that there is a Members' weight watchers group; perhaps I shall join it in a year or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Love on the Benches!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "d for Brent, South (Ms Butler) expressed great pride at being the first women to represent their constituencies, and I am particularly proud to be the first man to represent mine in more than 20 years. I am also proud to be standing next to my hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Anne Milton) . She worked extremely hard to win her seat, and no one is prouder than I am to be with her this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady will obviously know, we have just lost an election and we have to look at all the policies that we had. We think that what we put forward at the election had great merit and that the principles were right, but we are beginning a policy review, which is the right thing to do after an election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "mber for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) made a remarkable maiden speech on that point. In many ways, we have had a friendly debate, but perhaps the most friendly moment was when he said that he was not as fragrant and beautiful as Virginia Bottomley, and the Minister for Schools, the right hon. Member for Redditch (Jacqui Smith) shouted, from a sedentary position, \"Well, you're not so bad yourself.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ment. He supports parental choice; so do we. He supports school freedom; so do we. He sounds admirable, and as he started life in the Social Democratic party he can presumably rely on support from all parts of the House. As someone in the other place said, he started in the SDP, now he is in the Labour party and he is introducing Tory policy. Truly, he is a man for all seasons. It is a pity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "slation. She is right. The Opposition believe that choice has a role to play in meeting rising expectations on health. The right hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (John Denham) made a thoughtful speech about private sector involvement. He was sceptical about it. It is clear that the Government will have a tougher time on that issue. Who knows? They may need support from the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "d than simply whether to continue the education policies that were recently rejected by the electorate. I fear that his most difficult challenge will be deciding whether to stand in the forthcoming Tory leadership election, or to let this one go and run to be Leader of the Opposition in a Labour fourth term. I see that the hon. Gentleman has brought many of his hon. Friends with him tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "als and health services. Indeed, several of them lobbied for more resources, especially in the health service. I was most impressed by some of the contributions from Labour Members, although there were also outstanding contributions by other hon. Members. My hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, East (Mrs. James) gave a passionate and personal speech about her life in Swansea and her campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-24", "file": "debates2005-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "c29f08781ccb428d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Income Tax", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) to his place for the first time on the Front Bench, and I welcome his appointment. He is well informed on these issues and takes a serious-minded view of them, and I look forward to the debates that we will have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-24a.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.694.9", "colnum": "694", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Hall", "preceding_text": "Last week, I attended an auction of promises organised by students at Biddenham school in Bedford to raise funds for the \"hope house\" orphanage at Bloemfontein, in South Africa. I was lucky enough to bid for the mystery prize, which later turned out to be a pen donated by the Prime Minister, with his name inscribed on it. It will obviously be a collector's item at some point in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.694.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.694.9", "colnum": "694", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Hall", "preceding_text": " orphanage at Bloemfontein, in South Africa. I was lucky enough to bid for the mystery prize, which later turned out to be a pen donated by the Prime Minister, with his name inscribed on it. It will obviously be a collector's item at some point in the future. [Interruption.] I thank my right hon. Friend for supporting that initiative and for making Africa a priority. May I ask that while we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.694.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister knows that appeals panels do not offer immunity from legal challenge, and he also knows how much anguish appeals can cause—every time he tries to sack a Minister, they appeal to the Chancellor, who promptly reinstates them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.695.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You are!", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " Policing, Security and Community Safety said that offenders on community service should be \"identified\". The Leader of the House then claimed that she was just \"thinking aloud\". However, the Home Secretary promptly backed her up, saying that putting offenders in orange uniforms is \"not only a goer. It's happening now . . . in many parts of the country.\" So what is the policy? Is it a goer or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "nt. The Prime Minister's official spokesman described all this as \"part of a continuum of ministerial thinking\"— just like marching yobs to cashpoints, docking housing benefit from problem families and giving record tokens to youngsters to encourage them to behave. Is it not a pity that when there is recognition on both sides of the House that antisocial behaviour is a serious problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ries to stop a Member in the House from being heard, that is a serious concern. Towards the end of last evening, there was a clear, organised attempt—we used to call it talking among ourselves—to disrupt speeches. We always have to speak in polite terms, but now that we have gone back to silly hours on Tuesday nights, there is a great temptation for Members here to enjoy a good dinner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " on which I hope and believe there will be an all-party consensus. Having congratulated the new shadow Chancellor and welcomed him to his new position, let me say how much I will miss the contribution to the Treasury debates of the former shadow Chancellor. I see that he has just left the Chamber, but let me say that we all admire the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) for his candour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.721.6", "colnum": "721", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "It so happens that I have the rankings drawn up by many different organisations right here. The latest KPMG review found we have one of the best competition policies in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.721.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The IMF praised the management of the British economy. It said that its management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the former Chancellor for giving me the chance to say that I believe that north America and Britain will be the fastest growing economic areas this year. We will publish our next economic forecast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": " their careers with mortgage level debts by 2010; further deplore the absence of specific measures to tackle the serious threat from climate change; and are concerned that there is still no commitment to introduce legislation to clarify the responsibility of the Prime Minister to Parliament, particularly in relation to the prerogative powers and the role of Parliament in matters of war and peace.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "bseeker's allowance. It is well worth considering this Government's achievements in that regard in the past eight years. What we find from the pre-Budget report published only last December is that today the number of incapacity benefit claimants is three times greater—a multiple of three—than the number claiming jobseeker's allowance. So, far from the Government having reversed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ose who have saved under the existing incentives. If the Government make saving compulsory, the first thing that the Chancellor will do is to remove the existing incentives. There will be no need for incentives if people have no choice. All those who have planned responsibly for their future retirement, based on an assumption that incentives will continue, will find them swept away. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "e rescue of his old ally. He was quoted in the Financial Times as making it clear that such reform would indeed take many years, and that there would indeed have to be another election before pension reforms were introduced. If there is this confusion between the Chancellor and the Secretary of State—and doubtless among other Ministers as well—I make an offer to the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "reasury spokesman, the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) , declared that he has an open mind. He presumably has an open cheque book, too, and he uses invisible ink that changes his writing depending on which part of the country, borough or city he is in. I think he said that he would apply local income tax at a flat rate across the country, which means that it would not be a local income tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-25", "file": "debates2005-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "fc4adbee191ee26b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "The Economy and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " Ireland. I congratulate all new Members, and my hon. Friends in particular, on their maiden speeches, including my hon. Friends the Members for Normanton (Ed Balls) and for Wolverhampton, South-East (Mr. McFadden). When No. 10 and No. 11 work together, we are invincible, and I am sure that when former occupants of No. 10 and No. 11 work together, we will be equally invincible on the Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-25b.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-26", "file": "debates2005-05-26.xml", "sha256": "b4637298a7addf5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "t I was ever paid came from a teller in a blue rosette who stopped me at the polling station during the previous election—not this one—and shook me warmly by the hand. He said, \"Mr. Heath, I am a Conservative, as you can see, but I want you to know that you are, in my opinion, the best Member of Parliament that we have ever had\". I was grateful for that; it meant something to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-26", "file": "debates2005-05-26.xml", "sha256": "b4637298a7addf5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "n behind us, to be as active and interested in politics as we have been ourselves. The hon. Member for Bedford (Patrick Hall) spoke about the problems and unfairnesses in the council tax system. We have received mixed messages from the Government about what they propose to do with the council tax system. I do not believe that the alternative offered by the Liberal Democrats is the right one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26.955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-26", "file": "debates2005-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "dc481c042f3c97df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.850.7", "colnum": "850", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " his welcome and congratulations, and I, too, congratulate him. I look forward to a constructive relationship with him. He will know, of course, that the deficit is falling and that we are on course to meet our fiscal rules. In relation to tax, this Government have kept and will continue to keep our promises. As the hon. Gentleman is aware, decisions on tax rates are made as part of the tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.850.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-26", "file": "debates2005-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "dc481c042f3c97df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I agree that there has been progress but, as the Chancellor points out, each day that progress towards the millennium development goals is delayed, 30,000 children lose their lives, 100 million children miss out on education and 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-26", "file": "debates2005-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "dc481c042f3c97df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "Why did the national debt double under the previous Conservative Government, and what were the consequences of their short-term irresponsible borrowing decisions on public expenditure on health and education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-26", "file": "debates2005-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "dc481c042f3c97df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Adjournment (Whitsun)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "t I was ever paid came from a teller in a blue rosette who stopped me at the polling station during the previous election—not this one—and shook me warmly by the hand. He said, \"Mr. Heath, I am a Conservative, as you can see, but I want you to know that you are, in my opinion, the best Member of Parliament that we have ever had\". I was grateful for that; it meant something to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-05-26", "file": "debates2005-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "dc481c042f3c97df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Adjournment (Whitsun)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "n behind us, to be as active and interested in politics as we have been ourselves. The hon. Member for Bedford (Patrick Hall) spoke about the problems and unfairnesses in the council tax system. We have received mixed messages from the Government about what they propose to do with the council tax system. I do not believe that the alternative offered by the Liberal Democrats is the right one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-05-26a.955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "emen and women, not only here, but on ships, as he says, on aircraft carriers, and in Baghdad and in Basra. He ought to be careful what he says. He asks, \"Why not ask them if they were registered\"? Whether a person registers is entirely different from whether a person has the opportunity to register. In this country, it is one's right to register or not to register, depending on the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "As a general statement, it could be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"But.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " some reservations about the possible accession of Turkey, Chancellor Schüssel of Austria, is himself on record as saying that he wishes the negotiations to continue, and I believe that that will be the case. The hon. Gentleman asked me whether we are intending to introduce any part of the constitution by the back door. The answer to that is no, we are not, but there is a question here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that sedulous invitation; I think that it requires a period of reflection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "lish Nature, all of which broadly welcomed the creation of natural England. Liberal Democrat Members who support that proposal are more in line with those bodies that understand the issues than are Conservative Members, particularly the right hon. Member for West Dorset. Indeed, we Liberal Democrats claim to speak for the countryside more than the Conservatives on this and many other issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": " suppliers in the so-called competitive gas market are not interested in extending their supply to more remote villages, but are content merely to compete in areas that already have a supply or new estates. We should give the whole population the right to gas. Part 6 deals with an issue that I have raised many times. Many right hon. and hon. Members signed my early-day motion on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "tricted to 28 days per year, so we need a little more flexibility from the Government. I am blessed to have been elected to represent such a magnificently beautiful constituency. I am sure many right hon. and hon. Members have had occasion to visit Scarborough and Whitby. Scarborough is the classic family holiday resort, with the combination of Victorian elegance and 21st century excitement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "eat start made by the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Herbert) , who I know is a polished performer. I look forward to his support for the reduction in public spending in the Bill, in the tradition of Members for that seat. The amendment fails to understand that the purpose of the new body is to preserve and enhance the beauty about which the hon. Member for South Dorset is so poetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06.xml", "sha256": "a7ce85101e7f21d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": " , who I know is a polished performer. I look forward to his support for the reduction in public spending in the Bill, in the tradition of Members for that seat. The amendment fails to understand that the purpose of the new body is to preserve and enhance the beauty about which the hon. Member for South Dorset is so poetic. [Interruption.] West Dorset; I am, of course, the Member for South Dorset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.975.9", "colnum": "975", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friend whispered, \"Does my right hon. Friend agree\", beneath his breath as he sat down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.975.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "n and women, not only here, but on ships, as he says, on aircraft carriers, and in Baghdad and in Basra. He ought to be careful in what he says. He asks, \"Why not ask them if they were registered\"? Whether a person registers is entirely different from whether a person has the opportunity to register. In this country, it is one's right to register or not to register, depending on the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I have tried to express the point that this will give us greater opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.985.8", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I can do no better than read out my initial answer. It must be my accent that has troubled the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.985.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "As a general statement, it could be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "EU Constitutional Treaty", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s must be brought closer to its citizens; beyond its borders, the Union is confronted with a fast changing, globalised world.\" It was that Laeken declaration which led to the Convention on the Future of Europe and to the intergovernmental conference that followed it. Negotiations in that conference were hard fought; but the United Kingdom achieved all its objectives and my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "EU Constitutional Treaty", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"But.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " some reservations about the possible accession of Turkey, Chancellor Schüssel of Austria, is himself on record as saying that he wishes the negotiations to continue, and I believe that that will be the case. The hon. Gentleman asked me whether we are intending to introduce any part of the constitution by the back door. The answer to that is no, we are not, but there is a question here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1002.5", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "EU Constitutional Treaty", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I spelled out the Government's position very clearly in my statement. The simple fact is that there is no point in proceeding with the Bill at the moment, because of the uncertainty about the consequences of the clear decisions in France and the Netherlands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1002.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "hat determines whether a body is independent: it is the law that does so. Clause 16(1) states clearly—the Liberal Democrats will tell that it is another example of admirable legislative transparency—that the Secretary of State will have the power \"to give Natural England general or specific directions\", and subsection (5) states: \"Natural England must comply with any directions\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "lish Nature, all of which broadly welcomed the creation of natural England. Liberal Democrat Members who support that proposal are more in line with those bodies that understand the issues than are Conservative Members, particularly the right hon. Member for West Dorset. Indeed, we Liberal Democrats claim to speak for the countryside more than the Conservatives on this and many other issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": " suppliers in the so-called competitive gas market are not interested in extending their supply to more remote villages, but are content merely to compete in areas that already have a supply or new estates. We should give the whole population the right to gas. Part 6 deals with an issue that I have raised many times. Many right hon. and hon. Members signed my early-day motion on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "tricted to 28 days per year, so we need a little more flexibility from the Government. I am blessed to have been elected to represent such a magnificently beautiful constituency. I am sure many right hon. and hon. Members have had occasion to visit Scarborough and Whitby. Scarborough is the classic family holiday resort, with the combination of Victorian elegance and 21st century excitement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-06", "file": "debates2005-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3aa2218ef0a279e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "eat start made by the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Herbert) , who I know is a polished performer. I look forward to his support for the reduction in public spending in the Bill, in the tradition of Members for that seat. The amendment fails to understand that the purpose of the new body is to preserve and enhance the beauty about which the hon. Member for South Dorset is so poetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-06a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07.xml", "sha256": "075e998b61676249", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": " in princely Italian palazzos. That is certainly a very long way from Keir Hardie. There seems to have been some genetic programming, which was apparent when the hon. Lady talked about her great-great grandfather being a pacifist and socialist. Once again, I wonder what her great-great grandfather would think of the current reign of the Prime Minister, soon coming to an end, in that context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07.1200.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "1799859fa50623ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "On the broader issue that the hon. Gentleman mentioned, the Government have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "1799859fa50623ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "That is one of the things that we need to look at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "1799859fa50623ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1124.5", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "t the bit of Parliament that does command respect is our Select Committee system, but what does not command respect is that setting up those Committees is the last thing that we do at the beginning of a new Parliament, rather than the first thing? Instead of saying something general about such things happening before the summer recess, will he tell us by what date we will get the show on the road?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "1799859fa50623ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "be absolutely crucial if we are to be able to continue on the course of raising revenue so that we can achieve the expenditure patterns that we all want. I was pleased that that approach was continued in the Budget and that it has been carried through into both this year's Finance Bills. My right hon. Friend the Paymaster General would not expect me to go the whole way with her all the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1147.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "1799859fa50623ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "is estimate of the amount that Treasury will gain from the measure during a full tax year. Clause 7, which is titled, \"Charge to income tax on lump sum\", is what I would call a pension-assisting scheme. It will give pensioners added flexibility when retiring because, if they take a lump sum, they may be assessed according to their final salary or a year later according to their retirement pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "1799859fa50623ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech. I start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr. Newmark) on an excellent maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "1799859fa50623ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "ght\" never worked for Asda. I encountered the customer who accused us of being racist towards Irish people, because we sold \"thick Irish sausages\". Trying to persuade her that \"thick\" related to the sausages and not to the Irish was beyond me. Hon. Members should therefore understand why I will campaign hard against the blight of political correctness, which is doing so much damage to our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-07", "file": "debates2005-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "1799859fa50623ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": " in princely Italian palazzos. That is certainly a very long way from Keir Hardie. There seems to have been some genetic programming, which was apparent when the hon. Lady talked about her great-great grandfather being a pacifist and socialist. Once again, I wonder what her great-great grandfather would think of the current reign of the Prime Minister, soon coming to an end, in that context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-07a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "03fbbcd7b907ebe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "sh;in particular, the Commissioners—turn a blind eye to endemic fraud and waste because it does not suit their short-term political agenda to deal with it. The EU needs a system in which the Court of Auditors is willing to sign off the accounts, which did not happen for 10 years under the current system. If that were to happen to a British company, we all know what the consequences would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "03fbbcd7b907ebe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would merely say that the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton used that phrase against me a few months ago when you were in the Chair. In all humility, Madam Deputy Speaker, I apologise for using such language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "03fbbcd7b907ebe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1296.2", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "rs are saying, \"Please don't give way to him\". I believe that that is because they want to be rude to me, not him. A new Member, the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) , advanced the extension of the Conservatives' ideological position. He called for a referendum on whether we should remain in the European Union. He did not reveal whether he would argue that Britain should leave the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "03fbbcd7b907ebe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Vaizey) on his maiden speech, which was very impressive, indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "03fbbcd7b907ebe7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tuition fees.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman's predecessor, Robert Jackson, who latterly joined this side of the House, came over for specific political reasons, but I did not agree with him on any of them. He obviously did not move very far to the left; in any case, he certainly did not reach me. He moved over specifically on account of his support for the EU and his support for the war. I cannot remember the other issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08a.1300.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary made clear the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "And I have set out exactly what I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1239.4", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Did not the right hon. and learned Gentleman vote for the Maastricht treaty—or am I wrong about that? And I should imagine that he is proud of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1239.4", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "roceed. Therefore, at the present time, we are not proceeding with our referendum. As for the single currency, I totally disagree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman's position. It seems sensible to keep our options open at all times, but let me remind him that, under the type of scepticism that he represents, when we came to power in 1997, this country had no influence in Europe whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "sh;in particular, the Commissioners—turn a blind eye to endemic fraud and waste because it does not suit their short-term political agenda to deal with it. The EU needs a system in which the Court of Auditors is willing to sign off the accounts, which did not happen for 10 years under the current system. If that were to happen to a British company, we all know what the consequences would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "No, as I have been generous and want to make some progress. We will also take forward the Commission's excellent Green Paper on the post-financial services action plan agenda to ensure better implementation and enforcement of measures affecting the financial sector, the use of alternatives to regulation and a clearer recognition of the global nature of financial services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "I know that it is advised that Latin be used sparingly in the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I cannot help saying, quot homines, tot sententiae. It seems that there are a variety of opinions on the Opposition Benches about just how far we should proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1285.4", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "He certainly will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would merely say that the hon. Lady used that phrase against me a few months ago when you were in the Chair. In all humility, Madam Deputy Speaker, I apologise for using such language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1292.4", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The most important thing is that decisions should be made at the most local level that is appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1296.2", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "rs are saying, \"Please don't give way to him.\" I believe that that is because they want to be rude to me, not him. A new Member, the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) , advanced the extension of the Conservatives' ideological position. He called for a referendum on whether we should remain in the European Union. He did not reveal whether he would argue that Britain should leave the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "the many readers of Hansard is deepest red. However, my tie has nothing to do with politics. Although it is not an uncommon occurrence for Conservative Oxfordshire MPs to cross the Floor of the House, that is not my intention. My tie is related to something far more important than politics: football. This is the tie of Didcot Town football club, which last month won the FA Vase at White Hart Lane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Vaizey) on his maiden speech, which was very impressive, indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tuition fees.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman's predecessor, Robert Jackson, who latterly joined this side of the House, came over for specific political reasons, but I did not agree with him on any of them. He obviously did not move very far to the left; in any case, he certainly did not reach me. He moved over specifically on account of his support for the EU and his support for the war. I cannot remember the other issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-08", "file": "debates2005-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "fe3fb7b02ebe9952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1334.0", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": " that, when set up by Maastricht, were intergovernmental. I would like what is intergovernmental to be maintained as intergovernmental, and other areas to be brought back to being intergovernmental. We have common interests on a huge number of issues: asylum, immigration, security and the environment. We need to pursue many of them together but they should be pursued on an intergovernmental basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-08b.1334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09.xml", "sha256": "3980b8c2364b262c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "he support and guidance that he has offered to me during that time. Hornchurch is a fantastic seat to represent, and I am honoured to have been elected to serve the communities of Hornchurch, Elm Park, Rainham and Wennington. The constituency is located on the eastern reaches of London, bordering on Essex, and although it falls within the London borough of Havering, it has a very Essex feel to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09.xml", "sha256": "3980b8c2364b262c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "o people who are in vulnerable situations, particularly with refinancing transactions of the sort to which I have alluded. I welcome the intentions behind the Bill, particularly the provisions relating to unfair relationships. I share a number of the concerns that have been expressed in terms of the breadth of the definition. That goes to what is meant by an unfair relationship. As a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dac5ba10006ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1390.5", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "g be misunderstood, I am pleased that my right hon. Friend has not announced the Second Reading of the Identity Cards Bill. Can we take it that the Government are giving the matter further consideration in view of the considerable concern that has been expressed both inside and outside this House—although no doubt if there were a Conservative Government, the same measure would be introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1390.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dac5ba10006ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I am referring to a study commissioned by the DTI, to which the right hon. Gentleman may object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dac5ba10006ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1435.0", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Battle", "preceding_text": "I accept the importance of those factors. Interest rates are capped in Germany, France, Holland and 14 American states. Where is his evidence that those caps do not work? I am not sure whether his statement is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dac5ba10006ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": " shall be interested to see how that works out. Although I accept the reason why the £25,000 limit is going, it is a pity, if only for the sake of the poor lawyer who does not have a detailed understanding of the 1974 Act, because it will make it even more complex for us to advise on. However, I appreciate that claiming sympathy for lawyers is not a particularly useful activity in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dac5ba10006ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "he support and guidance that he has offered to me during that time. Hornchurch is a fantastic seat to represent, and I am honoured to have been elected to serve the communities of Hornchurch, Elm Park, Rainham and Wennington. The constituency is located on the eastern reaches of London, bordering on Essex, and although it falls within the London borough of Havering, it has a very Essex feel to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dac5ba10006ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "o people who are in vulnerable situations, particularly with refinancing transactions of the sort to which I have alluded. I welcome the intentions behind the Bill, particularly the provisions relating to unfair relationships. I share a number of the concerns that have been expressed in terms of the breadth of the definition. That goes to what is meant by an unfair relationship. As a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-09", "file": "debates2005-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7dac5ba10006ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1480.0", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "ave heard today, we have heard from Conservative Members to whom people can relate, whom they will trust and feel are truly plugged into their constituencies and by whom they will be very well represented. I had better stop there for fear of incurring your wrath, Madam Deputy Speaker, or giving anyone the impression that I am setting out my credentials for the leadership of the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-09a.1480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "nd Reading I mentioned a number of small museums in my constituency, and also the Wandle industrial museum, which held an exhibition on Saturday. The chairman of its board of trustees is the Reverend Andrew Wakefield. It was somewhat surprising, therefore, to find that the board was sponsoring an exhibition on Nelson, especially as it featured the ménage a trois in which he lived in Merton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "ucation and Skills, many people said that my challenge was to make that post sexy. Having listened to this afternoon's debate, I am not sure whether this challenge exceeds that one. I thank the hon. Member for Rayleigh (Mr. Francois) for his kind words about my new post. I enjoyed jousting with him on the Higher Education Act 2004 and I am sure that he will shadow me in a reasonably dignified way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "The measure is partially retrospective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "ould be increased, hence increasing the UK tax levied on that UK parent without there being a corresponding adjustment in the period when the position reversed. Knitting that together, it is possible that the European Court of Justice may rule that the CFC rules cannot be used to impose a tax charge on UK companies based on the profits of subsidiaries located elsewhere in the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "National Savings and Investments in premium bonds, which is a very considerable amount of money; £17.1 billion is invested in national savings certificates; and some £7.6 billion is invested in income bonds. Moreover, given the nature of National Savings and Investments business, the vast bulk is held by private individuals rather than by financial institutions, pension funds or banks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": " Government. The Government undoubtedly need that money. Given the present fiscal position, it seems likely that the Treasury will become even more reliant on National Savings and Investments over the next few years, not least as a device with which to seek to ameliorate the effects of the Chancellor's burgeoning black hole in the public finances. A host of independent economic commentators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "e by FOS and approved by\" the Financial Services Authority. That being the case, perhaps the Minister will have more to say tonight specifically about those revisions and exactly what they will include, so that all Members of this House, and all members of the public who want to continue to invest in National Savings and Investments, can hear exactly how those changes are likely to be implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mrs. Heal. I always bow to the Chair—especially when you are in it, if you do not mind me saying so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": " in question are held by millions of Britons. For many of them, they represent a large proportion of whatever savings they have, other than their property, if they own it. So we have sought to ensure tonight that those Britons are adequately protected as this change goes through. I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr. Newmark) on taking the trouble to speak on this amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13.xml", "sha256": "b1e308fb62fbb550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "He will be a hard act to follow on the House of Commons Commission. I am surprised that no Liberal Democrat Member has seen fit to join us in paying tribute to him. If I were minded to follow the precedent set by one of my predecessors, my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) , we should be at the start of a 90-minute debate. Happily, I am not of that mindset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.5.7", "colnum": "5", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "I am pleased with that answer. Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that the Eye is a landmark of huge importance to London, and that it cannot be jeopardised by unrestrained capitalism? Will she keep a close watching brief on the current lease negotiations for a satisfactory outcome for the Eye, and consider listing it in recognition of its importance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.5.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "What plans does the Secretary of State have for Shropshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "ing I mentioned a number of small museums in my constituency, and also the Wandle industrial museum, which held an exhibition on Saturday. The chairman of its board of trustees is the Reverend Andrew Wakefield. It was somewhat surprising, therefore, to find that the board was sponsoring an exhibition on Nelson, especially as it featured the ménage à trois in which he lived in Merton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that that would be the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "ucation and Skills, many people said that my challenge was to make that post sexy. Having listened to this afternoon's debate, I am not sure whether this challenge exceeds that one. I thank the hon. Member for Rayleigh (Mr. Francois) for his kind words about my new post. I enjoyed jousting with him on the Higher Education Act 2004 and I am sure that he will shadow me in a reasonably dignified way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Chris Huhne.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. David Howarth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "ords out of my mouth. I shall, however, come on to the point that he was making in a moment. As I was pointing out, our proposal would calculate the threshold with reference to sterling. I noted the amusement on the face of the Economic Secretary when mention of the word \"euros\" brought one of my colleagues to his feet. Many more would have done so, had they been here to play a part in our debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "Clause 43 makes a minor technical change to the rules on double taxation relief to ensure consistency between those rules and the recently amended EU parent-subsidiary directive .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "The measure is partially retrospective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "ould be increased, hence increasing the UK tax levied on that UK parent without there being a corresponding adjustment in the period when the position reversed. Knitting that together, it is possible that the European Court of Justice may rule that the CFC rules cannot be used to impose a tax charge on UK companies based on the profits of subsidiaries located elsewhere in the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "National Savings and Investments in premium bonds, which is a very considerable amount of money; £17.1 billion is invested in national savings certificates; and some £7.6 billion is invested in income bonds. Moreover, given the nature of National Savings and Investments business, the vast bulk is held by private individuals rather than by financial institutions, pension funds or banks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": " Government. The Government undoubtedly need that money. Given the present fiscal position, it seems likely that the Treasury will become even more reliant on National Savings and Investments over the next few years, not least as a device with which to seek to ameliorate the effects of the Chancellor's burgeoning black hole in the public finances. A host of independent economic commentators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "e by FOS and approved by\" the Financial Services Authority. That being the case, perhaps the Minister will have more to say tonight specifically about those revisions and exactly what they will include, so that all Members of this House, and all members of the public who want to continue to invest in National Savings and Investments, can hear exactly how those changes are likely to be implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "ve the lowest inflation, the lowest interest rates and the lowest unemployment in living memory. As the deliberations on the Bill have continued, an important part of the debate has been about the fact that the first priority is stability. That is what business and the City want more than anything else: economic stability. In the debate about the future of the Conservative party, one of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mrs. Heal. I always bow to the Chair—especially when you are in it, if you do not mind my saying so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": " in question are held by millions of Britons. For many of them, they represent a large proportion of whatever savings they have, other than their property, if they own it. So we have sought to ensure tonight that those Britons are adequately protected as this change goes through. I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr. Newmark) on taking the trouble to speak on this amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-13", "file": "debates2005-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "326d88aad96db51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "House of Commons Commission", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "He will be a hard act to follow on the House of Commons Commission. I am surprised that no Liberal Democrat Member has seen fit to join us in paying tribute to him. If I were minded to follow the precedent set by one of my predecessors, my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) , we should be at the start of a 90-minute debate. Happily, I am not of that mindset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-13a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-14", "file": "debates2005-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae6d1e1c2d74f526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "My strong advice to the hon. Gentleman is to think very carefully about which Division Lobby he goes through tonight. If he votes for the reasoned amendment tabled by the official Opposition he will continue to have bureaucracy, but if he votes for the Bill, he will streamline the process, make it effective and get money to the very people he wants to have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-14", "file": "debates2005-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae6d1e1c2d74f526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": " board what the National Audit Office has said. If the hon. Lady believes that she is the sole custodian of wisdom in this area, and far better than the National Audit Office or anyone else, that is fine, and she will table relevant amendments in Committee. I hope that at the end of the process the Opposition will defend keeping public money in accounts when it could be used for good causes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.164.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-14", "file": "debates2005-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae6d1e1c2d74f526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer that question, directly but I will take note of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-14", "file": "debates2005-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae6d1e1c2d74f526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ultation has been held since, and it was accepted that additionality was an important principle that should be embodied in future legislation. The Government have a responsibility to respond to that and to manage additionality in the best possible way. I agree with my hon. Friend to the extent that the word \"additionality\" presents problems because it can be interpreted in a variety of ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-14", "file": "debates2005-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae6d1e1c2d74f526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "f the proposals in the Bill, the voluntary and community sectors will have access to the two thirds of the Big Lottery Fund money that is currently going to the New Opportunities Fund. The Big Lottery Fund has given a clear undertaking that 60 to 70 per cent. of its funding will go directly to the sector—a significantly higher proportion than before. In future, the Government will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-14", "file": "debates2005-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae6d1e1c2d74f526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "use the Minister needs to get the Bill through to establish the legislative backing for the Big Lottery Fund. \"We do not believe it would be right to use lottery money to pay for things which are the Government's responsibility.\" We agree wholeheartedly—but those were not my words, they were those of the Prime Minister in 1997, spoken in the heady days of new Labour and cool Britannia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-14", "file": "debates2005-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae6d1e1c2d74f526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "only their good causes. The proposals will give them more freedom to promote the lottery overall. The idea behind that is that the greater the trust in the lottery overall, the greater the number of sales and thus the greater the amount for good causes. I hope that those two points will reassure the Liberal Democrat Opposition. Several points were raised and I shall try to answer as many as I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-14", "file": "debates2005-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae6d1e1c2d74f526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "No, the priorities would be those for which the charity had applied and which the distributors decided that they wanted to fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-14a.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15.xml", "sha256": "9c11e00577757b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made a helpful point and I thank him for it. The Conservative party, too, needs a period of reflection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15.284.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Wednesday 22 June .", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Object. To be considered on Wednesday 22 June . London Local Authorities (Prohibition of Smoking in Places of Work) Bill [ Lords ] Motion made, That so much of the Lords Message [ 19 May ] as relates to the London Local Authorities (Prohibition of Smoking in Places of Work) Bill [ Lords ] be now considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.249.7", "colnum": "249", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I had been wondering who was going to ask that question and I actually thought that it was probably going to be the hon. Gentleman, so he has turned up on cue. It is important that the whole of Northern Ireland moves forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.249.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " and certainly not for the IRA. Progress and discussions continue, and my ministerial team and I are involved in that. The IMC report was explicit, however, about the activity carried out by the Provisional IRA, loyalist paramilitary groups and republican paramilitary groups of another description. It has to stop. The IMC is explicit about that and it will continue to monitor the situation for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "e effect. There are around 10,500 troops in Northern Ireland who are responsible for maintaining security, and I am sure the hon. Gentleman will agree that they do a very good job. We are, however, seeking to normalise policing and security, which is reflected in the reforms in the Police Service of Northern Ireland. That includes new proposals for community policing, which I hope he will support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I just totally disagree with that. It is worth pointing out that the trouble with Conservative Members is that they want to use the current situation in Europe as a way of making their age-old case to get Britain out of Europe, which is the worst possible response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Welsh Governance", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ange the number of Welsh Members of Parliament. The answer is no, and I will explain why. The settlement that I propose is very different from that which operates in Scotland, where tax-varying powers exist and there is control over policing and criminal justice, and a number of other matters. That does not apply to the policy in the White Paper, which is confined to the existing settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry) later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry) later. [Interruption.] It is always about the subject under discussion, but I have given way half a dozen times and need to make progress. If I do not, there will be complaints that I have taken up other hon. Members' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made a helpful point and I thank him for it. The Conservative party, too, needs a period of reflection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.285.4", "colnum": "285", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "hat but it does not happen in many other national Parliaments. National Parliaments would then take a view on those draft laws. If they decided to disapprove of them, that would be communicated to the Commission, and if a third of the aggregate total of national Parliaments took that view, it would amount to a yellow card. The Commission would take that as a warning, and would have to think again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Whether or not the European Scrutiny Committee meets in public is a matter for it to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "country can get away with ignoring it, but a small one cannot. There is one rule for one group and no rule at all for another. There is no doubt that resentment about the euro was at least one of the factors behind the French rejection of the constitution and was an issue in the Dutch referendum, too. With the death of the constitution, it is clear that there will not be a single political entity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "I will not give way for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "That is largely irrelevant, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "ever, what is the view of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom, given that their constitutional spokesman in the European Parliament, Andrew Duff, has said: \"My preferred choice, and that of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, is to continue with the ratification process as planned. Meanwhile France and the Netherlands can reflect . . . on the real consequences of their negative votes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "de policy towards the rest of the world, particularly developing countries. On the rebate, we most certainly support the United Kingdom Government's approach. The United Kingdom is the European Union's second largest contributor. Of course, our receipts from the European Union are comparatively low. No doubt the hon. Member for Glasgow, South-West (Mr. Davidson) has gone to the Glasgow music hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-15", "file": "debates2005-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "591ebd1b2a969e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go to the Vote Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "s something else to consider. On the way to the Chamber, I called in at the House of Commons Library to get a copy of the constitutional treaty, not because I expected to read the 191 pages before the start of the debate, but because I wanted to see how accessible it was. There is no copy in the Library. There is an excellent research paper, but I could not access the treaty from the Library Desk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-15a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-16", "file": "debates2005-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "153869bc9c98f7c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "The only reason I am going on about it is, if I may say so without sounding childish, that the hon. Gentleman started it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16a.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-16", "file": "debates2005-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "09d2158a2b3592db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16b.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is. The hon. Gentleman would know if he ever got the chance to be in government that that is exactly the kind of hard choice that is involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16b.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-16", "file": "debates2005-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "09d2158a2b3592db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16b.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I knew that I should not give way again to the hon. Gentleman. I will not confirm our position one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16b.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-16", "file": "debates2005-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "09d2158a2b3592db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16b.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": " start, rather than closing their minds. It would be easier simply to say that the option is not currently viable and that the power should not exist in the Bill. However, I do not agree with that. The Assembly can make the best of the power if it sees an opportunity to do that. The points that the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) made are legitimate, but so are the environmental ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16b.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-16", "file": "debates2005-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "09d2158a2b3592db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16b.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "The only reason I am going on about it is, if I may say so without sounding childish, that the hon. Gentleman started it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-16b.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-20", "file": "debates2005-06-20.xml", "sha256": "1b9aec6eae395dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ybody's everyday experience. The Government's second response, once the first has collapsed, is instinctively to reach for the nearest headline-grabbing initiative, of which there are many in the Bill. Nothing comes more easily to hand than the antisocial behaviour order. Not many people have had kind words to say on Europe today, so to make up for that and to prove my inclusive credentials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-20", "file": "debates2005-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "974cde9edb90fdab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was the Financial Times .\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome the right hon. and learned Gentleman to our first Question Time. I simply advise him not to read The Daily Express—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-20", "file": "debates2005-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "974cde9edb90fdab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "James Plaskitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Plaskitt", "preceding_text": "The important thing, as I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would agree, is to ensure that those who are entitled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-20", "file": "debates2005-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "974cde9edb90fdab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e in the Europe of today. Enlargement provides a tremendous opportunity in that regard. Let me make one final point to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. Our approach to Europe over the last couple of years has allowed us to be in a position whereby, despite the attacks from some quarters over the last few days, we went to the European summit with allies and we went out of it with allies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-20", "file": "debates2005-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "974cde9edb90fdab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister put my mind at rest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-20", "file": "debates2005-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "974cde9edb90fdab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Because if we started a debate now about renegotiating our own treaty obligations to the rest of Europe, at a stroke we would lose any possibility of influencing the argument in the rest of Europe. I am sorry, but that is simply true. I will not bother reading out quotations from Conservatives when they were in government, as there is not any point in doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-20", "file": "debates2005-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "974cde9edb90fdab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.541.4", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "reat to the security of the community in which they live. That is true throughout the country and it is a reasonable part of civilised life. In this country and throughout Europe, we have seen that that can happen in a proper way. The point is to distinguish between such perfectly civilised activity and the binge drinking and horizontal and vertical drinking culture that is such a serious problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.541.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-20", "file": "debates2005-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "974cde9edb90fdab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ybody's everyday experience. The Government's second response, once the first has collapsed, is instinctively to reach for the nearest headline-grabbing initiative, of which there are many in the Bill. Nothing comes more easily to hand than the antisocial behaviour order. Not many people have had kind words to say on Europe today, so to make up for that and to prove my inclusive credentials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-20a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21.xml", "sha256": "2e0775eec394192f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "For the sake of better accuracy in Hansard , I will repeat what the new Parliamentary Private Secretary to the hon. Member for the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk just said: \"But he is an Arabist.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21.648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I hope that it is appropriate to say that congratulations are due to the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk (Mr. Simpson) on his appointment to the Conservative Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I hope that it is appropriate to say that congratulations are due to the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk (Mr. Simpson) on his appointment to the Conservative Front Bench— [Interruption.] Well, it could be a leadership bid, as everyone else seems to be making one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Five!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "priate to say that congratulations are due to the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk (Mr. Simpson) on his appointment to the Conservative Front Bench— [Interruption.] Well, it could be a leadership bid, as everyone else seems to be making one— [Interruption.] Anybody else? Mr. Speaker, perhaps you could invite Conservative Members who are not standing for the leadership to put up their hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shadow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ed to the House in November is the correct one. As this is the hon. Gentleman's first outing, at least as a shadow Foreign Minister, I shall say to him gently that we have been a great deal more consistent than the shadow Cabinet. I merely draw the House's attention to remarks made by the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) , who I believe is now Secretary of State for Transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "For the sake of better accuracy in Hansard , I will repeat what the new Parliamentary Private Secretary to the hon. Member for the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk just said: \"But he is an Arabist.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Jury Trials (Fraud)", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "nar. He talked about the constitutional propriety—as he uncharacteristically and a little pompously put it—of the Law Officers bringing the matter forward. The legislation was passed by Parliament and the House will have an opportunity in the autumn to debate the resolutions properly. I am happy to offer any hon. Members who wish to attend a briefing about the implications of all this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Jury Trials (Fraud)", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Not quite, I am afraid, Mr. Speaker. I was asked quite a lot of questions and I am attempting to do the House the service of answering them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.665.4", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Jury Trials (Fraud)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am going to stop the hon. Gentleman, who has not asked a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.665.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, they don't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "First, no Attorney-General would consider the matter from the point of view of Government convenience at any time. Secondly, the assurances that I have already given meet the points that the hon. Gentleman makes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Of course, if the debate is about tolerance it is about intolerance as well. I am arguing that we are confronting a major change in the balance between freedom of speech and the right to say what one likes about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Jerry Springer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The Bill would not stop \"The Satanic Verses\". It would not be useful against Gary Springer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Gary Streeter!", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The Bill would not stop \"The Satanic Verses\". It would not be useful against Gary Springer—[Hon. Members: \"Jerry Springer!\"] Jerry Springer: he has changed his name to protect the innocent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": " happened in England and after the Bill had been enacted, I wonder whether the Free Presbyterian Church would have been prosecuted for inciting religious hatred by expelling the noble Lord and treating him in that way. At the heart of the Bill lies the distinction between things that are immutable, such as race, which should be protected, and those that are not because they are a matter of choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Ms Thornberry) was not making the point that the girl was insulted because she was wearing a veil. She was insulted because she was a Muslim and the veil identified her as a Muslim. In addition, the Public Order Acts, unlike the Bill, would not treat the matter as aggravated behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my friend for his intervention, and I hope that it will attract a comment from the Minister later. It is important that we get this right, because we are dealing with such a precious commodity. This is not some little Bill dealing with planning issues in the south-east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowels and skins shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods.\" On Christians, it says: \"They surely are infidels who say god is the third of three; for there is but one god; and if they do not refrain from what they say, a severe punishment shall light on those who are unbelievers.\" On Jews, it says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the hon. Gentleman wholly fails to grasp the point that, as the Home Secretary stated this afternoon, if there is a necessity for clarification in the drafting process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Of course I believe in free will and freedom of choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-21", "file": "debates2005-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "304bbd6dbdc35620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "ies of free speech and religious debate. I fear that it will diminish personal freedoms, restrict academic scrutiny and hinder the helpful probing of social commentators. It will be an unnecessary straitjacket on democracy and, at a stroke of a pen, end centuries of enlightening discourse about the rights and wrongs of religion and the need or, indeed, the lack of need for religion in our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-21a.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22.xml", "sha256": "0b430cdb2cfdb439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22.788.8", "colnum": "788", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " as the hon. Gentleman appears to want, to abolish the National Assembly for Wales and to go back to the kind of rule that we had under the Conservatives when they trampled all over Wale—and as result, every Tory MP was cleaned out of Wales in the 1997 election. Having said that, the hon. Gentleman was a very good member of the Modernisation Committee and I pay tribute to him for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22.788.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5bb080db6008bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I feel very proud of the fact that the Government have helped pensioners so much over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5bb080db6008bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "plunged many below the breadline and into mounting debt\". Does the Paymaster General agree with the CAB about that? Does the right hon. Lady agree with the ombudsman, who said today that many families \"have to borrow money from family and friends to support their children, using up their life's savings or running up credit card debts in order to pay for child care costs, buy food and get to work\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5bb080db6008bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.822.7", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Special Schools and Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We are discussing special schools. If there is an underspend, clearly the council will have more money available to spend on special needs. I hope that it will spend it carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.822.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5bb080db6008bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Special Schools and Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I fully endorse what my hon. Friend is saying about the policy of inclusion, which is forcing parents to put their children into mainstream schools. In my area, special needs schools have falling rolls. That places local councils in an impossible position if they wish to continue providing special needs access in the long term as well as the short term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5bb080db6008bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Special Schools and Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "er. There is a bias in the law on special educational needs as it stands. The 2001 Act states that, if a statement is maintained, a child must be educated in a mainstream school unless that is incompatible with the wishes of his parent or the provision of efficient education for other children. However, in many cases parents are not told about the existence of special schools. That is not balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5bb080db6008bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Special Schools and Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5bb080db6008bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Special Schools and Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "That money is set aside not simply for building new schools but to ensure that those schools that are in existence get the sort of resources that they need. That, of course, includes special schools for moderate learning difficulties where that is the priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-22", "file": "debates2005-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a5bb080db6008bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Electoral Integrity", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "individual voter registration; condemns the Government's constitutional changes which have undermined democratic accountability, such as the introduction of proportional representation; and further believes that urgent steps are needed to restore public confidence and integrity in the electoral system and to increase the accountability of government. The United Kingdom has held a reputation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-22a.877.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-23", "file": "debates2005-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ab588e97834b9a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-23a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "e politician, and it is a pleasure to be shadowed by him. Having said that, I should add that he is also wrong about almost everything, particularly this wonderful thing called the World Economic Forum's growth competitiveness index. I presume that that is what he was talking about. I do not have a great deal of faith in such artificial indexes, which are based on very volatile survey information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-23a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-23", "file": "debates2005-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ab588e97834b9a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-23a.942.6", "colnum": "942", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Lady to the Dispatch Box and hope that she has a successful ministerial career. I recently attended an awards ceremony in Macclesfield at which the company, Complete Medical Communications, was given a work-life balance award. I am delighted about that. Clearly, work-life balance has an important part to play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-23a.942.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-23", "file": "debates2005-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ab588e97834b9a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-23a.943.6", "colnum": "943", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "se in the fullness of time. Surely the days are long gone when women were expected to study only supposedly soft subjects like the arts at university? Nevertheless, there is still some prejudice attached to whether young girls should go on to study maths, science and engineering, despite the fact that some of the best scientists, mathematicians and engineers in the world nowadays are indeed women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-23a.943.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-23", "file": "debates2005-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ab588e97834b9a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-23a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be read a Second time. I begin by apologising to the House that I have to leave after opening the debate to attend a family wedding. The Conservative party has been generous in understanding that. The Chief Secretary will remain throughout the debate, and will close it ably and effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-23a.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-27", "file": "debates2005-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9021a0baae92f35b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-27a.1015.6", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Of course, and that is why we have increased the number of police in every part of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-27a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-27", "file": "debates2005-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9021a0baae92f35b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-27a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Zimbabwe (Removals)", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " grip on the immigration and asylum system. They are trying hard to act tough, but there are still 250,000 failed asylum seekers living in the United Kingdom. The number of deportations is falling and it could take more than 20 years to clear the backlog that the Government have built up. We need a long-term coherent strategy to sort out the chaos rather than a series of headline-chasing gimmicks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-27a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-27", "file": "debates2005-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9021a0baae92f35b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-27a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "The powers should be operated by some dispassionate agency, some third party. Were the hon. Gentleman or I to have the misfortune to be caught speeding or shoplifting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-27a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11d86e8833e53a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1194.6", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": " examine in detail all the evidence about the accuracy of any given system. If we are going to use biometric measures as the Government propose we must all be convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the most accurate recognition possible of biometric data is achievable. I am encouraged by the Cambridge university study that was mentioned but, to be honest, I have not had the opportunity to read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11d86e8833e53a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "tributions from Opposition Members were cynical and inaccurate. They are cynical because there is a danger of playing on the existing cynicism that the public feel toward those who govern and those who seek to govern. I make no apologies for holding the unpopular view that government is a good thing and politicians are good people. We should encourage members of the public to trust the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11d86e8833e53a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We have one\".", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "One of the problems with the Bill is not the use to which it would be put by a reasonable Government—I assume that the hon. Gentleman thinks that his Government are reasonable—but the uses to which it might be put by an unreasonable Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11d86e8833e53a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": " There are many reasons, both of principle and pragmatism, to vote against the Bill, but I intend to touch on only three: the politics of the Bill, its implication on issues of race and what is says for the future. First, let me remind my Labour colleagues that it is barely two months since we won an historic third term, and we are now embarked on squandering political capital on this doomed Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11d86e8833e53a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "r for Hampstead and Highgate (Glenda Jackson) does not regard the Home Secretary as a snake oil salesman or a huckster. I am grateful for those comments. She is right that, in the past, there has been a great deal of overselling of the case for the card and all it can do. It can help and supplement but it cannot deal with terrorism in the way in which it was suggested the Government claimed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1131.5", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Andrew Turner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "ns that I have already set out. An identity card will provide a means of dealing with the information that society issues that would not exist if we did not have those powers. On the question of a free vote, I simply observe that, when we voted on the Bill's Second Reading on 21 December 2004 , the Opposition all voted in favour of it. Now, like sheep, they have moved in the other direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Not at this stage. I will do so later. I argue that the ID card system is in fact a bulwark against the surveillance or Big Brother society, and not a further contribution to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I told you that I will give way later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I can certainly explain that I have had informal discussions with Ministers of the Irish Government on this matter. The right hon. Gentleman is right that issues need to be discussed to achieve it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": " an ID card system. For example, if Camden council decides that it is beneficial to Camden council to have a different form of ID check in its libraries from the system that currently exists to ensure that people do not steal books, it will decide to put in the readers that are necessary. We are not requiring the authorities to do it; no one says that they have to do it. They will make a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "even more. What is the cost? The Government appear to have no clue. We realised that when the Home Secretary was asked about local government expenditure on libraries and so on. However, fortunately for the Government—the Home Secretary will not agree—the London School of Economics has been able to provide an estimate. Unfortunately for the Government, it is much more than they let on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "at the touch of a button. People might say that that seems like paranoia, but I remember how this Government tried to smear Pam Warren of the Paddington survivors' group, to savage the reputation of 94-year-old Rose Addis, and to rubbish the reputations of Martin Sixsmith and David Kelly. The Home Secretary was at it again this morning. He launched a savage attack on Simon Davies of the LSE—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1190.5", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "e Government have not addressed during the debate, is whether or not the biometrics will work in the first place. The Government helpfully did their own study, and what did they find? They found that, on face verification, 33 per cent. of faces could not be recognised; on fingerprint verification, 19 per cent. could not be recognised; and, on iris verification, 2 per cent. could not be recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "t has not understood it. In either event, he seemed to be talking about something entirely different from the Bill. When members of the Conservative party cry freedom, as the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) did earlier, we know that one of two things is under way. Either France is about to invade or there is a leadership contest. In this case, we know which test was met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1194.5", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": " examine in detail all the evidence about the accuracy of any given system. If we are going to use biometric measures as the Government propose we must all be convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the most accurate recognition possible of biometric data is achievable. I am encouraged by the Cambridge university study that was mentioned but, to be honest, I have not had the opportunity to read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1217.0", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in the House for the first time. I have the considerable honour and great good fortune to have been elected to represent Torridge and West Devon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "tributions from Opposition Members were cynical and inaccurate. They are cynical because there is a danger of playing on the existing cynicism that the public feel toward those who govern and those who seek to govern. I make no apologies for holding the unpopular view that government is a good thing and politicians are good people. We should encourage members of the public to trust the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We have one\".", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "One of the problems with the Bill is not the use to which it would be put by a reasonable Government—I assume that the hon. Gentleman thinks that his Government are reasonable—but the uses to which it might be put by an unreasonable Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "n that instance, probably based on what is believed to be their economic validity. My hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) mentioned rough sleepers, who have only just been allowed to vote without needing a settled address. They were excluded from the democratic process. There will be other kinds of exclusion. It is undoubtedly the case in my opinion, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "e in that A and E department who was waiting to be treated who would not comment on the fact that an individual had a different coloured skin, spoke in a language that the other person did not regard as being English, or was in some way different? I can hear them now saying to the doctor or the nurse, \"Does that person have an ID card? If they don't, you should not treat them before you treat me.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "he Bill. Second Reading, of course, is about the principle behind the reasons for producing it. On the previous Second Reading, I produced a copy of a book by George Orwell called \"Nineteen Eighty-Four\", and directed it to the attention of the Home Secretary. It refers to the \"Ministry of Truth\", in which, George Orwell says, \"Freedom is slavery\". That is what lies at the heart of these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "Labour Member earlier, ID cards helped to catch the culprits after the suicide bombing in Madrid. In fact, they did not: it was mobile phone intercepts that caught them and helped the Spanish follow up what happened. The Home Office also needs to be aware that a suicide bomber is a one-time weapon. It was first seen in train attacks in Chechnya, which is where al-Qaeda's specialty originated from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "ere are many reasons, both of principle and of pragmatism, to vote against the Bill, but I intend to touch on only three: the politics of the Bill, its implication on issues of race and what is says for the future. First, let me remind my Labour colleagues that it is barely two months since we won an historic third term, and we are now embarked on squandering political capital on this doomed Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "preceding_text": " the Bill have failed to base their argument on matters of fact and have succumbed to conjecture or hysteria. In the light of the debate, it would be useful to consider what the Bill will introduce: the establishment of the national identity register, powers to issue biometric identity cards, enabling public and private sector organisations to verify identity subject to the person's consent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-28", "file": "debates2005-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "af75bd0ad0eebcbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "r for Hampstead and Highgate (Glenda Jackson) does not regard the Home Secretary as a snake oil salesman or a huckster. I am grateful for those comments. She is right that, in the past, there has been a great deal of overselling of the case for the card and all it can do. It can help and supplement but it cannot deal with terrorism in the way in which it was suggested the Government claimed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-28b.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29.xml", "sha256": "6e8a99f5ee12d4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Of course, the Inland Revenue must not act unlawfully, but my understanding is that the code of practice makes it clear that if the error is on the part of the Government rather than the recipient, there is not a recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29.xml", "sha256": "6e8a99f5ee12d4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1300.3", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " but notes that less than half the adult population is now registered with an NHS dentist; and calls on the Government to work with the dentistry profession to ensure that the new contract delivers more dentists spending more time working in the NHS. As one who is relatively new to shadowing the Department of Health, it strikes me that NHS dentistry is a subject that I can get my teeth into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29.xml", "sha256": "6e8a99f5ee12d4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I can feel a Liberal Democrat survey coming on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29.xml", "sha256": "6e8a99f5ee12d4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "th him and with the Minister or the Secretary of State about these matters, in an effort to discover the extent to which we can agree on methods, as we are already agreed on goals. Let me turn to the main point that the Liberals are making in their motion, and with which I also agree. This is not in the spirit of criticism of the Government but in the spirit of offering a constructive way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29.xml", "sha256": "6e8a99f5ee12d4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "s invidious to single out a Member for praise in such debates, and I do so at the risk of ruining what otherwise I suspect would be a promising career, but the contribution from the hon. Member for Ruislip- Northwood (Mr. Hurd) was particularly impressive. It was most refreshing to hear a Conservative Member say that the European Union could play a positive leadership role in a major policy issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "w far Ethiopia has come in the past few years, and we ought to encourage that country. Elections have recently taken place in Ethiopia, and yes, there are complaints, but we must recognise that for the first time those elections were open to international observers, many of whom were complimentary. Can I therefore suggest that the Secretary of State examine the situation closely? Can I also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1286.6", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "John MacDougall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John MacDougall", "preceding_text": " strongly to continue their commitment to making poverty history in Africa. My Glenrothes constituent Ian McCaulay visited Darfur recently to make a voluntary contribution to education there, and he has suggested that training teachers in Sudan would be of particular benefit. Does my right hon. Friend agree that such assistance could play a large part in rebuilding Africa's educational structures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1286.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As we have said on many occasions, there is no question of moving to a compulsory identity card before there is a proper vote in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Following yesterday's debate and the Divisions at the end of it, there is disquiet in all sections of the House about many aspects of the legislation, as the Prime Minister properly recognises. Will he clarify one thing? If it proves to be the case in due course that the House of Lords rejects the legislation, based on his 35 per cent. of the vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Of course, the Inland Revenue must not act unlawfully, but my understanding is that the code of practice makes it clear that if the error is on the part of the Government rather than the recipient, there is not a recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1293.3", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I can assure the right hon. and learned Gentleman that, as I have said before, the rebate remains because the reason for the rebate remains. Of course, if we get rid of the common agricultural policy and we change the reason why the rebate is there, the case for the rebate changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1294.4", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We are of course giving them the means. In fact, as opposed to a Conservative Government who cut defence spending by 30 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1294.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1295.4", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Sir Patrick Cormack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1295.6", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First of all, I will always look with sympathy upon the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1295.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his kind words about our achievements since 1997, but no one is coerced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1300.3", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "NHS Dentistry and Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " but notes that less than half the adult population is now registered with an NHS dentist; and calls on the Government to work with the dentistry profession to ensure that the new contract delivers more dentists spending more time working in the NHS. As one who is relatively new to shadowing the Department of Health, it strikes me that NHS dentistry is a subject that I can get my teeth into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "NHS Dentistry and Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I can feel a Liberal Democrat survey coming on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "NHS Dentistry and Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "I begin by congratulating the Minister on her usual polished performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "NHS Dentistry and Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "d by the EU and by the countries involved. I hope very much that the Minister does not agree with such a model, and that she will truly reflect on the outcome of the consultation exercise, because I know full well that some of the messages that she will receive have to do with the value that people place on personal contact between practitioner and patient. In terms of what needs to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "NHS Dentistry and Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "s on demand over the past few years has been dramatic. Patients have started to get a better understanding of what they want. Sometimes that makes it difficult for the dentist. I remember a 5 ft 2 in lady coming in with a picture of Farrah Fawcett-Majors and asking whether she could have a smile just like that. I suggested to her that she would be more likely to win the Derby if I could manage it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "NHS Dentistry and Primary Health Care", "cue_speaker": "John Leech", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Leech", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been in government for eight years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Climate Change (G8 Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "th him and with the Minister or the Secretary of State about these matters, in an effort to discover the extent to which we can agree on methods, as we are already agreed on goals. Let me turn to the main point that the Liberals are making in their motion, and with which I also agree. This is not in the spirit of criticism of the Government but in the spirit of offering a constructive way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Climate Change (G8 Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Letwin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is supposed to be an intervention. Perhaps those points might be made in the winding-up speeches or some other time. I call Oliver Heald", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Climate Change (G8 Summit)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "s invidious to single out a Member for praise in such debates, and I do so at the risk of ruining what otherwise I suspect would be a promising career, but the contribution from the hon. Member for Ruislip- Northwood (Mr. Hurd) was particularly impressive. It was most refreshing to hear a Conservative Member say that the European Union could play a positive leadership role in a major policy issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-29", "file": "debates2005-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "405fc38bf5b5a452", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1411.4", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "ty of Liverpool, and tonight will be no exception. Even though I take issue with the conduct and procedures of Liverpool city council, I wish to place on the record the fact that Liverpool as a city is making tremendous progress in its regeneration, which is due in no small measure to initiatives emanating from this House and the present Government. That is to its credit. I also give credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-29a.1411.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-30", "file": "debates2005-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "43ea75fa24b37920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-30a.1419.7", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The forecasting model has improved. Let me tell the hon. Gentleman what happened during the last world downturn under the last Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-30a.1419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-30", "file": "debates2005-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "43ea75fa24b37920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-30a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the Paymaster General did not answer my question, so I shall have to repeat it. Citizens Advice reports that the Revenue is advising people to borrow money on credit cards to repay their debts. Does she approve of that advice? I certainly do not and I do not think that anyone who wants to keep low-income families out of a spiral of debt would give that advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-30a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-30", "file": "debates2005-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "43ea75fa24b37920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-30a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman clearly approaches each Question Time as though he has no responsibility for anything that either he or his party said in the past. I remind him that his party claims to support the tax credit system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-30a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-06-30", "file": "debates2005-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "43ea75fa24b37920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-30a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "No, it is not. The Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-06-30a.1424.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am decided and I have told the hon. Gentleman what I have decided. Unfortunately, I am in government and he is not—that is really the source of frustration. However, I am glad that he raised the matter, because when we consider what could possibly bring CND and Conservative Front Benchers together on defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "nd Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford) . This particular debate on local government matters is unusual in that he is not speaking from the Front Bench. By the end, many may wish that he were, but I know that I speak for the whole House when I say that he was always the most courteous Minister. However naive or inane the question, he always tried to answer it fully. Anyone who believes in the health of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "re usually a chance for the Opposition to attack the Government. It must be strange for her to feel that this time she is the Government, given that she was so often the subject of the speech of the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) . Listening to that speech, I began to feel that the two Opposition parties were becoming more concerned about the fight for second rather than first place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "inable way forward for this important issue for our quality of life and the quality of our democracy. In that context, I have to tell the hon. Member for Meriden that it was disappointing that, after 27 minutes of her speech, she should turn to our proposals and then finish before the 28th minute had passed. I am sure that we shall get to hear the details of the Conservative party proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "5 per cent. of local revenue expenditure. Government grant accounts for about £48 billion and 53 per cent. of revenue expenditure. I urge those who decry that level of Government grant to remember that a smaller contribution from central Government means more from someone else. At the last election, the hon. Gentleman's party proposed to freeze grants to local government for two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "for two years— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) says, \"We didn't\", but let me quote her the words of the then shadow Chancellor, because the policy was clear: \"I have agreed with my Shadow Cabinet colleagues that the baseline for spending across all these departmental budgets, including local government, will be 0 per cent.\" Nothing could be clearer than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ncil tax had important advantages as a local tax and should be retained but reformed to help people on low incomes and to reduce the impact of revaluation. In the context of that, the House will be interested to compare the remarks of the hon. Member for Meriden today with her comment as recently as 2 March 2005 that \"a property-based tax must take account of changes in the value of the property\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "of interests, and key stakeholders have been encouraged to submit written evidence. I look forward to his report. I have a sneaking feeling that the minds of the drafters of both Opposition motions may be less on the finer points of the Lyons inquiry and more on their intense political rivalry for the vacant Cheadle seat. When the hon. Member for Meriden started talking about \"Bash the rat\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "As the Minister of Communities and Local Government suggested, it is a great pleasure in my debut on the Front Bench to be defending our party's most popular policy from Conservative attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "spected and is giving careful and thorough attention to the various issues. I am confident that he will produce a credible package of proposals, in line with the brief that he was given, as outlined by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Communities and Local Government. It is important that we await Sir Michael's findings before jumping to conclusions or advocating a particular course of action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ry well the hon. Lady shaking her head, but if the tax base were to be based on income rather than property, it would be narrowed. A greater burden would therefore fall on those people paying income tax, who are, on the whole, members of hard-working families. The Lyons review's remit is to consider whether an element of income tax could be used in balance with the existing property element—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.89.2", "colnum": "89", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "gulated? That is very new Labour—very fashionable circa 1997—but perhaps not in the spirit of the modern world. In the motion, I encourage the Government \"to table a programme for the UK Presidency of lesser and better regulation for the EU as a whole\". Surely they can assent to that very modest proposition. I wanted to include a list of all the regulations that we want repealed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.89.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.90.3", "colnum": "90", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has had his chance, and I am merely explaining our position, which is that the Government have regulated too much. That includes too much intrusive labour market regulation. As the hon. Gentleman tempts me on labour market regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.90.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "emely worried by that. What could we do? Several straightforward steps could be taken, by a deregulation Bill, which we in this House have been promised, and through the mechanism of the EU presidency, with the UK guiding the agenda with our partners in Europe on the regulations that fall from the Brussels printing presses. After all, the Government are undoubtedly good at one or two things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to suggest that we follow the American example and have a Warren commission to investigate the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.105.4", "colnum": "105", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "e smallest companies in the UK as a result. We have also committed ourselves to reducing £1 billion of the regulatory burdens on business arising from Department of Trade and Industry regulations over the lifetime of the DTI's five-year programme. We have reduced the payroll burdens for 1.2 million businesses by paying working tax credit direct to individuals rather than via employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": " not doubt that the common fisheries policy, like the common agricultural policy, could benefit from reform, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been successfully taking that forward. However, the right hon. Member for Wokingham talked about pulling out of the common fisheries policy, which could be done only by holding up one, if not two, fingers to the rest of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.110.4", "colnum": "110", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "ng programme to upgrade schools and colleges, put a proposition on the ballot paper for the state elections, and won overwhelming approval for the issue of a bond to raise the money. No such autonomy is available in this country. We have developed a dependency culture that enables local government always to blame central Government whenever it runs out of cash or is prevented from doing something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "035ae0fc2e6be827", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "imself and others as having two brains, but that assessment is called into question by his publicly stated desire to lead his party. Tonight, he should have used his two brains to help write two speeches for the Tory spokesmen. Without wishing to be unkind, the speech by the right hon. Member for Wokingham was a cut-and-paste assembly of stories from page 17 of various editions of the Daily Mail .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am decided and I have told the hon. Gentleman what I have decided. Unfortunately, I am in government and he is not—that is really the source of frustration. However, I am glad that he raised the matter, because when we consider what could possibly bring CND and Conservative Front Benchers together on defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (David T.C. Davies) has excellent eyesight, Mr. Speaker, and he has made the very astute observation that there are no Welsh Labour Members in the Chamber today. I wonder why that might be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": " Raynsford) , and remark that this particular debate on local government matters is unusual in that he is not speaking from the Front Bench. By the end, many may wish that he were, but I know that I speak for the whole House when I say that he was always the most courteous Minister. However naive or inane the question, he always tried to answer it fully. Anyone who believes in the health of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ons are usually a chance for the Opposition to attack the Government. It must be strange for her to feel that this time she is the Government, given that she was so often the subject of the speech of the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) . Listening to that speech, I began to feel that the two Opposition parties were becoming concerned about the fight for second rather than first place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "inable way forward for this important issue for our quality of life and the quality of our democracy. In that context, I have to tell the hon. Member for Meriden that it was disappointing that, after 27 minutes of her speech, she should turn to our proposals and then finish before the 28th minute had passed. I am sure that we shall get to hear the details of the Conservative party proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "5 per cent. of local revenue expenditure. Government grant accounts for about £48 billion and 53 per cent. of revenue expenditure. I urge those who decry that level of Government grant to remember that a smaller contribution from central Government means more from someone else. At the last election, the hon. Gentleman's party proposed to freeze grants to local government for two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "for two years— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) says, \"We didn't,\" but let me quote her the words of the then shadow Chancellor, because the policy was clear: \"I have agreed with my Shadow Cabinet colleagues that the baseline for spending across all these departmental budgets, including local government, will be 0 per cent.\" Nothing could be clearer than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.36.7", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but this £1 billion cost for inspection is completely erroneous. As I said to the hon. Lady, the figure is based on a local government information unit study that ascribed £400 million of savings to increased morale. I am happy to pursue the point, but I think that I should bring my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.36.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "l tax had important advantages as a local tax and should be retained but reformed to help people on low incomes and to reduce the impact of revaluation. In the context of that, the House will be interested to compare the remarks of the hon. Member for Meriden today with her comment, as recently as 2 March 2005 , that \"a property-based tax must take account of changes in the value of the property\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "of interests, and key stakeholders have been encouraged to submit written evidence. I look forward to his report. I have a sneaking feeling that the minds of the drafters of both Opposition motions may be less on the finer points of the Lyons inquiry and more on their intense political rivalry for the vacant Cheadle seat. When the hon. Member for Meriden started talking about \"Bash the rat\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "As the Minister of Communities and Local Government suggested, it is a great pleasure, in my debut on the Front Bench, to be defending our party's most popular policy from Conservative attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "That relates to a vote on Third Reading. We did not vote for revaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "spected and is giving careful and thorough attention to the various issues. I am confident that he will produce a credible package of proposals, in line with the brief that he was given, as outlined by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Communities and Local Government. It is important that we await Sir Michael's findings before jumping to conclusions or advocating a particular course of action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Alison Seabeck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Seabeck", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. I close by saying to my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government that I look forward to the review and report of Sir Michael Lyons and to the detailed consultation and debate that will, I am sure, take place in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": ";600. It is all very well the hon. Lady shaking her head, but if the tax base were based on income rather than property, it would be narrowed, a greater burden would fall on those people paying income tax, who are on the whole members of hard-working families. The Lyons review's remit is to consider whether an element of income tax could be used in balance with the existing property element—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.89.2", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "gulated? That is very new Labour—very fashionable circa 1997—but perhaps not in the spirit of the modern world. In the motion, I encourage the Government \"to table a programme for the UK Presidency of lesser and better regulation for the EU as a whole\". Surely they can assent to that very modest proposition. I wanted to include a list of all the regulations that we want repealed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.89.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.90.3", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has had his chance, and I am merely explaining our position, which is that the Government have regulated too much. That includes too much intrusive labour market regulation. As the hon. Gentleman tempts me on labour market regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.90.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.92.8", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "lation each year is £150 billion. Indeed, the very arresting headline said that regulation now costs everyone more than the Inland Revenue charged us all in income tax. It is a terrifying figure. Those who saw the article will know that it continued by pointing out that a team of about 80 officials are working away over a nine-month period to try to come up with an entirely accurate costing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.92.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "should be extremely worried by that. What could we do? Several straightforward steps could be taken, by a deregulation Bill, which we have been promised, and through the mechanism of the EU presidency, with the UK guiding the agenda with our partners in Europe on the regulations that fall from the Brussels printing presses. After all, the Government are undoubtedly good at one or two things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.95.2", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Three and a half thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that we have a complete imbalance in regulation? On the one hand we have some 5,000 deaths a year on the roads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.95.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.105.4", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "e smallest companies in the UK as a result. We have also committed ourselves to reducing £1 billion of the regulatory burdens on business arising from Department of Trade and Industry regulations over the lifetime of the DTI's five-year programme. We have reduced the payroll burdens for 1.2 million businesses by paying working tax credit direct to individuals rather than via employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": " not doubt that the common fisheries policy, like the common agricultural policy, could benefit from reform, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been successfully taking that forward. However, the right hon. Member for Wokingham talked about pulling out of the common fisheries policy, which could be done only by holding up one, if not two, fingers to the rest of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.110.4", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "ng programme to upgrade schools and colleges, put a proposition on the ballot paper for the state elections, and won overwhelming approval for the issue of a bond to raise the money. No such autonomy is available in this country. We have developed a dependency culture that enables local government always to blame central Government whenever it runs out of cash or is prevented from doing something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-04", "file": "debates2005-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "e91d90454e36bb40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Government Regulation", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "imself and others as having two brains, but that assessment is called into question by his publicly stated desire to lead his party. Tonight, he should have used his two brains to help write two speeches for the Tory spokesmen. Without wishing to be unkind, the speech by the right hon. Member for Wokingham was a cut-and-paste assembly of stories from page 17 of various editions of the Daily Mail .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-04b.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05.xml", "sha256": "5867ece633c398a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Horam", "preceding_text": "migration. There is no doubt that the question of the number of illegal immigrants is an important issue. I am particularly concerned by the Government's reprehensible attempt over a prolonged period to conceal the numbers, which has not enabled proper debate. Under the heading \"Liars and bullies\", The Sunday Times pointed out in last Sunday's leader that the Government attempted to conceal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05.xml", "sha256": "5867ece633c398a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Horam", "preceding_text": "erruption.] The Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality says that the article is wrong; he will doubtless address this point in his winding-up speech. The article pointed out that in the run-up to the general election, the Prime Minister denied that it was possible to estimate the number of illegal immigrants in this country. But we now know that such an estimate has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05.xml", "sha256": "5867ece633c398a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "G8 MEETING", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": " is exceedingly good fortune. On the subject of mystery hands, I should welcome my erstwhile hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Dr. Howells) , who is now a Foreign Office Minister, to his post. I good-naturedly remind him that while he now has access to my MI6 file, remembering him well as I do from our days on the barricades together, I have access to his file from King street, Covent Garden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Transport Innovation Fund", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman struck that tone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Transport Innovation Fund", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "man can say that he did not know what the transport innovation fund was for. True, the information was on page 134, perhaps requiring the reader to peruse the preceding 133 pages, but it was fairly clear. Similarly, in the opening paragraph of my statement today I made it clear that I wanted to talk about the innovation fund, and about how we were progressing with the national road pricing scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the Home Secretary for his generosity. I thought that he said something very useful this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "d be more than generous to the men concerned to accept that they genuinely had no idea about the true figure on the numerous occasions in the past that they had denied it. But ignorance of such an important fact should be no defence; it merely confirms people's suspicions that this Government have let the immigration and asylum system run out of control, and are clueless as to how to put it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Once again we see the Government's favourite mechanism, which is to blame the messenger. Only this Government would think that telling the truth is whipping up hysteria and only this particular former Minister for Europe would think that telling the truth about the real number of migrants is whipping up hysteria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "opt a points-based system for immigration, as they do in Australia. That is the biggest single thing that the Government could do to get a grip on the immigration system, while giving priority to people with the skills that Britain needs. We also promised to let Parliament put a limit on the number of people coming to the UK each year. That would ensure that we balanced the needs of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member for Doncaster, North has been getting so excited, I will give way to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Horam", "preceding_text": "migration. There is no doubt that the question of the number of illegal immigrants is an important issue. I am particularly concerned by the Government's reprehensible attempt over a prolonged period to conceal the numbers, which has not enabled proper debate. Under the heading \"Liars and bullies\", The Sunday Times pointed out in last Sunday's leader that the Government attempted to conceal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Horam", "preceding_text": "erruption.] The Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality says that the article is wrong; he will doubtless address this point in his winding-up speech. The article pointed out that in the run-up to the general election, the Prime Minister denied that it was possible to estimate the number of illegal immigrants in this country. But we now know that such an estimate has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "It is always a great pleasure to address a full House, and tonight is no exception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "It is as though I am in a dream. Every time that I speak in an asylum debate, I spend five minutes paying huge compliments to the hon. Gentleman about his tremendous speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress; this is not just a debate between the hon. Member for Leicester, East and me. As for the policy of dealing with claims offshore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "G8 MEETING", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": " is exceedingly good fortune. On the subject of mystery hands, I should welcome my erstwhile hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Dr. Howells) , who is now a Foreign Office Minister, to his post. I good-naturedly remind him that while he now has access to my MI6 file, remembering him well as I do from our days on the barricades together, I have access to his file from King street, Covent Garden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-05", "file": "debates2005-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "84fa500af34e1080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "G8 MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "I have a few minutes to go. The great problem with the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-05a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06.xml", "sha256": "bf5882b288292fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Any volunteers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ats, polling a total of less than 300 votes in all four. If she had died, Cardiff would not have been represented in the House at all—and I remember the day, in 1974, when the Government had an overall majority of four. Colleagues should reflect briefly on the consequences of such an action. And what if a single candidate stood against every Member for the Cabinet and then committed suicide?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.308.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06.xml", "sha256": "bf5882b288292fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "or malevolent people. I am most anxious that, before the next general election, we should have tidied up the law. What I am proposing is a partial repeal of that worst of all laws—the law of unintended consequences. I very much hope that all Members on both sides of the House will feel able to join me and my distinguished sponsors and give the measure a fair wind. Question put and agreed to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06.xml", "sha256": "bf5882b288292fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "le for any Government to require people to go through certain steps to ensure that the estate with which they are dealing should go through the excepted estates procedure, rather than the full inheritance tax procedure. That is all that is happening. I find it odd that the Conservatives did not struggle with this point last year, because all these procedures were in last year's Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06.xml", "sha256": "bf5882b288292fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "good people who can elect to escape from at least the economic effects of the arrangements that have been put in place. The Paymaster General reiterated my words in using the phrase \"unintended consequences\". I have not clearly understood from her remarks that those in this group of approximately 30,000 people, for whom it is not appropriate to use the route of an election, are the products—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06.xml", "sha256": "bf5882b288292fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Reid", "preceding_text": "il prices are clearly causing a serious problem in rural areas, especially in the islands where the price of petrol at the pumps is horrendous. Unfortunately, however, I do not think that the new clause will tackle the problem. When the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie) proposed it, he admitted that it was less than perfect. I think that was SNP speak for \"It won't actually work\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.285.5", "colnum": "285", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, as you know, my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister is unable to be present at Deputy Prime Minister questions today, as he will be representing my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at Prime Minister's questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.285.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.286.7", "colnum": "286", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, perhaps because most architects are men, toilets provided for men and women tend to be about the same size, even though women's needs are greater? Research by Cornell university has shown that the average man spends 45 seconds in a convenience, and the average woman 80 seconds. Does he agree that it is a scandal that insufficient provision is made for women?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.286.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "I believe that it is only courteous to the House to declare that I have an interest in this matter as my husband is the leader of a county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point about fraud and corruption. The President of the Commission recently announced that he intends to investigate those matters further and deal with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. and learned Gentleman to the first time since the election that Prime Minister's questions have been taken by the deputies. He will recall that I told him that the election would be on 5 May , something that he received with great hilarity. I also told him that we would win the election. We did. Handsomely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I agree that Blackpool needs a great deal of regeneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.296.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " speech last night that the Conservatives as a party lacked character, coherence and context. Well, he is spot on there. I have been telling him that for years. If he stands, that makes 11 candidates so far, some of them on the Front Bench. There might be more—perhaps we could find out. Can he help the country by asking those who intend to be candidates in the election to put their hands up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Prime Minister, three weeks ago the Prime Minister was asked to meet a delegation about the underfunding of police in Northamptonshire, which has continued for a considerable number of years. He did not answer. My grandmother always said, \"Never trust a man who doesn't give a straight answer.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked me at least two questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Representation of the People (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Any volunteers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ats, polling a total of less than 300 votes in all four. If she had died, Cardiff would not have been represented in the House at all—and I remember the day, in 1974, when the Government had an overall majority of four. Colleagues should reflect briefly on the consequences of such an action. And what if a single candidate stood against every Member for the Cabinet and then committed suicide?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.310.6", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ch by disapplying regulations 6 to 10, dispensing with the requirement for returns altogether. The regulations that the new clauses amend make provision in relation to the delivery of accounts and other information for inheritance tax purposes. As is often the case, the 2004 regulations were presented as a deregulatory measure—and to some extent they are. Prior to the 2004 regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Please forgive me for interrupting the hon. Gentleman, but I am sure that he would like to know that the successful bid for the Olympics is London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I associate the Opposition with the right hon. Lady's remarks and pay tribute to everybody who has worked so hard to ensure that this bid was successful? I pay tribute in particular to my noble Friend the Lord Coe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "le for any Government to require people to go through certain steps to ensure that the estate with which they are dealing should go through the excepted estates procedure, rather than the full inheritance tax procedure. That is all that is happening. I find it odd that the Conservatives did not struggle with this point last year, because all these procedures were in last year's Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "or two Ministers have realised in previous debates. The Lords cannot currently alter a money Bill and I am not seeking to go down that path. It was intriguing, however, to see the establishment last year of a Sub-Committee to look at administrative aspects of the Finance Bill. Its remit may be narrow, but we may wish to build on that. I accept the sovereignty of the Commons in matters of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "good people who can elect to escape from at least the economic effects of the arrangements that have been put in place. The Paymaster General reiterated my words in using the phrase \"unintended consequences\". I have not clearly understood from her remarks that those in this group of approximately 30,000 people, for whom it is not appropriate to use the route of an election, are the products—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Reid", "preceding_text": "il prices are clearly causing a serious problem in rural areas, especially in the islands where the price of petrol at the pumps is horrendous. Unfortunately, however, I do not think that the new clause will tackle the problem. When the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie) proposed it, he admitted that it was less than perfect. I think that was SNP speak for \"It won't actually work\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Reid", "preceding_text": "The problem is that the hon. Gentleman has tried to word the new clause so that it covers all circumstances, but he has failed. The new clause is unworkable. It would be much more sensible to have flexibility, so that the Chancellor can act, I hope sensibly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "We have had an interesting debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "appalling, irresponsible and gratuitously offensive. The argument is that we are suggesting that this process, about which we have heard in three successive Budgets, should suddenly become terribly quick, and that it is quite wrong to deal with it rapidly. The Government have had a number of years in which to consider this issue. There have been representations from the investment community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "y, because this issue has not been resolved, money is going offshore instead of coming into this country. However, it has been resolved perfectly satisfactorily in a number of foreign jurisdictions. I should point out that it is not a case of officials doing an outstanding job and the Treasury being at fault; it is Ministers themselves who are procrastinating and who cannot get their act together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.413.5", "colnum": "413", "heading": "London 2012 Olympic Bid", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "On behalf of the Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru, I warmly welcome the news, and congratulate London on its successful bid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.413.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-06", "file": "debates2005-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeb840e43a0b71eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "London 2012 Olympic Bid", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made the very important admission that he was born in London. The parliamentary guide says only that he was born.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-06a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-07", "file": "debates2005-07-07.xml", "sha256": "f4a59a992cb7d2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07.542.4", "colnum": "542", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I remind all hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07.542.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-07", "file": "debates2005-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1f63bbf8ce69c13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "May I begin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-07", "file": "debates2005-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1f63bbf8ce69c13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "The fleet is going down to 25 ships. Spending a fortune on replacing the boats—the terminology for the submarines—will have implications for the Royal Navy budget. I want to end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-07", "file": "debates2005-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1f63bbf8ce69c13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "position that it is more or less right. I take it that that means that it is not right. I have never uttered any such words. The words that I am speaking now are my words. If the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning) would care to listen, he can disagree with me, but he should not attempt to put into my mouth words that I have never spoken. Madam Deputy Speaker, I ask for your protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-07", "file": "debates2005-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1f63bbf8ce69c13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "t post-conflict stabilisation in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans. In Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence supports Afghan defence reform, demobilisation and disarmament. That work is complemented by DFID and FCO-led programmes for reintegrating its competence and reforming the police. Does the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham believe that that is a place where our commitment is worth while?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-07", "file": "debates2005-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "1f63bbf8ce69c13c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.542.3", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I remind all hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-07a.542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11.xml", "sha256": "7ee8c9191ac705de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"One a week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " developed. I hope that, through the dialogue, we will secure a report on the action plan from Gleneagles—that is obviously important—as well as exchanges of information leading eventually, I hope, to an agreement on technology transfer between the United States, the other wealthy countries, and China and India. China is building power stations at the rate of—I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11.xml", "sha256": "7ee8c9191ac705de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "lia, under which people report complaints to the Equal Opportunities Commission. However, a different system will apply here. The new clause reassures the preachers who my hon. Friend mentioned. It will send out the clear message that there can be no messing about. People will not have the power to make a citizen's arrest for the offence because that will be entirely a matter for the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11.xml", "sha256": "7ee8c9191ac705de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with any of the points that the hon. Gentleman makes and I do not understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "s and give us examples. To date, three months on, not one word has been heard from the CCPR. People cannot start to challenge us unless they have the evidence. We have met the CCPR. The right hon. Lady quotes the CCPR saying that we are crippling amateur sports clubs. We have given the CCPR an opportunity. We have had meetings with the CCPR. We have challenged it to come forward with the evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": " not one word has been heard from the CCPR. People cannot start to challenge us unless they have the evidence. We have met the CCPR. The right hon. Lady quotes the CCPR saying that we are crippling amateur sports clubs. We have given the CCPR an opportunity. We have had meetings with the CCPR. We have challenged it to come forward with the evidence. [Interruption.] Will the right hon. Lady listen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.562.7", "colnum": "562", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I have not had an opportunity before now to welcome the hon. Gentleman to the House. I gladly do so now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.562.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "London Attacks", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "te our feelings strongly. We express our revulsion at this murderous carnage of the innocent. We send our deep and abiding sympathy and prayers to the victims and their families. We are united in our determination that our country will not be defeated by such terror, but will defeat it and emerge from this horror with our values, our way of life, our tolerance and respect for others, undiminished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "London Attacks", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " and prayers to the victims and their families. We are united in our determination that our country will not be defeated by such terror, but will defeat it and emerge from this horror with our values, our way of life, our tolerance and respect for others, undiminished. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] I should also like us to record our heartfelt thanks to, and admiration for, our emergency services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "G8", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"One a week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " developed. I hope that, through the dialogue, we will secure a report on the action plan from Gleneagles—that is obviously important—as well as exchanges of information leading eventually, I hope, to an agreement on technology transfer between the United States, the other wealthy countries, and China and India. China is building power stations at the rate of—I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "G8", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's standing up reminds me of one thing that I omitted to do in my statement that I should have done: to thank the people of the area around Gleneagles for putting up with so much irritation and discomfort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "raised in Committee whether the Bill would provide protection for what were broadly referred to as white Muslims. I have to say that I accept now as I did in Committee that that is very much the case. In order to justify a measure of this nature, I have to tell the Minister that I would need to be persuaded that there was a significant and pressing problem. I have not yet seen such evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": " reservations, because it is pretty obvious that I strongly support the Bill and think that it is necessary. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not consider it offensive if I say this, but although I could be wrong, I think that I remember his late father, who was a distinguished Member of the House, criticising the measure about which I have already spoken, so perhaps he is following his father.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with any of the points that the hon. Gentleman makes and I do not understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-11", "file": "debates2005-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "4271d34d876c6043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.648.6", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is disgraceful, as the hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position. Lord Lester had a hand in much of our anti-racism legislation, for which I respect him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-11a.648.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12.xml", "sha256": "e107da5a8b420b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "No, I do not, and such advice should not be given, but I say to the shadow Chancellor what I said to the hon. Member for Dundee, East. If he brings to my attention the detail of such calls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12.xml", "sha256": "e107da5a8b420b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "but given the uncertainty over the ombudsman's other recommendations, I shall not be surprised if the Paymaster General tells us that she has not actually reached a settled decision on any of the issues and that she intends to publish a letter responding to the ombudsman's report at some unknown stage over the next few weeks. However, if we could have some clarification I should be grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12.xml", "sha256": "e107da5a8b420b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "iding by the guidance issued by the Department, only recently started to be slightly more flexible about whether they can accept application forms in the wrong colour ink? Many application forms have been rejected because they are in the wrong red ink. At long last, the Department has said that local authorities should forget the guidance that it issued, and that it was perhaps a bit over-the-top.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12.xml", "sha256": "e107da5a8b420b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12.801.2", "colnum": "801", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ur drinking is nothing short of madness.\" And on 8 June , he said: \"Given that a lot of violent crime is caused by binge drinking, it beggars belief that the Government are going ahead with 24-hour opening\". How can Opposition spokesmen say that there is no disagreement about 24-hour opening? They ought to get their act together. As for the comments of the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12.801.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We will leave that question alone. I call David Burrowes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "nts myself, I certainly intend to ensure that we—as holder of the presidency of the European Union for six months and, separately, as representative of the United Kingdom's interests—secure the implementation of the directive, which has now been upheld by the European Court of Justice, in a sensible and light-touch manner so that users and the public here in Britain can continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.704.6", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Unless the hon. Gentleman has read the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.704.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor has created. How did we get into this mess? We all know that the introduction of tax credits in 2003 was shambolic. No one who was an MP at the time is likely to forget that. Hundreds of thousands of families were left without the financial support on which they relied. At the height of the crisis, there were 1.7 million attempts in a single day to contact the Revenue helpline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "No, I do not, and such advice should not be given, but I say to the shadow Chancellor what I said to the hon. Member for Dundee, East—if he brings to my attention the detail of such calls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, all the ombudsman's recommendations are currently under discussion. In due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "but given the uncertainty over the ombudsman's other recommendations, I shall not be surprised if the Paymaster General tells us that she has not actually reached a settled decision on any of the issues and that she intends to publish a letter responding to the ombudsman's report at some unknown stage over the next few weeks. However, if we could have some clarification I should be grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.760.4", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "For the third time in her speech, my right hon. Friend has correctly cited a list of organisations that are deeply and seriously affected by the Act as implemented. I have a sheaf of letters from village halls and parish councils in my constituency that endorse everything that she said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.760.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.760.4", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "eeply and seriously affected by the Act as implemented. I have a sheaf of letters from village halls and parish councils in my constituency that endorse everything that she said— [Interruption.] I shall happily take the Minister for Sport and Tourism through the letters one by one if he doubts me, because he would be shocked by what he found in them. Can my right hon. Friend assure me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.760.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "On effort, I commend to the right hon. Lady one of my two local authorities, Salford, which has got around the problems that she raises by doing the simple things that a local authority should do in such circumstances. It has run workshops, given advice and sent out letters to prompt applications. That is not difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " two weeks ago, he said: \"The light at the end of tunnel is that they can know that they will never have to apply for a licence again\". My version of never having to apply again is clearly not the same as Ministers'. My \"never having to apply\" means exactly that. The reality is, however, that organisations will have to renew their licence every year at the cost of between £40 and £225.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.769.4", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "We still do not know what the right hon. Lady's views are on flexible hours. Through the Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.769.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "e knows, one of the most successful bands in the world but which has only two members—could turn up in a local pub and put on a concert for thousands of people. Our very own MP4—a band with growing support in all our constituencies—would not be able to perform unless the pub had obtained a special licence for them. The band has a slightly smaller fan base than the White Stripes .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": ";could turn up in a local pub and put on a concert for thousands of people. Our very own MP4—a band with growing support in all our constituencies—would not be able to perform unless the pub had obtained a special licence for them. The band has a slightly smaller fan base than the White Stripes . [Interruption.] At the moment—perhaps one day it will be headlining at Glastonbury .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "iding by the guidance issued by the Department, only recently started to be slightly more flexible about whether they can accept application forms in the wrong colour ink? Many application forms have been rejected because they are in the wrong red ink. At long last, the Department has said that local authorities should forget the guidance that it issued, and that it was perhaps a bit over the top.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "John Grogan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Grogan", "preceding_text": "have to leave as the Member of Parliament because it will be legal for well-run premises to stay open that late. As chairman of the all-party group on beer, it is almost worth throwing a party to celebrate that day when it comes. I noticed two different approaches from the Opposition parties. The Liberal Democrats took a fundamental approach. Unlike some of my colleagues, I like Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "When licensing and entertainment are on the agenda, we always have a lively debate. We have certainly had one this evening. There is broad consensus that the objectives of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-12", "file": "debates2005-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4b0c0ff318c8609f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.801.2", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Licensing Act 2003", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ur drinking is nothing short of madness.\" And on 8 June , he said: \"Given that a lot of violent crime is caused by binge drinking, it beggars belief that the Government are going ahead with 24-hour opening\". How can Opposition spokesmen say that there is no disagreement about 24-hour opening? They ought to get their act together. As for the comments of the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-12a.801.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13.xml", "sha256": "aead947ac3fb7cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "rade unions in the 1960s, we are introducing incremental salary scales to reflect length of service in the House. That is wrong, and I shall join my Friend the Member for Thurrock in the Lobby to vote against the proposal. Finally, I have always believed that the real Stakhanovites on the Chairmen's Panel would sit through Committees that last for weeks and months, keeping everyone in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.824.6", "colnum": "824", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "e end criminal and paramilitary activity. I pay tribute to the McCartney sisters and their courageous behaviour in Belfast. We must end the murders, the shootings and the beatings, which are not acceptable in a democratic society. It is our duty to try to reintroduce devolved Government, which is both our objective and the purpose of discussions that take place in Government every day of the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.824.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tory\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Of course I value special schools. The question of whether to close a particular school or how to make such provision is decided through the local authority, and I assume that the hon. Gentleman's local authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.831.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Lee Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Scott", "preceding_text": "The residents of Ilford, North and Redbridge will be disappointed by that answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.844.2", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Committees — Administration Committee", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I was at pains to try to ensure that the terms of reference of the new unified Committee reflected the terms of reference of the Domestic Committees. Having not had my current responsibilities during the period in which those Committees existed, I cannot tell the House whether the motion precisely reflects the previous situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.844.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Committees — Administration Committee", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to debate with my hon. Friend the principle, which has previously been established on the basis that there should be an alternative career route for Members who choose not to become Ministers or prefer to serve the House in different ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Committees — Administration Committee", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "the House at last week's business questions. Following the successful bid for the 2012 Olympics—I have spoken to other Members about this issue since, and I know that a number of them agree with my view—there is substantial merit in setting up a special Select Committee to deal with the Olympic preparations. The Australian Parliament did so in preparation for the Sydney Olympics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Committees — Administration Committee", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "rade unions in the 1960s, we are introducing incremental salary scales to reflect length of service in the House. That is wrong, and I shall join my Friend the Member for Thurrock in the Lobby to vote against the proposal. Finally, I have always believed that the real Stakhanovites on the Chairmen's Panel would sit through Committees that last for weeks and months, keeping everyone in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Committees — Administration Committee", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "p of the International Development Committee than if they were thoroughly to brass me off by denying me that membership. I must say to my right hon. Friend, who has never been a lackey at any time, that I made it clear all along to my right hon. Friend the Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin) , the deputy Chief Whip, who is sadly not in his place—if he were, he would be visible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-13", "file": "debates2005-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e1dfc72933229d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Committees — Administration Committee", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "mused by my question, and said that if he told me how Labour did it I might be prepared to tell him how the Opposition did it. Actually, it was a deadly serious question. I was in no sense casting aspersions; I was not even being cynical. All I wanted to know was how the parliamentary Labour party goes about the process. I have not been invited to a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-13a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14.xml", "sha256": "dd9db0227a77f867", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14.994.4", "colnum": "994", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I have spoken with Which? , but I cannot, in all honesty, rattle off a list of consumer organisations that endorsed the particular wording. I have carefully considered it and, for what it is worth, I am lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14.994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "550ff1f53863746a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for your kindness. Can the Secretary of State reassure Lethbridge primary school that its revenue budget will allow it to make provisions for two hours' physical exercise and all the other initiatives that the Department is asking for, as well as the incredible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "550ff1f53863746a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend on the work that he has done in pursuing the case of Worcestershire, along with others in the F40 group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "550ff1f53863746a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.953.4", "colnum": "953", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Janet Dean", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Dean", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. As we approach the end of the school year, I should like to pay tribute to all our teachers for the hard work that they are undertaking to achieve those results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.953.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "550ff1f53863746a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate in Government time on the proliferation of mobile phone masts, particularly next generation masts, which are springing up right across the country? The public are deeply concerned about the health implications and have not been reassured by the Stewart report. We need a major debate on the Floor of the House about this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "550ff1f53863746a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.994.4", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I have spoken with Which? , but I cannot, in all honesty, rattle off a list of consumer organisations that endorsed the particular wording. I have carefully considered it and, for what it is worth, I am a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "550ff1f53863746a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I accept that there has been no endorsement of the specific wording, but I am aware of no consumer organisation that objects to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "550ff1f53863746a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "all the sorting out to the courts. That means that we will have to wait years. It will take many years for cases to be brought to court, go through all the appeals processes and the rest of it. It will also cost a phenomenal amount of money. As was said earlier, the only people to benefit are the lawyers. It could not have been the hon. Member for North Norfolk who said it, because he is a lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-14", "file": "debates2005-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "550ff1f53863746a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I will not speak for long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-14a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-18", "file": "debates2005-07-18.xml", "sha256": "864451bff7a29a1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " the Opposition Benches as potential successors, that he is likely to remain the only Tory leader to conduct at the Royal Albert hall and win the Sydney to Hobart yacht race during their time in the post. Ted Heath's time as Opposition leader is perhaps best known for sacking Enoch Powell, a decision that required great political courage, and for appointing Margaret Thatcher to the shadow Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-18", "file": "debates2005-07-18.xml", "sha256": "864451bff7a29a1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ieved in, or from putting passionately the case for Europe. Ted was very blunt in his manner, though once you got to know him he was very kind. I remember that I first met him at a parliamentary reception in the mid-1980s shortly after I became a Member of this House. He said, \"Are you an MP?\" \"Yes\", I said. \"Which party?\" \"Labour\", I said. \"Well, you don't look like it or sound like it\", he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-18", "file": "debates2005-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "11f8333edbfb331b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1056.4", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "transparency and clarity in making the figures more realistic and more honest. Although the figures have been readjusted to conform with reality rather than sampling, the downwards trend and the 29,000 reduction in recipients remain the same. Secondly, I will not publish the Green Paper today, tomorrow or on Wednesday. We have concluded that we must properly assess the situation in 10 weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1056.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-18", "file": "debates2005-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "11f8333edbfb331b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1060.4", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "We are constantly reviewing the limits that enable people to do some work while retaining their full benefits, to have regard to changes in work rates and inflation. It is important for many disabled people who have been locked into benefit dependency for a long time to enjoy the opportunity of a few hours in work as they move into proper paid jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1060.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-18", "file": "debates2005-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "11f8333edbfb331b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I am still trying to find the question rather than the statement in that, but I took the first element of the statement as being that doctors occasionally get things wrong. Well, yes they do, but so do we all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-18", "file": "debates2005-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "11f8333edbfb331b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Heath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-18", "file": "debates2005-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "11f8333edbfb331b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "SIR EDWARD HEATH KG MBE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " the Opposition Benches as potential successors, that he is likely to remain the only Tory leader to conduct at the Royal Albert hall and win the Sydney to Hobart yacht race during their time in the post. Ted Heath's time as Opposition leader is perhaps best known for sacking Enoch Powell, a decision that required great political courage, and for appointing Margaret Thatcher to the shadow Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-18", "file": "debates2005-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "11f8333edbfb331b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "SIR EDWARD HEATH KG MBE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ieved in, or from putting passionately the case for Europe. Ted was very blunt in his manner, though once you got to know him he was very kind. I remember that I first met him at a parliamentary reception in the mid-1980s shortly after I became a Member of this House. He said, \"Are you an MP?\" \"Yes\", I said. \"Which party?\" \"Labour\", I said. \"Well, you don't look like it or sound like it\", he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-18a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19.xml", "sha256": "afb8329a6bb3bbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19.1141.2", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "hat the likely completion date for Crossrail is 2013—if one allows a couple of years for slippage, it is 2015—and the Olympics will take place in 2012. If the hybrid Bill process is completed in both Houses in two years' time and the Bill is enacted, will significant construction get under way before the Olympics? I hope that the Minister answers that question in his winding-up speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19.1141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19.xml", "sha256": "afb8329a6bb3bbd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19.1214.2", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No you have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have made the position very clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19.1214.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1094.5", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "May I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for all the work that he has done and will continue to do in helping to encourage Balkan countries into the European Union, as well as much else? I did not see the piece in The Guardian yesterday. I apologise to the editor for not reading his newspaper from cover to cover yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1094.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1096.3", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "May I encourage the Minister to take my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Bob Russell) to the Kurdish areas of Turkey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1096.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman was paying attention to what my right hon. Friend the Minister for Europe said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1101.7", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "A sad replacement, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1101.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "to imply that the answer is some kind of military intervention. I know of no military plan that could possibly work in respect of Zimbabwe. Moreover, this was emphatically ruled out by the former Conservative shadow Foreign Secretary, the right hon. and learned Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) , when he wrote to me back in October 2002, saying that he had not called for military action in Zimbabwe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1119.7", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is the fourth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "er projects to which we are committed. It is no good doing a Boston and digging up the whole of London because of Crossrail when we are trying to fulfil commitments in the east end and in south-east London, where I live. The second substantive point is, therefore, a request to the Government to give the Committee the job of examining the logical questions on the Order Paper. The third point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1119.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1127.5", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crossrail Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we have yet reached the stage where Conservative policy is exactly the same as ours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1141.2", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crossrail Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "hat the likely completion date for Crossrail is 2013—if one allows a couple of years for slippage, it is 2015—and the Olympics will take place in 2012. If the hybrid Bill process is completed in both Houses in two years' time and the Bill is enacted, will significant construction get under way before the Olympics? I hope that the Minister answers that question in his winding-up speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crossrail Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Reading, East (Mr. Wilson) and the hon. Member for Reading, West (Martin Salter) . The hon. Gentleman earlier made an unkind reference to Maidenhead when he said that rail passengers could not connect to anywhere from the town. It is true that there are not many places to connect to from Maidenhead, but one can connect to Cookham, Furze Platt, Marlow and Bourne End—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-19", "file": "debates2005-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "17c22264d054fbe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1214.2", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Crossrail Bill", "cue_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, you have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have made the position very clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-19a.1214.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "a39fd2d53ab74470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is it going?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hat is the procedure with which I think we all agree. I understand that the proposals for Evesham community hospital are at an early stage and I expect that the PCT will take into account all representations, including the hon. Gentleman's, before taking any decisions. However, it is worth highlighting something that he implied, which is that there has been a substantial increase in funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "a39fd2d53ab74470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to bring the House up to date with developments since my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made his statement to the House on Monday 11 July —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "a39fd2d53ab74470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "eton, Huntingdonshire, Mid-Bedfordshire, North Dorset and Runnymede—at the levels we proposed on 23 March . We have set a maximum budget for South Cambridgeshire that is £1 million higher than the originally proposed cap, in order to allow the authority time to reduce its over-reliance on reserves. We have decided to cancel Sedgemoor's designation and to nominate the authority instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "a39fd2d53ab74470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You'll be lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "us all time and trouble by popping down to Aylesbury Vale and buying all the good voters a pint; then we could all go home. That would be a lot cheaper than going through the rigmarole of laying an order, voting on it and asking councils to re-bill. We seem to be engaged in the most ridiculous process that I have ever seen, and I hope that I do not see anything more ridiculous in my time as an MP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "a39fd2d53ab74470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "vative Front-Bench spokesman pointed out, Oldham will have a very large council tax increase—£53.75 on the band D rate has been proposed—compared with the increases of about £12 that have been set by the councils affected by the order. Capping them seems utterly ridiculous. Far be it from me to accuse the Minister of macho posturing when he is not much taller than me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "a39fd2d53ab74470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "I wish to raise, as a London Member, is that of the Olympics coming to London in 2012. Hon. Members will be aware that we had been due to debate the London Olympics Bill today until the sad news on Sunday of the death of Sir Edward Heath. I never had a great deal to do with Sir Edward, but he was always immensely kind and considerate to me, as I am sure he was to everyone else who came across him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "a39fd2d53ab74470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1364.0", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to hon. Members for cutting their speeches, and I will do likewise to ensure that my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands) is able to participate. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Cambridgeshire (Mr. Vara) on his tremendous maiden speech. My maiden speech was rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20a.1364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "As we all know, politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before I call the next question, I must call for order in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is it going?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hat is the procedure with which I think we all agree. I understand that the proposals for Evesham community hospital are at an early stage and I expect that the PCT will take into account all representations, including the hon. Gentleman's, before taking any decisions. However, it is worth highlighting something that he implied, which is that there has been a substantial increase in funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. It is true that we keep that under constant review, but it is important to point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "eton, Huntingdonshire, Mid-Bedfordshire, North Dorset and Runnymede—at the levels we proposed on 23 March . We have set a maximum budget for South Cambridgeshire that is £1 million higher than the originally proposed cap, in order to allow the authority time to reduce its over-reliance on reserves. We have decided to cancel Sedgemoor's designation and to nominate the authority instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1279.2", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has made a very strong case on behalf of her area on this issue, and in respect of other difficulties that it has suffered in recent times. I should perhaps take advice from those hon. Gentlemen who are about to instruct Hansard to insert laughter, but I must say that there is no party political element in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1279.2", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "tantial point made by the hon. Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) , but let me cite two reasons for our decision. One is that we have to start from where we are. It is the excessiveness that is at issue, as specified under the legislation, and I am rightly obliged to follow up what that legislation specifies. It is the excessiveness involved in moving from A to B that matters. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman, who is among the most courteous Members of the House and a champion of his constituency. I recognise that what he says today is spoken on behalf of his constituency. The House will notice that no Member who has intervened so far, apart perhaps from my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Betts) , has disagreed with the principle of capping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Well, my preparations for this debate have just proved to be accurate in this regard, because if we can have a statement from the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman to say that his party would rule out any form of capping—universal, crude, targeted or otherwise—that would be interesting to hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1281.5", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "rms of 7 per cent. in the four years before 1997. The financial regime and the financial climate for local authorities has changed substantially. In that context, local authorities have to look long and hard before proposing significant council tax increases. If central Government were to propose significant or, indeed, any increases in other taxation policy, Opposition Members would not be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1281.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You'll be lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "us all time and trouble by popping down to Aylesbury Vale and buying all the good voters a pint; then we could all go home. That would be a lot cheaper than going through the rigmarole of laying an order, voting on it and asking councils to re-bill. We seem to be engaged in the most ridiculous process that I have ever seen, and I hope that I do not see anything more ridiculous in my time as an MP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "vative Front-Bench spokesman pointed out, Oldham will have a very large council tax increase—£53.75 on the band D rate has been proposed—compared with the increases of about £12 that have been set by the councils affected by the order. Capping them seems utterly ridiculous. Far be it from me to accuse the Minister of macho posturing when he is not much taller than me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "As you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am new to this House. I have been told that the new Minister, who is currently leaning backwards over the Front Bench, is a good guy, that he will be all right and that he can be relied on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1334.0", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "ve been present for all House of Commons stages. I have to say that, if this is what to expect, passing law is a somewhat more painless and quicker process than I was previously led to believe. I take note of the Minister's comments about the Bill's passage possibly being a record. I certainly do not intend to go on for long and threaten any speed records for legislation passing through the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "I wish to raise, as a London Member, is that of the Olympics coming to London in 2012. Hon. Members will be aware that we had been due to debate the London Olympics Bill today until the sad news on Sunday of the death of Sir Edward Heath. I never had a great deal to do with Sir Edward, but he was always immensely kind and considerate to me, as I am sure he was to everyone else who came across him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-20", "file": "debates2005-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "0d9f990fb57f6594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1364.0", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to hon. Members for cutting their speeches, and I will do likewise to ensure that my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands) is able to participate. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Cambridgeshire (Mr. Vara) on his tremendous maiden speech. My maiden speech was rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-20b.1364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome the fact that the Secretary of State wants a serious debate on the security of energy supply. At the previous DTI questions, however, does he recall saying that he had only been in the job for five weeks? We can understand why he is feeling a little overwhelmed by what his predecessors have left in his in-tray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1403.2", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": " also based at RAF Honington, and 26 Squadron based at RAF Waddington, will disband by March 2008. This phased programme will allow the Royal Regiment of Artillery to take over the pan-GBAD role. The RAF Regiment will now focus on its role protecting other elements of the armed forces particularly on deployment. As part of those changes, both 3 Squadron RAF Regiment, based at RAF Aldergrove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1403.2", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "e the impact on the people affected by these announcements. Our current plans envisage that the majority of reductions will be achieved through a combination of natural wastage and voluntary early release, but some compulsory redundancies may prove necessary. Staff and the trade unions are being kept fully informed of developments through meetings, briefings and formal consultation. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "ouncement. At present it is for consultation. I can assure him that I will happily meet him and any colleagues whom he would like to bring to a meeting, so that we can explore how to co-operate to give assistance to his constituents. I apologise to the House for my failure in my opening remarks to refer to the fact that I am responding this morning, not my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "ympics, and I add my congratulations to those offered to Lord Coe and his team and, indeed, to the Government. As one who participated in the debate to persuade the Secretary of State that perhaps we ought to back the Olympic bid, I am delighted that London and the UK have secured it. There has been a great transformation, in that the Scottish National party also welcomes the successful bid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady will give me a second so that I can finish my sentence, I will be happy to go away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": " it is important to make sure that every community is involved. Given some of the difficulties that some communities are facing at the moment, this is a good time to stretch out the hand of friendship to them, and to make sure that they are part of the plans in the lead-up to the Olympics and Paralympics. Several Members have started to put forward their constituencies as possible training venues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "al people have been frustrated to see, but have accepted, put on hold as we bid for the games. We will see important environmental improvements to those football pitches and elsewhere. We will see access to about 5,000 new homes, many of which will be affordable and welcome to my constituents. Critically, for Hackney as a whole, we will see the delivery of the East London line extensions, at last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ank all those who were involved in the bid. All of us, from the bidding team right through to those of us who have been involved in this in the Government, have been given a fantastic opportunity to present this nation in the best light. Many thought we could not do it. But the Secretary of State and I never doubted it, even though one or two of our colleagues in the Cabinet did from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "313eeccd48e5f216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1509.2", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "ugh villages that already struggle to cope with the overspill of traffic from the massively blocked A1, which peaks during the morning and evening rush hours. The response from drivers will be to use rat runs around the local villages to avoid the A692. Unfortunately, those roads will lead cars into more congestion as they work their way through busy villages and past a large comprehensive school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21a.1509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome the fact that the Secretary of State wants a serious debate on the security of energy supply. At the previous DTI questions, however, does he recall saying that he had only been in the job for five weeks? We can understand why he is feeling a little overwhelmed by what his predecessors have left in his in-tray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "propriate to try to pull rabbits out of the hat; rather, we must work continually with the industry to improve the situation. We live in a challenging environment and we do not like the fact that we lost some 81,000 manufacturing jobs last year, but that pales in comparison with the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s. Some 673,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in 1981, and 422,000 were lost in 1991.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Hon. Mems: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "That is precisely why I am asking the Government to step in. We are talking about peanuts—£2.5 million. We have fewer than 10 deep mines in this country, and that is a real problem. I know that the Minister is extremely perceptive and intelligent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1403.2", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": " also based at RAF Honington, and 26 Squadron based at RAF Waddington, will disband by March 2008. This phased programme will allow the Royal Regiment of Artillery to take over the pan-GBAD role. The RAF Regiment will now focus on its role protecting other elements of the armed forces particularly on deployment. As part of those changes, both 3 Squadron RAF Regiment, based at RAF Aldergrove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1403.2", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "e the impact on the people affected by these announcements. Our current plans envisage that the majority of reductions will be achieved through a combination of natural wastage and voluntary early release, but some compulsory redundancies may prove necessary. Staff and the trade unions are being kept fully informed of developments through meetings, briefings and formal consultation. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": " announcement. At present it is for consultation. I assure him that I will happily meet him and any colleagues whom he would like to bring to a meeting, so that we can explore how to co-operate to give assistance to his constituents. I apologise to the House for my failure in my opening remarks to refer to the fact that I am responding this morning, not my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "t the meat on the bone of information that had already been given to them to a large extent. There has been no attempt on the Government's part to prevent everyone from having the appropriate and required information. On the hon. Gentleman's point about me personally, I do not feel that I am being sent here to do the Secretary of State's job. He is well able to defend himself in any circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1410.4", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I think that I covered that point earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "Patience! Just calm down. Those statements would be augmented by briefing in the normal way that goes on right across government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1411.5", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I am not sure where the hon. Gentleman stands, but I am a passionate Unionist. I believe in the United Kingdom, although I am not so sure that he and his party do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "What is important is that we recognise that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "What is important is that we recognise that— [Interruption.] If hon. Members want me to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1413.4", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "t any decision that we make affecting our forces will have an impact on the morale of everyone in the forces, both serving personnel and civilians. However, I believe that our forces recognise that they have a Secretary of State and a Government who are prepared to back and support our forces with the necessary resources. I am sometimes tempted to be a bit party political about these points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1413.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1413.6", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Armed Forces (Modernisation)", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I am not aware at this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1419.5", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will have noted the mocking laughter from Opposition Members when my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) raised the question of the House of Commons cleaners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "ympics, and I add my congratulations to those offered to Lord Coe and his team and, indeed, to the Government. As one who participated in the debate to persuade the Secretary of State that perhaps we ought to back the Olympic bid, I am delighted that London and the UK have secured it. There has been a great transformation, in that the Scottish National party also welcomes the successful bid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady will give me a second so that I can finish my point, I will be happy to go away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": " it is important to make sure that every community is involved. Given some of the difficulties that some communities are facing at the moment, this is a good time to stretch out the hand of friendship to them, and to make sure that they are part of the plans in the lead-up to the Olympics and Paralympics. Several Members have started to put forward their constituencies as possible training venues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "ple have been frustrated to see, but have accepted, being put on hold as we bid for the games. We will see important environmental improvements to those football pitches and elsewhere. We will see access to about 5,000 new homes, many of which will be affordable and welcome to my constituents. Critically, for Hackney as a whole, we will see the delivery of the East London line extensions, at last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ank all those who were involved in the bid. All of us, from the bidding team right through to those of us who have been involved in this in the Government, have been given a fantastic opportunity to present this nation in the best light. Many thought we could not do it. But the Secretary of State and I never doubted it, even though one or two of our colleagues in the Cabinet did from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-07-21", "file": "debates2005-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "ad3d92265830c03e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1509.2", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "DERWENT VALLEY (OPEN CAST MINING)", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "ugh villages that already struggle to cope with the overspill of traffic from the massively blocked A1, which peaks during the morning and evening rush hours. The response from drivers will be to use rat runs around the local villages to avoid the A692. Unfortunately, those roads will lead cars into more congestion as they work their way through busy villages and past a large comprehensive school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-07-21b.1509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-10", "file": "debates2005-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "a3e06d2536aa8edb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10b.97.5", "colnum": "97", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Karen Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Buck", "preceding_text": "e introduction of a charging regime at unreasonably short notice, the remedy of legal challenge would be open to it. I am sure that airports will have regard to International Civil Aviation Organisation guidance that noise-related charges should be non-discriminatory between users and should not be established at such levels as to be prohibitively high for the operation of certain aircraft.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10b.97.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-10", "file": "debates2005-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "450648f60d7e6b69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.2.7", "colnum": "2", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should, if he is serious, ask why the 350 ports up and down the country, including regularised and unregularised airfields, are not staffed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.2.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-10", "file": "debates2005-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "450648f60d7e6b69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "aqi security forces made plans to try to ensure that Iraqis vote in peace. It is a symbol of the choice that is before us. However any hon. Member regarded the initial intervention in Iraq, the choice today is different. It is simply between the terrorists on the one side, who want to destroy democracy, and the United Nations, the multinational community and the Iraqi democrats on the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-10", "file": "debates2005-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "450648f60d7e6b69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-10", "file": "debates2005-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "450648f60d7e6b69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.73.5", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "ral area. After the debates on Second Reading and in Committee, my constituents were surprised to learn that they are less likely to be disturbed by aircraft noise because they live in an urban area. That argument is difficult to sustain, but two Conservative Members have already advanced it as a reasonable explanation of why their constituents are more affected by aircraft noise than mine.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.73.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-10", "file": "debates2005-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "450648f60d7e6b69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.97.5", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Karen Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Buck", "preceding_text": "e introduction of a charging regime at unreasonably short notice, the remedy of legal challenge would be open to it. I am sure that airports will have regard to International Civil Aviation Organisation guidance that noise-related charges should be non-discriminatory between users and should not be established at such levels as to be prohibitively high for the operation of certain aircraft.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.97.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-10", "file": "debates2005-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "450648f60d7e6b69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Karen Buck", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Buck", "preceding_text": "of 480,000 movements imposed by the planning inspector would also not be overturned by way of a future decision to set night flying restrictions without a movements limit. There would still be a total movements limit, and were there to be an increase in night flights, for example, that would be within the cap. I think that it is the mood of the House that I should draw my comments to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-10c.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "60ba31bfab1acd6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11a.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Randall", "preceding_text": " that these birds are not predating on what they are trying to preserve on their estates, be it for shooting or other purposes. I somewhat reluctantly point out that there are a couple of minor flaws in the drafting of the new clause. That is inevitable because, as I have noticed over our years in opposition, we do not always have the skills available to make such provisions absolutely watertight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11a.192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "hat were quite simply unaffordable and would have destroyed areas of natural beauty. The hon. Gentleman would have been one of the first to object, along with many of his constituents, if we had proceeded with any of those schemes. We will find alternatives, we will find them as expediently as possible, and we will do our best to relieve the frustration of the hon. Gentleman's constituents.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.138.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "mistakes and measures have already been put in hand to ensure that trains are not left stranded for long periods, as happened in July. The problem with the overhead power lines will take longer to resolve. The basic problem, as I am sure the House will know, is that the then Conservative Government, in order to cut costs, placed the overhead gantries further apart than they should have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "It is always nice to hear from the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I am always happy to intervene rather than interfere. My hon. Friend rightly notes that the OGC is responsible for IT procurement. Over the summer I met small businesses throughout the UK that are at the cutting edge of IT innovation and are willing to work with the Government. We have a lot more to do on that agenda. One of the things that we shall be doing is launching a web-based portal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "EU Accession (Turkey and Croatia)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "As this is an ecumenical occasion, heaven forfend that I should make any point about people pandering to xenophobic electorates. I will bite my tongue and not utter such a thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "EU Accession (Turkey and Croatia)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ace process—everyone knows that that is the case. People who are familiar with the 40-year history of this problem know that one must follow the other. They also know—the Turks know this, and I have spelt it out in evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee—that a country cannot achieve membership of the European Union if it does not recognise another country sitting at the table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "EU Accession (Turkey and Croatia)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend in both regards. I simply say that when we needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.192.2", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Randall", "preceding_text": " that these birds are not predating on what they are trying to preserve on their estates, be it for shooting or other purposes. I somewhat reluctantly point out that there are a couple of minor flaws in the drafting of the new clause. That is inevitable because, as I have noticed over our years in opposition, we do not always have the skills available to make such provisions absolutely watertight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "he legislation straight away. In light of comments we have received on the human rights aspects, and after careful consideration, we have concluded that, provided the provisions in clause 62(3), which provide for private rights where public rights are extinguished, are strengthened sufficiently, it will not be necessary to allow a period of statutory notice before the legislation can be commenced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And a sensible Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "party group, there is a real problem, and whatever the Government think that the law says, there is at least one inspector who thinks that it says something else. That is the existing law, so it needs to be addressed. The Minister is right, and I congratulate him on the way in which he has addressed the whole issue of rights of way. It is what we would have expected from a sensible Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "arried away with my own success on the last group. We now move on to another issue. I welcome the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw) to his place; I presume that he will respond to this group of amendments, as it falls within his responsibilities. The Government are rightly addressing several wildlife protection issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Colin Breed", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Breed", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I want to give the Minister at least one minute to respond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.256.8", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "sed by the constructive cross-party spirit in which the Bill was scrutinised, and impressed by the probing questions posed by members of all parties, all of whom had clearly given much thought to the issues. On Second Reading, we heard a number of maiden speeches. I am delighted that some of those who made them stayed with us in Committee, even if they have been unable to stay until Third Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.256.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-11", "file": "debates2005-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "a32f69473a6aa414", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "'s passage, because it has meant a better Bill, more respect for the House of Commons and more credit to his Government. I leave him with that tribute, and I hope that other Ministers will reflect on his style and see whether it can be rolled out elsewhere. In fact, I look forward to its being emulated by the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw) when we discuss the Bill on animal welfare shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-11b.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12b.xml", "sha256": "911328f1f9ac2b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12b.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "tion programme. There are few—except the Deputy Prime Minister himself—who would rush to defend it, but in fact regionalisation has gone beyond being his personal plaything: it has become a proxy for sweeping cuts to our public services. Taxpayers have a right to know what has happened to their money. Has a risk assessment or a cost-benefit analysis of regionalisation been carried out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12b.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12b.xml", "sha256": "911328f1f9ac2b53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12b.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ple of a regional service being provided in this way.\" The reform is among the most novel ever seen in this country, and it is important that we get the history right. It is true that the Bain report did not recommend regionalisation, and it is also true that Mott Macdonald made two recommendations—its first recommendation included 27 centres; its second recommendation included nine centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12b.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.286.4", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I associate myself and my right hon. and hon. Friends with the expressions of sympathy that the Prime Minister and the current leader of the Conservative party have quite properly made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We will certainly be extending choice and opportunity for parents in the education White Paper, although the right hon. and learned Gentleman will have to watch for the details when the White Paper is introduced. Let me make this point to him: there can be no choice unless we also put in the investment to create better schools. When we came to power again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.289.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hy the London Housing Board is putting more of its £1.7 billion affordable housing budget into building homes of three bedrooms or more. My hon. Friend is right that it is a real problem, especially for people in London and the south-east. Again, it is only if we are prepared to take the measures both on building more homes and on supporting affordable homes that we will resolve the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Emergency Services (Regionalisation)", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "tion programme. There are few—except the Deputy Prime Minister himself—who would rush to defend it, but in fact regionalisation has gone beyond being his personal plaything: it has become a proxy for sweeping cuts to our public services. Taxpayers have a right to know what has happened to their money. Has a risk assessment or a cost-benefit analysis of regionalisation been carried out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Emergency Services (Regionalisation)", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "We should begin by scotching the first myth of this debate: that Labour started the process of quangocratisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Emergency Services (Regionalisation)", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " the lobbying of Ministers for a year from the time that I ceased to be one. I hope that nothing I say now will be seen as lobbying Ministers. I am astonished that the Opposition should table a motion about the emergency services with no reference, let alone a tribute, to the performance of our emergency services who responded so magnificently to the problems that occurred on 7 and 21 July —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Emergency Services (Regionalisation)", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ncy services who responded so magnificently to the problems that occurred on 7 and 21 July — [Interruption.] I make that comment only about the motion on the Order Paper. I was about to offer an apology to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) because I was unable to be in the Chamber for the first few minutes of her speech as I was at another meeting. She may have corrected that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Emergency Services (Regionalisation)", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ple of a regional service being provided in this way.\" The reform is among the most novel ever seen in this country, and it is important that we get the history right. It is true that the Bain report did not recommend regionalisation, and it is also true that Mott Macdonald made two recommendations—its first recommendation included 27 centres; its second recommendation included nine centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Tackling Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "admission to my hon. Friend. Factually he is right that under the Conservative Administrations in the 1990s there was a substantial reduction in carbon dioxide. However, having been personally involved in the restructuring of the electricity supply industry, that was a serendipitous effect of the dash for gas. We cannot claim that it was part of a well co-ordinated plan to reduce carbon emissions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-12", "file": "debates2005-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "7c2bfcb76d27f75f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Tackling Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "I am happy to do so. I want an agreement, but I said that we should have a solid foundation on which we could agree, and perhaps even an additional couple of storeys, but that we could each have our individual structures above that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-12c.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-13", "file": "debates2005-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "6bf5f37248ffec62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "require their addition to our list of known risks or threats to the UK. The list is littered with expressions such as \"have the potential to\", \"have the capacity to\", \"they have anti-western views\" or \"they have anti-American views\". Many of us have similar inclinations, but that does not make us terrorist organisations. I was relieved to note that the Socialist Campaign group was not on the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-13", "file": "debates2005-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "89274aeaba71b0a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13b.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ople, including the Liberal Democrats, predicted a house price crash, which has not happened. The hon. Gentleman should say now what he has said previously, when he applauded our record of creating stability in the economy. I certainly will not take up the policies of the Liberal Democrats. They dropped their tax rise proposals at their conference last month, but kept all their spending proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13b.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-13", "file": "debates2005-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "89274aeaba71b0a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13b.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "nister has already admitted, overpayments have now affected nearly 2 million British families. Only two weeks ago, the National Audit Office had to qualify HMRC's most recent accounts of continuing tax credit problems. When will Ministers stop tinkering and get to grips with genuine reform of the tax credit system, which is over-complicated, poorly administered and a cause of genuine misery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13b.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-13", "file": "debates2005-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "89274aeaba71b0a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13b.461.5", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I fully agree with my hon. Friend. Getting the devolved institutions up and running is absolutely crucial to the future stability and political success of Northern Ireland. My aim as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is to do myself out of a job. It is to make sure that we can get devolved institutions up and running.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13b.461.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-13", "file": "debates2005-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "89274aeaba71b0a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13b.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "require their addition to our list of known risks or threats to the UK. The list is littered with expressions such as \"have the potential to\", \"have the capacity to\", \"they have anti-western views\" or \"they have anti-American views\". Many of us have similar inclinations, but that does not make us terrorist organisations. I was relieved to note that the Socialist Campaign Group was not on the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-13b.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "1f014ddd3390eb52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14b.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Marsha Singh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marsha Singh", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention. Whatever is stated on that website, the reality is that for the majority of people no assistance is available, and I am on my feet today to try and redress that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14b.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "1f014ddd3390eb52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14b.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "ing simply to do with political correctness? He must realise what a serious and damaging statement that is and how it is the total opposite of the official policy of the Conservative party. Will he admit that there are such things as entirely legitimate cases of discrimination that should be supported, or is every one of them an example of what he refers to wittily as political correctness?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14b.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "1f014ddd3390eb52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14b.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ms, and is worried about the effect on small business. The Institute of Directors has talked about a surge in cases, entailing further costs on business. The Bill would give a blank cheque to the board to pursue cases in whatever way it wants, with the Lord Chancellor having to give the new body whatever money it asked for. I cannot think that that would be welcomed by the Paymaster General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14b.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "f26434faf9d3d7ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Tribunals (Representation and Assistance in Discrimination Proceedings) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Marsha Singh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marsha Singh", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention. Whatever is stated on that website, the reality is that for the majority of people no assistance is available, and I am on my feet today to try and redress that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "f26434faf9d3d7ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.550.4", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Tribunals (Representation and Assistance in Discrimination Proceedings) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give some examples!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "What I would not allow to be taken are the cases to which the hon. Gentleman has referred—the ones that get thrown out very quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "f26434faf9d3d7ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Tribunals (Representation and Assistance in Discrimination Proceedings) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that friendly advice. I assure him that, from my past employment, I know of cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "f26434faf9d3d7ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Tribunals (Representation and Assistance in Discrimination Proceedings) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "I have just given them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "f26434faf9d3d7ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.553.8", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Tribunals (Representation and Assistance in Discrimination Proceedings) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong to say that Asda does not encourage people to take independent advice. It has an excellent track record, yet it still faces frivolous complaints. My main concern is for small companies, not for Asda.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.553.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "f26434faf9d3d7ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Tribunals (Representation and Assistance in Discrimination Proceedings) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that when in future he asks questions, he listens to the answer. He has now asked the same question twice, and he will get the same answer twice.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "f26434faf9d3d7ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Tribunals (Representation and Assistance in Discrimination Proceedings) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "Indeed there are, but they are deemed to be exceptional circumstances. They are extremely rare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-14", "file": "debates2005-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "f26434faf9d3d7ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Tribunals (Representation and Assistance in Discrimination Proceedings) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ms, and is worried about the effect on small business. The Institute of Directors has talked about a surge in cases, entailing further costs on business. The Bill would give a blank cheque to the board to pursue cases in whatever way it wants, with the Lord Chancellor having to give the new body whatever money it asked for. I cannot think that that would be welcomed by the Paymaster General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-14c.585.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-17", "file": "debates2005-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "c4eaaa0afd1a2c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-17b.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Avian Influenza", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ast 12 months. As the hon. Gentleman would find out if he checked with the World Health Organisation, we are one of the top three countries in the world—the other two being Australia and France—in respect of our general preparations and our stockpiling of Tamiflu. Different countries are taking different approaches to their preparations and I am told by the chief medical officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-17b.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-17", "file": "debates2005-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "c4eaaa0afd1a2c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-17b.655.6", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": " Westminster at 3 pm. It took a little short of five hours, with four extra station stops, three trains, two delays and one cancellation. In fact, the only thing that prevented me from losing my temper was the nice man at the information desk at Birmingham International, who said he thought that I should be the next leader of my party and then spoilt it by adding, \"Good luck in tomorrow's ballot.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-17b.655.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-17", "file": "debates2005-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "c4eaaa0afd1a2c8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-17b.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "It is a shame that people do that. We have enough trouble with Boeing without having enemies in our own ranks. I hope that, to use a phrase from another time, it was merely a moment of madness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-17b.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "403c9fa81d758998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18a.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This provision was debated yesterday in Committee. If nobody in that Committee objected to it then, why are some Members now objecting to it on the Floor of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18a.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18c.xml", "sha256": "a035615cff295656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18c.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "The old aphorism relating to any form of computer or intelligence work is, \"Rubbish in, rubbish out.\" Unless we get it right from the first principles, the card and the register stand little chance of success.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18c.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18c.xml", "sha256": "a035615cff295656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18c.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "The old aphorism relating to any form of computer or intelligence work is, \"Rubbish in, rubbish out.\" Unless we get it right from the first principles, the card and the register stand little chance of success.— [Interruption.] I seem to have had the desired effect on my own Benches.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18c.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18c.xml", "sha256": "a035615cff295656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18c.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": " of computer or intelligence work is, \"Rubbish in, rubbish out.\" Unless we get it right from the first principles, the card and the register stand little chance of success.— [Interruption.] I seem to have had the desired effect on my own Benches.—[ Laughter. ] We are getting the chance to check the dentures of one of my colleagues, thereby establishing his identity beyond doubt.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18c.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18c.xml", "sha256": "a035615cff295656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18c.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "on, at least to sections of it. I urge Members of the House to be very careful before they allow the Government to move down that road. Let us assume, however, that one lives in the Outer Hebrides, Orkney or Shetland, and there does not happen to be a suitable place to register on those islands, or let us assume that one is in rural Devon, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire or even Bournemouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18c.752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady just said that it was a necessary economic decision: she cannot have it both ways. The change is being phased in because it has to be paid for. I would have thought that the Conservative party, even in its present state, would accept that to spend money one needs to identify where the savings will be made, and that sometimes takes time. The Scottish economy is doing well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.688.5", "colnum": "688", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "her. It is interesting that when the Olympics were awarded to London, the nationalists said that it did not matter because it was in London. When the Scottish Executive put in a bid to get the Commonwealth games in Glasgow, Fergus Ewing from Inverness said that it did not matter because it would not take place in the highlands. Surely it is time to end such a blinkered, prejudiced outlook on life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.688.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "d. The fact that the Olympics are coming to London in 2012 will be good for Scotland and for the whole of the United Kingdom. I am sure that many people look forward to aspiring to compete in the British team when the games take place. It is interesting that it is only from the narrow perspective of a particularly prejudiced and narrowly focused political party that we are getting criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.689.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.696.6", "colnum": "696", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ade it short to give him as much time as possible to ask his supplementary and so that I could deal with the issues that he raises. We want to get the Joint Committee established as soon as possible so that it can codify the key conventions of the House of Lords. My hon. Friend raises a very important point, of which he did not give me notice—although I am not criticising him for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.696.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "f this enabling Bill. The process is thus imperfect and does not allow hon. Members to consider matters in depth. The Committee that considered the Bill certainly did not have the opportunity to examine issues in detail, many of which the Government raised following the conclusion of the 11th sitting on 21 July . Indeed, the Home Affairs Committee undertook an in-depth examination, but that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "The old aphorism relating to any form of computer or intelligence work is, \"Rubbish in, rubbish out.\" Unless we get it right from the first principles, the card and the register stand little chance of success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "The old aphorism relating to any form of computer or intelligence work is, \"Rubbish in, rubbish out.\" Unless we get it right from the first principles, the card and the register stand little chance of success. [Interruption.] I seem to have had the desired effect on my own Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "relating to any form of computer or intelligence work is, \"Rubbish in, rubbish out.\" Unless we get it right from the first principles, the card and the register stand little chance of success. [Interruption.] I seem to have had the desired effect on my own Benches. [ Laughter. ] We are getting the chance to check the dentures of one of my colleagues, thereby establishing his identity beyond doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "Across the public sector, bodies are performing identity checks day in, day out, be they the local council, the Criminal Records Bureau or the DVLA—any number of organisations. The point is that those checks are already being carried out, and if a higher standard of identity check can be introduced it must surely be in the interests of each and every one of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.739.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.757.2", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "alking about compulsion. The distance that people live from registration centres—one of the issues with which our amendments deal—is crucial to take-up of the ID card and, therefore, to entitlement to those basic services. The hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) referred to the various rural areas in which distance from a registration centre will be crucial to take-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "He is famous because it was he who precipitated the abolition of the previous ID card scheme. In 1952, Winston Churchill abolished that scheme largely because of a case brought against Mr. Willcock. He was asked by a member of the constabulary to show his ID card and despite possessing it, he refused to do so because, he said, \"I am a Liberal and I am against this sort of thing.\" Absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to answer that question. The answer is yes, I did. Neither was it the only part of the Labour manifesto that I told my constituents I was not standing on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "rs on which we all apparently agree, certainly in terms of official party positions. As I understand it—although one would not have thought it, given some of the contributions—all parties agree on biometric passports. That is on the record. One cannot have biometric passports without the infrastructure we are talking about bringing in by 2008. We simply cannot organise biometric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "As always, I am grateful to my fellow Nottinghamshire Member of Parliament for his observations. If he will allow me to develop my argument, I am sure that he will receive full satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.775.8", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ity-instructed sheriff officers carrying out poindings and warrant sales for the recovery of a civil penalty, the poll tax. The Bill suggests that failure to pay the fee for an identity card will incur a civil penalty. We are presented with the spectacle that a Labour Government will be sending out sheriff officers to carry out poindings and warrant sales for the recovery of a civil penalty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.775.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "No—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "No—[Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"] I have made it clear that I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "No—[Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"] I have made it clear that I will not give way—[Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"] It is because we have only a short time for this Third Reading and I intend to set out the argument.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.799.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Howden (David Davis) , who succeeded in changing the position of the parliamentary Conservative party on these questions. In the wash-up in April 2005, the Conservatives moved to outright opposition and killed the Bill. On 28 June 2005 , when the Bill was reintroduced on Second Reading, they voted against it. I believe that that is a clear case of identity crisis for the Conservative party.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "rds would not have prevented the tube attacks on 7 July . We know that 9/11 would not have been prevented by identity cards. The people who committed those crimes had pilots' licences and passports. Those who committed the crimes on 7 July were perfectly happy to be filmed by the railway station closed circuit television. The problem was not hiding their identity, but hiding their intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "o I say I am.\" There was a lot of hyperbole in some of the more ludicrous exchanges earlier. In an entertaining speech, the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) took us on a tour of the great Liberal hall of fame, which I should have thought was more of a hut. I agree that Lloyd George belongs in it, but let us have Norman Scott, Jeremy Thorpe and that dog in there as well.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "e in some of the more ludicrous exchanges earlier. In an entertaining speech, the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) took us on a tour of the great Liberal hall of fame, which I should have thought was more of a hut. I agree that Lloyd George belongs in it, but let us have Norman Scott, Jeremy Thorpe and that dog in there as well.— [Interruption.] Yes, and Brian Sedgemore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "mbers who oppose ID cards are happy to campaign for in their constituencies. An awful lot of people, most of them unelected, know who we are, what we buy, why we buy it and when we buy it. We are targeted with direct mailshots as a result of using our credit and debit cards. It is a fact of life that it is difficult to remain anonymous any more. In addition to the civil liberties objections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "wn eyes. At the invitation of my hon. Friends at the Home Office, I took the trouble to visit it to see biometric technology in operation. I was surprised at how easy it was to have one's biometrics registered; the whole process took less than five minutes. It is interesting that the UK, in common with other legislatures in modern, liberal democracies, is now introducing biometric passports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "ho arrive in Britain with false documents.\" The introduction of identity cards will not stop one person coming in with false papers or save one penny. According to The Economist , the real cost of fraudulent applications and hijacked accounts is only £36.9 million. The Bill is a massive and disproportionate response to that problem. Time is short and I shall therefore skip many points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.808.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This provision was debated yesterday in Committee. If nobody in that Committee objected to it then, why are some Members now objecting to it on the Floor of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.814.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.814.4", "colnum": "814", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 19 October , pursuant to Order [ 7 November 2000 ].", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [Interruption.] I am responding to the point of order. It is entirely up to the House if it wishes to pass an opinion. I shall take the voices once again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-18", "file": "debates2005-10-18d.xml", "sha256": "6401b7509512f7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Ministry of Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on procuring the debate this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-18d.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I now have 67 statistics that I want to read out.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.839.4", "colnum": "839", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "thoritarian act. What we are trying to do, whether in respect of terrorism, antisocial behaviour or identity abuse, is to protect the decent, law-abiding people of this country. The debate is not advanced in any shape or form by the type of language that the right hon. Gentleman uses on civil liberties. I accept that the civil liberties of this country are an important part of our tradition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.839.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I am certainly aware that, in the hon. Lady's constituency, council tax has gone up by eight times the rate of inflation, but there was a constitutional settlement in Wales—we had a devolved settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Yes—another smash-and-grab raid against middle England's savings. Only the Labour party and the Minister of Communities and Local Government could find ways to pursue poor people beyond the grave.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "It is a rolling programme.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.865.7", "colnum": "865", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": ". Friend has made an interesting contribution. It is because of such questions that I put the other side of the coin, which opponents of the council tax rarely acknowledge. A substantial proportion—13 per cent., I believe—of income generated by council tax is repaid through the council tax benefit system. Indeed, a pensioner on guaranteed pension credit does not pay council tax.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.865.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.873.5", "colnum": "873", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "I am happy to: such people would be taxed on business rates under a second-home system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State was talking about? Do all health authorities and primary care trusts have pandemic flu contingency plans in place? That is not my impression and I would therefore appreciate some clarification. I am also worried because primary care trusts have to implement the plans. At the moment, they have other things on their minds, such as being abolished, merged or restructured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "953d487dc9638cc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It must be true\".", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "g with those problems. We now face threats more serious than flooding or foot and mouth in the form of terrorism and avian flu. No one could say that the Government have failed to be proactive in talking about terrorism, but sometimes they have talked it up to try to gain more draconian powers for themselves. I draw Members' attention to a headline a few years ago that appeared in the Daily Mail .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "What does ring hollow is the Conservative party, which went into the last election pledging to slash the budgets for such initiatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, the growth of income inequality has been arrested in this country over the past eight years, in contrast to every other advanced western industrialised country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.832.4", "colnum": "832", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister elaborate on where in the south-west support for affordable housing will be given and exactly what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.832.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "s been a \"paragon of stability\", and that we have delivered economic stability, record growth, the lowest levels of unemployment, the lowest interest rates and lowest inflation that this country has seen for decades. I tend to take a trip down memory lane, but memory lane is not very good for the country. Let me just remind the right hon. and learned Gentleman that when he was in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I now have 67 statistics that I want to read out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.839.4", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "thoritarian act. What we are trying to do, whether in respect of terrorism, antisocial behaviour or identity abuse, is to protect the decent, law-abiding people of this country. The debate is not advanced in any shape or form by the type of language that the right hon. Gentleman uses on civil liberties. I accept that the civil liberties of this country are an important part of our tradition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.839.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.853.4", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "a period of time, there would naturally be a change. I understand why the right hon. Gentleman wants to pursue the original policy. Indeed, in my mind's eye, I can see the great handover between him and the Minister of Communities and Local Government. There may have been a glass of sherry. Pleasantries were uttered and, to be helpful, the former Minister handed the new Minister an envelope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I am certainly aware that, in the hon. Lady's constituency, council tax has gone up by eight times the rate of inflation, but there was a constitutional settlement in Wales—we had a devolved settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": " over. It was well understood and was popular—if that is possible for a tax. Under the Labour Government, council tax has become deeply unpopular. That is hardly surprising with increases of 76 per cent., or when the Government cap councils that increase council tax by a few pence a week yet ignore others where the increase is in pounds, or when pensioners are being thrown into prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has attended many debates in which we have given a whole list of measures, such as removing a lot of restrictions on local authorities and freeing them up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.857.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Yes—another smash-and-grab raid against middle England's savings. Only the Labour party and the Minister of Communities and Local Government could find ways to pursue poor people beyond the grave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "It is a rolling programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.865.7", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "n. Friend has made an interesting contribution. It is because of such questions that I put the other side of the coin, which opponents of the council tax rarely acknowledge. A substantial proportion—13 per cent., I believe—of income generated by council tax is repaid through the council tax benefit system. Indeed, a pensioner on guaranteed pension credit does not pay council tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.865.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.873.5", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "I am happy to do so—such people would be taxed on business rates under a second home system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "No; I want to finish. Crucially, local income tax would allow us to shift the balance from national to local taxation, solving the balance of funding crisis and giving councils the freedom to raise and spend their own money. In conclusion, we will vote with the Conservatives today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Council Tax Revaluation", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "d injustices that the hon. Gentleman has conjured up. I am afraid that he is seizing opportunistically on a piece of evidence without understanding the implications of the NPI's position. That is rather characteristic of his party. There has been much focus in this debate—the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar gave an example—on the scope for losses resulting from revaluation. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Emergency Preparedness", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "The Minister talks eloquently about meetings, plans and thoughts. I am delighted that there is at least something on paper, no matter how late it might be or otherwise, but my constituents are utterly confused.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Emergency Preparedness", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State was talking about? Do all health authorities and primary care trusts have pandemic flu contingency plans in place? That is not my impression and I would therefore appreciate some clarification. I am also worried because primary care trusts have to implement the plans. At the moment, they have other things on their minds, such as being abolished, merged or restructured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Emergency Preparedness", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should compare how the London Mayor dealt with the events of 7 July with what might happen if an event occurred that affected Britain as a whole. There is a direct comparison between what happened on 9/11, when one mayor took ownership of co-ordination, and the events after hurricane Katrina struck, when there was complete confusion because there was no focus for activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-19", "file": "debates2005-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a6665f6388b7b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Emergency Preparedness", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It must be true\".", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "g with those problems. We now face threats more serious than flooding or foot and mouth in the form of terrorism and avian flu. No one could say that the Government have failed to be proactive in talking about terrorism, but sometimes they have talked it up to try to gain more draconian powers for themselves. I draw Members' attention to a headline a few years ago that appeared in the Daily Mail .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-19b.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-20", "file": "debates2005-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "6756a33913ab29be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20a.1011.4", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "That sounds like an excellent subject for an Adjournment debate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20a.1011.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-20", "file": "debates2005-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "6756a33913ab29be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": " finds dignity in work, self-esteem in skills and a sense of civic pride in community engagement. From the ashes of coal dust and the coking plants, we have grown higher-tech, higher-skilled and more highly paid jobs. The Markham employment zone at junction 29A, which is more commonly known in our part of the world as Skinner's junction, gives us a unique opportunity to look a decade ahead.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-20", "file": "debates2005-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "fe1b7e2d72535584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady needs to listen carefully; the message that I give them is that no cut has been made.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-20", "file": "debates2005-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "fe1b7e2d72535584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I apologise if I gave the impression of not taking that important issue seriously—I certainly do. My constituency is a former coal-mining area, as the hon. Gentleman will know well having spent a very short time there once during an election campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-20", "file": "debates2005-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "fe1b7e2d72535584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.1011.4", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "That sounds like an excellent subject for an Adjournment debate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.1011.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-20", "file": "debates2005-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "fe1b7e2d72535584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": " finds dignity in work, self-esteem in skills and a sense of civic pride in community engagement. From the ashes of coal dust and the coking plants, we have grown higher-tech, higher-skilled and more highly paid jobs. The Markham employment zone at junction 29A, which is more commonly known in our part of the world as Skinner's junction, gives us a unique opportunity to look a decade ahead.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-20", "file": "debates2005-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "fe1b7e2d72535584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "that we are having this debate today on a subject of considerable interest to my constituents. I intend to raise some issues that are causing concern in my area and to make some general points, but in principle I want to maintain the constructive nature of this debate. I warmly congratulate the hon. Member for North-East Derbyshire (Mrs. Engel) on her excellent maiden speech. She spoke with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-20", "file": "debates2005-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "fe1b7e2d72535584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "the Gateway. There are, however, real concerns. In some ways, those of us who are south of the river feel that there are two areas: the north Thames Gateway, and the south. Each area has different issues and problems, and I urge the Minister to take that point on board. We talk about one region, but the river creates two different regions, with many and varied consequences. We should ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-20b.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae63bd3e9301d908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "It might have more sensible for the hon. Gentleman to allow me to make my speech instead of intervening during the opening sentences. The legal advice states a very clear position that would have made a difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae63bd3e9301d908", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21a.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "Member for High Peak (Tom Levitt) , I welcome the Bill; in fact I returned to the House especially to support it, having attended a south Asian earthquake fundraising event in Leeds yesterday evening. If I may start by being so bold, and despite being from a different party, I must confess to having something of a soft spot for the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Clare Short) . —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21a.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "It might have more sensible for the hon. Gentleman to allow me to make my speech instead of intervening during the opening sentences. The legal advice states a very clear position that would have made a difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "preceding_text": "I am slightly puzzled by more than one dimension of the hon. Gentleman's argument, but one in particular. There was a vote—in fact, there were three, as the hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) said—before taking military action in Iraq. Why does that vote not affect his view of the legitimacy of that conflict?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1096.5", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I must say to the hon. Gentleman, in all gentleness, that that is a rather preposterous suggestion. I do not expect Parliament to vote on the precise terms of engagement and deployment of Her Majesty's forces before the commencement of conflict.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1096.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1099.7", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "I am trying to get away from all this tribal stuff. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1099.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "I am coming on to the point about a convention. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1109.5", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "adam Deputy Speaker, that you would pick me up quickly if I allowed the debate to become a substantive debate as to whether going to war with Iraq was the right thing to do. I was making the point that simply to say that because we did not like the process of going to war we must thus support the Bill is flawed logic. However, I am now about to make the most substantive point of the morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1109.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "Member for High Peak (Tom Levitt) , I welcome the Bill; in fact I returned to the House especially to support it, having attended a south Asian earthquake fundraising event in Leeds yesterday evening. If I may start by being so bold, and despite being from a different party, I must confess to having something of a soft spot for the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Clare Short) . —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": "Let me correct the record of what the hon. Gentleman said I said but patently did not. I said that the House should, perhaps, have had the power to consider whether we took part in military action in Rwanda alongside others, but we did not have the option because the Government of the day did not provide it. I am suggesting that the Bill should provide that, if it is to make progress. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "preceding_text": "his change maker speech. As an hilarious aside, someone moved next to me when my right hon. Friend was making his speech, and I thought he said that he was a rainmaker. I thought, \"Why do we need rainmakers when it always rains at party conferences?\" However, he was saying that he was a change maker and that that was what new Labour was about. What is the change for? Is it change for its own sake?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-21", "file": "debates2005-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "2c7844b2878c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. It has certainly been my privilege on a number of occasions to witness joint operations between marines from the Netherlands and the Royal Marines from the United Kingdom. The implication of his observation— absolutely right as he is—is that it would be curious if Dutch marines could be deployed pursuant to a NATO commitment or obligation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-21b.1157.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "0158bd4f794d84da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "cess and other things. I have no personal malice against the right hon. Member for North Tyneside, but he cannot escape either on the grounds of the court judgment or on the evidence he cited, where he was just being disingenuous. He says that he was motivated by a concern for the travelling public, but they are not mentioned—there is not even a passing reference—in the e-mails.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "0158bd4f794d84da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " touched on today and is the subject for a much wider debate, is the Chancellor's overriding concern that the new body that was to be set up should be off balance sheet. That is why it failed and every other device failed. The thing that the Chancellor was most concerned about personally was that it should not appear on the books and that any future debt should be totally off balance sheet.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "0158bd4f794d84da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "hat says that it wants to look forward has given us a perfect opportunity to examine its past and rolled out one of its crustiest dinosaurs for us to have a look at. The fact that the dinosaur could roar did not mean that that party was not finished. There was not a word of apology from the right hon. and learned Gentleman. We did not hear a word about his role in the creation of Railtrack.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "0158bd4f794d84da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "ght hon. and learned Gentleman. We did not hear a word about his role in the creation of Railtrack.— [Interruption.] We did not hear a mutter of regret from any of the sad remnants of the Major Government who are sitting on the Front Bench today; I can see at least three of them. There was not a breath of apology, not a murmur of regret, so let me start by putting the record straight.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "0158bd4f794d84da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "railways has taken so long, and if taxpayers want to know why so much money went into the pockets of Railtrack for so little return, they need look no further than that Conservative Government and the right hon. and learned Gentleman. If they want to know what the Conservative party would have done in the same circumstances, they need look no further than the comments of Tory Front Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "0158bd4f794d84da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ribution to this important debate. I should make a few declarations of interest. First, I am a member of the Campaign for Real Ale, was a judge at the great British beer festival this year, and opened the festival, which was superb. Secondly, I am a long-standing member of the all-party beer group and have been vice-chairman ever since it was formed. Thirdly, I own an off-licence in Swansea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24a.123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I appeal to every Member who asks a supplementary to be brief? It is not only the hon. Lady who was at fault; there were others. I call Anne Main.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "It probably was not worth waiting for, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.20.7", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the main business—Opposition day, eighth allotted day, on the Government's handling of decisions relating to Railtrack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.20.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " said at the outset that he wished largely to ignore the judgment and I can see why. It would be highly inconvenient for him if he did take it into account. Does he accept that all this evidence and all these documents were laid before the court, that the court was invited to find that the Government, Ministers and others had acted improperly, and that the judge found the complete opposite?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.24.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "aid: \"talking about closing\" Railtrack's \"escape route\" shows that the Government are no longer behind the company, which he calls a \"hammer blow\". It was a meeting at which the right hon. Member for Warley (Mr. Spellar) , with all his brilliance, sat. As the then Minister of State, he added that \"legislation has got to close off all options\". Does the right hon. Gentleman want to comment on that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "e not entitled to assume that the judge already knows the facts, and of course in this case the judge could not have known all the facts—until then, the Government had done an excellent job of keeping everything secret. It was crucial for the Secretary of State to convince the judge that the company was insolvent. If he could not do that, there could be no railway administration order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "financial requirements in the light of the Hatfield crash. The papers given to the judge do not adequately explain the nature of the rail regulator's powers—powers to advance potentially billions of pounds more in financial support to Railtrack—or the fact that he had twice announced, in January and May 2001, his intention to carry out such a review. The judge was told nothing of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.41.6", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "iltrack and for the railway assets to be passed into the control of another or others. There were good avowable and avowed public reasons for Mr. Byers\"— my right hon. Friend the Member for North Tyneside— \"to develop a policy to that end. He did so, drawing on advices given to him by Civil Service and other advisers whose skill, honesty and competency has not been called in question.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.41.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The responsibility for the shareholders lay with the directors of Railtrack. Railtrack had allowed itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ed more florid language, but that is the charge. The Secretary of State and Ministers—they make the decisions—acted correctly when faced with a company that had deep financial problems and deep-seated management difficulties. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Opposition would have asked the regulator to undertake a further review and would have given the company more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.64.4", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the hon. Lady has only just come into the Chamber, but we have covered that issue extensively earlier in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.64.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "was the chairman of Railtrack, \"accepted that without government support Railtrack was unable to pay its debts and that had been true for a long time.\" So Railtrack gave up, effectively, because its directors knew the state that their company was in. A major public policy decision was taken to say that no additional funding should be given to Railtrack, and we met all our legal obligations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ary process and other things. I have no personal malice against the right hon. Member for North Tyneside, but he cannot escape either on the grounds of the court judgment or on the evidence he cited, where he was just being disingenuous. He says that he was motivated by a concern for the travelling public, but they are not mentioned—there is not even a passing reference—in the e-mails.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " touched on today and is the subject for a much wider debate, is the Chancellor's overriding concern that the new body that was to be set up should be off balance sheet. That is why it failed and every other device failed. The thing that the Chancellor was most concerned about personally was that it should not appear on the books and that any future debt should be totally off balance sheet.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. and learned Gentleman—[Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"] I am going to answer his question in two parts. First, he should read the judgment to see what the judge says about the way in which the term \"grannies\" was used; he is very clear about that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "nment in the debate. I hope that he raises the standard of government by an inch or two. To be fair to him, he did not defend all the processes that had been used; he tried to defend only the decision. To show that the matter is not simply a bee in the bonnet of Conservative politicians, I shall quote the comments that Simon Jenkins made in The Sunday Times on 17 July , when the judgment came out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.76.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "hat says that it wants to look forward has given us a perfect opportunity to examine its past and rolled out one of its crustiest dinosaurs for us to have a look at. But the fact that the dinosaurs could roar did not mean that they were not finished. There was not a word of apology from the right hon. and learned Gentleman. We did not hear a word about his role in the creation of Railtrack.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "ght hon. and learned Gentleman. We did not hear a word about his role in the creation of Railtrack.— [Interruption.] We did not hear a mutter of regret from any of the sad remnants of the Major Government who are sitting on the Front Bench today; I can see at least three of them. There was not a breath of apology, not a murmur of regret, so let me start by putting the record straight.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.78.2", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "railways has taken so long, and if taxpayers want to know why so much money went into the pockets of Railtrack for so little return, they need look no further than that Conservative Government and the right hon. and learned Gentleman. If they want to know what the Conservative party would have done in the same circumstances, they need look no further than the comments of Tory Front Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.78.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "pany? If his company went into insolvency, would he think that he had a right to go to his major customer and demand that it provide more money in return for no more services, just to keep his company going? Of course he would not. As we have heard, the judgment is a complete vindication of the Government's position. After weeks of evidence and weeks of cross-examination, the judgment found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.80.4", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "Was gibberish a compliment, then, on the part of the judge?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.80.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Licensing Laws", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "sly indeed. We know that the Act and other measures will have an impact on every high street and just about every person in the country. That is why we shall tread with great care and review the operation of the Act carefully. However, if the right hon. Member for Maidenhead has her way, we shall be asking the police to fight 21st century yobs with 19th century laws. It simply will not work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.105.4", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Licensing Laws", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "May I say that I have great respect for the Secretary of State and congratulate her again on her role in bringing the Olympics to London? I notice that she has been nominated by The House Magazine as one of its Ministers of the year, but on the basis of tonight's performance I do not believe that her chances of winning will be much good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-24", "file": "debates2005-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "269133954de29e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Licensing Laws", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ribution to this important debate. I should make a few declarations of interest. First, I am a member of the Campaign for Real Ale, was a judge at the great British beer festival this year, and opened the festival, which was superb. Secondly, I am a long-standing member of the all-party beer group and have been vice-chairman ever since it was formed. Thirdly, I own an off-licence in Swansea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-24b.123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "46da2eb95da6def7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I understand that Opposition Members paid tribute in last week's debate to the way in which our emergency services prepare for different scenarios. Operational guidance to help NHS planners prepare for the pandemic has been provided, and clinical management and infection control guidelines have also been published for comment. The discussion is ongoing, and we seek to learn and listen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "46da2eb95da6def7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " says: \"Trust schools will be funded in exactly the same way as other local schools. They will be subject to the Code of Practice on admissions and to all of the accountability mechanisms that apply to state schools.\" So can she explain what these new freedoms are? That gives every impression of having been written by a deeply divided committee—I think that we can call it the Cabinet.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "46da2eb95da6def7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "? That gives every impression of having been written by a deeply divided committee—I think that we can call it the Cabinet.— [Interruption.] We support the proposal to get independent providers into the state sector, but we have heard that so many times from the Government: we heard it in 1998, 2002 and earlier this year. Can the Secretary of State confirm that, so far, just one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "46da2eb95da6def7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": " first big test, so I had rather hoped that he would have done his homework just a little better. The hon. Gentleman thinks that our new trust-school system will represent the re-creation of grant-maintained schools. There could be nothing more different from the new model that we are proposing for all schools than the failed grant-maintained system of the past. There are some similarities.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "46da2eb95da6def7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "t voter apathy and problems of participation have increased massively—but perhaps we should debate that wider issue more deeply another day. Wherever the Government have introduced such proposals, whenever they have travelled down the road of electoral reform, we seem to be given further evidence of the law of unintended consequences, and I fear that the Bill will be more of the same.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I understand that Opposition Members paid tribute in last week's debate to the way in which our emergency services prepare for different scenarios. Operational guidance to help NHS planners prepare for the pandemic has been provided, and clinical management and infection control guidelines have also been published for comment. The discussion is ongoing, and we seek to learn and listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.168.11", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Schools White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "1997 from 45 per cent. to 74 per cent., and in secondary schools the figure has risen from 59 per cent. to 78 per cent. The proportion of badly taught lessons has halved. Thanks to our literacy and numeracy strategies, around 96,000 more children a year start secondary school able to do well in basic maths, and 84,000 more do so in English. There have been big improvements at GCSE level too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.168.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.168.12", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Schools White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Secretary of State must be heard.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.168.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Schools White Paper", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "dash;it says: \"Trust schools will be funded in exactly the same way as other local schools. They will be subject to the Code of Practice on admissions and to all of the accountability mechanisms that apply to state schools.\" So can she explain what these new freedoms are? That gives every impression of having been written by a deeply divided committee—I think that we can call it the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Schools White Paper", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "oms are? That gives every impression of having been written by a deeply divided committee—I think that we can call it the Cabinet. [Interruption.] We support the proposal to get independent providers into the state sector, but we have heard that so many times from the Government: we heard it in 1998, 2002 and earlier this year. Can the Secretary of State confirm that, so far, just one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Schools White Paper", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "sters have repeatedly given us assurances from the Dispatch Box that the surplus places rule did not exist. Yesterday, the Prime Minister confirmed that it did and that it would be scrapped. Why has it taken so long for the Government to identify and get rid of the roadblocks to giving us more good school places? Should we not conclude that we have had surplus Ministers, as well as surplus places?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Schools White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": " first big test, so I had rather hoped that he would have done his homework just a little better. The hon. Gentleman thinks that our new trust-school system will represent the re-creation of grant-maintained schools. There could be nothing more different from the new model that we are proposing for all schools than the failed grant-maintained system of the past. There are some similarities.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Schools White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. What the Liberal Democrats want has nothing to do with the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Schools White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "They will get a better deal and—to take an example—we are just about to lay the regulations on looked-after children, which will mean that looked-after children are top of the list of the admissions criteria for schools. So all schools will have to look at those children first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Lady reflect that we provide citizenship education for our young people up to the age of 16 and then force them to wait until they are 18 to exercise their vote? Will she consider bringing forward proposals that will allow the voting age to be reduced to 16—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "r three proposals that we do support, apart from those of my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire. It is right that victims of domestic violence and members of the armed forces who are under threat should be able to register anonymously. We also like the idea of lowering the age for candidates; that was something that we suggested. There is a spirit of co-operation to that extent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "t voter apathy and problems of participation have increased massively—but perhaps we should debate that wider issue more deeply another day. Wherever the Government have introduced such proposals, whenever they have travelled down the road of electoral reform, we seem to be given further evidence of the law of unintended consequences, and I fear that the Bill will be more of the same.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "to deprive any hon. Members of their seats, they should not be discouraged by a high threshold. I draw hon. Members' attention to the interesting figures on lost deposits in the research paper. The figures include the British National party, which I vehemently oppose, but the parties that lost most were the Greens, which lost £65,500, and the UK Independence party, which lost £151,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "is not difficult for them to put their name on the register and cast a vote. Depressingly, 4 million of our fellow citizens do not care enough about voting to take relatively simple steps to register. We have just had a general election, but I do not remember millions of people beating down my door because they were outraged that they could not cast a vote. That is what we should be worried about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.267.5", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It is the only vehicle that we have before us now. That does not mean that it cannot be improved and become a much better vehicle once we go through the next stages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.267.5", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "icle that we have before us now. That does not mean that it cannot be improved and become a much better vehicle once we go through the next stages— [Interruption.] If our reasoned amendment wins this evening and the Bill does not go into Committee, it would be perfectly fine for the Government to go away, think again and bring back a better Bill, along the lines that we have suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Or, as my hon. Friend says, with the Liberal Democrats, who do not put up any opposition to the Government. It is our duty to hold the Government to account, which is what we are doing this evening. Our reasoned amendment would lead to a better Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-25", "file": "debates2005-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "efce92ae04490db4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "I will not give way on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-25b.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "b2aea9f0768999ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I thought that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills put the Government's position extremely well yesterday.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26a.297.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.287.5", "colnum": "287", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) on his appointment to the Privy Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.287.6", "colnum": "287", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I join the Secretary of State in congratulating the hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) on his Privy Councillorship—much deserved and, if I may say so, long overdue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.287.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I thought that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills put the Government's position extremely well yesterday.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "I share the Secretary of State's objectives entirely. I agree that there now has to be a meeting engagement with the terrorists, and that we have to lick them here. However, I am concerned about the way in which the Secretary of State dismissed the intervention of the right hon. Member for Beith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "n how they vote on crucial questions. I am very ready to accept that the hon. Gentleman is displaying integrity when he says he seeks consensus. That is a generous assessment, but I am ready to make it. Ultimately, however, the choice is simple: do we believe that the Bill should have its Second Reading or not? If we say no, we are saying that there will be no counter-terrorism legislation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether my hon. and learned Friend was quoting Jenny Tonge or Cherie Blair. Those are the quotations that are often batted around. I am glad that he has raised the issue, however, because absolutely nothing in the Bill would prevent anyone from expressing understanding, from discussing why something had happened or from voicing any such emotions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Actually, such a specifically violent act could kill. Such people say that they do not want to kill, but when the NatWest tower was blown up, people were killed, even though it was suggested that that should not happen. If we advocate acts that would kill people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "ose people over through our actions in the communities—I described those actions earlier, and my hon. Friend is pursuing them—and through our efforts to promote a peaceful settlement in the middle east. Those who believe that blowing up a tourist coach in Tel Aviv are in some sense moving that peace process forward are mistaken. In my opinion, they are setting back that process.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.339.8", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Like every other Member, I get regular missives in the names of Members of the other House on behalf of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which commits acts of sabotage and violence in Iran against the elected Iranian Government. Would those who advocate its cause be guilty of an offence under this legislation?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.339.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " how he hopes to amend that clause. While everyone says that terrorism has not changed through the ages, in many ways it has. As one who was thrown out of Pinochet's Chile in 1986—incidentally, his Government were supported at the time by the right hon. Gentleman's Government—for attending the funeral of a boy who had had petrol poured over him and been set on fire by the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Yes, Cameron; I think they are relatives.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "use that might result in the killing of people it would fall under the definition. I would go much further in any case and say that I can think of circumstances when I would not simply sympathise, but I might even be prepared to support and advocate on behalf of those who took up arms as their only legitimate defence. Hon. Members may say that I am making overly heavy weather of this point.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "n is being used by the police for wider purposes. I do not think that the fault is police training; it is the laxity and looseness of the original definition in the legislation. There are already suggestions that clause 10 might be used against animal rights protesters. Whatever one feels about that, whether one uses anti-terrorism measures against them or other protesters is another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "No, I will not, as I have only limited time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-26", "file": "debates2005-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "84cf592aeb6cc328", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.392.5", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The reasons given by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-26b.392.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-27", "file": "debates2005-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "37b52687778902bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, my constituency contains the City of London, where gold bullion, fine wine and all these contrivance schemes possibly began. It might be different in Wolverhampton. I look forward to visiting the hon. Gentleman's constituency at some point—perhaps in the near future, on a ministerial visit, I hope, when Conservative Members are on the other side of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27a.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-27", "file": "debates2005-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "37b52687778902bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Responsible financial advisers and other commentators are making it clear that SIPPs is likely to be an attractive option only for a minority and will not produce substantial changes in behaviour. Let me turn to the meat of the debate. Clearly, Cumbria is one of the most beautiful parts of our country—it is not the most beautiful constituency, but it might be the second most beautiful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-27", "file": "debates2005-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "c2f8fd4dd8ad63ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.445.6", "colnum": "445", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "e years in power. The key question for the Conservatives is this. If they disagree with our strategy, what would they do? In the absence of a willingness to spend more public money, if they do not agree with our priorities, what would they cut in order to fund theirs? Funding for 16 to 18-year-olds, the roll-out of the national employer training programme, or funding for adult basic skills?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.445.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-27", "file": "debates2005-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "c2f8fd4dd8ad63ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "We are pursuing that aim—I agree that it is important—to improve the stability of the lives of looked-after children so that they do not have multiple placements. The hon. Gentleman referred to a cap, but it is hard to impose a cap because of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-27", "file": "debates2005-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "c2f8fd4dd8ad63ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, my constituency contains the City of London, where gold bullion, fine wine and all these contrivance schemes possibly began. It might be different in Wolverhampton. I look forward to visiting the hon. Gentleman's constituency at some point—perhaps in the near future on a ministerial visit, I hope, when Conservative Members are on the other side of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-27", "file": "debates2005-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "c2f8fd4dd8ad63ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "None the less, if discretionary powers are to be increased overall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-27", "file": "debates2005-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "c2f8fd4dd8ad63ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "AFFORDABLE HOUSING (CUMBRIA)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Responsible financial advisers and other commentators are making it clear that SIPPs is likely to be an attractive option only for a minority and will not produce substantial changes in behaviour. Let me turn to the meat of the debate. Clearly, Cumbria is one of the most beautiful parts of our country—it is not the most beautiful constituency, but it might be the second most beautiful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-27b.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-28", "file": "debates2005-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "22f2d17002c45e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-28b.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rights of Savers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady will forgive me, I suspect that not only did she not write that question, but that the person who did does not understand the Bill either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-28b.527.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-31", "file": "debates2005-10-31b.xml", "sha256": "115c2a621771d02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-31b.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "How many \"older\" workers have returned to work since 1997? As the Minister will be aware—I am very much aware of it—older workers often have very good skills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-31b.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-10-31", "file": "debates2005-10-31b.xml", "sha256": "115c2a621771d02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-31b.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Bill — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "You highlighted some of the things that the Government could be doing and I was interested in your remarks about the understandable and shared concern about terrorism in Northern Ireland. Are you saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-10-31b.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-01", "file": "debates2005-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "51ad895835e94ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.707.7", "colnum": "707", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I was in the House when the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, explained what she had done, and we were very unimpressed. She had to go for a rebate because of the consequences of her disastrous economic policies, which plunged Britain into recession, put 3 million people on the dole and made the United Kingdom one of the poorest countries in the whole of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.707.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-01", "file": "debates2005-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "51ad895835e94ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "Is not the risk that the developments, which the Minister saw for himself, will make the achievement of a just and viable two-state solution difficult? The extension of the security wall to the north of Jerusalem and the proposal that it should be further extended to the east brings even closer the day when Jerusalem will be cut off from the west bank.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-01", "file": "debates2005-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "51ad895835e94ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "dened, wants to keep those two countries out of the European Union. By broadening the EU, we will have far more freedom than by deepening it and by tying it into our constitution, which would form a straitjacket. That is a debate for another day and I fear the eye of Mr. Deputy Speaker, who may even whisper to the Clerk—once the Clerk and Mr. Deputy Speaker get together, it is goodbye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-01", "file": "debates2005-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "51ad895835e94ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.773.5", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "t the hon. Gentleman see those two accession states, and others, as an opportunity for his farmers in Shrewsbury and their quality produce, as I view it as an opportunity for farmers in Angus and in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) ? Why do the hon. Gentleman and his party always see these things as a threat and not, even on one occasion, as an opportunity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.773.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-01", "file": "debates2005-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "51ad895835e94ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "ressure in relation to children being adopted by Americans and people from other countries who are in favour of international adoption. One hon. Member spoke about the problems involved in international adoption in countries in the EU, but that should not be happening. The people who are adopting those children are doing so illegally in Sweden, France and Germany, and perhaps even still in the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-01", "file": "debates2005-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "51ad895835e94ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "ring of 2004, allegations that ECAA\"— European Community association agreement— \"applications were being abused were made by a member of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate staff (Steve Moxon) and then by James Cameron, the Entry Clearance Manager and Consul in Bucharest. The Government ordered investigations which resulted in two reports on the handling of these applications.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-01b.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "c067e86ca1e23f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02c.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "aims in turn. On schools, we are in favour not just of investing in them but of reforming them too. We have a programme that we will carry through, because this party believes in improving the quality of schooling in our country. We will do that, and we will carry it through. On the so-called proposal to ban drinking on public transport, I had indicated already that we should not accept it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02c.821.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "c067e86ca1e23f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02c.891.5", "colnum": "891", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "In the past, Whips have always been at the entrance of the Chamber, outside its confines, giving advice. Would you be kind enough, Mrs. Heal, to consult the Speaker so that we can have an authoritative ruling on whether Whips are able physically and verbally to influence or intimidate Members from within the Chamber?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02c.891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "c067e86ca1e23f18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02c.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "st offices would like to act as bureaux de change. After all, part of their raison d'être is handling money. They have security arrangements; they are used to all that type of thing and would love to act as bureaux de change. Come on, we are talking about Kent. We come out of the channel tunnel with our pockets bursting with euros so we want to go to the sub-post office to change them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02c.940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "CAFCASS", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "Average house prices in Wales are already seven times average incomes. Is it not inevitable that new money flooding into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.818.10", "colnum": "818", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e will know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has resigned. Whatever mistakes he has made, I have always believed, and believe now, that he is a decent and honourable man who has contributed a great deal to his country, and who has overcome immense challenges that, frankly, would have daunted the rest of us. He can be proud of his record in British public life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.818.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman exactly why I did not believe that the allegations against my right hon. Friend warranted his dismissal. Perhaps, with the frenzy that is going on around this, it is just as well for the House and for members of the public that I should explain why not. Basically, there were three sets of allegations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "reasons why I decided not to dismiss my right hon. Friend. There were three sets of allegations. One was that he had not sought the advice of the independent advisory committee, which he should have done. That is a breach of the ministerial code, it is true, but I did not believe that it warranted dismissal, for these reasons. First, I could discover no impropriety or wrongdoing in his doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Urgh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister join me in congratulating schools in my constituency on the genuine increase in standards that they have achieved since 1997?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.823.5", "colnum": "823", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "aking their lives hell in their local communities, drug dealers living in their streets and people being drunk and disorderly, with the police able to do little about it. We will continue legislating on those issues because it is the right thing to do to protect people in this country. As for terrorism, each Member of this House will have to take a decision on the Terrorism Bill later today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.823.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": "There continues to be widespread concern about the plight of the less well-off and most vulnerable in our society.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": "There continues to be widespread concern about the plight of the less well-off and most vulnerable in our society.— [Interruption.] When there are millions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is correct that there are of course difficulties, as there are with the payment of any benefit, but let us be clear about this. As a result of the tax credits, literally millions of families in this country have an improvement in their standard of living. Pensioners have been lifted out of poverty as a result of pension credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.825.5", "colnum": "825", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have over the past eight years lifted 700,000 children out of poverty, and 2 million pensioners out of acute hardship. That has partly been done as a result of the payment of tax credits. So the hon. Gentleman is right to say that we must of course do more to help the poor and disadvantaged in our country, but I point out to him that when his Government were in power they froze—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.825.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "considering this offence will be asked not to decide whether members of the public were influenced but whether it was \"likely\" that people who heard the speech would have concluded that it was \"a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement\" to commit a terrorist offence. In regard to that, they will, as the clause says further on, have to consider all the surrounding circumstances.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "Expressing views about the ANC is far removed from the clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mrs. Heal. Is there anything in our procedures that would allow a time-out for the Home Office and the Government Front-Bench team, and for the Home Secretary in particular to consider after that succession of votes whether he has the assent of this House to proceed with the controversial aspects of the Bill?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mrs. Heal. In all the time that I have been here I can never remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mrs. Heal. In all the time that I have been here I can never remember during votes, while sitting as the House or as a Committee, Whips standing at the doors of the Chamber to try to influence the result. Please would you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.891.5", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "In the past, Whips have always been at the entrance of the Chamber, outside its confines, giving advice. Would you be kind enough, Mrs. Heal, to consult the Speaker so that we can have an authoritative ruling on whether Whips are able physically and verbally to influence or intimidate Members from within the Chamber?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.895.3", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend. The police should be listened to carefully, but the House of Commons and the Government should not give them a blank cheque. I regret to say that all my experience over the years that I have been involved in politics at local or national level suggests that we will end up with a police state—very nicely, by a series of ratchets. That is the logical consequence of such measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.917.4", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "able, then proper grounds exist for a charge, which is a power that is not being used sufficiently at the moment. If we do not reach a consensus, there will be increasing frustration that we have not been able to find a satisfactory way through this maze. The Bill is unacceptable for all sorts of reasons. If we have the opportunity, we will support amendment No. 28 to reduce the period to 28 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.919.2", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Home Secretary does not think that I am being churlish, but I feel bound to ask him why, in view of the fact that these issues were well ventilated before today, they were not included in the Bill when it was first published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "nciple, which motivate many of us in different ways, and possibly in ways that will be different for different people in the way that they operate; the safeguards that I say I am ready to talk about in respect of how we move forward; and, of course, the issues of politics. Politics should not be too much a part of this. It is always part of what we do, by definition, and it is a great thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": " distaste at voting with the Liberals, but I am sorry that she happened to use this occasion to mention it. Those of us who have had the privilege of being in this House for as long as she doubtless will be recognise that when appalling things happen it is all too easy to move too far down a particular road in order to compensate for one's failure to handle the situation sufficiently early.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": " recognise that when appalling things happen it is all too easy to move too far down a particular road in order to compensate for one's failure to handle the situation sufficiently early.— [Interruption.] Although what happened in London is wholly different from events such as those that led to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, or from the Marchioness disaster and the decisions taken after—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hamilton", "preceding_text": " certain members of the community who are not charged after a period of detention, that will infuriate the other members of the community. As I said earlier, there remain deep divisions and hostilities between miners and police in Scotland's mining areas. The police have had to work extremely hard in the 21 years since the miners' strike. I may be the only hon. Member who has been locked up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-02", "file": "debates2005-11-02d.xml", "sha256": "bee36fda87d6b87a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "SMALL SUB-POST OFFICES", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "st offices would like to act as bureaux de change. After all, part of their raison d'être is handling money. They have security arrangements; they are used to all that type of thing and would love to act as bureaux de change. Come on, we are talking about Kent. We come out of the channel tunnel with our pockets bursting with euros so we want to go to the sub-post office to change them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-02d.940.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e3f0a9c6c2925b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ve already mentioned that there will be two further days of debate next week, so I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will continue his determined efforts to ensure that we have an effective measure for dealing with the terrorist threat in the United Kingdom, one that, incidentally, commands the very strong support of most people in this country. We have a ministerial code—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e3f0a9c6c2925b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03a.1010.4", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The problem is the word \"legitimate\". The hon. Gentleman—no, it was the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) who accused the Government earlier of using inchoate language.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03a.1010.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "First, no one is predicting a 1963 winter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.954.7", "colnum": "954", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "nuclear energy is now receding? Does he further agree that, as people see their domestic energy bills rise sharply, and as their desire to see us meet Kyoto and beyond increases, they now understand that there is a serious debate to be had about the role of nuclear energy? After all, we are not that different from the French, and in France 83.4 per cent. of electricity is nuclear-generated.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.954.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "e model for her young constituent. The Youth Parliament could certainly teach us a thing or two about the ratio of male to female Members, because it is 49:51. Much of this is a matter for political parties, but the Labour Government passed the Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002 to allow political parties to use positive measures to encourage more women to stand for election.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ve already mentioned that there will be two further days of debate next week, so I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will continue his determined efforts to ensure that we have an effective measure for dealing with the terrorist threat in the United Kingdom, one that, incidentally, commands the very strong support of most people in this country. We have a ministerial code—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that suggestion from the hon. Gentleman.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman went from a perfectly sensible question about a practical problem affecting his constituents to a ramble about the rest of the Government's delivery programme. The truth is that since 1997 the Government have delivered on health, education and employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [2nd Allotted Day ]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Smith", "preceding_text": "The use of the word \"or\" in clause 5(1) is important.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1001.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [2nd Allotted Day ]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I just want to tease a little more out of the Minister on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1010.4", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [2nd Allotted Day ]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The problem is the word \"legitimate\". The hon. Gentleman—no, it was the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) who accused the Government earlier of using inchoate language.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1010.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [2nd Allotted Day ]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "I congratulate you, Mr. Cook, on what I believe is a significant anniversary today. I will not reveal further details of the particular anniversary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [2nd Allotted Day ]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit on it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "The amendment suggests that anyone outside the perimeter fence, whether at Fylingdales or somewhere else, would not be guilty of trespass. At what point, as they approach the fence, do they become trespassers? Do they have to touch the fence, climb it, look at it, hang something from it, cut it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [2nd Allotted Day ]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is very serious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "My fear is that this is a rather academic argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-03", "file": "debates2005-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "d7c01e7ca1c0e239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1072.4", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill — [2nd Allotted Day ]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mrs. Heal, I am grateful to you for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-03b.1072.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "a7d0efcb264c68fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "That is quite a revelation. I have been informed, perhaps misinformed, that there are currently five vacancies. Whether it is three or five, does the Minister share my concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "a7d0efcb264c68fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.7.6", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Gentleman an assurance. When he came to see me last week—with other Members of Parliament from Staffordshire, including some of my hon. Friends—he will have had the sense that was I listening to the points that were made. We are a listening Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.7.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "a7d0efcb264c68fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.28.6", "colnum": "28", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "tary experience, but I think I am right in saying that he has never had any ministerial experience. I conclude from his comments that had he been a Minister on this occasion, he would have interfered in the due process of law. That is not the standard that applies in this country, and I do not think Conservative Front Benchers are saying the same, although some of them have been through it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.28.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "a7d0efcb264c68fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "If wrong-doing has occurred, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is not saying that we should simply ignore it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "a7d0efcb264c68fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " going to comment on speculation in the press. That will be debated when we deal with some of the ongoing difficult issues we have had to face day upon day, month upon month in moving forward the peace process in Northern Ireland. I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman because he, as a serving soldier, helped to bring about that peace by applying the highest standards of integrity, probity and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "a7d0efcb264c68fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "He is, indeed, my very good friend and he speaks with a great deal of authority on these matters. He will know more than anyone else that at the time of the 2002 Bill there was a great deal of discussion about the requisite period. As it happens, and ironically in the current context, the Conservative spokesman in the other place wanted to reduce from 10 to five years, the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07b.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "That is quite a revelation. I have been informed, perhaps misinformed, that there are currently five vacancies. Whether it is three or five, does the Minister share my concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.7.6", "colnum": "7", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Gentleman an assurance. When he came to see me last week—with other Members of Parliament from Staffordshire, including some of my hon. Friends—he will have had the sense that was I listening to the points that were made. We are a listening Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.7.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.14.3", "colnum": "14", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he is fighting the problem with one hand tied behind his back? Prominent politicians are advocating taking drugs. The other year, half the Tory Front Bench admitted to taking them and now a prominent candidate for the leadership is suggesting that ecstasy should be downgraded. What chance have we got when that lot are involved in taking drugs?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.14.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Court Martial Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " the way in which they carry out their duties. I am sure that that view is shared throughout the House. I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who served as a Northern Ireland Minister at a time when members of Her Majesty's armed forces and the security services were brought to trial for actions that were carried out, is not arguing that we should simply turn a blind eye to wrongdoing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Court Martial Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "comments. He is right that some of the issues will need further examination and scrutiny in the Armed Forces Bill and I hope that all Members who participate in the proceedings will do so with a genuinely open mind to find the best legal framework in which our armed forces can continue to operate. The hon. Gentleman appeared to have reached a conclusion—I wish that I had his capacity.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.28.6", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Court Martial Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "tary experience, but I think I am right in saying that he has never had any ministerial experience. I conclude from his comments that had he been a Minister on this occasion, he would have interfered in the due process of law. That is not the standard that applies in this country, and I do not think Conservative Front Benchers are saying the same, although some of them have been through it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.28.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Court Martial Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman understands the point. It shows that he is awake. I think that we have an open and transparent system.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Court Martial Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "If wrong-doing has occurred, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is not saying that we should simply ignore it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Court Martial Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " going to comment on speculation in the press. That will be debated when we deal with some of the ongoing difficult issues we have had to face day upon day, month upon month in moving forward the peace process in Northern Ireland. I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman because he, as a serving soldier, helped to bring about that peace by applying the highest standards of integrity, probity and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "wich (Mr. Raynsford) is, indeed, my very good friend and he speaks with a great deal of authority on these matters. He will know more than anyone else that at the time of the 2002 Bill there was a great deal of discussion about the requisite period. As it happens, and ironically in the current context, the Conservative spokesman in the other place wanted to reduce from 10 to five years, the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Borrow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Borrow", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman clarify the position of the Conservative party? Is it in favour of a 2007 revaluation? If not, why has it tabled an amendment that would have the effect of ensuring that a 2007 revaluation takes place?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.118.6", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "riend makes an important point. The investment in the Valuation Office Agency—the computerisation, entering information and ongoing work—means that it can give me assurances that it will have the capacity to ensure that those revaluations can take place, if necessary, should Parliament decide on a concurrent timetable. The problem that my right hon. Friend raised is being solved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.118.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "In just one second.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-07", "file": "debates2005-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "edac357bfd82673f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.119.5", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "cifically under local area agreements, the three-year local government finance settlement and the certainty and stability needed for all involved requires a serious review of the local government's role and functions. That review is being undertaken on our behalf by Sir Michael Lyons, and I am sure that many hon. Members on both sides of the House have and will contribute to that important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-07c.119.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "885c3cd6f2662d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08b.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "ovision for three-month residency. That provision was introduced because it was feared that once an election was announced, residents of the Republic of Ireland might cross the border and register in constituencies in the north. Because Northern Ireland citizens can vote in UK elections they could then take part in such elections. There is probably consensus that that is unlikely to happen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08b.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Let me deal with the more serious of those points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "I beg to move that the clause be read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "I do not want to talk about postal voting pilots, but when I was in local government I worked on several highly successful pilots—two in Trafford, which is now a Tory authority. We worked as an all-party group; there was all-party consensus and we held successful postal voting pilots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.238.6", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "on incredibly successful postal voting pilots where there was no suggestion or suspicion of fraud. The question is really whether you want to do it, whether all parties want to do it and whether you work at it. Sam Younger does not believe in including national insurance numbers, so that is a dead duck. If the Electoral Commission does not support you, you should not be making that proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "ovision for three-month residency. That provision was introduced because it was feared that once an election was announced, residents of the Republic of Ireland might cross the border and register in constituencies in the north. Because Northern Ireland citizens can vote in UK elections they could then take part in such elections. There is probably consensus that that is unlikely to happen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "Whatever the percentage is, it will be a lot worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "Amendment No. 21 provides for no pilot schemes by all-postal voting. As Members on both sides of the Committee will be aware, the Electoral Commission has twice said that there should be an end to all-postal voting. It is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " abuse—that is the truth of it. We were happy to agree to some pilots in 2000 to try ideas out, but here we are, five years later, still piloting. The Minister seems to want to carry on with pilots for another five or 10 years. This really will not do. If we are to have pilots, we ought to have proper parliamentary approval. I see that the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) agrees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-08", "file": "debates2005-11-08c.xml", "sha256": "cae896ff920736d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": " Gentleman is tempting me to revisit a discussion on a previous group of amendments. Let me reiterate that we are concerned to put anti-fraud measures place before we proceed with further all-postal ballots. It will be appropriate to hold such ballots when there is a minimal security threat. An example is the recent Downham Market parish by-election, which passed off entirely without fraud.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-08c.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ever, as winter approaches, many hundreds of thousands of people still face terrible conditions and possible death and the international community has not put in the effort that our Government have done. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that the money pledged by the EU and other donors is delivered—and soon—because the time to rescue the people in the mountains is disappearing quickly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ion to hold people for up to three months simply because it is an easy option. It is absolutely vital. To prevent further attacks we must have it.\" That is the police saying to us that they need these powers to prevent terrorism in this country. In the last week, we have learned that, since 7 July , two further terrorist plots have been foiled in this country. Yesterday, Australia announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "s we must have it.\" That is the police saying to us that they need these powers to prevent terrorism in this country. In the last week, we have learned that, since 7 July , two further terrorist plots have been foiled in this country. Yesterday, Australia announced— [Interruption.] Well, perhaps those who foiled the plots might have their advice taken a little more seriously. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "le, who have been kept for over seven days since the new powers were introduced is just over 30, so we are not talking about large numbers of people, but they may be the crucial difference between saving this country from a terrorist attack and not doing so. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that we will alienate minority communities, but it is sad that he should make that argument.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) , although I recall that it was the noble Lord Heseltine who had a fondness for wielding the Mace. But apart from that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "call that it was the noble Lord Heseltine who had a fondness for wielding the Mace. But apart from that— [Interruption.] Ron Brown played a secondary role in Mace-wielding. I never wielded it at all, as I remember, but never mind. I support the comments of the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) , and I have a very specific reason for being concerned about this programme motion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "most important issue that the House currently faces. I agree. I want to treat the votes in this debate as free votes. I want to try to vote in what I consider to be the national interest, regardless of party, and I know that many Members—in all parts of the House—take a similar line, whatever view they may reach on the question of 90 days, 28 days and the other issues before us.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ree votes. I want to try to vote in what I consider to be the national interest, regardless of party, and I know that many Members—in all parts of the House—take a similar line, whatever view they may reach on the question of 90 days, 28 days and the other issues before us.— [Interruption.] However, if the Prime Minister truly believes that this is the most important issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "at he is acting in the country's interest. I am one of those who have never impugned his good faith on these issues, but I say through the Home Secretary to the Prime Minister, who is not here, that he is not behaving as a Prime Minister who honours parliamentary democracy ought to behave. He should recognise that in a parliamentary democracy, a fragile thing that our forefathers fought for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "rades case law that has apparently been interpreted as leading to injustice as an argument for including it in the Bill. The House deserves rather better than that. The hon. Member for Beaconsfield made an interesting point about what a cleric newly arrived in the country might understand the clause to mean. As he said that, it occurred to me that the cleric might be quoting holy scripture.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "ue; he might see them gathering around his soapbox on the corner of Hyde park. I do not know whether there is, in fact, a mosque local to Hyde park, but let us suppose that there is one and that gathering around our speaker is a crowd of turbaned, Arab and Muslim people. Still, our Hyde Park speaker continues to sing the praises of Saladin and begins to discern the murmuring and sussuration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0191108bea033349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "f the Arab race—is beginning to excite an intemperate reaction among his audience. Perhaps, we might say, a wise speaker would button his lip. A wise man would cease to speak at that point, climb down from his soapbox and immediately go silent. However, it would be too late, for he would already have committed a crime because he would have glorified in circumstances where he could see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "AIDS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": " However, as winter approaches, many hundreds of thousands of people still face terrible conditions and possible death and the international community has not put in the effort that our Government have done. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that the money pledged by the EU and other donors is delivered—and soon—because time to rescue the people in the mountains is disappearing quickly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.296.8", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Every Member of the House is united in a desire to take effective action against the new terrorist threat that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.296.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ion to hold people for up to three months simply because it is an easy option. It is absolutely vital. To prevent further attacks we must have it.\" That is the police saying to us that they need these powers to prevent terrorism in this country. In the last week, we have learned that, since 7 July , two further terrorist plots have been foiled in this country. Yesterday, Australia announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "s we must have it.\" That is the police saying to us that they need these powers to prevent terrorism in this country. In the last week, we have learned that, since 7 July , two further terrorist plots have been foiled in this country. Yesterday, Australia announced— [Interruption.] Well, perhaps those who foiled the plots might have their advice taken a little more seriously. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "to 90 days. There is an idea that the police have simply put this forward without any proper evidence and we have simply sat there and said, \"Well, if they want it, we'll do it.\" This has been done on the basis that the police have put forward a cogent and intelligent argument as to why they need the power. Let me quote again from the Association of Chief Police Officers terrorism committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ll just listen to this. It said: \"We were asked for a professional opinion. And it's not just the Police; it's prosecutors; it's the security services. It's the professionals that are actually involved on a daily basis in trying to protect this country from terrorism . . . This is what we actually need.\" In those circumstances, I appeal to the House to have some sense of responsibility here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ple, who have been kept for over seven days since the new powers were introduced is just over 30, so we are not talking about large numbers of people, but they may be the crucial difference between saving this country from a terrorist attack and not doing so. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that we will alienate minority communities, but it is sad that he should make that argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "preceding_text": "On the proposals that are before the House today, I wonder whether the Prime Minister's constituency mailbag is the same as mine. Much to my surprise, not a single person, even from the usual sources, has opposed those proposals. Can the Prime Minister understand any hon. Member in this House continuing to fly in the face not only of professional advice but of their constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I agree—all the more so because it seemed to me during last week's debates that we were moving towards the possibility of agreement. Members of the other place do bother to read Hansard , and if they see that important matters raised in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) , although I recall that it was the noble Lord Heseltine who had a fondness for wielding the Mace. Apart from that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": " I recall that it was the noble Lord Heseltine who had a fondness for wielding the Mace. Apart from that— [Interruption.] Ron Brown played a secondary role in Mace-wielding. I never wielded it at all, as I remember, but never mind. I support the comments of the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) , and I have a very specific reason for being concerned about this programme motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "is to be the most important issue that the House currently faces. I agree. I want to treat the votes in this debate as free votes. I want to try to vote in what I consider to be the national interest, regardless of party, and I know that many Members in all parts of the House take a similar line, whatever view they may reach on the question of 90 days, 28 days and the other issues before us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "s debate as free votes. I want to try to vote in what I consider to be the national interest, regardless of party, and I know that many Members in all parts of the House take a similar line, whatever view they may reach on the question of 90 days, 28 days and the other issues before us— [Interruption.] However, if the Prime Minister truly believes that this is the most important issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Terrorism Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "at he is acting in the country's interest. I am one of those who have never impugned his good faith on these issues, but I say through the Home Secretary to the Prime Minister, who is not here, that he is not behaving as a Prime Minister who honours parliamentary democracy ought to behave. He should recognise that in a parliamentary democracy, a fragile thing that our forefathers fought for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.331.4", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "The Lord Advocate endorsed the view that it should be the same north and south of the border, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.331.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.332.6", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": ". Friend—which I will. I shall then consider—I make no commitment—the merit or otherwise of giving way further. Let me try to answer the question that she fairly raises with me. She is fundamentally right in her analysis that it is possible in certain circumstances to re-interview. She is also right in that the Government are considering whether such circumstances could be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.332.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am glad to set the historical record straight. I think that the hon. Gentleman will concede—he will correct me if I am wrong—that at no point during the meeting held in my office last Monday morning did any representative of the Opposition parties raise the idea of a sunset clause or a review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I will give way in my own time, when I have made my own argument, to the people to whom I think it is worth giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "clause is to provide an opportunity carefully to analyse how the period has worked, so that this House and the other place can make a decision on that matter in a year's time, which will allow us to test the hypotheses and concerns that various individuals have genuinely raised. Even the putative leaders of the Conservative party should think hard about their responsibilities on such matters, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "The answers are no and no.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "The amendments respond to points that were raised in Committee and seek to allay some of the concerns that were expressed then. They also, I should point out, build on some of the concepts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ster parades case law that has apparently been interpreted as leading to injustice as an argument for including it in the Bill. The House deserves rather better than that. The hon. Member for Beaconsfield made an interesting point about what a cleric newly arrived in the country might understand the clause to mean. As he said that, it occurred to me that the cleric might be quoting holy scripture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Lady feels affronted or insulted. I do not know what her community is, but I can say that it is fairly easy to identify scriptures in my tradition which, if delivered to an appropriate audience, might—in terms of an objective test for recklessness rather than clear intent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ion or preparation (whether in the past, in the future or generally) of such acts or offences; and . . . is a statement from which those members of the public could reasonably be expected to infer that what is being glorified is being glorified as conduct that should be emulated in existing circumstances.\" The difficulty, which was highlighted in Committee, is that the concept of an offence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I was struck by the hon. Gentleman's recollections of his student days. When he was at Oxford, did he ever see a poster of Che Guevara in a heroic pose? Did he share that experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "que; he might see them gathering around his soapbox on the corner of Hyde park. I do not know whether there is, in fact, a mosque local to Hyde park, but let us suppose that there is one and that gathering around our speaker is a crowd of turbaned Arab and Muslim people. Still, our Hyde park speaker continues to sing the praises of Saladin and begins to discern the murmuring and sussuration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "f the Arab race—is beginning to excite an intemperate reaction among his audience. Perhaps, we might say, a wise speaker would button his lip. A wise man would cease to speak at that point, climb down from his soapbox and immediately go silent. However, it would be too late, for he would already have committed a crime because he would have glorified in circumstances where he could see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "l know that we have put a copy of the letter from the Home Secretary to him in the Library. The letter sets out the fact that there will be consultation with those in the House who can make a relevant contribution, such as Chairs of Select Committees and no doubt other hon. Members who will want to get involved in the review process. That will be a practical way of reviewing the legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "No, I want to deal with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-09", "file": "debates2005-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "08079b9c1f3e9072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.438.5", "colnum": "438", "heading": "PETITIONS — IsItFair Campaign", "cue_speaker": "John Penrose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Penrose", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition on behalf of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-09b.438.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bdca3d4b28f6d160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "embers of the armed forces and the security services. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland will open the debate on the Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill. This is not an easy issue for anyone, and no one pretends that it is. The benefit that we get from moving forward with the peace process is clear. This is about reducing the level of terrorism in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bdca3d4b28f6d160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "y issue for anyone, and no one pretends that it is. The benefit that we get from moving forward with the peace process is clear. This is about reducing the level of terrorism in Northern Ireland— [Interruption.] Opposition Members who are commenting from a sedentary position should ask themselves whether they believe that it is better to see continuing terrorism in Northern Ireland or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bdca3d4b28f6d160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"North.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Sunderland, South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bdca3d4b28f6d160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "ions will give rise to more and more people feeling trapped, alienated, seeing the bias, feeling discriminated against\". I am not sure who the Prime Minister was talking about when he said that the Muslim community would not react against the proposals. The rest of the postbag on this issue has been a 50:50 split. I want to tackle another aspect, as I understand that in Andy Hayman's letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bdca3d4b28f6d160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "r for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) were particularly helpful and illuminating. I agree with him that it does not seem that the Bill falls within the category of emergency legislation. I will deal in more detail with the comments of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) in a moment. I thought that the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "bdca3d4b28f6d160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "esources. We have the largest hospital building programme in the history of the NHS. There has been investment in the Maidstone hospital, in the Medway maritime hospital and other hospitals throughout the county. Waiting lists have been mentioned. People had to wait for 18 months when Labour was elected to office. This year, it is will be down to six months. The waiting will continue to come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The very fact that the hon. Gentleman adopts someone else's quote does not make it true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "Since 1997 the Government have delivered 53 consecutive quarters of economic growth, the longest period of unbroken expansion on record. Our performance compares favourably with that of our international competitors. GDP growth in 2004 was higher in the UK than in Germany, Ireland, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and the euro area.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The latest figures on the performance of the economy over the past 10 years show that between 1986 and 1997, the economy grew by 2.5 per cent. Between 1997 and 2001, it grew by more than 3 per cent. Productivity growth in the former period was 2.2 per cent. It went up to 2.7 per cent. and has carried on since.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.466.3", "colnum": "466", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. I pay tribute to the work that he has been doing in his constituency, with Hall Green churches and other organisations, on the \"Make Poverty History\" campaign.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.470.2", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ll. Thursday 24 November —Consideration in Committee and Third Reading of the European Union (Accessions) Bill. Friday 25 November —The House will not be sitting. With permission, I would also like to announce the recess dates for the coming year. The printed version of the calendar is now available from the Vote Office and details can be found on the website www.commonsleader.gov.uk .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.470.3", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "hed by now. Is it not the height of discourtesy to the House that it has not yet been published? I am glad that the Leader of the House responded to my request for the publication of dates for next year's recesses, but I want to raise one matter with him. When did he decide to abandon the September recess? My understanding was that the reason why we did not have a September recess this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, the hon. Gentleman has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, but I will start with the sublime. The rebate negotiated by Mrs. Thatcher at Fontainebleau—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "embers of the armed forces and the security services. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland will open the debate on the Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill. This is not an easy issue for anyone, and no one pretends that it is. The benefit that we get from moving forward with the peace process is clear. This is about reducing the level of terrorism in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "y issue for anyone, and no one pretends that it is. The benefit that we get from moving forward with the peace process is clear. This is about reducing the level of terrorism in Northern Ireland— [Interruption.] Opposition Members who are commenting from a sedentary position should ask themselves whether they believe that it is better to see continuing terrorism in Northern Ireland or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ll be available to raise the issue with him if the hon. Gentleman wishes to do so. Again, the implication of his question is that I am somehow slow in understanding these matters—if I am, I apologise to the House, but I do not think that I am. What he is saying is that, somehow or other, it appears to be inappropriate for police officers to set out their views to Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "tters on the Opposition Benches. I get the slight sense that they might have been discussed earlier. Nevertheless, I will deal with the hon. Gentleman's question directly. It is important for the views of public servants and officials throughout the country to be communicated to the House. I cannot understand what the hon. Gentleman is objecting to. Distinguished public servants have a view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Etherington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Etherington", "preceding_text": "ght to say that no matter what was done and no matter how hard people tried, there would be times when certain acts of terrorism could not be prevented, but that we were duty-bound nevertheless to make every effort to minimise it. Will the Bill lead to any cessation of terrorist activity? I hope so, but I have my doubts. I am not aware that any of the four bombers of 7 July were on a suspect list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"North.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Sunderland, South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ime, leading to a greater danger of evidence being obtained unfairly in the view, subsequently, of the trial judge, that is no barrier to questioning. However, the longer that a person is held, the more careful the police and the prosecution must be about the nature, extent, duration and circumstances of such questioning. The court will consider the circumstances in which the person has been held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ever, I was not given such an opportunity. That applies to all Back Benchers because the cross-party talks were confined to the Front Benchers. I do not claim that there should not be talks between Front Benchers—of course there should. On such an issue, they are vital. But the vast majority of hon. Members do not sit on the Front Benches. Every hon. Member is equal in his or her vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "ions will give rise to more and more people feeling trapped, alienated, seeing the bias, feeling discriminated against\". I am not sure who the Prime Minister was talking about when he said that the Muslim community would not react against the proposals. The rest of the postbag on this issue has been a 50:50 split. I want to tackle another aspect, as I understand that in Andy Hayman's letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady referred to people not having rights in respect of getting information to and from their families. As I understand it, the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "amilies. As I understand it, the Bill— [Interruption.] I should be grateful if the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (Sir Robert Smith) would be a little patient. As I understand the Bill, it confers absolute rights, which have been reinforced and are stronger than the rights of suspects under existing legislation. Did she not make her constituents aware of that point?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.536.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "r for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) were particularly helpful and illuminating. I agree with him that it does not seem that the Bill falls within the category of emergency legislation. I will deal in more detail with the comments of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) in a moment. I thought that the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "rance that 28 days would not be the norm, and that it would be a maximum. I am happy to give him that assurance. That provision will be subject to regular review. My hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) made an excellent speech, in which she clearly showed that she will not be the recipient of the gold challenge cup for Blairite loyalism, and that she is an active, intelligent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-10", "file": "debates2005-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4329a7ab794639b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING (KENT)", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "been especially commended for its financial prudence. It has gone beyond the Gershon targets in terms of savings made. In every respect, this is an excellent council. Over the years, its leadership has been responsible and has been prepared to engage in rational discussions with the Government. Indeed, Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart is one of the most respected local government figures in Britain today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-10b.556.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-11", "file": "debates2005-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "6ddac032f3db7854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-11b.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister makes an important point— [Laughter.] I am sure that that Freudian slip has filled some hon. Members with great joy and others with great horror—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-11b.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-11", "file": "debates2005-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "6ddac032f3db7854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-11b.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "rowicz) has sensibly included provisions for micro-generation, which is a technology that Conservative Members would like to see advanced. Section 82(1)(a) of the Energy Act 2004 states: \"The Secretary of State must prepare a strategy for the promotion of microgeneration in Great Britain\", and we need to wait 18 months for this strategy to appear. The Government have already had eight years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-11b.615.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-11", "file": "debates2005-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "6ddac032f3db7854", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-11b.621.5", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that business rate valuations do include renewable energy installations, but that business can benefit from the financial gains associated with renewable obligation certificates and levy exemption certificates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-11b.621.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "41fa4d04b7372f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "rs. We do not need to discuss what constitutes an offensive weapon; we know that a knuckleduster, for instance, is an offensive weapon per se. On the other hand, items made or adapted for offensive purposes can also come under the definition of offensive weapons. A perfectly innocent item such as a baseball bat, or a cricket bat—I apologise to the cricketers among us, if there are any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.682.2", "colnum": "682", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "rees that I am right not to announce the deployment until I am satisfied by not only our configuration, but the supporting elements of military forces in the area. In the spirit that has, I hope, largely featured in our exchanges, I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his constructive attitude, because I understand that this may be his last Defence questions as shadow Defence spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.682.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.687.5", "colnum": "687", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " Conservative Government imposed. Regiments were amalgamated, the naval fleet was reduced, the number of submarines was reduced, the number of frigates fell, naval personnel numbers were cut, and, during the 1992 to 1997 Tory Government, the number of RAF squadrons fell by 15 per cent. So the one thing that I will not do is take lectures from the Conservatives. I do not think that the 1930s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.687.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.689.4", "colnum": "689", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "Can I be nice to the right hon. and learned Gentleman and say that that was a lot of nonsense, rather than what was in my mind? Let us consider the Tory record on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.689.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Mr. Speaker. What we were left with in 1997 was a National Audit Office finding that the top 25 defence procurement projects were likely to cost over £3 billion more than originally forecast, and would on average enter service more than three years later than originally planned. That is what we inherited. What we seek to do by tackling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "I say now exactly what I said in Committee. Let us consider the example of six 18-year-old youngsters who have been to a 21st birthday party and are under the influence of alcohol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "Oh dear—the hon. Gentleman misses the point altogether. The people keeping that person awake all night are almost certainly drunk and disorderly, and the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who was a valued member of the Committee, is not doing himself justice. If the conduct amounts to a criminal offence, it is a criminal offence. I am in no doubt that he is familiar with sections 4, 4(1)(a) and 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, and he will doubtless intervene to tell me whether he believes that they cover the situation about which he is talking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "If a person in the street is drunk—I cannot make it much simpler than that—and is then disorderly, that is an offence of being drunk and disorderly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "mmittee B, 18 October 2005 ; c. 35.] Drinking banning orders may cross several fine lines, but we will have to see how they work in practice. I am inclined to give the Government the benefit of the doubt until we see how drinking banning orders work. The terms are ill defined, but I understand that the nuisance created in some cities has now gone beyond the pale and it is that mischief that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) just mentioned. New clause 1 and amendment No. 1 would reduce the minimum length of an antisocial behaviour order from two years to three months. It would remove all the provisions relating to drinking banning orders, on the basis that the Opposition feel it would be appropriate to use ASBOs rather than drinking banning orders in all circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "During the debate, I shall refer to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "rs. We do not need to discuss what constitutes an offensive weapon; we know that a knuckleduster, for instance, is an offensive weapon per se. On the other hand, items made or adapted for offensive purposes can also come under the definition of offensive weapons. A perfectly innocent item such as a baseball bat, or a cricket bat—I apologise to the cricketers among us, if there are any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-14", "file": "debates2005-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "0da7e4118d7203df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "ate today, there has been a complete absence of further explanation from the Government about what on earth they mean by the clause, so it is difficult for us to decide whether it is appropriate. Will the Minister make the clearest possible statement about clubs such as night clubs, where people predominantly go to dance—or do they? Do they go to such clubs for alcohol? I do not dance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-14b.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "ac298fbbbb8cfec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.813.6", "colnum": "813", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his reply. He will be aware of the by-election held in my constituency in Knightswood Park last week, where Labour received 55 per cent. of the vote. One of the main issues on the doorstep was the effect that drugs are having on the community.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.813.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "ac298fbbbb8cfec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "ac298fbbbb8cfec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": ". [Interruption.] One estimate of the impact of taking out the £1 billion to £2 billion that the Opposition promised—or should I say threatened—at the general election to invest in their patient's passport would be a reduction by 9,000 consultants in the staff of the NHS, a massive reduction in care for the NHS patients and a devastation of the NHS right across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "ac298fbbbb8cfec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.871.4", "colnum": "871", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "ey. We make no excuses for that; the formula is perfectly fair. We have also ensured locally based provision of health services through the PCTs. All hon. Members should welcome that. Conservative Members often talk about a small state and large people, yet suddenly today, they demand state interference at the most local level. Decisions about the local delivery of services should be made locally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.871.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "ac298fbbbb8cfec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "preceding_text": ", Boston closed, losing 59 beds—another disgrace. I held a debate in July this year, to which the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr. Byrne) replied—I see him in his place. I have to say that his response that day was at least more articulate and sensible than either of the two responses that I had received in the previous debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "ac298fbbbb8cfec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "preceding_text": "Trust is £8.1 million in deficit with a £20 million predicted shortfall this year. That has meant two ward closures and 59 beds lost at the Pilgrim hospital and 15 beds, including three palliative care beds, in the Scarborough ward closed on 1 November . As you can imagine, Mr. Deputy Speaker, there was absolute uproar in Skegness, resulting in very well attended public meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "ac298fbbbb8cfec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "No, it has not. The ministerial code was first published in 1997, and the hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to discuss that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15b.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.813.6", "colnum": "813", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his reply. He will be aware of the by-election held in my constituency in Knightswood Park last week, where Labour received 55 per cent. of the vote. One of the main issues on the doorstep was the effect that drugs are having on the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.813.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that when I come to make my speech, but I can tell the hon. Gentleman that he is wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.834.5", "colnum": "834", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "stand them. If he comes to a debate on NHS finance, he should at least take the trouble to understand the subject. The Secretary of State will admit, if she cares to, that the gross overspends reported in the NHS accounts—and I can go through them for the hon. Gentleman, if he wishes—were £630 million. If the right hon. Lady wants to deny that figure, I shall give way to her now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "Given the hon. Gentleman's complete failure to answer the question posed by my hon. Friend the Member for Normanton (Ed Balls) , may I ask him again whether he supported the patient's passport and the Conservative pledge to remove £2 billion from the NHS at the election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "No, I will finish my example before giving way. I know that the hon. Gentleman has received excellent health care and will readily give way to him in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "oint. [Interruption.] One estimate of the impact of taking out the £1 billion to £2 billion that the Opposition promised—or should I say threatened—at the general election to invest in their patient's passport would be a reduction by 9,000 consultants in the staff of the NHS, a massive reduction in care for NHS patients and a devastation of the NHS right across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.845.6", "colnum": "845", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "In my constituency, we have more than 1,000 extra doctors and nurses as a result of extra investment since 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.845.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has said that record investment has gone into the NHS, but my constituents are asking why the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has a £14 million deficit and why they face huge cuts to local hospital services despite paying record national insurance contributions. I was going to raise a point of order, but I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman showed great discretion at that point in his intervention. In a moment, I will discuss the underlying causes of the deficits in a relatively small minority of NHS organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.846.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.850.7", "colnum": "850", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Stand up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman like to repeat that comment? I will give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.850.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.852.5", "colnum": "852", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I want to make a point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.852.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman. His will be the first intervention from the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.853.6", "colnum": "853", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "On the matter of patient care, will my right hon. Friend confirm whether it is indeed the case, as my research has shown, that the number of MRI scans has increased under this Government from 473,000 in 1997–98 to 858,000 in 2003–04, and that the number of heart operations has increased from 39,000 to 65,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.853.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.853.6", "colnum": "853", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": ", will my right hon. Friend confirm whether it is indeed the case, as my research has shown, that the number of MRI scans has increased under this Government from 473,000 in 1997–98 to 858,000 in 2003–04, and that the number of heart operations has increased from 39,000 to 65,000— [Interruption.] The more Conservative Members go on, the more statistics I can read out about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.853.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.853.7", "colnum": "853", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I realise that the Government are suffering from the fact that they are labouring on Benches that are heaving with all of about half a dozen of their own Back Benchers, but is it in order for a Government Back Bencher to intervene or ask a question on the basis of reading a script that was overtly handed to him by one of his own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.853.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "lion out of the NHS to subsidise private health care for the few. That would not solve the deficits where they exist in the minority of trusts—it would add to them and devastate the care that the NHS is able to offer right across our country. That, of course, is absolutely in line with the Conservative policy of looking after the few and not the many. The investment that we are making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " of that. The debate is not genuinely about overall investment in the NHS but about certain people's concerns not being met because of a restructuring of the way in which health care is provided. Yet, if Conservative Members read some of the diaries of their right hon. and hon. Friends who used to be Ministers, they will realise that some of them openly admit political interference in the formula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.871.4", "colnum": "871", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "make no excuses for that; the formula is perfectly fair. We have also ensured locally based provision of health services through the PCTs. All hon. Members should welcome that. Conservative Members often talk about a small state and large people, yet suddenly today, they demand state interference at the most local level. Decisions about the local delivery of services should be made locally.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.871.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "preceding_text": "s in Pilgrim hospital, Boston closed, losing 59 beds—another disgrace. I held a debate in July this year, to which the Under-Secretary the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr. Byrne) replied—I see him in his place. I have to say that his response that day was at least more articulate and sensible than either of the two responses that I had received in the previous debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "preceding_text": "Trust is £8.1 million in deficit with a £20 million predicted shortfall this year. That has meant two ward closures and 59 beds lost at the Pilgrim hospital and 15 beds, including three palliative care beds, in the Scarborough ward closed on 1 November . As you can imagine, Mr. Deputy Speaker, there was absolute uproar in Skegness, resulting in very well attended public meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ill too many and we acknowledge that we have more to do, but we are the Government who will deliver a total patient waiting time, from beginning to end, of 18 weeks. With this Government, queues are being cut. With that lot on the Opposition Benches, queues would be jumped but only by the rich few. Only the Government will safeguard an NHS that is fair to everyone and personal to each of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "NHS Finance", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "er for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) might like to reflect on the fact that, when the Government came to office in 1997, there was a critical shortage of doctors and nurses because the Conservatives had cut training places for the future. Between 1979 and 1997, waiting lists increased by 400,000 and about 60,000 general and acute beds were cut. Don't you just love the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "No, it has not. The ministerial code was first published in 1997, and the hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to discuss that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.914.3", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I shall write to the hon. Lady. Time does not permit me to go through all seven.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": " not a deliberate attempt to commit the kind of criminal or fraudulent acts that were committed in a small number of cases over previous years. The Conservatives' strategy of suggesting that we are all the same reflects badly on all of us, and, it will not work. The public know which party was shrouded in the kind of sleaze that became endemic in the Conservative Government during the 1990s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Brandy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " have said, we should recognise that there have been advances since the time of the last Government, but the Minister should recognise that there are genuine concerns. The Minister referred to the comment by Sir John Major, the former Prime Minister, that he preferred to deal with breaches of the ministerial code by providing a glass of whisky and a pearl-handled revolver in a darkened room—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "hon. Members: \"Read them out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is one of the few who attended the whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.935.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-11-15", "file": "debates2005-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "d65900081e6c9139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 16 November , pursuant to Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-15c.939.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aeef13ed7b3edc39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, let me thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his advice—I am sure that it is kindly meant. But let me give him some advice. When he wins an election, then he can give advice to someone who has won three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aeef13ed7b3edc39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "osition for a very simple reason, and it is as well that we are absolutely frank about that. It is the investigating agency, then it is the adjudicating agency, and then it is the enforcement agency. That is an extremely difficult situation, and the staff who have to work in the present system do so in conditions of very great difficulty. The right hon. Gentleman should remember why the CSA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aeef13ed7b3edc39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.964.4", "colnum": "964", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What are you going to do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y difficult to make this operation cost-effective when the agency is the investigating, adjudicating and enforcing authority. Furthermore, in the majority of cases that the agency deals with, the child concerned is the product neither of a married relationship nor of a stable partnership. All I am saying is that the task that we are asking the agency to perform is an extremely difficult one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.964.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aeef13ed7b3edc39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "even he could not sort this out. I received a letter from UK Visas on 21 March 2005 , which stated: \"Although at the time of Fr Okora's application the Entry Clearance Officer was satisfied that Fr Okora met the other student criteria, the Institute of St Anselm was not at that time\"— this is 2005— \"on the list of recognised educational establishments.\" This is three years later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aeef13ed7b3edc39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "m sub-Saharan Africa and many from Iraq. Most of them were studying agriculture, and many went on to study for an MSc or PhD. They would probably not be allowed to do that now, because their time would be up. In March this year, I met two members of the Iraqi Cabinet who had studied in Wales, but it will be far more difficult for such people to study here in future, which is a great sadness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aeef13ed7b3edc39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "to provide a notice of appeal in a prescribed manner; it is necessary merely to file the notice. If it is on the back of an envelope and reads \"I wish to appeal against the sentence because I thought it was very tough\", that is good enough. Amendment No. 15 relates to appeal against the penalty. I thought for a moment that the Minister was asking me to give way, but it seems that he is not.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman has a problem with the boundaries, he should speak to those who set them up in 1994—it was the Conservatives who set up Government offices. What the regional assemblies do is for the first time give local people, local councillors and local business people the chance to have a say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.960.10", "colnum": "960", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that for the 11th year in a row, the European Union budget has been found to be riddled with waste, fraud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.960.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.961.4", "colnum": "961", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for that answer, but the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.961.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ad of the Department for Work and Pensions. It was a relatively well known change at the time. As a result of that, the Green Paper has been delayed and will be published in January. I hope very much that it will command support not just on the Government Benches, but from the Opposition. Action is necessary to cure the situation where, under the previous Government, of whom he was a member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to debate education with the right hon. and learned Gentleman, the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e to office, he was part of a Government who cut education funding per pupil. This Government have raised education funding to its highest level—we have got 30,000 more teachers and 100,000 more classroom assistants, and results at 11, at 16 and at 18 are all up. The education White Paper is important, because it will continue to give opportunities to children who do not currently have them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " highest level—we have got 30,000 more teachers and 100,000 more classroom assistants, and results at 11, at 16 and at 18 are all up. The education White Paper is important, because it will continue to give opportunities to children who do not currently have them. [Interruption.] It may be tough, but we will see it through, because since 1997 this is the party that has cared about education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.962.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "osition for a very simple reason, and it is as well that we are absolutely frank about that. It is the investigating agency, then it is the adjudicating agency, and then it is the enforcement agency. That is an extremely difficult situation, and the staff who have to work in the present system do so in conditions of very great difficulty. The right hon. Gentleman should remember why the CSA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.964.4", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What are you going to do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y difficult to make this operation cost-effective when the agency is the investigating, adjudicating and enforcing authority. Furthermore, in the majority of cases that the agency deals with, the child concerned is the product neither of a married relationship nor of a stable partnership. All I am saying is that the task that we are asking the agency to perform is an extremely difficult one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.964.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am looking around the Chamber, but I am afraid I am not getting a great deal of help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " only a fairly loose promise that the Government will not prosecute in the future. It certainly does not address the range of difficulties facing the overstayer, or the issues we raised in Committee. The Minister must forgive me, but I feel that he has led us—or certainly me—down the garden path a little. I was heartened by what I thought was his real intention to amend the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": " even he could not sort this out. I received a letter from UKvisas on 21 March 2005 , which stated: \"Although at the time of Fr Okora's application the Entry Clearance Officer was satisfied that Fr Okora met the other student criteria, the Institute of St Anselm was not at that time\"— this is 2005— \"on the list of recognised educational establishments.\" This is three years later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "om sub-Saharan Africa and many from Iraq. Most of them were studying agriculture, and many went on to study for an MSc or PhD. They would probably not be allowed to do that now because their time would be up. In March this year, I met two members of the Iraqi Cabinet who had studied in Wales, but it will be far more difficult for such people to study here in future, which is a great sadness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I take that point, which is germane to what I just said about the link between commencement orders and other matters. However, I shall not go down that road. I think most fair-minded people would accept that the position is not as clear-cut as \"successful appeal equals bad initial decision\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "Not in the context of this Bill, I say very strongly. Let me say in gentler terms that the hon. Gentleman's membership of the Joint Committee makes him no more an expert in human rights than membership of the House makes anyone a parliamentarian. That takes work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now move on to new clause 2, with which it will be convenient to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I, of course, never ever doubt your guidance in respect of our proceedings, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " rates and, if so, at what level does he expect them to be? That is all I want to ask at this stage, but I reiterate to the Minister that, given the spirit of our conduct of the proceedings, I would have expected a new clause of this nature to be accompanied by an explanatory document, at least for members of the Committee, rather than relying on the Minister's slightly cursory introduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": " to provide a notice of appeal in a prescribed manner; it is necessary merely to file the notice. If it is on the back of an envelope and reads \"I wish to appeal against the sentence because I thought it was very tough\", that is good enough. Amendment No. 15 relates to appeal against the penalty. I thought for a moment that the Minister was asking me to give way, but it seems that he is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-16", "file": "debates2005-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "447425ac0965555d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "not be sensible to accept the amendment, nor amendment No. 9, which would effectively exempt overstayers from the illegal working provisions. To exempt overstayers would be a counter-productive step that would undermine the scheme. The hon. Gentleman may know that a high proportion of the people who are picked up during operations tend to be overstayers. The hon. Gentleman asked about enforcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-16b.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1096.4", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "Great progress has been made in tackling the risk of flooding in Somerset and the Government deserve a share of the credit for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "e contributing. However, I am not suggesting to the House for a moment—neither was my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister yesterday—that there are no further issues of reform, improvement and streamlining the system that do not need addressing. That is why there is a review, and it is why that review must improve still further the arrangements for child support. As for ID cards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1109.4", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the passion with which he raises individual constituency cases. I suspect that it reflects a contrast between the areas that Opposition Members represent, with mile-long drives, and the sort of constituency that is represented on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1109.4", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "sion with which he raises individual constituency cases. I suspect that it reflects a contrast between the areas that Opposition Members represent, with mile-long drives, and the sort of constituency that is represented on this side of the House— [Interruption.] Under a Labour Government, of course, there will be more people with mile-long drives, and that is why I take very seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree with the hon. Lady's final observation, not least because a careful and even-handed assessment is made of the way in which local authority finance is distributed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "Let me try to deal with all the hon. Gentleman's major points. From what appeared on the BBC this morning, I had an idea, in broad terms, that the media had got hold of the information. I was not best pleased, as I do everything to ensure that I come to the House first with such information. I am not accountable for speculation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": " duties on our behalf. When we left, every member of the Select Committee felt the same. However, there is a difference between being able to undertake duties with professionalism and commitment and being given duties and responsibilities that people should not have to accept. I intend to discuss that this afternoon. I agreed almost entirely with the opening speech from the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "w himself up, taking a lot of other people with him. That is an enemy very different from any that we have seen before. Much fundamental thought needs to be given to how to defeat such a terrorist. Do we do so by shooting him? Can we defeat him through direct, conventional operations? To some degree, of course, we can. If we can shoot Saddam Hussein—sorry, I meant to say the terrorist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "f my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (Robert Key) , I, too, liked the conservation part of the report in relation to training errors. He was the only person really to congratulate the Government—on MOD policy on looking after Salisbury Plain. As a young man lying on Salisbury Plain in the middle of the night, I remember watching badgers through a night sight, and it was great fun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "vernment. As I said on Monday, I fear that they are undermining the loyalty and trust that should exist both ways between our armed forces personnel and their political commanders. When he sums up, will the Minister comment on the following extract from an article in Monday's The Daily Telegraph ? I know that he probably does not read that newspaper, but if it were a quote from The Guardian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "ther 3,300. I pay tribute to the service families associations for the full part that they play in helping us to devise our policies. It is appropriate that I say something about the reserves and the regular forces together, because together is exactly how they serve in our modern forces. On the numbers in the reserves, we have witnessed Opposition Members shed a quantity of crocodile tears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "05fa6d3e2cb5420a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "etirement. He has made a considerable contribution as a Member of the House, an Opposition spokesman and a Minister. I endorse warmly the comments that have been made on both sides of House at his last appearance at the Dispatch Box. The right hon. and learned Gentleman alleged that the Government were responsible for cutting the defence budget. When his party was in power, defence spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that supermarket lorries go the equivalent of the distance to the moon and back twice every day in this country, which makes an enormous contribution to climate change?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1096.4", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "Great progress has been made in tackling the risk of flooding in Somerset and the Government deserve a share of the credit for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "e contributing. However, I am not suggesting to the House for a moment—neither was my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister yesterday—that there are no further issues of reform, improvement and streamlining the system that do not need addressing. That is why there is a review, and it is why that review must improve still further the arrangements for child support. As for ID cards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1109.4", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the passion with which he raises individual constituency cases. I suspect that it reflects a contrast between the areas that Opposition Members represent, with mile-long drives, and the sort of constituency that is represented by Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1109.4", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": " the passion with which he raises individual constituency cases. I suspect that it reflects a contrast between the areas that Opposition Members represent, with mile-long drives, and the sort of constituency that is represented by Labour Members— [Interruption.] Under a Labour Government, of course, there will be more people with mile-long drives, and that is why I take very seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue yet again. I am certainly aware of the strength of feeling. I do not wish to rehearse regularly the detail and content of the Labour party's manifesto, although it was a hugely popular document for which the great majority of people voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree with the hon. Lady's final observation, not least because a careful and even-handed assessment is made of the way in which local authority finance is distributed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": " Defence would come to the House this afternoon and report that the new joint combat aircraft would be kept at RAF Lossiemouth, that the Nimrods would stay at Kinloss and that the new Typhoon would go to Leuchars. Presumably that is an accurate report, so will the Leader of the House pressure his Cabinet colleagues to ensure that such disgraceful leaks to the media do not occur before a statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House congratulated my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Defence Airfields Review", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "Let me try to deal with all the hon. Gentleman's major points. From what appeared on the BBC this morning, I had an idea, in broad terms, that the media had got hold of the information. I was not best pleased, as I do everything to ensure that I come to the House first with such information. I am not accountable for speculation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Defence Airfields Review", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "e Union flag the \"butcher's apron\". I have asked him to repudiate that time and again, and he has not done so. I well understand the importance of this matter to the hon. Gentleman's area, and where we have made decisions that have adversely affected other areas, there have also been strong campaigns. This is not, as he said, a victory for common sense, but a victory for what is right for defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I should point out before we start this debate that it is incumbent on everybody in the Chamber to use moderate language in discussing these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1140.5", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "s sometime argued that the changes that we are making are having a detrimental effect, the recruitment figures make salutary reading. Numbers for the Black Watch, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Royal Highland Fusiliers are up compared with the same time last year. That is hardly an indication that the new Royal Regiment of Scotland is proving to be the problem that some claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1140.7", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I have given the ones that are doing well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1140.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "We need to look at things proportionally. We could have party knockabout—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "We need to look at things proportionally. We could have party knockabout—[Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"] I have been advised that it is not the desired way to proceed. Under the previous Conservative Administration, there were massive cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "le moles appear out of a board, and one tries to hit them in order to score. If one does not hit them, one does not score. It was put to me that a lot of the counter-insurgency work in Iraq is a matter of reacting to where the insurgent appears. I have been told that the Pentagon is examining the oil-spot concept, which we should examine too, in order to begin to establish stability on the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": " duties on our behalf. When we left, every member of the Select Committee felt the same. However, there is a difference between being able to undertake duties with professionalism and commitment and being given duties and responsibilities that people should not have to accept. I intend to discuss that this afternoon. I agreed almost entirely with the opening speech from the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "w himself up, taking a lot of other people with him. That is an enemy very different from any that we have seen before. Much fundamental thought needs to be given to how to defeat such a terrorist. Do we do so by shooting him? Can we defeat him through direct, conventional operations? To some degree, of course, we can. If we can shoot Saddam Hussein—sorry, I meant to say the terrorist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "f my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (Robert Key) , I, too, liked the conservation part of the report in relation to training errors. He was the only person really to congratulate the Government—on MOD policy on looking after Salisbury plain. As a young man lying on Salisbury plain in the middle of the night, I remember watching badgers through a night sight, and it was great fun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "vernment. As I said on Monday, I fear that they are undermining the loyalty and trust that should exist both ways between our armed forces personnel and their political commanders. When he sums up, will the Minister comment on the following extract from an article in Monday's The Daily Telegraph ? I know that he probably does not read that newspaper, but if it were a quote from The Guardian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "ther 3,300. I pay tribute to the service families associations for the full part that they play in helping us to devise our policies. It is appropriate that I say something about the reserves and the regular forces together, because together is exactly how they serve in our modern forces. On the numbers in the reserves, we have witnessed Opposition Members shed a quantity of crocodile tears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-17", "file": "debates2005-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "efb281b2ad04fb87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "etirement. He has made a considerable contribution as a Member of the House, an Opposition spokesman and a Minister. I endorse warmly the comments that have been made on both sides of House at his last appearance at the Dispatch Box. The right hon. and learned Gentleman alleged that the Government were responsible for cutting the defence budget. When his party was in power, defence spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-17b.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "20e20fc0fa6a4168", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1242.10", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "have no institutional support; for example, there is no such support for human rights, sexual orientation, religion and belief, or age. Moreover, and as I just pointed out, white working-class boys do not necessarily figure so far as the existing commissions are concerned. This is a question of equality, which is why we are bringing the commissions together. The overall budget will increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1242.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "20e20fc0fa6a4168", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1257.0", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I call it, antediluvian chuntering and reactionary chatter on the Conservative Back Benches was absent, and it is a great pity that that element has turned up today. Conservative Front Benchers should be supported in their attempts to change the views of their Back-Bench colleagues, but on the basis of today's evidence, the hon. Member for Epping Forest has a long way to go. I wish her well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "20e20fc0fa6a4168", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": " I welcome the Government's attitude towards the Bill and the spirit in which they have worked with all the stakeholders and agencies involved. Talking to people in preparation for the debate has been illuminating because most of the organisations seem fairly happy with what has been achieved so far. That makes it a challenge for Opposition Members to come up with major points of difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "20e20fc0fa6a4168", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1291.8", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "Evangelical Christian groups want the freedom to proclaim the gospel wherever they go, and I have no problem with that. Secularist groups cannot bear to be preached at; they find all religion abhorrent—so be it—but how will the commission decide which interests come first? I give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1291.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "20e20fc0fa6a4168", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1291.8", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "s want the freedom to proclaim the gospel wherever they go, and I have no problem with that. Secularist groups cannot bear to be preached at; they find all religion abhorrent—so be it—but how will the commission decide which interests come first? I give way. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Amber Valley (Judy Mallaber) has obviously decided that she does not want to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1291.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "20e20fc0fa6a4168", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "Absolutely, and much clearer about being tolerant. That was omitted on this occasion. I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman's comments about the normal character and demeanour of the hon. Member for Castle Point. I am sorry he is not in his place to hear me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1242.10", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "have no institutional support; for example, there is no such support for human rights, sexual orientation, religion and belief, or age. Moreover, and as I just pointed out, white working-class boys do not necessarily figure so far as the existing commissions are concerned. This is a question of equality, which is why we are bringing the commissions together. The overall budget will increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1242.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1252.4", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Yes, I agree with my hon. Friend. His poetic way of expressing his view is excellent, and I hope that he will forgive me if I steal his words to use in future discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1252.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1257.0", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I call it, antediluvian chuntering and reactionary chatter on the Conservative Back Benches was absent, and it is a great pity that that element has turned up today. Conservative Front Benchers should be supported in their attempts to change the views of their Back-Bench colleagues, but on the basis of today's evidence, the hon. Member for Epping Forest has a long way to go. I wish her well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": " I welcome the Government's attitude towards the Bill and the spirit in which they have worked with all the stakeholders and agencies involved. Talking to people in preparation for the debate has been illuminating because most of the organisations seem fairly happy with what has been achieved so far. That makes it a challenge for Opposition Members to come up with major points of difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "ee at an early stage if it and the experts deem it fit. Other points that I wished to raise have been made by other hon. Members, so I will be interested to hear the response to them. Finally, I come to arguably the most controversial part of my speech. Hon. Members might be aware that a decision on the location of the headquarters of the commission for equality and human rights is imminent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1292.9", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ladies first?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1292.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1293.5", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "The Bill outlaws harassment by public authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Judy Mallaber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Judy Mallaber", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "Absolutely, and much clearer about being tolerant. That was omitted on this occasion. I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman's comments about the normal character and demeanour of the hon. Member for Castle Point. I am sorry he is not in his place to hear me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-21", "file": "debates2005-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "5e3318a060364eae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords] — Order for Second Reading read.", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Bill. I, too, am proud of the work of Labour Governments over 30 years and, as we heard, of even earlier decades, in bringing forward legislation to promote and ensure equality and diversity. I also welcome the establishment of the commission for equality and human rights, which I naturally hope will be based in Manchester, or even nearby Salford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-21b.1314.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1365.4", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "If we are serious about addressing disease prevention and public health, we must engage in a debate that moves spending into communities, so that we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ices, show that at the end of October—these are the latest figures that I have—the uptake of the flu vaccine was very similar indeed to that for last year. If one looks, for instance, at the figures for the over-65s, one sees that, by the end of October this year, 48.9 per cent. had been vaccinated. By the end of October last year, the figure for elderly people was in fact 55 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1392.3", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "Only the hon. Gentleman, or perhaps some of his colleagues, could claim that an increase of 120,000 is a downward trend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I think we are talking about different things—unless the Government have made an announcement of a change of policy to the hon. Gentleman that he has not announced to the House. That is always possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1395.3", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is nodding. And others have said that cutting benefit is not part of the Government's reforms. And yet we know—unless the right hon. Gentleman will tell us that this is not true—that on Monday 10 October , \"Channel 4 News\" reported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "t made in February, she must share my disappointment that it will be three years at least before those measures come into force. Indeed, that raises another question: the date of 2008 was given in February, but we have now had a six-month delay in the publication of the Green Paper. So we must now assume that it is highly likely that it will be 2009, not 2008, before the proposals are implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I am talking about incapacity benefit at the moment. I will be happy to deal with those matters on another occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1398.9", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": ", the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside, who admitted that the system over which he presided was, to use his own delicate word, \"crackers\". If those are simply the views of ex-Ministers and the Secretary of State will be influenced only by those of his current colleagues, he need look no further than the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform, the right hon. Member for Barking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1398.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1405.5", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed. I look forward to accepting my hon. Friend's invitation. I hope that he is aware that my right hon. Friend the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform is due to visit his constituency—tomorrow, I believe, but either way she is on her way to South Wales. That is my first decision. When we came into office in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "preceding_text": "No; I am about to finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "I was a bit surprised. I also thank the Opposition for tabling this motion on welfare reform, and on incapacity benefit in particular, because it gives Labour Members a great opportunity to showcase the many developments that we have seen since 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1430.6", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "g (Mrs. McGuire) , and I have done that. Indeed, our new Secretary of State has already visited several groups that would be affected by the proposals that we shall put before the House and the country when we publish our Green Paper. The debate has given us the facts with which to judge which political party is fit to tackle welfare reform. The simple fact is that we are completely divided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1430.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1430.6", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Welfare Reform and Incapacity Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": " that we shall put before the House and the country when we publish our Green Paper. The debate has given us the facts with which to judge which political party is fit to tackle welfare reform. The simple fact is that we are completely divided— [Laughter.] No, we are completely divided across political parties on the reasons behind the programme of welfare reform and the purpose of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1430.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Eighteen minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been speaking for eight minutes, and I cannot see the consensus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1451.0", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"And achievements.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "In the Minister's long list of the Government's efforts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": " I do not share all the Conservatives' views on the environment, and they do not share mine or those of my colleagues. That is not a requirement. We are not entering a coalition or seeking to agree every dot and comma for a joint Administration. We are setting off down the road and seeing how far we can get with a common policy. At some point, we will fork off and go in different directions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-22", "file": "debates2005-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "b2eba6559ead3e63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1480.5", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that we are investing in a new Department of Trade and Industry scheme to replace the clear skies programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-22c.1480.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "60ada151ebf2b19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1509.3", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman seriously suggests that we should have a planned economy, in which the Government buy in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "60ada151ebf2b19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1509.3", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman seriously suggests that we should have a planned economy, in which the Government buy in— [Interruption.] Perhaps that is what he is suggesting. Let me just tell him the facts. UK energy prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "60ada151ebf2b19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I can explain very simply why. I do not want this process to jam up the existing courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "60ada151ebf2b19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1549.6", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "If people are eligible for legal aid, of course, they will get legal aid, but they must be eligible for it. I have already explained the processes involved in the procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "60ada151ebf2b19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes and sympathise with it in many respects. However, will he table an amendment to the Bill to remove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "60ada151ebf2b19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "preceding_text": "ld stand to benefit from the early release scheme if they were convicted. As part of the package of measures proposed at Weston Park last July the Government made a commitment to take steps to resolve this issue.\"—[ Official Report , 11 March 2002; Vol. 381, c. 705W .] What we see today is part of the Government keeping true to that commitment and not hiding from very difficult issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23b.1592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1504.2", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "r before, but the private sector is too small compared with the public sector, and there is therefore a question of sustainability.\" The business community wants a Secretary of State and a Government who recognise that and want to expand small businesses and the private sector, as indeed we do. It will invest in Northern Ireland more readily in the knowledge that the Government have that strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1509.3", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman seriously suggests that we should have a planned economy, in which the Government buy in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1509.3", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman seriously suggests that we should have a planned economy, in which the Government buy in— [Interruption.] Perhaps that is what he is suggesting. Let me just tell him the facts. UK energy prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1514.5", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "If what my hon. Friend says is correct about the Liberal Democrats, then it is an extraordinary thing for even them to do and I am shocked by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1514.10", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Gas Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I should point out that I am not the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1514.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Gas Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I do not understand the reference to presentational problems, because the issue is top of the Energy Council agenda next week. We have put it there and we have consistently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1522.3", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Gas Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "My own Member of Parliament has asked me an important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I understand the powerful arguments that have been made about the matter. We are trying to strike a difficult balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend asks why. The decision was made to get closure not least for the victims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.7", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That will happen if people are convicted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.7", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That will happen if people are convicted— [Interruption.] There may not be sufficient evidence to convict them, but if they are convicted, they will have a criminal record and have to give DNA and other intimate samples. There will at least be such accounting and closure for the victims.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.7", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That will happen if people are convicted— [Interruption.] There may not be sufficient evidence to convict them, but if they are convicted, they will have a criminal record and have to give DNA and other intimate samples. There will at least be such accounting and closure for the victims.— [Interruption.] I understand—we are all in the same boat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.7", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " happen if people are convicted— [Interruption.] There may not be sufficient evidence to convict them, but if they are convicted, they will have a criminal record and have to give DNA and other intimate samples. There will at least be such accounting and closure for the victims.— [Interruption.] I understand—we are all in the same boat. [Hon. Members: \"We are not.\"] We are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1530.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1531.2", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1532.3", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I find that suggestion reprehensible. The problem that my right hon. Friend and others are refusing to face up to is that these people are not being brought to justice now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1532.5", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ll recall the absolute outcry when the Conservative Government started talking to the IRA. Those early negotiations began a process— which this legislation is concluding—which led to the statement by the IRA on 28 July that no one here ever thought that it would make, namely, that it was giving up its armed, vicious, murderous terrorist campaign. The Bill is part of that process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1532.5", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ions began a process— which this legislation is concluding—which led to the statement by the IRA on 28 July that no one here ever thought that it would make, namely, that it was giving up its armed, vicious, murderous terrorist campaign. The Bill is part of that process— [Interruption.] Well, it is, because it is part of the process agreed with the Irish Government in 2003—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is correct to the extent that the Bill did not flow from the Belfast agreement—the Good Friday agreement. He said earlier today that it was negotiated well before I started my job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1537.3", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "If individuals who appear before the special court are convicted—the hon. Gentleman will understand that that will depend on the evidence—they will have a criminal record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1537.3", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "em of justice. Let me also deal with the point about comfort. As I have said, I understand the anger of victims, but there is no comfort for them at all under present circumstances in which many of the people likely to come through the process are outside UK jurisdiction and evading justice. They will continue to evade justice, as far as anyone can see, for ever. Compared with that position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1538.0", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Some in absentia trials do occur, but I recognise the hon. Lady's point. Defendants might well choose to appear before the special court because they do not want the sentence that would result from the conviction. I repeat the point that I made and reconfirm that no assurance was given in writing to the IRA about this specific matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1538.4", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ers of the security forces at all. I took the view that, leaving aside the question of whether the Bill is right or wrong in principle—clearly, the hon. Gentleman and many of his colleagues oppose it—if we were to proceed with legislation that we believed to be essential, it would be entirely wrong for members of the security forces in the course of their duty to find themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1539.2", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The Good Friday agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1539.2", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " that and I appreciate the strong feelings involved, the anguish of the victims and the anger felt among elected Members of Parliament of all parties in Northern Ireland. I appreciate all that, but to reach a position in which the IRA has ended its vicious war and terrorist campaign required us to introduce, among other things, the Bill before us. That is the reason for introducing the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "For the historical record, the hon. Gentleman must know that one of the reasons the Democratic Unionist party opposed the Good Friday agreement was that it did not bring closure to the IRA's terrorist campaign. We have now done that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1540.5", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Why? It is because we made an agreement to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1540.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1544.0", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but that is factually incorrect. First, if the individuals responsible for Warrenpoint are identified, arrested and prosecuted as a result of the Chief Constable's historic inquiries investigation, it is only the first stage. They cannot opt to enter this process until they have been arrested and charged and, in that sense, brought to justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1544.4", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Mr. Donaldson) has raised an important point and I am glad that he seeks clarification of it from me. The soldiers could choose to take advantage of what for them could be a beneficial process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Londonderry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I know the sensitivity in the hon. Gentleman's constituency and the city of Derry about this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I know the sensitivity in the hon. Gentleman's constituency and the city of Derry about this matter—[Hon. Members: \"Londonderry.\"] Well, it depends on which side of the community one sits. I call it both in order to take matters forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1546.4", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "at the right hon. Gentleman is opposed to the legislation and that he will vote against it. Of course he will. But I find it absolutely extraordinary, particularly as he is a former Defence spokesman for the Conservative party, that he could put members of our armed forces—perhaps serving members—in a position where they were discriminated against compared with former terrorists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1546.6", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I have been on my feet for an hour and 10 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1546.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I can explain very simply why. I do not want this process to jam up the existing courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1549.6", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "If people are eligible for legal aid, of course, they will get legal aid, but they must be eligible for it. I have already explained the processes involved in the procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes and sympathise with it in many respects. However, will he table an amendment to the Bill to remove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1553.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1578.4", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "Was this on-the-runs stuff not in the comprehensive agreement of a year ago? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Well, it was very clear to most of us that there was some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1578.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1594.2", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "preceding_text": "I have not been party to those discussions, but my answer is very similar to the one that I gave to the previous intervention: it is that I believe that it is necessary to move forward so that there is a reduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1596.0", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have been to Northern Ireland. My viewpoint as a Member of Parliament is no less valid—and no more valid—than any other Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "he bombs in the London tube, and let us not pretend otherwise. If those people who, on Remembrance Sunday 1987—this is seared on my memory; I shall never forget it—blew apart a community as it sought to honour its dead and created more dead are not prepared to say that they are sorry for what they have done, they are not really fit to sit down with the rest of us in a democratic forum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-23", "file": "debates2005-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "91c7b754888c283a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "405, c. 798 .] Has the Secretary of State discussed the Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill in detail with the Home Office, because the special tribunal, the certification commissioner, the special appeal tribunal and the special prosecutor probably amount, in his mind at least, to a trial? He has been trying to persuade the rest of us of that case without success, bar with a few hon. Members.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-23c.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-24", "file": "debates2005-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d7dff7b37f9efa32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24a.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "e for the entertainment that he provides, no doubt after scouring the pages of many local newspapers to produce the information that he sets before the House. As for the specific points that he made, I make it clear that the Government regard the debate about police reform as a matter of great importance. We could hold the debate in Westminster Hall before Christmas if the Opposition insist on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-24", "file": "debates2005-11-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4a688f6205bb172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24b.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Ashok Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ashok Kumar", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend should take no notice of the Conservative party, because when it was in power it could not care less about truancy. I praise the Government for giving our council tremendous support in tackling truancy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24b.1653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-24", "file": "debates2005-11-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4a688f6205bb172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24b.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows from the various parliamentary answers I have given him recently, Ofsted changed the way in which it measures grouping by ability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24b.1655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-24", "file": "debates2005-11-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4a688f6205bb172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24b.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "e for the entertainment that he provides, no doubt after scouring the pages of many local newspapers to produce the information that he sets before the House. As for the specific points that he made, I make it clear that the Government regard the debate about police reform as a matter of great importance. We could hold the debate in Westminster Hall before Christmas if the Opposition insist on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24b.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-24", "file": "debates2005-11-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4a688f6205bb172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24b.1683.2", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "have also taken place, with the creation of food standards agencies, competition regulators, labour inspectorates and even insurance market supervisors. That will, I believe, help UK firms doing business in and with those two countries. The prospect of EU membership has given a major impetus to ongoing improvements in both states' environmental policies and their health and safety standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-24b.1683.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. The essence of our proposals would have made it possible for non-smokers to be in a smoke-free environment. They would also have made it possible for smokers to continue to be in smoke-filled environments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": " behalf of a company in my constituency. Does my hon. Friend agree that there should be an exemption under clause 3 for certain workplaces involved in the tobacco trade? A business in my constituency, Hunters and Frankau, is a specialist importer of cigars, but under the Bill, it will not be able to test its products on its premises. The business is located in one of Britain's most deprived wards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "rs of Parliament are perfectly capable of dealing with, and it is not proper to use whipping to try to constrain people to exercise their judgment contrary to their conscience. The official Opposition will have a free vote, and I hope that the Secretary of State will take the opportunity to say that she has thought hard and concluded that there should be a free vote on the Government side as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.168.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Laxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Laxton", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Forth) , who could by no stretch of the imagination be described as a zealot about anything, I admit to being a bit of a zealot when it comes to smoking. Indeed, I have been a virulent anti-smoker for many years. If someone put my name into Google or looked me up in \"Who's Who\", they would see that I once described smoking as a dirty, filthy, stinking, antisocial, expensive, bourgeois habit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Etherington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Etherington", "preceding_text": "ication and more profound thought on this issue. It is quite a complex subject; it is not just about banning or not banning, but about thinking about how to satisfy people and make progress. We need more education, and we should try to imbue young people's minds with the disadvantages of smoking. I am a smoker myself, although I am a bit of an oddity, because I did not smoke until I was about 45 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.203.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend and her ministerial colleagues to imagine that the House had legislated on clause 3 exemptions and stated that drinking and driving was illegal, but said, \"Well, after 2 am, it will not be, because there are not many cars on the road\". Imagine if we made seatbelts compulsory, except in cars whose drivers had more than 30 years' experience and a clean licence. Another parallel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "r. Taylor) is a self-confessed anti-smoking zealot. He talked about the Clean Air Act 1956. I am pleased about that because that Act was introduced by a Conservative Government. He continued to give us a tour de force of the rest of the Bill—quite a task, given its complexity. The hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) is one of the two supporters of the Government whom I counted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I hope that, as I proceed, they will understand what we are trying to achieve with a focused package not just on smoking, but on tackling health inequalities across the piece. Given the comments by the hon. Members for Westbury (Dr. Murrison) and for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley), who had some difficulty earlier in describing Conservative party policy, I am still not clear about their policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-29", "file": "debates2005-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "78e7ba936eb36957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "k, Norway and practically every country in the European Union. Let us not forget that Ireland also has exemptions. In response to hon. Members who mentioned Northern Ireland, I acknowledge that there was a consultation, but I have yet to see a public survey based on those conducted by the Government and ASH, through MORI and other companies, in which the public were directly asked for their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-29c.234.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b8cba3c4f46606c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "d of this month, there will be a six-month maximum wait; by the end of 2008, an 18-week maximum from the GPs' surgery right through to the operating theatre. These are the changes that are being made. But, of course, how the money is spent is best done at local level. For the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends to say that nothing in the health service has improved over these past few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b8cba3c4f46606c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that we will get the right mix of services for the hon. Gentleman's constituency and others. He knows why the campus could not go ahead, but that should not detract from the fact that hundreds of millions of pounds of extra money are going into hospital building. The real-terms increase for the health authority in his area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b8cba3c4f46606c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "t go ahead, but that should not detract from the fact that hundreds of millions of pounds of extra money are going into hospital building. The real-terms increase for the health authority in his area— [Interruption.] I know that Opposition Members do not want to hear about the increases in health spending, but they are going to. I do not know why a Minister did not go to the committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b8cba3c4f46606c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "if he may have sometimes disagreed. I congratulate the Minister on his erudite and entertaining approach, even though we have sometimes had to endure the slings and arrows of bitter words. Only this afternoon, he accused the Liberal Democrats of being a pick-and-mix party in terms of our policies. Were I a vicious man, I would point out that at least I am not pick-and-mix in my party affiliations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "It was a temptation that I could not resist, Mr. Speaker. I apologise. Wales is addressing its problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.251.7", "colnum": "251", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Si�n James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n James", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend share my concern about the deterioration of punctuality and reliability on First Great Western trains from Swansea? At the beginning of November the managing director was forced to apologise to her customers \"for the recent deterioration in performance levels of service\". Today she has had to apologise again. Between 1997 and the end of the current financial year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.251.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "land, for example, where licensing hours were extended substantially some years ago, focused on the question of evidence of alcohol-related disorder. Extended opening hours do not necessarily mean that alcohol consumption is increased. The powers that the new Act gives to local councils and the police should stop licensees abusing their position and selling alcohol to people who have had too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, let me tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman what he can expect in retirement, thanks to this Government. There is the winter fuel payment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, let me tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman what he can expect in retirement, thanks to this Government. There is the winter fuel payment—[Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"] There is the council tax rebate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.258.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ned Gentleman what he can expect in retirement, thanks to this Government. There is the winter fuel payment—[Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"] There is the council tax rebate—[Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"] There is the reduced VAT on fuel—[Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"] There are the restored free eye tests—[Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"] Once he is over 75, there is a free television licence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "d of this month, there will be a six-month maximum wait; by the end of 2008, an 18-week maximum from the GPs' surgery right through to the operating theatre. These are the changes that are being made. But, of course, how the money is spent is best done at local level. For the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends to say that nothing in the health service has improved over these past few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that we will get the right mix of services for the hon. Gentleman's constituency and others. He knows why the campus could not go ahead, but that should not detract from the fact that hundreds of millions of pounds of extra money is going into hospital building. The real-terms increase for the health authority in his area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ot go ahead, but that should not detract from the fact that hundreds of millions of pounds of extra money is going into hospital building. The real-terms increase for the health authority in his area— [Interruption.] I know that Opposition Members do not want to hear about the increases in health spending, but they are going to. I do not know why a Minister did not go to the committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.266.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "In my own way, I do not know why a Minister did not attend, and I will write to the hon. Gentleman and tell him why. There you go—that is one in two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Pensions Commission Report", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "nsensus, if that is possible, on the issue of pensions. People's security and future sense of stability will be assisted if such a national consensus can be achieved. The Secretary of State should recognise that the origins of the Turner commission lie in the savings crisis. Does he agree with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, which has said that the single most important contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Pensions Commission Report", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "the responsible thing to do. As far as I am aware, the only people who have pre-empted any of Lord Turner's recommendations are the hon. Gentleman and his party, and I am afraid that, in true Liberal Democratic fashion, they got it hopelessly wrong. The hon. Gentleman's principal proposals on citizens' pensions were expressly rejected by the Pensions Commission, as we read on page 9 of the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Pensions Commission Report", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I am afraid to say that the hon. Gentleman needs to learn a lot more about this subject before he makes another contribution. It is much more complicated than that, and if he wants to study it further he should perhaps look at the Pensions Policy Institute's recent work on the alleged £5 billion figure. It is complicated, in the first place by increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeffrey M Donaldson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeffrey M Donaldson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and I have to say that, on the same day as the First Reading of the Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill, the Government were asking the House to support a measure that sought to extend the period of detention to 90 days—a clear example of the double standards operated by the Government. One cannot adopt double standards in dealing with terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-11-30", "file": "debates2005-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "ea9b41aef4097cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "had the opportunity and privilege of visiting the Province on several occasions. We were also able to look at the cross-border observation towers, the argument in favour of which was security and the prevention of terrorist activities. Of course, they fulfilled another role—the prevention of cross-border smuggling, a hugely profitable business on which the Select Committee produced a report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-11-30b.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-01", "file": "debates2005-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "ce9761b00b5fbca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.366.3", "colnum": "366", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I suppose that as it is 1 December we can officially say that it is the season of good will, but it is not the season of distorting our figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-01", "file": "debates2005-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "ce9761b00b5fbca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.394.4", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "In view of the clear strength of feeling among Opposition Members, I might ask why one of their important Opposition days was not used to debate the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.394.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-01", "file": "debates2005-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "ce9761b00b5fbca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford) on tabling the amendment. I also declare an interest: as many hon. Members know, I am a county councillor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-01", "file": "debates2005-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "ce9761b00b5fbca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "luation scheduled for 1938 was deferred for two years, but the second world war broke out, so it never took place. A revaluation was scheduled for 1952, but it was deferred until 1953, and was eventually carried out in 1956. A revaluation was scheduled for 1961 under a Conservative Government, but it was deferred until 1963. The Labour Government that followed deferred the 1968 revaluation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-01", "file": "debates2005-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "ce9761b00b5fbca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "One of the pleasures of being a Back Bencher is that one does not have to be too closely acquainted with the minutiae of the way in which a particular issue has been approached by whomsoever happens to be in charge of that area at a given time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-01", "file": "debates2005-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "ce9761b00b5fbca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "erent views. The Minister could have got us out of that problem by bringing some of his hon. Friends, who are known not always to agree with each other, into the Chamber to extend our understanding of how they get away with bigger grants than anyone on this side of the House—perhaps they are too ashamed to explain it. Even though the Minister is bereft of support on the Labour Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-01", "file": "debates2005-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "ce9761b00b5fbca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "the timing of the Secretary of State making an order because the amendment does not deal with timing. From when would the Secretary of State make an order and for how long would the listing agency have to compile the lists? If the lists were very out of date in the six categories that I have mentioned, the task would be much greater than that in authorities in which the lists are up to date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-01", "file": "debates2005-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "ce9761b00b5fbca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "One problem with the amendment is that it deliberately leaves that open, which gives rise to the danger that my hon. Friend points out. By using a phrase as vague as \"a group of adjoining billing authorities\", the amendment may leave too much flexibility, for the reasons that he describes. I shall come back to that thought later, because I do not want to get distracted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-01b.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-02", "file": "debates2005-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c6cf59c6b2bb0cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-02a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Some of us would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "take, for example, the case of the British tourist who, in one of the southern states of America, one dark night got lost. He went up the path to a remote house and wanted to ask the way. As he approached, the nervous householder, who I believe had been burgled several times, thought he was another intruder and shot the tourist dead. We could all agree that that was grossly disproportionate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-02a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-02", "file": "debates2005-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c6cf59c6b2bb0cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-02a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "Yes; that returns me to my dialogue with the hon. Member for North Thanet. The issue has been exploited for partisan purposes, and it has also been whipped up by elements in the press. If one reads the Daily Express every day, and one only reads the Daily Express , it is very difficult to retain the will to live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-02a.509.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-02", "file": "debates2005-12-02b.xml", "sha256": "cfac83a8c07b3af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-02b.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "Yes; that returns me to my dialogue with the hon. Member for North Thanet. The issue has been exploited for partisan purposes, and it has also been whipped up by elements in the press. If one reads the Daily Express every day, and one reads only the Daily Express , it is very difficult to retain the will to live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-02b.509.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "2f68df5d95892cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "erseas markets, but almost every other developed economy is growing faster. The Governor of the Bank of England told us the true cause last month. He said that a \"sharp rise\" in taxes has caused a \"sharp slowing\" of household incomes and economic growth. But what is the Chancellor's response today? It is more stealth taxes, including a doubling of the supplementary tax rate on oil companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "2f68df5d95892cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ur regulation, but we are getting rid of some of the ridiculous regulatory agencies created by the Conservative Government. We the Labour Government are taking to Europe the proposal to put a competitiveness test on regulations and to end the gold-plating of European Union regulations. The Conservative party's policies are to abolish the new deal, to cut the child tax credit and to announce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "2f68df5d95892cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What are your policies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "at our growth is higher than that of France, Germany, Italy, the euro area and the whole European Union? If he wants to look at differences in growth in the economy, let us look at the comparison between two recessions under the Conservative Government and growth in every year under a Labour Government. The hon. Gentleman's policies are to abolish the new deal, to scrap the child tax credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "2f68df5d95892cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "the economy, let us look at the comparison between two recessions under the Conservative Government and growth in every year under a Labour Government. The hon. Gentleman's policies are to abolish the new deal, to scrap the child tax credit—[Hon. Members: \"What are your policies?\"] Conservative Members do not like it, do they? At the last election, they said that they would spend more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "2f68df5d95892cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "re held, will prove to be a false hope and a bitter reality. Last year, we were promised that Sir Michael Lyons would have reported on this year's settlement. In October, we were promised an interim report this autumn. In today's pre-Budget statement, there was not a mention of that interim report. When will we receive it? Will it be before Christmas, after Christmas or in the early spring?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05a.630.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "r with inflation lower than America, the euro area and the European Union. We are on course to meet our inflation target not just this year but next year and the year after that. The average inflation in Britain from 1970 to 1997 was 8 per cent., with inflation often going above 20 per cent. Our stability since then is such that, in the past seven years, inflation has been at or around 2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.605.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "erseas markets, but almost every other developed economy is growing faster. The Governor of the Bank of England told us the true cause last month. He said that a \"sharp rise\" in taxes has caused a \"sharp slowing\" of household incomes and economic growth. But what is the Chancellor's response today? It is more stealth taxes, including a doubling of the supplementary tax rate on oil companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.614.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Why does—[Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] I will answer each question, but why does the shadow Chancellor not have the courage to come to the House and say to the House what he has been saying outside it. I have the article he has written—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "manufacturing growth is the Conservative party. On child tax credits, I think the whole country will resent the fact that the shadow Chancellor suggests that somehow the Labour Government are putting children into poverty when it was the Conservative opposition to child tax credits and to child benefit that put so many children into poverty. Why will the hon. Gentleman not defend his own policies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ur regulation, but we are getting rid of some of the ridiculous regulatory agencies created by the Conservative Government. We the Labour Government are taking to Europe the proposal to put a competitiveness test on regulations and to end the gold-plating of European Union regulations. The Conservative party's policies are to abolish the new deal, to cut the child tax credit and to announce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What are your policies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "at our growth is higher than that of France, Germany, Italy, the euro area and the whole European Union. If he wants to look at differences in growth in the economy, let us look at the comparison between two recessions under the Conservative Government and growth in every year under a Labour Government. The hon. Gentleman's policies are to abolish the new deal, to scrap the child tax credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "the economy, let us look at the comparison between two recessions under the Conservative Government and growth in every year under a Labour Government. The hon. Gentleman's policies are to abolish the new deal, to scrap the child tax credit—[Hon. Members: \"What are your policies?\"] Conservative Members do not like it, do they? At the last election, they said that they would spend more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " my own way. The basic state pension has risen faster than inflation. We have introduced pension credit, as well as the winter fuel allowance and free TV licences, which the Conservative party opposed at one stage. As for occupational pensions, the savings regime and the pension tax reliefs in this country are designed to help people save more for their retirement. We will have a debate now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "rty opposed at one stage. As for occupational pensions, the savings regime and the pension tax reliefs in this country are designed to help people save more for their retirement. We will have a debate now— [Interruption.] The savings ratio in this country is higher than in America, the fastest growing country in the industrialised world. The British savings rate is higher and has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman examines the different leagues for competitiveness, productivity, stability, efficiency and regulation, we are doing very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "re held, will prove to be a false hope and a bitter reality. Last year, we were promised that Sir Michael Lyons would have reported on this year's settlement. In October, we were promised an interim report this autumn. In today's pre-Budget statement, there was not a mention of that interim report. When will we receive it? Will it be before Christmas, after Christmas or in the early spring?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ner has been or will be jailed for not being able to pay council tax. There have been two instances this year of pensioners' receiving prison terms for being unwilling to pay the tax. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman and his party should seem to seek to promote the idea that those who are unwilling to pay taxes should not do so. It is, of course, the hard-working, honest majority who suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I am concerned about the Minister's statements on how the measure will affect small businesses. Is he not worried that if more burdens are placed on small businesses, they will design their work force to avoid the people who might receive paternity and maternity rights?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Well, I almost returned to my script—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "James McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James McGovern", "preceding_text": "e delivery\", and my father had to take the day off work, because he had to look after my sister and me. While my father, Tommy, my sister, Carol, and I sat in the kitchen—we were living in what was known as a room and kitchen in Maryhill road, Glasgow—my mother, ably assisted by our GP, Dr. John Fitzsimmons, who, incidentally, was also the Celtic football club doctor at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "James McGovern", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James McGovern", "preceding_text": ", and I sat in the kitchen—we were living in what was known as a room and kitchen in Maryhill road, Glasgow—my mother, ably assisted by our GP, Dr. John Fitzsimmons, who, incidentally, was also the Celtic football club doctor at the time— [Interruption.] I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Devine) comments from a sedentary position that that explains a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": "als while receiving maternity or adoption pay. For adopters in particular, a placement may be sudden. They and their employers must have time to adapt to their leave to take on child care responsibilities. That flexibility and choice is imperative for natural, birth parents and for adoptive parents. I do not want to be seen as the Member of Parliament who always quotes from The Western Mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "act, if the employment arrangements were reasonable and flexible, there could be far more honesty, and both employer and employee could be above board about what is actually going on. The hon. Member for Bridgend told a very good story about her father, but my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Mr. Benyon) takes the prize in this regard. Just a few weeks ago, his wife gave birth to—a child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ld. [Interruption.] My helpful hon. Friends tell me that it was a boy: my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury has a new son. Unlike my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) , who had to explain to the Whips in rather difficult circumstances that he intended to take paternity leave, my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury simply fell over on his way out of the hospital and broke his leg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.700.5", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a good point, but each hon. Member has a different hour at which they want to be somewhere else. The fact that I want to be at a charity ball right now is not the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.700.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-05", "file": "debates2005-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "ab19b489063d96b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "he Bill will not only result in more choice and flexibility for families, but help to achieve greater equality by enabling men to spend more time caring for their children and encouraging women back into the workplace. Many people have put their credentials as new men or women on the table, so I will put my credentials on the table. I am a parent of three boys and I have three grandchildren—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-05b.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "30b49951289fea3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06b.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "as been hugely successful. I put on the record my thanks to all the people who are buying Olympics lottery tickets. That clearly demonstrates the support behind the Olympic bid. People have put their money where their mouths were, and the first £4 million has already been made. The principle of taxation in the national lottery was accepted by Parliament when the lottery was introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06b.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "30b49951289fea3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06b.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "urther than what the IOC asked us to do in terms of its technical manuals.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee D, 18 October , 2005, c.78–84.] For some of us, it is rather difficult to check whether what the Minister said was entirely accurate. The technical manuals are somewhat different to get hold of. They seem to be locked away in safes to which only very few people have access.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06b.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "30b49951289fea3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06b.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ith that principle, as a central part of our bid was that the London Olympics would be an inclusive games. As many hon. Members know, London staged the first Paralympics in 1948, and we want to ensure that the 2012 Paralympics are the best so far. I could not accept the amendment tabled by the Liberal Democrats in Committee because it was important to get the IOC's view on the exact wording—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06b.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "99339191e2aa2861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "u patronage to secure a peerage and ministerial post for an unelected No. 10 adviser, Andrew Adonis, who was the progenitor of privatised city academies and the author of the barmier ideas in the recent education White Paper, including divisive and elitist trust schools. Given that track record, does the Minister agree that the next Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster should divest herself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "99339191e2aa2861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for mentioning that. I will refer to the Scottish Parliament in my speech and give him the full figures for the extraordinary increase in its cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "99339191e2aa2861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "Some 78 per cent. of the Scottish people believe that we should have our own Scottish team in the 2012 Olympics. I hope that the hon. Lady will join me in trying to achieve what would be a fantastic addition to the London games.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "99339191e2aa2861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " to rescue his reputation. Lots of people working on the site of the new Wembley stadium come from south Wales, Yorkshire and other places throughout the country. Surely the important point is that the industry that will build the Olympic site will not be just a London one. The whole community will benefit and if the hon. Gentleman cannot see that, he needs to get some better political spectacles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "99339191e2aa2861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "as been hugely successful. I put on the record my thanks to all the people who are buying Olympics lottery tickets. That clearly demonstrates the support behind the Olympic bid. People have put their money where their mouths were, and the first £4 million has already been made. The principle of taxation in the national lottery was accepted by Parliament when the lottery was introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "99339191e2aa2861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "urther than what the IOC asked us to do in terms of its technical manuals.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee D, 18 October , 2005, c.78–84.] For some of us, it is rather difficult to check whether what the Minister said was entirely accurate. The technical manuals are somewhat different to get hold of. They seem to be locked away in safes to which only very few people have access.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "99339191e2aa2861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ith that principle, as a central part of our bid was that the London Olympics would be an inclusive games. As many hon. Members know, London staged the first Paralympics in 1948, and we want to ensure that the 2012 Paralympics are the best so far. I could not accept the amendment tabled by the Liberal Democrats in Committee because it was important to get the IOC's view on the exact wording—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-06", "file": "debates2005-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "99339191e2aa2861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "eir points are highly technical, they are important. We have framed the Bill to protect LOCOG and the Olympics, to make sure that the Olympics are not exploited by rogue elements and to maintain the freedom of the press. The hon. Member for Faversham and Mid-Kent (Hugh Robertson) knows that a dialogue is continuing with those in media and advertising. I cannot add much to what I have said already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-06c.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.853.4", "colnum": "853", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.860.7", "colnum": "860", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Does the outgoing Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.860.9", "colnum": "860", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeff Ennis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeff Ennis", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend tell me how he will deal with a young, handsome, intelligent, charismatic politician, such as myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.860.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The first issue that the Prime Minister and I are going to have to work together on is getting the good bits of his education reforms through the House of Commons and into law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The first issue that the Prime Minister and I are going to have to work together on is getting the good bits of his education reforms through the House of Commons and into law. [Interruption.] That is the problem with these exchanges—the Labour Chief Whip shouting like a child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Absolutely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. [Interruption.] With our support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I want schools to control their own admissions. That is what is in the White Paper, and let us see that it turns into the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.5", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "cy and numeracy strategy, we now have the best ever results at 11, at 16, at 18 in our schools. Therefore, I have to say to him that it is not merely in respect of education policy that we have to agree. We have also to agree that the investment that is so necessary to back up that reform continues. I am afraid that his economic policy, which is to cut back investment, because of his desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "l the investment in but rather have shared that investment half and half between tax cuts and investment. That would mean substantial cuts in public investment. I am very happy to have this new consensus with the hon. Gentleman, and I am delighted that he has said today that the Conservative party will vote for these education reforms, but it has to be on the basis of agreeing the investment also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.861.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "There are many—for example, the new deal on unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.867.4", "colnum": "867", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall saying that whenever he introduced a reform he always, with the benefit of hindsight, regretted not going any further? Is the proposed limited ban on cigarette smoking a case in point? Could I encourage my right hon. Friend to be a little bolder and at the very least ban cigarette smoking in restaurants and pubs that do serve food, not just those that do not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.867.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will understand why New college in my constituency has been placed as one of the top schools and colleges in the country because of his visit earlier this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "was facilitated by the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) . I presume that the \"Great\" in \"Great Grimsby\" refers more to the football team this season than to the fishing industry in that once great fishing port. During his speech, I could not help thinking that perhaps we should have sent him to Brussels to negotiate on our behalf, as he seemed to be talking an awful lot of sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": "e by the hon. Member for North Shropshire (Mr. Paterson) of Lawrie Quinn. The hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland was very gracious—he did not have to make those comments. It strikes me, however, that there are many physical similarities between him and Lawrie, and I do not think that I have seen them in the same room. Perhaps Lawrie is back in the House, in which case he is warmly welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "now little and care less. I acknowledge that there is a balance to be struck when we assume the presidency, but we should not allow our role and fairness as president to damage our own industry and national interests. Instead of taking cricket as his model, may I commend to the Minister a splendid game that is played every year in my constituency on Christmas day and new year's day called the Ba'?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-07", "file": "debates2005-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "fdf57a188884ff16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "at Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) in full flight, and to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Carmichael) , whose contributions to such debates are usually truncated, but on this occasion he managed to give us the full range of his extensive knowledge of the industry. The debate also allowed us to listen for the first time to my hon. Friend the Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr. MacNeil) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-07c.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ecea554271829a06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " Cambridge university was not that fussed—plenty of candidates want to be on the Cambridge biomedical campus—it would have been justified in objecting, and I certainly felt that a peculiarly blinkered view was taken on where medical research can be carried out. However, University college and University college London will provide a fine home, and I will have nothing said against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ecea554271829a06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " Lumpur, one can try to put him in a three-star hotel but I am not sure that he will stay there. Nobody has been expelled from the ABPI. However, I wonder whether we would conclude that the new standards and privileges arrangements brought into this House in recent years must be defective because nobody has yet been expelled. I am not sure if that is the right basis on which to judge such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I thought that with the new Conservative party we would have heard some concern about the unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not have a list of 650 constituencies. We have created 330,000 new jobs during the past year. Those, including the Leader of the Opposition, who prophesised that this year we would be unable to create the jobs that we have managed to create will find that we have created 6,000 jobs per week, and that 3,500 new small businesses have been created a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "r industrial strength is low inflation and economic stability. That has been achieved over recent years. What is happening in every advanced industrial country is that the number of manufacturing jobs is declining. America and Japan have each lost 3 million manufacturing jobs. America has lost 1 million manufacturing jobs in the past two years. That trend is happening right across the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.980.4", "colnum": "980", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The number of home owners has increased by 1 million since 1997. That has been possible because interest rates have been half what they were under the previous Government and mortgage rates have also been half what they were in the 18 years of the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.980.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.982.6", "colnum": "982", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "I want to take the opportunity to state that Her Majesty's Opposition support the Chancellor's broad objectives in this sphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.982.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The average growth rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The average growth rate— [Interruption.] The average trend growth rate for the economy is 2.7 per cent. and has risen from an average 2.2 per cent. when we came to power. We have achieved that. The hon. Gentleman had five opportunities in the first six questions to ask the Chancellor his questions. Why does he have to ask them through me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "That last question took the biscuit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.1008.3", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I have not studied either of those pieces of legislation recently. Since I used to be paid for giving legal advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.1008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — VOTE ON ACCOUNT, 2006–07 — Department of Health", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " Cambridge university was not that fussed—plenty of candidates want to be on the Cambridge biomedical campus—it would have been justified in objecting, and I certainly felt that a peculiarly blinkered view was taken on where medical research can be carried out. However, University college and University college London will provide a fine home, and I will have nothing said against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-08", "file": "debates2005-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "5a7072ada7884620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — VOTE ON ACCOUNT, 2006–07 — Department of Health", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " Lumpur, one can try to put him in a three-star hotel but I am not sure that he will stay there. Nobody has been expelled from the ABPI. However, I wonder whether we would conclude that the new standards and privileges arrangements brought into this House in recent years must be defective because nobody has yet been expelled. I am not sure if that is the right basis on which to judge such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-08b.1061.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-12", "file": "debates2005-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f915084d8e3e256b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Former Far East Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees (Ex-gratia Scheme)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": " some competence in this matter. I hope that he will not consider it offensive for me to say it, but when I approached him about this matter informally, he suggested that dealing with it was above his pay grade. I can understand that and I took it that he was not necessarily unsympathetic, but I expect someone somewhere to respond to the issue. A response must be given to the Irish Republic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-12", "file": "debates2005-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "316ad4ab55e976b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill results from a comprehensive review of service law, the first comprehensive review since, I believe, the 1950s—about half a century. I served on the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill in both 1991 and 1996, so long ago that there was a Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-12", "file": "debates2005-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "316ad4ab55e976b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "r who else in the military may feel that that decision was wrong, it cannot be dealt with further in the military. That is precisely the situation that arose in the case of Trooper Williams, which was the route whereby the matter was referred to the civilian court. If we contain such serious offences within the military, so that they have to be decided by the director of public prosecutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-12", "file": "debates2005-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "316ad4ab55e976b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": " some competence in this matter. I hope that he will not consider it offensive for me to say it, but when I approached him about this matter informally, he suggested that dealing with it was above his pay grade. I can understand that and I took it that he was not necessarily unsympathetic, but I expect someone somewhere to respond to the issue. A response must be given to the Irish Republic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-12", "file": "debates2005-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "316ad4ab55e976b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "ct, and are entitled to expect, a reply in respect of what are loosely called \"the Irish soldiers\"—soldiers among the 306 who fought in the Irish regiments. I acknowledge the Secretary of State's work in personally reviewing those cases, but I invite him to consider setting up a judicial inquiry, or appointing a judge or someone of that category to review those cases, rather than a Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-12", "file": "debates2005-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "316ad4ab55e976b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": " said that he starts out as a sceptic about the measure, and I suspect that he will remain one. Again, he did not help by referring to a blizzard of investigations. It is important that all we do as a Government is open to scrutiny and criticism in the House but we do the morale of our armed forces no good by suggesting that they are under legal siege or that there is a blizzard of investigations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-12", "file": "debates2005-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "316ad4ab55e976b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "A27 (IMPROVEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": " significant investment, are an indication of the Government's policy of trying to develop sustainable solutions to the transport problems of the south coast corridor. I understand the need for economic regeneration and accessibility to those towns and I understand the frustration of the constituents of the hon. Gentlemen opposite. I undertake to do my best to keep the issues moving forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-12b.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-13", "file": "debates2005-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7123b94c67d7e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "I can only reiterate that it is part of the law of our country that we comply with the Human Rights Act, and we are ensuring that the Bill does so. I am happy to have signed up to the Act according to those provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-13", "file": "debates2005-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7123b94c67d7e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "e for the calculation of contributions. Legal aid spending has increased by 34 per cent. since 1997. The Government's figures suggest that the increase in costs is because people who would previously have paid for legal aid are taking advantage of the fact that they can now get it—the example involving a professional footballer who earns £40,000 a week is simply the tip of the iceberg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-13", "file": "debates2005-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7123b94c67d7e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13a.1271.3", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "The issue, however, is purely financial.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13a.1271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-13", "file": "debates2005-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7123b94c67d7e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13a.1272.7", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "I always try to be helpful to the hon. Gentleman, and I do not know whether he has read the supplement, which goes into considerable detail about the points to which he refers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13a.1272.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-13", "file": "debates2005-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "29eb65e8485b8b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13b.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Defence Service Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "I can only reiterate that it is part of the law of our country that we comply with the Human Rights Act, and we are ensuring that the Bill does so. I am happy to have signed up to the Act according to those provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13b.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-13", "file": "debates2005-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "29eb65e8485b8b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13b.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Defence Service Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "e for the calculation of contributions. Legal aid spending has increased by 34 per cent. since 1997. The Government's figures suggest that the increase in costs is because people who would previously have paid for legal aid are taking advantage of the fact that they can now get it—the example involving a professional footballer who earns £40,000 a week is simply the tip of the iceberg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13b.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-13", "file": "debates2005-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "29eb65e8485b8b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13b.1271.3", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Defence Service Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "The issue, however, is purely financial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13b.1271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-13", "file": "debates2005-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "29eb65e8485b8b6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13b.1272.7", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Defence Service Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "I always try to be helpful to the hon. Gentleman, and I do not know whether he has read the supplement, which goes into considerable detail about the points to which he refers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-13b.1272.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "fe44795d04a5cdcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14a.1296.5", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "tember 2001 , or earlier in the Bush Administration, when we received a request for permission by the United States for a rendition through UK territory or airspace, nor are we otherwise aware of such a case.\" On United States Government flights coming in and out, those take place for a whole series of reasons. We receive visits from people from the United States Government the entire time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14a.1296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14c.xml", "sha256": "81360b60436016d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Walter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Walter", "preceding_text": " a minimum time scale of 10 years for the negotiation process before Turkey will become a full member of the EU, but it is right that we should be moving in that direction, as we are doing with Romania and Bulgaria. I also welcome the opening of negotiations with Croatia. A number of other states, both in the Balkans and elsewhere, are eyeing EU membership, but I want to talk, Mr. President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14c.xml", "sha256": "81360b60436016d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "se, there are four Polish Members representing the Polish Peasant party, none of whose names I will be able to read out. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the Conservatives might want to combine with other British Members of the European Parliament. There is Ashley Mote, who represents the UK Independence party. There is James Hugh Allister, who represents the Democratic Unionist party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14c.xml", "sha256": "81360b60436016d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) for his kind thoughts about the Conservative party, even though I did not agree with a word of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14c.xml", "sha256": "81360b60436016d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": " The hon. Member for Preston (Mr. Hendrick) produced the astonishing revelation that he still believes that Britain will join the eurozone. We hoped that he would go on to tell us what he expected Father Christmas to bring him shortly, but sadly he left us in suspense. Opening the debate, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) was the living embodiment of the new politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14c.xml", "sha256": "81360b60436016d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Here he is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "nse. Opening the debate, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) was the living embodiment of the new politics. [Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"] He will be back shortly. The winding-up speeches began slightly earlier than expected. My right hon. Friend warmly congratulated the Foreign Secretary on the opening of Turkish accession talks, and I am delighted to echo his tribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14c.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1287.2", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "Other Departments' loss is our gain, because I could not have made clearer the position on the planning gain supplement. We believe that people who hold land and benefit from planning permission should contribute to infrastructure costs—that is the right balance. We have made it clear that the majority of returns from the planning gain supplement will be used within the local authority area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1294.8", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Since our exchanges last week, plans for an alternative education White Paper have been published. Reports suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1294.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1294.8", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Since our exchanges last week, plans for an alternative education White Paper have been published. Reports suggest— [Interruption.] It was not produced by the Liberal Democrats. I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1294.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1296.5", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "tember 2001 , or earlier in the Bush Administration, when we received a request for permission by the United States for a rendition through UK territory or airspace, nor are we otherwise aware of such a case.\" On United States Government flights coming in and out, those take place for a whole series of reasons. We receive visits from people from the United States Government the entire time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, let us be clear that overall in the national health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1301.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " Leader of the Opposition, and some fine speeches from the Back Benches over the past four years, including a notable one on Iraq and a notable but less noticed one in our last debate, in June, on prospects for the European Council. Having seen 10 Leaders of the Opposition during my time in this place, I am in no doubt of the truth of the old saw that it is the worst job in British politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e world is a vital qualification for political office.\" That is indeed true and only a few months later he was elected for Richmond. Most of us remember with great affection the right hon. Gentleman's clarion call at the last election, \"Two days to save the pound\". I am deeply grateful to him for that call, because my electors heeded it; they voted for me and the pound has indeed been saved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1309.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": ". Have the Government been reflecting, and why have we not heard anything in today's debate about the fact that the constitution is dead but certainly not buried? Exactly how does the right hon. Gentleman respond to the recent statement by the German Chancellor that her coalition would reintroduce the constitution in the first months of the German presidency, which starts at the beginning of 2007?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1315.6", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is correct to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1315.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "There was some agreement in this House that parts of the proposed document could be introduced without the need for constitutional proposals. One example that I can refer to, and which was mentioned by virtually everyone who spoke in the six, seven or eight debates that we had on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "e has been a sad lack of detailed reform of the Government's position on this issue. Everyone agrees on the need to reform the CAP, which has been described as an anomaly. I cannot remember a single Member making a speech in favour of it, but in talking to representatives of the National Farmers Union in my constituency, it is clear that many of our farmers regard the CAP as being of significance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Robert Walter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Walter", "preceding_text": " a minimum time scale of 10 years for the negotiation process before Turkey will become a full member of the EU, but it is right that we should be moving in that direction, as we are doing with Romania and Bulgaria. I also welcome the opening of negotiations with Croatia. A number of other states, both in the Balkans and elsewhere, are eyeing EU membership, but I want to talk, Mr. President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right, and that has always been a problem, although it is rarely spoken about as factually correct. In a strange sort of way, if the rebate goes, we might be in a better position if we retain objective 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "se, there are four Polish Members representing the Polish Peasant party, none of whose names I will be able to read out. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the Conservatives might want to combine with other British Members of the European Parliament. There is Ashley Mote, who represents the UK Independence party. There is James Hugh Allister, who represents the Democratic Unionist party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) for his kind thoughts about the Conservative party, even though I did not agree with a word of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": " The hon. Member for Preston (Mr. Hendrick) produced the astonishing revelation that he still believes that Britain will join the eurozone. We hoped that he would go on to tell us what he expected Father Christmas to bring him shortly, but sadly he left us in suspense. Opening the debate, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) was the living embodiment of the new politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-14", "file": "debates2005-12-14d.xml", "sha256": "36cb52f7e252fe81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Here he is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "nse. Opening the debate, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) was the living embodiment of the new politics. [Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"] He will be back shortly. The winding-up speeches began slightly earlier than expected. My right hon. Friend warmly congratulated the Foreign Secretary on the opening of Turkish accession talks, and I am delighted to echo his tribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-14d.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-15", "file": "debates2005-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "f86fa1f128c4c93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15a.1450.3", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "are wasting council tax payers' money, so will he ensure that there is a debate in which we can discuss how local authorities can best deliver improved public services and how they can learn from the success of Conservative councils? Finally, in the spirit of Christmas good will, may I say to the Leader of the House that we on the Conservative Benches stand ready to give any help and advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15a.1450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-15", "file": "debates2005-12-15b.xml", "sha256": "e0182443d6ba0aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15b.1450.3", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Business Statement", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "are wasting council tax payers' money, so will he ensure that there is a debate in which we can discuss how local authorities can best deliver improved public services and how they can learn from the success of Conservative councils? Finally, in the spirit of Christmas good will, may I say to the Leader of the House that we on the Conservative Benches stand ready to give any help and advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15b.1450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-15", "file": "debates2005-12-15b.xml", "sha256": "e0182443d6ba0aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15b.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Business Statement", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Charles Kennedy\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate on the unlikely subject of Government help to distressed citizens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15b.1453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-15", "file": "debates2005-12-15b.xml", "sha256": "e0182443d6ba0aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15b.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Defence Industrial Strategy", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "From a sedentary position, the hon. Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) says \"unpersoned\". I think that everyone knows that we are talking about the development of what was previously referred to as a drone—no offence is meant to anyone in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15b.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-15", "file": "debates2005-12-15b.xml", "sha256": "e0182443d6ba0aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15b.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "t to reply to the amendments of the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) . So the idea that people could not comprehend this measure or that they did not have sufficient details from the Government is a misunderstanding on the part of Conservative Members. The confusion, moreover, is perpetuated in the amendments, which seek to do lots of different things and contradict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-15b.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "3ec13e34059bce1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1546.5", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "The Minister will know that the responsibility for maintaining these licences has shifted from magistrates to local councils, and yet there has been no extra financial help for them. What measures does he intend to take to ensure that they have extra resources to do this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1546.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "3ec13e34059bce1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1549.9", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "y the governing bodies, Sport England and UK Sport. There has been a massive increase—of some 53 per cent.—in the number of women taking part in football over the past three or four years following an investment of some £3 million by the Football Foundation in coaching of women and girls, and a major increase in investment by the active sports body, which is Sport England.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1549.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "3ec13e34059bce1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "n Government on the progress that they have made towards that goal. The European Council also unreservedly condemned the Iranian President's recent remarks about Israel and warmly welcomed the 15 December elections in Iraq as a further step towards democracy and stability in that country. Over the past six months, the UK presidency has delivered the historic launch of accession negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "3ec13e34059bce1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "g-standing British objective. We have delivered a number of important pieces of legislation, including the REACH—registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals—regulations and the data retention directive, which is an important measure against terrorism. We have delivered reform of the EU sugar regime and a strengthening of the EU position on climate change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "3ec13e34059bce1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " not done a deal, would have been completely alienated from this country. No one should be in any doubt about that. After our ding-dong, I simply say to the Leader of the Opposition that it is important for the Conservatives to think very carefully about their position of withdrawing from the EPP. That would be a disaster in terms of this country being able to procure a good deal in Europe.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "3ec13e34059bce1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1597.4", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "I am grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "3ec13e34059bce1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "It is correct that the manifesto said that we would have an elected police commissioner, and there is nothing wrong with that. There may be a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "3ec13e34059bce1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "preceding_text": "contributions to neighbourhood teams in Swindon—they have led the way. I hope that my right hon. Friend the Minister will visit us in Swindon to see what we have done with the local authority, housing, health and education, as well as the police authority. I commend my right hon. and hon. Friends the Home Secretary and Ministers on the rapidity of their response to the O'Connor report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19a.1665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1546.5", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "The Minister will know that the responsibility for maintaining these licences has shifted from magistrates to local councils, yet there has been no extra financial help for them. What measures does he intend to take to ensure that they have extra resources to do this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1546.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1549.9", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "by the governing bodies, Sport England and UK Sport. There has been a massive increase—of some 53 per cent.—in the number of women taking part in football over the past three or four years following an investment of some £3 million by the Football Foundation in coaching of women and girls, and a major increase in investment by the active sports body, which is Sport England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1549.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I have heard some old records over and over in this place, but that is the oldest one. It must be a 75 that is still going around—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1554.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1559.6", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will appreciate that, in my present position, I do not want to get involved in party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "n Government on the progress that they have made towards that goal. The European Council also unreservedly condemned the Iranian President's recent remarks about Israel and warmly welcomed the 15 December elections in Iraq as a further step towards democracy and stability in that country. Over the past six months, the UK presidency has delivered the historic launch of accession negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "g-standing British objective. We have delivered a number of important pieces of legislation, including the REACH—registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals—regulations and the data retention directive, which is an important measure against terrorism. We have delivered reform of the EU sugar regime and a strengthening of the EU position on climate change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, we are not, for the very simple reason that the direction of Europe is towards enlargement. That is why we have allowed those 10 new countries to come in. Let us just see for a moment where we agree and disagree. The hon. Gentleman supports enlargement; yes, he supports enlargement.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " he supports enlargement and he supports the wealthy countries paying for the poorer countries, he does not support Britain paying any money for it. He talks about a crisis in the European Union. What sort of crisis would there be if he were in charge with that policy? The hon. Gentleman talks about the rebate. Let me tell him that the rebate, as I have just explained, is rising not falling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "entleman talks about the rebate. Let me tell him that the rebate, as I have just explained, is rising not falling—[Hon. Members: \"No, it is not.\"] Yes, it is, because it remains on all common agricultural policy money. He and his Back Benchers say, \"Why is not France paying for this?\", but France is getting a bigger net contribution loss than Britain in the next financial perspective.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y we should pay our fair share. People like the hon. Gentleman, who say that they are in favour of enlargement but refuse to follow through on the consequences of that position, are not exercising leadership; they are abdicating leadership. The hon. Gentleman has said that he would have negotiated something different, but let us work out who his allies would be in such a new European Union.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "allies would be in such a new European Union.— [Interruption.] One of his first leadership decisions was to withdraw from the EPP, which contains the other Conservative parties in Europe, and this is what his own Members of the European Parliament have said about it. Mr. Struan Stevenson has said: \"We would have to sit round the table on a weekly basis with these fascists and nutters\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is actually worse than that. If the Conservatives withdraw from the EPP, Jean-Marie Le Pen will sit there, Mrs. Mussolini will sit here, the Conservative party will sit there and, worst of all, Robert Kilroy-Silk will sit there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " not done a deal, would have been completely alienated from this country. No one should be in any doubt about that. After our ding-dong, I simply say to the Leader of the Opposition that it is important for the Conservatives to think very carefully about their position of withdrawing from the EPP. That would be a disaster in terms of this country being able to procure a good deal in Europe.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1577.2", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mike Penning.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1580.5", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "From what the hon. Gentleman is saying and from what the Conservatives are saying, they would not pay anything towards the costs of enlargement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1580.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "If I am genuinely second to none in the admiration of my hon. Friend, I am in real trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1599.2", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "In a moment. If the proposed mergers in the south-east proceed, Kent officers could be closer to Calais than to their new regional headquarters.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1601.3", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Labour Members basically fall into two groups—the Whips' narks and the people who really care about the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1601.7", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I will tell him in a few moments what I believe about localism, but I will say that the hon. Gentleman worked in the Treasury during a period in which our police forces were starved of cash over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1601.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1601.9", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friends will forgive me, I would like to make a little progress before taking another barrage of interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1601.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "It is correct that the manifesto said that we would have an elected police commissioner, and there is nothing wrong with that. There may be a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1659.0", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": " chief constable than with their BCU chief superintendent. When I refer constituency cases to the police, it is to the divisional headquarters, not the constabulary headquarters; it is to the chief superintendent, not the chief constable. Of course, I have a good relationship with the chief constable. I have even been to a Derby County football match with him; that is how good the relationship is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "preceding_text": "commanders have made excellent contributions to neighbourhood teams in Swindon—they have led the way. I hope that my right hon. Friend the Minister will visit us in Swindon to see what we have done with the local authority, housing, health and education, as well as the police authority. I commend the Home Secretary and Ministers on the rapidity of their response to the O'Connor report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-19", "file": "debates2005-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "8f9878510eb48baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Police Restructuring", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "ot want to be bothered to hear from me. I firmly believe that we need to address the question of our borders and to tackle the crime with which most people now—thank goodness—have no contact. People are worried about crime in their communities. I have one question for the Minister for Policing, Security and Community Safety, although I firmly believe that I know the answer to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-19b.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "09b953afb28c67e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20a.1713.0", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) to his new position. It is a great pleasure to be reunited with him after four miserable years apart.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20a.1713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "09b953afb28c67e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "were 34 cases of animals injured by fireworks and 3,639 animals treated for stress—in the majority of cases, by sedatives. The symptoms that the animals displayed included vocalisation, hyperventilation, destructive behaviour, loss of appetite, licking or panting, shaking, hiding, whimpering, urination and self-harm. I suppose that Members of Parliament might occasionally display them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "09b953afb28c67e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " it was that prevented her from being there. To those who participated in that particular event and to those who will be doing the carol singing in Ribble Valley later this week, I should nevertheless give a warning. Hon. Members may not be aware of it, but under the Licensing Act 2003, carol singers require a licence—unless they dress up as morris dancers, which are excluded under that Act!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "09b953afb28c67e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " regions of this country, and of rural areas in particular. I want to finish by rising to the challenge that my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley set to indulge in the true spirit of Christmas. I have been thinking—I hope Members will forgive me—of the parliamentary and political equivalent of a well-known Christmas song. But have no fear, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will not sing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "2ae905266f43cf3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1713.0", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "WTO Conference (Hong Kong)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) to his new position. It is a great pleasure to be reunited with him after four miserable years apart.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "2ae905266f43cf3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "WTO Conference (Hong Kong)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I add my hon. Friend to the list of people who made a genuine contribution. It is not the kind of conference that one goes to in order to have fun.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "2ae905266f43cf3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1721.5", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "WTO Conference (Hong Kong)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I can say with a straight face that he did an excellent job last week. Secondly, I do not believe that I sent him a Christmas card.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1721.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "2ae905266f43cf3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Fireworks (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "were 34 cases of animals injured by fireworks and 3,639 animals treated for stress—in the majority of cases, by sedatives. The symptoms that the animals displayed included vocalisation, hyperventilation, destructive behaviour, loss of appetite, licking or panting, shaking, hiding, whimpering, urination and self-harm. I suppose that Members of Parliament might occasionally display them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "2ae905266f43cf3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "David Maclean", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Maclean", "preceding_text": "quite know how to do. Those people came from all parts of north Cumbria and from all walks of life. In fact, as the admirable Fred Wilson, the photographer from the Penrith Herald said, the last time that 2,000 people marched through Penrith was in 1745, and they did not get as warm a welcome from the local population as the Scot leading them this time. Three cheers for Bonnie Prince David.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "2ae905266f43cf3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "s that prevented her from being there. To those who participated in that particular event and to those who will be doing the carol singing in Ribble Valley later this week, I should nevertheless give a warning. Hon. Members may not be aware of it, but under the Licensing Act 2003, carol singers require a licence—unless they dress up as morris dancers, which are excluded under that Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2005-12-20", "file": "debates2005-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "2ae905266f43cf3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " regions of this country, and of rural areas in particular. I want to finish by rising to the challenge that my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley set to indulge in the true spirit of Christmas. I have been thinking—I hope Members will forgive me—of the parliamentary and political equivalent of a well-known Christmas song. But have no fear, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will not sing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2005-12-20b.1799.1"}