{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-08", "file": "debates2007-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "bd8e1e269780534b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-08c.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "ill give us a better way of remedying some of the problems. Not every local authority can drum up the resources that Westminster council had at its disposal to produce evidence that the statistics on its population were flawed. Slough's evidence is compelling. The council has even counted the amount of shit that goes through our local sewers, which is considerably greater than it was 10 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-08c.59.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-08", "file": "debates2007-01-08d.xml", "sha256": "d49eb347f9e3ee51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-08d.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend examines the detailed proposals, he will see that the principal part of the system is not about the publication of data, which he is talking about, but the assessment and standards relating to that publication. He is right to point out that this is indeed the next step in the Chancellor's reforms of the machinery of economic governance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-08d.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-08", "file": "debates2007-01-08d.xml", "sha256": "d49eb347f9e3ee51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-08d.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "ill give us a better way of remedying some of the problems. Not every local authority can drum up the resources that Westminster council had at its disposal to produce evidence that the statistics on its population were flawed. Slough's evidence is compelling. The council has even counted the amount of shit that goes through our local sewers, which is considerably greater than it was 10 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-08d.59.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-08", "file": "debates2007-01-08d.xml", "sha256": "d49eb347f9e3ee51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-08d.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "BISHER AL-RAWI", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "eman has clarified his view in respect of them and they require detailed discussions with the various interested departments, as he suggested. He discussed his efforts to secure his constituent's release, but the House will understand that discussions about returning UK nationals from Guantanamo Bay take time. They took many months in the previous cases and similar issues are at play in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-08d.123.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "72a2ab99360385ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, I am afraid that I do not think that that is the right way to proceed on security. Let me just make one thing clear in relation to absconds, which the right hon. Gentleman also mentioned. Absconds from open conditions are at their lowest level since we came to office, and absconds from closed conditions are at their lowest level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "72a2ab99360385ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "e would have thought that he would want to explore the amazing range of new business opportunities for post offices in order to make more of them economically viable so that more can stay in business with less subsidy to keep them that way. I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman is not in his place to hear what I am saying, as we had a remarkably interesting insight into Darling economics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10a.386.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "y, or put forward the case for nine, rather than eight, specialist maternity centres. Are they really claiming—this is what the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire says—that the people of one constituency should have less representation in the House of Commons simply because their Member of Parliament sits on the Front Bench? That would be completely unacceptable. I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.314.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "ful to my hon. Friend, who is making excellent progress. Does he accept that European Union rules, in particular article 88 of the treaty of Amsterdam, mean that the British Government can no longer pay the £150 million social network payment which has kept small post offices open? That is a major problem. In view of that, does my hon. Friend think it is time to re-address our EU membership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.349.6", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "Nice try. I shall come to that in a moment. We are arguing for greater commercial freedom, which I shall define, if the hon. Gentleman will let me proceed. I do not believe that Labour Ministers necessarily dislike the Post Office or that they have deliberately set out to cut a swathe through the network.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.349.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "preceding_text": "I am always delighted to give pleasure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "It is great that the Liberal Democrats are not going to weary the House, because they do that far too much already, but that is a feeble excuse for not putting their policies and thoughts on to the Order Paper today. I was not originally going to take part in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "t is a feeble excuse for not putting their policies and thoughts on to the Order Paper today. I was not originally going to take part in this debate— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) should be very careful, because if he carries on jeering and cheering like that I will retaliate by using up all the time available and preventing anybody else from getting called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "I shall not try the patience of the Chair by straying into a discussion on public transport. Suffice it to say that accessibility is a crucial issue as well. Recently, I met members of the National Federation of SubPostmasters from my area, when they came down to lobby Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "e would have thought that he would want to explore the amazing range of new business opportunities for post offices in order to make more of them economically viable so that more can stay in business with less subsidy to keep them that way. I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman is not in his place to hear what I am saying, as we had a remarkably interesting insight into Darling economics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-10", "file": "debates2007-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "dd2187f2d1d84044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "h is typed into the online link to the DVLA website, which automatically checks that the vehicle is insured and has a valid MOT. No one receives a tax disc without being in possession of the relevant additional documents. My hon. Friend the Member for Cleethorpes (Shona McIsaac) was subject to an uncharacteristically unchivalrous attack by the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr. Stuart) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-10b.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Selby (Mr. Grogan) . I remind him of the words of the Prime Minister, who said that, when people come to this country \"as well as people preserving their own distinctive identity\"— it is vital that— \"they integrate with British society. And that is the reason why it is important in my view that people who come into the country and settle here, learn to speak English.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "aced in the Library. I will certainly communicate that request to the Home Secretary. She then made some rather wild insinuations from the fact that two prisoners escaped from Sudbury open prison a couple of days ago. I should just tell Conservative Members what they seem to forget with some ease: our record on prison escapes is fantastic compared with that of the previous Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.444.5", "colnum": "444", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Maidenhead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I know of the concerns of the hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Maidstone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.450.6", "colnum": "450", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": ", and to implement a range of policies to make work pay for the less well-off at last: tax credits for the low-paid, welfare to work, and the minimum wage. All that was underpinned by a stable and growing economy that finally brought an end to the years of boom and bust. We all know that it is the poorest who suffer most when the economy moves up and down as it did in the Thatcher and Major years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "Let me start by welcoming the Government's renewed emphasis on social exclusion. We share their concerns and welcome further efforts to help those on the edge of society. Although I promise not to refer to Polly Toynbee, it is only right to say that I agree that we should not let people fall too far behind the caravan of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "e poverty line, more than 1.2 million young people are not in work or full-time education despite a growing economy, and2.7 million people of working age are claiming incapacity benefits—three times more than the number who claim jobseeker's allowance. The Minister for Social Exclusion knows from her background in social work, as I do from helping many disadvantaged people as a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "He had a prior commitment to do with the subject that we are discussing. He had hoped to be here today. It is important to bear in mind thathis social justice policy group has just published \"Breakdown Britain\", which examines family breakdown in great detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.465.6", "colnum": "465", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady knows, the Law Commission has produced an interesting report onthe matter and we are currently considering it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.465.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.467.5", "colnum": "467", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ood GCSE passes at grades A to C. That is double the rate that applies to other students. The Public Accounts Committee recently highlighted the failure of 1,500 schools and only today we have learned—it is in the news—that 500 schools have failed to meet the 25 per cent. target for five good GCSE grades. If we look into some of the most excluded groups, such as children in care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.467.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.467.5", "colnum": "467", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "n and the poorest social classes has increased by 46 per cent. since 1997. Despite the clear link between mental health and social exclusion, the Government have had to reduce the percentage of funding for mental health in many parts of the country. Children are often the worst affected with 15 per cent. of those with mental health needs having to wait more than 26 weeks to see a specialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.467.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "rs. Is it any surprise that community relations are not as good as they should be? After 10 years of a Labour Government, should not we be ashamed that there is still such a disparity in economic activity between white and ethnic minority people? Why is the taskforce not being invited by the Prime Minister to have a fresh look at something that seems to have eluded the social exclusion unit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "hould tell the social exclusion unit to revisit the issue, as the policy is not working. The other area that I would discuss today, although I know why we are not being invited to consider it, is education. I am surprised at the Opposition's generosity in not raising the issue of education and GCSE figures. After 10 years of education, education, education, out of 43 schools listed in Leeds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": " I walk about and live in the place. I have had two debates in the House on inner-city poverty in my constituency and been assured from the Front Bench and by the Government office that I live in a place of prosperity—paradise in Leeds, East. Every week, I go around where I live and see the lives of the people and I think, after 10 years we should be making a difference. They have sad lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "s in their constituency knows that that is going on. At every surgery I have at least one asylum seeker. In fact, it is never one; it is always more. They are homeless, living with friendsor at an indeterminate address. They are keeping themselves either by charity or by \"other means\". We know what that means. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for givingme the opportunity to make this brief speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I have no problem with acknowledging that. As my hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) said, there is no point in trying to collect points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "tion, in the bottom 20 per cent. of income groups, 6 per cent. completed a degree in 1981, compared with only 9 per cent., or thereabouts, today. For the top 20 per cent., the figure has risen from 9 per cent. to 46 per cent. That is another example of impaired social mobility relative to some other groups. Let us be clear: 90 per cent. of the poorest do not go to university. That is unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "I have acknowledged the progress that has been made over the past decade, but it has been a decade —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "39c775f79e84958d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "over the past decade, but it has been a decade —[ Interruption. ] It is getting on for a decade; it will be decade on 1 May . That is a long time in government. I do not understand why it was not possible to anticipate at the time the problem of severe poverty or the deep social exclusion that is mentioned in the report. I do not understand why those things could not be done together —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Selby (Mr. Grogan) . I remind him of the words of the Prime Minister, who said that, when people come to this country \"as well as people preserving their own distinctive identity\"— it is vital that— \"they integrate with British society. And that is the reason why it is important in my view that people who come into the country and settle here, learn to speak English.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "aced in the Library. I will certainly communicate that request to the Home Secretary. She then made some rather wild insinuations from the fact that two prisoners escaped from Sudbury open prison a couple of days ago. I should just tell Conservative Members what they seem to forget with some ease: our record on prison escapes is fantastic compared with that of the previous Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " it is true today and it was true when the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) was Home Secretary—but I advise the Conservatives against implying that if and when they get into government the Home Office will achieve a state of grace and perfection and there will be no occasion on which a Home Secretary will be required to come here to explain some difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.435.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.443.4", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"2007.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity to talk about this. The hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Burrowes) has obtained an Adjournment debate on clostridium difficile on Tuesday. The explanation of the issue is simple. The targets have been set for 2008. It is now 2006, so it is not surprising that they have not been met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.443.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.444.5", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Maidenhead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I know of the concerns of the hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Maidstone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.450.6", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": ", and to implement a range of policies to make work pay for the less well-off at last: tax credits for the low paid, welfare to work, and the minimum wage. All that was underpinned by a stable and growing economy that finally brought an end to the years of boom and bust. We all know that it is the poorest who suffer most when the economy moves up and down as it did in the Thatcher and Major years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "The report that the hon. Gentleman cited states: \"the net effect of eight years of Labour government has been to leave inequality effectively unchanged.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman exaggerates. I am concerned about binge drinking and about drinking. I have some difficulty with that, as I had a straightforward Methodist upbringing. We had no drink in the house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "Let me start by welcoming the Government's renewed emphasis on social exclusion. We share their concerns and welcome further efforts to help those on the edge of society. Although I promise not to refer to Polly Toynbee, it is only right to say that I agree that we should not let people fall too far behind the caravan of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " poverty line, more than 1.2 million young people are not in work or full-time education despite a growing economy, and 2.7 million people of working age are claiming incapacity benefits—three times more than the number who claim jobseeker's allowance. The Minister for Social Exclusion knows from her background in social work, as I do from helping many disadvantaged people as a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "He had a prior commitment to do with the subject that we are discussing. He had hoped to be here today. It is important to bear in mind that his social justice policy group has just published \"Breakdown Britain\", which examines family breakdown in great detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.465.6", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady knows, the Law Commission has produced an interesting report on the matter and we are currently considering it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.465.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.467.5", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ood GCSE passes at grades A to C. That is double the rate that applies to other students. The Public Accounts Committee recently highlighted the failure of 1,500 schools and only today we have learned—it is in the news—that 500 schools have failed to meet the 25 per cent. target for five good GCSE grades. If we look into some of the most excluded groups, such as children in care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.467.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.467.5", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "n and the poorest social classes has increased by 46 per cent. since 1997. Despite the clear link between mental health and social exclusion, the Government have had to reduce the percentage of funding for mental health in many parts of the country. Children are often the worst affected with 15 per cent. of those with mental health needs having to wait more than 26 weeks to see a specialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.467.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "rs. Is it any surprise that community relations are not as good as they should be? After 10 years of a Labour Government, should not we be ashamed that there is still such a disparity in economic activity between white and ethnic minority people? Why is the taskforce not being invited by the Prime Minister to have a fresh look at something that seems to have eluded the social exclusion unit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "hould tell the social exclusion unit to revisit the issue, as the policy is not working. The other area that I would discuss today, although I know why we are not being invited to consider it, is education. I am surprised at the Opposition's generosity in not raising the issue of education and GCSE figures. After 10 years of education, education, education, out of 43 schools listed in Leeds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": " I walk about and live in the place. I have had two debates in the House on inner-city poverty in my constituency and been assured from the Front Bench and by the Government office that I live in a place of prosperity—paradise in Leeds, East. Every week, I go around where I live and see the lives of the people and I think, after 10 years we should be making a difference. They have sad lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "in their constituency knows that that is going on. At every surgery I have at least one asylum seeker. In fact, it is never one; it is always more. They are homeless, living with friends or at an indeterminate address. They are keeping themselves either by charity or by \"other means\". We know what that means. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make this brief speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I have no problem with acknowledging that. As my hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) said, there is no point in trying to collect points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "tion, in the bottom 20 per cent. of income groups, 6 per cent. completed a degree in 1981, compared with only 9 per cent., or thereabouts, today. For the top 20 per cent., the figure has risen from 9 per cent. to 46 per cent. That is another example of impaired social mobility relative to some other groups. Let us be clear: 90 per cent. of the poorest do not go to university. That is unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "I have acknowledged the progress that has been made over the past decade, but it has been a decade —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "er the past decade, but it has been a decade —[ Interruption. ] It is getting on for a decade; it will be a decade on 1 May . That is a long time in government. I do not understand why it was not possible to anticipate at the time the problem of severe poverty or the deep social exclusion that is mentioned in the report. I do not understand why those things could not be done together —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-11", "file": "debates2007-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "38c47f953139b07e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": " social exclusion unit's lack of ambition. The figures that he quoted on education, which is one of the main ways out of poverty and social exclusion, are shocking, and we should do something about them. I served with the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman) on the Select Committee on Public Accounts, and everyone on that Committee was disturbed by the persistence of failure in schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-11b.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "64c90a4fcfcfe77e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": " Anything that undermines the provision, therefore, is fatal to the cause of affordable housing, as local authorities and developers have gradually developed a great deal of expertise or case law on it. If section 106 were abolished, we would learn to love it. It is a particularly British characteristic to learn to love institutions on their demise. Section 106 is useful, but it must be developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "b6f574042a7dfd05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.541.7", "colnum": "541", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ure in my considerations that the convention is absolutely compatible with our enforcement of managed immigration into this country. However, I repeat that I believe that the signing of the convention and the protection framework that it imposes for dealing with victims of trafficking remains a primary goal for the Government. I hope that my hon. Friend will not have too long at all to wait—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.541.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "b6f574042a7dfd05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "Under previous licensing arrangements, a lot of drinkers used to go home at chucking-out time, causing no difficulty to the police and law and order forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "b6f574042a7dfd05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "ng gain supplement would be to raise additional revenue available for infrastructure to support development. I said that at least 70 per cent. would go to the local authority area. Any remainder would not come to central Government, but would go to the region in question to support infrastructure, and I would expect that principally to be the region within which the local authority area was sited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "b6f574042a7dfd05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "One of the problems that we face tonight is that the Government have been short on detail about how the process will operate. They have said that they will give the money back to the regions, but they have not been clear about how the money will be administered; we assume that it will be by regional assemblies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "b6f574042a7dfd05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": " Anything that undermines the provision, therefore, is fatal to the cause of affordable housing, as local authorities and developers have gradually developed a great deal of expertise or case law on it. If section 106 were abolished, we would learn to love it. It is a particularly British characteristic to learn to love institutions on their demise. Section 106 is useful, but it must be developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "b6f574042a7dfd05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Steady!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": " whether it was better off under 106 or planning gain supplement. The Committee felt that local areas and local people should be able to see that, so I am disappointed that we are being asked to accept the PGS on a hope value and expect things to be better. I am not prepared to give it a go, to suck it and see, or to do whatever else we are supposed to do, licking and promising all over the place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "b6f574042a7dfd05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the Minister for not being present for her opening words. May I say that I saw a wedding photograph of her in a long, midnight blue dress and was most taken aback? I hope that that in some way mitigates her concern at my missing her opening speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-15", "file": "debates2007-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "b6f574042a7dfd05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.624.18", "colnum": "624", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-15b.624.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "There is some flexibility in the Bill with respect to the issue of prices or earnings, which I believe is right. I am surprised that the hon. Member for Angus (Mr. Weir) has found the time to join us today, as I thought that he was busy celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ion required to scrutinise the proposals properly. I tabled a dozen or so parliamentary questions in July, seeking information about the proposed changes. Those questions fell unanswered at Prorogation in November—no doubt the victim of the Minister's traffic light scheme. Despite a ministerial promise on 15 November to answer them anyway, not one had been answered to me a month later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "council tax benefit, as well as pension credit.\" Most people would not regard the entitlement to housing benefit and council tax benefit as involving complex circumstances. Many of the people in the target audience for personal accounts are on housing benefit and council tax benefit. The report goes on to show that the difficulties involved in the means-testing will be even more significant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "appear to have read. They make it increasingly clear that the rather sensitive and self-conscious statement that he made on personal accounts on 12 December to the effect that: \"We have already acted to make sure that the state pension provides a solid platform on which people can save.\"—[ Official Report , 12 December 2006; Vol. 454, c. 739 .] is not true. When the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "er, justify the Government's proposal under which a British pensioner living in Canada will in future have their pension frozen, whereas a British pensioner living in the United States will get an earnings uprating. Is the Secretary of State happy about making an existing injustice even worse through the restoration of the earnings link? I shall make progress, as other Members want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "read out. The widows' state earnings related pension scheme debacle—constituents of mine provided one of the test cases considered by the ombudsman—also centred on the provision of information and whether people were given notification about the changes at the right time. Recent problems with occupational pensions have also been caused by issues related to the provision of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.713.4", "colnum": "713", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne Begg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Begg", "preceding_text": " not know how many years are involved, so perhaps the hon. Member for Yeovil will intervene again to clarify whether it is 10, 15 or 20 years. If it is 10 years, it means that anyone who has lived in Britain for 10 years and then moves anywhere else in the world will qualify for a full citizen's pension in the UK—even though they spent only 10 years living here and are no longer living here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.713.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.713.6", "colnum": "713", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne Begg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Begg", "preceding_text": "re Governments to decide whether to change the basis in years to come—without having to redesign the architecture of the basic state pension. If we are talking about a pensions system that will last well into the century and for the next 50 years, it may make sense to give future Governments the flexibility to make that choice if they so want. I urge the Government to look further into that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.713.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d9eaa006ba38026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "re people into the job market. The Government, in conjunction with the devolved Administrations, have to look seriously at how to create more jobs to mop up those groups. There is no point in getting people to work longer if the knock-on effect is on unemployment rather than pensions. To end on a note of some consensus, there are some areas of the Bill where we support what the Government propose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16a.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.639.4", "colnum": "639", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "May I be helpful to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) is far better-looking than me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "There is some flexibility in the Bill with respect to the issue of prices or earnings, which I believe is right. I am surprised that the hon. Member for Angus (Mr. Weir) has found the time to join us today, as I thought that he was busy celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "Because it is linked with our policy for increasing the state pension age. I have to say that I am not going to give way to the right hon. Gentleman again in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the complexity of pension credit adds cost to the system? It would be preferable to pass the cost on to pensioners and help alleviate their poverty rather than investing it in a complex system that is unwieldy for them to use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ion required to scrutinise the proposals properly. I tabled a dozen or so parliamentary questions in July, seeking information about the proposed changes. Those questions fell unanswered at Prorogation in November—no doubt the victim of the Minister's traffic light scheme. Despite a ministerial promise on 15 November to answer them anyway, not one had been answered to me a month later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "council tax benefit, as well as pension credit.\" Most people would not regard the entitlement to housing benefit and council tax benefit as involving complex circumstances. Many of the people in the target audience for personal accounts are on housing benefit and council tax benefit. The report goes on to show that the difficulties involved in the means-testing will be even more significant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": " appear to have read. They make it increasingly clear that the rather sensitive and self-conscious statement that he made on personal accounts on 12 December to the effect that \"We have already acted to make sure that the state pension provides a solid platform on which people can save.\"—[ Official Report , 12 December 2006; Vol. 454, c. 739 .] is not true. When the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman for giving way and I promise to stop heckling him, but only if he stops saying what he is saying. My hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Ms Keeble) made a good point about how the contributory principle contrasts with the universal residence-based pension that the hon. Gentleman is proposing. He has suggested that he is unlikely to support the second pensions Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "We made that clear right at the beginning of the debate. The principles behind the Bill are so in line with our thinking that the Secretary of State would be the first to accuse us of breaking the consensus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "er, justify the Government's proposal under which a British pensioner living in Canada will in future have their pension frozen, whereas a British pensioner living in the United States will get an earnings uprating. Is the Secretary of State happy about making an existing injustice even worse through the restoration of the earnings link? I shall make progress, as other Members want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "read out. The widows' state earnings related pension scheme debacle—constituents of mine provided one of the test cases considered by the ombudsman—also centred on the provision of information and whether people were given notification about the changes at the right time. Recent problems with occupational pensions have also been caused by issues related to the provision of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.713.6", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Anne Begg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Begg", "preceding_text": "re Governments to decide whether to change the basis in years to come—without having to redesign the architecture of the basic state pension. If we are talking about a pensions system that will last well into the century and for the next 50 years, it may make sense to give future Governments the flexibility to make that choice if they so want. I urge the Government to look further into that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.713.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "We will table our amendments this evening, so the hon. Gentleman will know of our proposals as early as tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "roduced until 2015. Perhaps I am getting cynical in my old age, but I suspect that the date may well depend on when the Chancellor becomes Prime Minister and decides to go to the country. The introduction of the earnings link is perhaps a sweetie to be pulled out at the appropriate moment—although the matter is less relevant in Scotland, as we will be well on our way to independence by then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "re people into the job market. The Government, in conjunction with the devolved Administrations, have to look seriously at how to create more jobs to mop up those groups. There is no point in getting people to work longer if the knock-on effect is on unemployment rather than pensions. To end on a note of some consensus, there are some areas of the Bill where we support what the Government propose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-16", "file": "debates2007-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "77c4e9821fe01c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "ich would mean 7.5 million people losing up to £1,000 a year. I am sure that my hon. Friends will be happy to discuss that policy with him at the next general election. We will be very happy to examine the Conservative party's spending plans. We are glad of its support in theory for the Bill, but its shadow Chancellor's spending plans clearly mean a reduction of public spending in GDP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-16b.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "68d2c362e69c1c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17b.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "t with in this House. On financial privilege, the House of Lords fully appreciates its limited role in respect of finance. Yes, it can deal with matters of administration, but it cannot deal in any way with policy. That is appropriate. This House deals with matters relating to money, finance and taxation. The Committee unanimously concluded that codification, which the Government had wanted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17b.864.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "May I reinforce the point made by the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) ? The Minister may be aware that of the 35 members of staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "t out that if the right hon. Gentleman is referring to the case that was in the newspapers at the weekend, my understanding is that this particular individual in fact was on the police national computer. Secondly, let me point out that it is simply not correct to say that the problem was the backlog alone. The problem was that there was no proper system and had not ever been a proper system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman probably has not seen the letter already issued by the Minister for Schools at the Department for Education and Skills making it absolutely clear that we support fully the right of schools to enforce their school uniform rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.784.4", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister as appalled as I am by the decision of Conservative councillors in Wandsworth to close Battersea arts centre and to try to blame Government grants even though Wandsworth is in no danger of being capped and has the lowest council tax in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.784.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.784.4", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister as appalled as I am by the decision of Conservative councillors in Wandsworth to close Battersea arts centre and to try to blame Government grants even though Wandsworth is in no danger of being capped and has the lowest council tax in the country? [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] It also has huge reserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.784.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "It also gets excellent value from its £100,000 grant to Battersea arts centre, having just given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.785.5", "colnum": "785", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is Plaid Cymru.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The proposals that we have simply relate to fraud trials in the way that we have described. I doubt whether the Scottish National party will support those proposals, but it should, because they will free up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.785.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"This is a speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": "rticular of Mike Hayle of Metrix, parliamentary colleagues on both sides of the House and in the other place, especially my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) and the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Mr. Crabb) , my colleague Jane Hutt and Mr. David Swallow in the Welsh Assembly, and last but not least, readers of the South Wales Echo , who supported the campaign from day one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How many ships?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The fact that we are in the middle of one of the biggest, if not the biggest, peacetime warship building programmes that this country has seen is an indication of the Government's commitment to our Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " that the House had said that the decision-making power to be invested in the Secretary of State should be the subject of parliamentary accountability, whereas previously no accountability at all would have been provided in respect of that. I am aware of the common charge that the number of SIs indicates Ministers trying to avoid scrutiny, but I do not think that that was ever the intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is the Father of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I did say that I wanted to make some progress. I have taken quite a few interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. It appears that I am not as lucky as the Leader of the House with interventions. Perhaps I should have offered my hon. Friend a trip to Maidenhead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There have been no covert press briefings; however, I did make a speech to the Blackburn Labour party, which got slightly less coverage than I was anticipating, although it got some.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.839.3", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I do. The evidence given to us and the evidence as to what people wish suggests that in other than the most exceptional circumstances—that is my caveat—that is now the status quo and the agreed convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-17", "file": "debates2007-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "4bbb524dcdb1d3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "t with in this House. On financial privilege, the House of Lords fully appreciates its limited role in respect of finance. Yes, it can deal with matters of administration, but it cannot deal in any way with policy. That is appropriate. This House deals with matters relating to money, finance and taxation. The Committee unanimously concluded that codification, which the Government had wanted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-17c.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "she voted against such increases in public spending, and everyone knows that the unquestionable improvements that have taken place in every school across the country under our Government would not have taken place under her. The Building Schools for the Future programme, from which thousands of children will benefit, is simply a further stage in the brilliant programme that we have followed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "id not know that I was going to be there—to say, \"Mr. Straw, the service that we are now getting in this new hospital is fantastic\". The right hon. Lady then asked about train services. I would be delighted to invite my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport to talk about responsibilities for that service, because the principal responsibility for current train services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "debate we cannot slip into the belief that we are criminalising an entire generation by deploying them. That is not the case, and the numbers involved do not sustain such a suggestion. Nor should we assume that they do not work because they are seen as a badge of honour, that they do not work because of the breach rates, or that they do not help with prevention and helping young people to develop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "I began by visiting a CCTV control room—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.976.8", "colnum": "976", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "ost of issuing such a letter was £63 and that the success rate was 63 per cent. Then it moved on to acceptable behaviour contracts—as pioneered by typically innovative and imaginative Liberal Democrats in local government. They cost £230 but are marginally more successful than the warning letter, with a success rate of 65 per cent. Now we get to antisocial behaviour orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.976.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "I think it is fair to say that on this side of the House, we believe in joined-up government to tackle the problem, rather than the \"joint up\" government often proposed by some Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Are you tempted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": ". Towns such as Scarborough depend heavily on tourism; it is, I am told, the UK's premier tourist resort. We are trying to attract more families and conferences to the town, which we cannot do if we have this image of binge-drinking on our streets. We do not want undesirable people coming to the town. We do, however, have the UK Independence party conference coming to Scarborough in October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": "wn to the guidance that is issued by the Home Office and I have read through it. Is the Minister sure that it goes sufficiently far? It requires factual information. I am not sure that it has the full common assessment that we need. Parenting measures have been mentioned by many previous speakers. I questioned parental orders during the Committee stage of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "d14f05cc2ff2e852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": " receive the coverage that residents expect their taxes to provide. Much has been said about the role of police community support officers. I hesitated to welcome their introduction, as it appeared to be a case of policing on the cheap. CSOs have a role to play but, unfortunately, they have limited powers, so the role of special constables should be bolstered. I come from an Army background—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "David Wright", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": "The manufacturing sector in the west midlands will be disappointed by yesterday's defence training review announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.899.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "gainst such increases in public spending, and everyone knows that the unquestionable improvements that have taken place in every school across the country under our Government would not have taken place under her Government. The Building Schools for the Future programme, from which thousands of children will benefit, is simply a further stage in the brilliant programme that we have followed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "id not know that I was going to be there—to say, \"Mr. Straw, the service that we are now getting in this new hospital is fantastic\". The right hon. Lady then asked about train services. I would be delighted to invite my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport to talk about responsibilities for that service, because the principal responsibility for current train services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.921.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\" Three billion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "This is the million dollar question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.941.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "debate we cannot slip into the belief that we are criminalising an entire generation by deploying them. That is not the case, and the numbers involved do not sustain such a suggestion. Nor should we assume that they do not work because they are seen as a badge of honour, that they do not work because of the breach rates, or that they do not help with prevention and helping young people to develop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "I am interested by the Minister's intervention, but the truth is that those were cases in which other offences were committed, which is why a custodial sentence was given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "I began by visiting a CCTV control room—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.976.8", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "st of issuing such a letter was £63 and that the success rate was 63 per cent. Then it moved on to acceptable behaviour contracts—as pioneered by typically innovative and imaginative Liberal Democrats in local government. They cost £230, but are marginally more successful than the warning letter, with a success rate of 65 per cent. Now we get to antisocial behaviour orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.976.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Are you tempted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": ". Towns such as Scarborough depend heavily on tourism; it is, I am told, the UK's premier tourist resort. We are trying to attract more families and conferences to the town, which we cannot do if we have this image of binge-drinking on our streets. We do not want undesirable people coming to the town. We do, however, have the UK Independence party conference coming to Scarborough in October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": "wn to the guidance that is issued by the Home Office and I have read through it. Is the Minister sure that it goes sufficiently far? It requires factual information. I am not sure that it has the full common assessment that we need. Parenting measures have been mentioned by many previous speakers. I questioned parental orders during the Committee stage of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-18", "file": "debates2007-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "16b23927007ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": " receive the coverage that residents expect their taxes to provide. Much has been said about the role of police community support officers. I hesitated to welcome their introduction, as it appeared to be a case of policing on the cheap. CSOs have a role to play but, unfortunately, they have limited powers, so the role of special constables should be bolstered. I come from an Army background—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-18b.1015.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": "I have not done so personally, but supporters of the campaign have discussed the matter extensively and the treatment of Wales is made explicit in the Bill. I would be delighted to hear further interventions from the hon. Gentleman, or possibly a speech, later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1040.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, he is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": " the protection of our environment. I believe that all three main parties subscribe to those priorities. The Bill tries to give them legislative shape, so that we can begin to deliver on them. Its purpose is not merely to send a message: we want to see it on the statute book. We must therefore answer the question that the late great Eric Forth would certainly have asked were he in his place today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "I obviously support those sentiments behind the Bill, but I have concerns about some of the practicalities. My council—Barnet council—is Conservative-controlled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1046.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "I hope that that would not happen, but the scenario is unfortunately a distinct possibility. We should thank my hon. Friend for making the point; we should take it seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "I would point out that I have probably taken more interventions than any other Member who has spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "As I have indicated, I am trying to make progress with my speech. I am also, however, trying to be courteous to Members. If, like the hon. Gentleman, they insist on making interventions, I will give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1077.4", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "I can only assume that that is what is intended by the Bill's supporters, or at least some of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1077.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1077.4", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "I can only assume that that is what is intended by the Bill's supporters, or at least some of them. [Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"] Members say \"Nonsense\", but no one is coming forward with an argument to contradict the very good point raised by my hon. Friend. Yet again, there is a need for clarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1077.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1077.4", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "at least some of them. [Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"] Members say \"Nonsense\", but no one is coming forward with an argument to contradict the very good point raised by my hon. Friend. Yet again, there is a need for clarity. [Interruption.] The Liberal Democrats huff and puff, but they have no answer either. I will let Members try to think of an answer. As I approach the conclusion of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1077.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1077.8", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He chairs it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "I am conscious of the fact that my hon. Friend is a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1077.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "hat are real rather than cosmetic—I shall return to that point—to give people more power over their lives locally, I believe that we will, if not in five or 10 years, in 10, 20, 30 or 40 years from now, have cause to regret that we did not take steps long ago. We will find that the degree to which people are disenchanted, apathetic and distrustful of politics will become unsustainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "ir own problems and the solution to them. It was that premise which took me into local government, and it is a theme of what I have been trying to achieve in my constituency. The solution to what has been called \"ghost town Britain\" lies not in this place or in Whitehall, but with those living in communities. The Bill is about trusting those people. Hon. Members who support the Bill tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "es about the cohesion of communities is a strong and powerful example of the paradoxes that can emerge from localism. I hope that he realises that, given my experience of the Cantle report and the Ritchie report on local communities, I understand very well the point that he makes. The Bill that we will debate on Monday deals with safeguards against such difficulties and the boundaries of localism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": ". That is evident from the postbags that we receive. The best value duty that I have talked about and the community call for action address many of the points that he made. I hope that I am not breaking the spirit of non-partisanship when I say that we cannot ignore the fact that police authorities are local authorities. They are accountable to the local authorities and through them to the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "countable to the local authorities and through them to the people. [ Interruption. ] The House is chuntering at that point. I wish it would do that when it is holding the Home Secretary to account for every action of every police officer in the country. I am sure that if we brought forward measures to do that, Members would scream centralisation and a lack of accountability to existing structures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-19", "file": "debates2007-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "fa2f3d8cbbf58f10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "se is chuntering at that point. I wish it would do that when it is holding the Home Secretary to account for every action of every police officer in the country. I am sure that if we brought forward measures to do that, Members would scream centralisation and a lack of accountability to existing structures. [ Interruption. ] No, the Home Secretary did not try to do that. That was the previous one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-19b.1101.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "8da311ab99050d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "Indeed, and I shall deal with this point in a little more detail in a moment. Perhaps both the hon. Gentleman and I should declare an interest, in that both our wives happen to be members of the county council. We both disagree with the view that the county leadership have been putting forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22a.1186.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman looks at the article concerned, he will see that that phrase, which was never attributed to me, was actually the work of the sub-editor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1131.4", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I am on record as saying, and I repeat, that we are asking the Army to do more than was planned. I accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1132.6", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " be clear, I have not asked for additional helicopters and the supply system is working well, with no soldiers or marines running out of supplies.\" It does a distinct disservice to those troops who are carrying out this work bravely, competently and successfully in Afghanistan for the hon. Gentleman and others constantly to peddle dishonesties about what is happening out there. There was no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1134.4", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "All urgent operational requirements that have been approved by the chain of command have been acceded to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman of what Brigadier Thomas said. The hon. Gentleman might want to contradict me, but why would he want to contradict Brigadier Thomas? He said: \"To be clear, I have not asked for additional helicopters and the supply system is working well, with no soldiers or marines running out of supplies.\" So why does the hon. Gentleman continually peddle the suggestion that there is a shortage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1135.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1170.5", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "on to prevent the Audit Commission from accepting a commission from bodies that want to look into how they provide services. I cannot imagine why that decision has been taken, but I shall be interested to learn the reason in Committee. A cynic might think that it has been done so that PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG can be taken on as consultants, at three times the price and half the credibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1180.3", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": " covered by the local area agreements, requirements on public bodies to co-operate and the scrutiny powers. The local area agreements offer important opportunities and possibilities. As the hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport said, there is bound to be debate on who is embraced by the local area agreement. If one is not careful, one gets an absolutely gigantic sort of jellyfish of an orgasm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "Indeed, and I shall deal with this point in a little more detail in a moment. Perhaps both the hon. Gentleman and I should declare an interest, in that both our wives happen to be members of the county council. We both disagree with the view that the county leadership have been putting forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "l that the Government are moving not towards localism but to a convoluted and complicated form of bureaucracy, which will mean that the person in the street will not understand what is going on, and will feel yet again that things are being done to them, rather than for them and with them. Were the Bill genuinely empowering local councils, and giving greater scrutiny on health, I would support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1236.5", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "in the Bill, the invitation to bid, discussions or Ministers' replies to questions. Defining a \"broad consensus\" appears to be a matter of ministerial discretion. Tomorrow, an application for unitary status will land on the Secretary of State's desk from three local authorities in Shropshire: the county council, Oswestry borough council and South Shropshire district council, which is my authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": ". Hurd) and our opposition to this Bill and its unjustifiable powers to direct councils—and the Government's hostile and reluctant attitude to the Sustainable Communities Bill and their determination to push through this Bill regardless of its constitutional outrage. Letting go is not easy. It is against the conventional norms of government in this country over the past 30 years or so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "azel Grove (Andrew Stunell) and for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) to oppose—that is their constitutional duty—but there is one thing that I would bet my council tax on. Incidentally, according to today's report by the Local Government Association, my bill is the second lowest since the council tax was introduced, but I see that the Opposition are giving no credit to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "areas that had detrimental effects in others. We have to provide a solution that is fair to all. That, in all seriousness, is the point that the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham made. He had a referendum, and the Government must, and will, take the opinions into account, but we must also take into account the impact of proposals on other parts of the country. That is why the directive exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-22", "file": "debates2007-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "dfb759c4ff5ad132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " take the opinions into account, but we must also take into account the impact of proposals on other parts of the country. That is why the directive exists. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar says that he is not reassured. Given the cynical mood that the Opposition are in, I would imagine that they would not be reassured if I promised him a zero council tax and free meat pies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-22b.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1297.2", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ssessment reported that three isolation beds per 25-bed ward should be provided to back up a policy of screening all admissions. Will the Secretary of State commit today to providing the necessary capital resources to put in three isolation beds per 25-bed ward in order to support a policy of screening all admissions? The point was raised earlier about tackling community- acquired infection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1308.2", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "e public. Although all of our work—with \"Saving Lives\", the new screening guidance, the new code of practice, stronger powers for the Healthcare Commission and with the improvement teams—was having an effect, we remained unsatisfied. Infection rates for MRSA were falling, but not fast enough, so last month we announced a further allocation of £50 million in capital funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1308.2", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "o acquire new equipment for the heavy duty, deep steam cleaning of infected rooms and wards, and they are buying new wipe clean computer keyboards for theatres and new equipment for microbiology laboratories. Further investment in the national health service, made possible by the record investment that our Governmentare making in the NHS—investment that the Conservatives voted against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1330.4", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "heed. The RSH is more than £30 million in debt, as the Minister will know. People are very worried about the focus on debt reduction, and the problem is now so bad that charges for car parking are not confined to members of the public who use the hospital. Under this socialist Administration, nurses are being told that they will have to pay to park their cars when they come into work —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "tive parts of the health care team—well, they are, and they must feel that they are—and I am very sorry that the Secretary of State's amendment eschews our mention of health care staff. That is a pity, and I hope that it is an oversight. Mention of ancillary staff is long overdue, and I hope that, in reparation, the Minister might mention their contribution to cleanliness in hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "might seek to claim. However, there is absolutely no complacency whatsoever among Labour Members, and I will set out some of the measures that the Government are taking. While sitting through this debate, I have heard more bar-room garbage emanate from Opposition Members than perhaps I have ever heard before. Yesterday, they pledged to abolish targets and end top-down Government action in the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the second Opposition debate on the life chancesof disabled children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the hon. Gentleman's initial parliamentary question, but I say to him and to Conservative Members that Lord Adonis has attended meetings of the cross-ministerial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "899786e65747fa2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": " that it is the lead Department, and I want to raise the issue of parents who do not know that their disabled children have been physically restrained at school. I have mentioned the subject in the House before, in the presence of the Minister for Schools. My personal view is that all parents should be told promptly, ideally on the same day, if their child has been physically restrained at school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23a.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has raised the issue of that report, which gives me the opportunity to read out its conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1274.5", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "Has the Secretary of State had discussions with the Ministry of Defence about the so-called Trident tax and its possible effects on the MOD budget and therefore on security in military bases in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1274.5", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "discussions with the Ministry of Defence about the so-called Trident tax and its possible effects on the MOD budget and therefore on security in military bases in Scotland? [Interruption.] If so, did he consider whether the tax might be illegal, and whether it was in fact pointless to impose any tax, because any taxes collected would result in cuts in the Scottish Executive budget in the long run?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1274.6", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must tell members of the Scottish National party that it is only courteous to allow hon. Members to be heard in the Chamber. That also applies when Ministers are replying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1274.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1294.3", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will recognise that that is not a new problem. Indeed, my mother died of MRSA in 1996 under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1296.5", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "a thing. Yet the Healthcare Commission report into the Clostridium difficile outbreaks at Stoke Mandeville stated: \"Other managerial imperatives were given greater priority than the control of infection... The director of infection prevention and control had not persuaded the board to give sufficient priority to the control of infection in general and to the control of C. difficile in particular.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1297.2", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ssessment reported that three isolation beds per 25-bed ward should be provided to back up a policy of screening all admissions. Will the Secretary of State commit today to providing the necessary capital resources to put in three isolation beds per 25-bed ward in order to support a policy of screening all admissions? The point was raised earlier about tackling community- acquired infection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1307.3", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The guidance that we issued last year on screening recommends strongly to trusts that they focus their efforts on those most at risk —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1307.3", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The guidance that we issued last year on screening recommends strongly to trusts that they focus their efforts on those most at risk —[ Interruption. ] Well, I will send the hon. Gentleman a copy of the document because I have just been looking at it. It sets out in great detail the different groups of patients most at risk of MRSA and other infections —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State for giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1308.2", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "e public. Although all of our work—with \"Saving Lives\", the new screening guidance, the new code of practice, stronger powers for the Healthcare Commission and with the improvement teams—was having an effect, we remained unsatisfied. Infection rates for MRSA were falling, but not fast enough, so last month we announced a further allocation of £50 million in capital funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1308.2", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": " acquire new equipment for the heavy duty, deep steam cleaning of infected rooms and wards, and they are buying new wipe clean computer keyboards for theatres and new equipment for microbiology laboratories. Further investment in the national health service, made possible by the record investment that our Government are making in the NHS—investment that the Conservatives voted against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "w my hon. Friend the Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) , and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) on securing this very important debate. At the outset, I want to say that the staff of the Royal Shrewsbury hospital do a tremendous job in very challenging circumstances. The socialists always criticise Opposition Members when we raise these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1330.4", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "heed. The RSH is more than £30 million in debt, as the Minister will know. People are very worried about the focus on debt reduction, and the problem is now so bad that charges for car parking are not confined to members of the public who use the hospital. Under this socialist Administration, nurses are being told that they will have to pay to park their cars when they come into work —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "tive parts of the health care team—well, they are, and they must feel that they are—and I am very sorry that the Secretary of State's amendment eschews our mention of health care staff. That is a pity, and I hope that it is an oversight. Mention of ancillary staff is long overdue, and I hope that, in reparation, the Minister might mention their contribution to cleanliness in hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "might seek to claim. However, there is absolutely no complacency whatsoever among Labour Members, and I will set out some of the measures that the Government are taking. While sitting through this debate, I have heard more bar-room garbage emanate from Opposition Members than perhaps I have ever heard before. Yesterday, they pledged to abolish targets and end top-down Government action in the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1339.7", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " is Conservative party's policy? We have heard today that it is to scrap the target, install a few washing machines and hope for the best. I am afraid that that is simply not good enough. All the momentum that we have established in tackling MRSA would be lost in the Tory NHS, and Lansley's La-la land, where Ministers have no role and everything happens by magic. What a wonderful place it must be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1339.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1340.4", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "er for Crawley (Laura Moffatt) made an outstanding speech. She spoke with real authority, unlike the bar-room brawlers on the Opposition Benches. She cut through the fug of the debate with real precision and made some superb points about the effect of mandatory surveillance in changing how we view these things. She also made another important point. She worked in the national health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1340.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ontract cleaning, as did other Members. It is vital that the cleaning team in any trust is fully integrated into that trust, and that its views are listened to and it is consulted when action is taking place. We do not want a situation in which contract cleaners do not feel that they are a full and involved part of the trust in question. I asked the hon. Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ental issues that show that our NHS is improving, but we are not complacent. We will continue to challenge the NHS to do more. The Conservative party poses as the friend of NHS staff, but we Labour Members remember the posters saying \"I mean, how hard is it to keep a hospital clean?\" It was a sneering Tory two fingers to every single hospital cleaner in the country, and it was sanctioned by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the second Opposition debate on the life chances of disabled children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1356.2", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "e Opposition to task for their attempt to airbrush out of history some of the actions and—dare I say it?—inaction that characterised their approach when they were in government and in a position to do something about some of the issues that have been highlighted today. At best they did not improve the lives of disabled children, and at worst they exacerbated some of the problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the hon. Gentleman's initial parliamentary question, but I say to him and to Conservative Members that Lord Adonis has attended meetings of the cross-ministerial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "understand is the spokesperson on constitutional affairs for the Conservative party, has severely criticised the very idea the need for which the hon. Member for South-West Surrey is highlighting tonight—that we must get ourselves to a situation where people do not have to keep giving the same core information to different Government agencies. So the hon. Gentleman might wish to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "hlighting tonight—that we must get ourselves to a situation where people do not have to keep giving the same core information to different Government agencies. So the hon. Gentleman might wish to speak— [Interruption.] No, the hon. Gentleman often talked about multiple questions being asked. As he has grave concerns in that regard, which we recognise, he needs to look at whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " Government agencies. So the hon. Gentleman might wish to speak— [Interruption.] No, the hon. Gentleman often talked about multiple questions being asked. As he has grave concerns in that regard, which we recognise, he needs to look at whether— [Interruption.] From a sedentary position, the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond) is still talking about the single benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-23", "file": "debates2007-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "48ac6d6b8901e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": " that it is the lead Department, and I want to raise the issue of parents who do not know that their disabled children have been physically restrained at school. I have mentioned the subject in the House before, in the presence of the Minister for Schools. My personal view is that all parents should be told promptly, ideally on the same day, if their child has been physically restrained at school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-23b.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "95049bd0e9c3ad02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24a.1414.4", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am debating the issue with the right hon. and learned Gentleman now. I entirely agree that British forces are doing a fantastic job in Iraq in circumstances of difficulty and danger, but let us remind ourselves why they are there. They are there under a United Nations resolution with the full support of the Government of Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24a.1414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "95049bd0e9c3ad02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24a.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "who believe that the police service is capable and professional is 67 per cent. Again, that is a substantial improvement. That is only one survey, and I do not intend to suggest to the House that it is conclusive. We should not overestimate the significance of one survey. However, it is a piece of evidence that comes not from my assumptions, still less from the assumptions of my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24a.1428.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "95049bd0e9c3ad02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24a.1464.3", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "iffer with him—this is where I line up with Senator McCain—in that I think that he should have done so earlier, and he should have put in many more troops. I am not sure whether 20,000 troops will be enough. We should be talking about nearer to 50,000 troops if we even want to begin to stabilise Baghdad. That is a real policy: an idea to try to stabilise while giving the Iraqis —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24a.1464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1409.2", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blizzard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blizzard", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1412.3", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that as a result —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1412.3", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that as a result —[Interruption.] As a result of the review that was announced by the Home Secretary —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1412.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It is a pretty simple question: does the Chancellor want to break up the Home Office—yes or no?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It is a pretty simple question: does the Chancellor want to break up the Home Office—yes or no? [Interruption.] We have got prisoners on the run, weak borders —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1414.4", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am debating the issue with the right hon. and learned Gentleman now. I entirely agree that British forces are doing a fantastic job in Iraq in circumstances of difficulty and danger, but let us remind ourselves of why they are there. They are there under a United Nations resolution with the full support of the Government of Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "t know the precise reasons regarding each of those measures, but obviously there has to be a balance. We need to make sure that people can ask, and indeed that they do ask, so that producers of goods in this country can benefit from people's desire to eat produce from the UK. On the other hand, we have to balance that with making sure that we do not have bureaucracy that actually undermines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "who believe that the police service is capable and professional is 67 per cent. Again, that is a substantial improvement. That is only one survey, and I do not intend to suggest to the House that it is conclusive. We should not overestimate the significance of one survey. However, it is a piece of evidence that comes not from my assumptions, still less from the assumptions of my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1428.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "This is a debate for which many in the House have been calling for some time. British troops have been in action in Iraq for nearly four years, and it is high time that the House of Commons took stock of what has happened. I say to Ministers that there is also a strong case for a similar debate on Afghanistan in the near future. Whether we supported or opposed the invasion of Iraq in 2003—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "take a different view, in any case. I believe that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was right, but that the failure to plan for the aftermath of that has been a tragic mistake and that we are now living with the consequences. I believe, and I think that the hon. Gentleman would agree with me about this, that if we did support the war, we must recognise that in many respects it has gone wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1439.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": " will respond positively to that request. Let me turn to the situation in Iraq. As someone who voted for the invasion in 2003, and who spent many years supporting the Iraqi people's struggle for democracy and pluralism, and who has many Kurdish friends—some still in Iraq, some outside it, and some in our country—I have to say that things have not turned out the way that I had expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1447.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "ASBESTOSIS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-24", "file": "debates2007-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "c7750edf7377ab0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1525.4", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "ASBESTOSIS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "opportunity to debate the important subject of compensation for victims of asbestosis in Northern Ireland. I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise that important issue. Deaths from asbestos-related diseases are, sadly, on the increase. Figures from the TUC put the number of deaths at about 5,000 a year. By 2020, it is estimated that the number of deaths per year will be about 10,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-24b.1525.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "9577ef1114f7efef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t the very dramatic increases in public expenditure have increased the inflationary pressures in the economy as well. Since the Chancellor has twice today reminded the House that we had reservations about the independence of the Bank of England, may I remind him that we had reservations about the proposals that he tabled in the Bank of England Bill because the Bank would not be independent enough?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "9577ef1114f7efef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1547.4", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "No. I am not sure what message the hon. Lady wants to send out. Is it that if a couple are overpaid and do not want to pay back their tax credits, they should split up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "9577ef1114f7efef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Governments—plural.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "rnment Departments in the past 10 years, as shown by the Government's highly successful ability to deliver on the economy. My right hon. Friend has just reminded the House, particularly Conservative Members, that we are about to enter the 40th successive quarter of economic growth under the Government—a record unrivalled by any British Government and almost any western Government since 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "9577ef1114f7efef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1561.5", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The answer to my hon. Friend's first question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1561.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "9577ef1114f7efef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1563.5", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I find it odd that of all the issues that a Liberal Democrat could raise, the hon. Lady asks about providing votes for rapists and murderers while they are serving their sentences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1563.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "9577ef1114f7efef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "the Opposition has mentioned because they are good news. They are not the British crime survey figures but the recorded crime figures, and they show that the most feared crime, violence that causes injury, is down 7 per cent. compared with last year, that sexual offences are down 4 per cent. and that crimes involving firearms are down 14 per cent. All recorded crime is down 3 per cent., and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "9577ef1114f7efef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1655.2", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ed the senior judiciary, but then he backtracked and said that he could not quote them. Other than Ministers and their Parliamentary Private Secretaries, I cannot find a single person who is in favour of the Bill. Certainly I am not surprised that so many of my colleagues on the Back Benches have not come in to support the Government on this occasion. I shall not vote against the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "9577ef1114f7efef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "nd slippery slope, in truth I do not concede it. This Government have a rotten record. They have terrible form for attacks on jury trial. They started completely unprovoked in 1998 with murder trial Bills and have continued throughout. We have gone through a black period in the political history of civil liberties in this country. Many of us hope that that black period is rapidly coming to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25b.1658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t the very dramatic increases in public expenditure have increased the inflationary pressures in the economy as well. Since the Chancellor has twice today reminded the House that we had reservations about the independence of the Bank of England, may I remind him that we had reservations about the proposals that he tabled in the Bank of England Bill because the Bank would not be independent enough?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1547.4", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "No. I am not sure what message the hon. Lady wants to send out. Is it that if a couple are overpaid and do not want to pay back their tax credits, they should split up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Governments—plural.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "nts in the past 10 years, as shown by the Government's highly successful ability to deliver on the economy. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has just reminded the House, particularly Conservative Members, that we are about to enter the 40th successive quarter of economic growth under the Government—a record unrivalled by any British Government and almost any western Government since 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"On the planes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " Democrat party and his irresponsibility in proposing that we should cut and run from our responsibilities in Iraq. I commend the article to a wider readership. We were treated to a wonderful illustration of the Liberal Democrats' logic chopping. The hon. Gentleman agrees with the principle of air passenger duty but believes that the tax should be on the pollution rather than the passengers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1561.5", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The answer to my hon. Friend's first question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1561.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1563.5", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I find it odd that of all the issues that a Liberal Democrat could raise, the hon. Lady asks about providing votes for rapists and murderers while they are serving their sentences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1563.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1563.6", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate as soon as possible on parliamentary hypocrisy? Many Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1563.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "he Opposition has mentioned, because they are good news. They are not the British crime survey figures but the recorded crime figures, and they show that the most feared crime, violence that causes injury, is down 7 per cent. compared with last year, that sexual offences are down 4 per cent. and that crimes involving firearms are down 14 per cent. All recorded crime is down 3 per cent., and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1568.2", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There will be an opportunity to raise that matter next Thursday in the defence in the world debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1568.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1655.2", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ed the senior judiciary, but then he backtracked and said that he could not quote them. Other than Ministers and their Parliamentary Private Secretaries, I cannot find a single person who is in favour of the Bill. Certainly I am not surprised that so many of my colleagues on the Back Benches have not come in to support the Government on this occasion. I shall not vote against the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "In the limited time available, I will start by giving the Government the benefit of the doubt. It hurts to do so, but I will. I accept for the purposes of argument, and these arguments only, what they say about the slippery slope, the wedge and creep. It is remarkable that when I mentioned that last word my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, North (Stephen Pound) came into the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1657.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-25", "file": "debates2007-01-25c.xml", "sha256": "505e12bfc9f816ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "nd slippery slope, in truth I do not concede it. This Government have a rotten record. They have terrible form for attacks on jury trial. They started completely unprovoked in 1998 with murder trial Bills and have continued throughout. We have gone through a black period in the political history of civil liberties in this country. Many of us hope that that black period is rapidly coming to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-25c.1658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-26", "file": "debates2007-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "b362b2d923db81b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "re: because Alton Towers is secluded, lots of people drive there. There is a huge coach industry to get people there and there is a rail ticket to Alton Towers, although the nearest rail station is at Stoke City. I was once the Labour candidate for a county council seat called Churnet Valley, which has Alton Towers in it. I had my election photograph taken on the platform of Alton railway station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-26", "file": "debates2007-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "b362b2d923db81b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26a.1702.3", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "I prefer the less cynical explanation that the hon. Member for South Suffolk included it because, like many Scottish Conservatives but unlike theFront Bench team, he is persuaded of the merits of devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26a.1702.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-26", "file": "debates2007-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "b362b2d923db81b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26a.1741.3", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "I hate this—I agree with the hon. Gentleman again. I have a feeling that, if the Bill goes through in its present state, with clauses 5, 6 and 7, it could be the Conservative party's poll tax again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26a.1741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-26", "file": "debates2007-01-26b.xml", "sha256": "e7bb572ceea8c659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26b.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "re: because Alton Towers is secluded, lots of people drive there. There is a huge coach industry to get people there and there is a rail ticket to Alton Towers, although the nearest rail station is at Stoke City. I was once the Labour candidate for a county council seat called Churnet Valley, which has Alton Towers in it. I had my election photograph taken on the platform of Alton railway station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26b.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-26", "file": "debates2007-01-26b.xml", "sha256": "e7bb572ceea8c659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26b.1702.3", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "I prefer the less cynical explanation that the hon. Member for South Suffolk included it because, like many Scottish Conservatives but unlike the Front Bench team, he is persuaded of the merits of devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-26b.1702.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-29", "file": "debates2007-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "5148cb5c45addb7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-29b.4.6", "colnum": "4", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I hope that we can get a swimming pool in Bolsover so that my hon. Friend can have a swim there before he retires. Seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-29b.4.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-01-29", "file": "debates2007-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "5148cb5c45addb7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-29b.5.3", "colnum": "5", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is devolved.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "ould not expect my right hon. Friend to be aware of an administrative problem that affects the Portobello water polo club in Edinburgh, but he will know that it is one of the best water polo clubs in the United Kingdom. Will he take this opportunity to express the Government's full support for water polo and, in particular, will he take the opportunity to visit the club when he comes to Edinburgh?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-29b.5.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-30", "file": "debates2007-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1a71e383438ec9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "n the newspapers about that Act, I would never have introduced it. So let me be very clear: Las Vegas is not coming to Great Britain. British casinos will be subject to new controls, which will be the strictest in the world. For example, Las Vegas-style tricks of the trade will not be allowed. There will be no free alcohol to induce more gambling, and no pumped oxygen to keep players awake —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-30", "file": "debates2007-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "1a71e383438ec9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "e, we have listened carefully to the concerns of Members of Parliament and their constituents. We thought that it was right to be cautious. I could probably say this in 50 different languages, but the message would be the same: we cannot and will not even consider allowing further casinos until a proper evaluation over time has been made of the social and economic effects of the 17 casinos —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30a.87.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-30", "file": "debates2007-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "a92badb90d071cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30b.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "n the newspapers about that Act, I would never have introduced it. So let me be very clear: Las Vegas is not coming to Great Britain. British casinos will be subject to new controls, which will be the strictest in the world. For example, Las Vegas-style tricks of the trade will not be allowed. There will be no free alcohol to induce more gambling, and no pumped oxygen to keep players awake —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30b.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-30", "file": "debates2007-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "a92badb90d071cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30b.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "e, we have listened carefully to the concerns of Members of Parliament and their constituents. We thought that it was right to be cautious. I could probably say this in 50 different languages, but the message would be the same: we cannot and will not even consider allowing further casinos until a proper evaluation over time has been made of the social and economic effects of the 17 casinos —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30b.87.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-30", "file": "debates2007-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "a92badb90d071cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30b.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": " I was baffled and angered by the Government's actions, especially as the Labour party had said that it would have an ethical foreign policy. I can honestly look the Secretary of State in the eye and say, \"I do not believe that it is an ethical foreign policy to sell a radar installation that has military implications, and that costs so much, to Tanzania, when that country is so desperately poor.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-30b.186.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-31", "file": "debates2007-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "a37651585169e3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-31b.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "will receive the minimum increase—my council and many others will receive 2.7 per cent.—but the adjusted grant for my local authority and others pushes the increase below that level. For instance, Sutton will receive 1.7 per cent. at a time when, as other Members have mentioned, the retail prices index is running at 4.4 per cent. and inflation in local government might be higher still.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-31b.305.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-31", "file": "debates2007-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "a37651585169e3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-31b.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "need, funnily enough, in Labour-held constituencies. I repeat the figure of 85 per cent.—although Labour holds only half the constituencies in Yorkshire. If we consider the land area covered as well, my constituents will draw the right lesson from that. I pay tribute to the Yorkshire Post for its sustained campaign on the Government's failure to provide proper transport infrastructure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-31b.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-31", "file": "debates2007-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "a37651585169e3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-31b.325.4", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "at was relevant. We hoped that the 2002 changed formula on local education funding would make the system fairer and more transparent. It has become more transparent but that only serves to make it clearer that, time and again, the authorities at the bottom of the funding league table lose out. Instead of being closed, the gap between the highest and the lowest funded local authorities is widening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-31b.325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-01-31", "file": "debates2007-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "a37651585169e3b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-31b.326.8", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I was not present in the Chamber for the start of the debate. I was lobbying the Mayor of London for money for my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-01-31b.326.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e47a6364563a1dda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "I say again that hon. Members may have heard what they wanted to hear. It was made perfectly clear—and I make it perfectly clear again—that all actions taken at any given time obviously depend on the conditions. What we were suggesting was an illustrative time scale of what could be achieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.344.6", "colnum": "344", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "Some £16 billion is paid every year to farmers and growers under the single payment scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.344.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.344.7", "colnum": "344", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": " similar question a year ago. He has rightly been saying that information should be available about the amount paid under the single payment scheme. As he knows, for the period up to 2005, we published regularly the payments to individual farmers. That is entirely reasonable. Our first priority, obviously, is to make sure that the payments are correct. Once we are sure that they are correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.344.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.349.6", "colnum": "349", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "I understand the force not only of the hon. Gentleman's specific point about sites of special scientific interest in his constituency but of the wider issue. The arguments in favour of a wider and of a narrower interpretation of the directive are finely balanced. In line with Hampton, Arculus and all our principles of better regulation, we should not over-implement EU directives in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.349.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "re working parents can go back to work, where they wish to. On the costs of reorganisation, my advice to the right hon. Lady is not to trade our reorganisations with hers. For example, there was rail privatisation reorganisation, for which her party voted and on which they all campaigned. It was one of the most catastrophic reorganisations, which we have had to resolve, and having done that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.367.6", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I promise the right hon. Gentleman that I am involved in a spirited discussion with the Department for Constitutional Affairs about introducing the boundary change orders. I have been told that the problem is printing and binding delays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.367.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.374.4", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I know that it is a dereliction of my duty. I accept the criticism, and I will consider my position. What else can I say? It is an abject failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.374.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " been infiltration of the police force by militia elements in the south-east of Iraq. That is why an important part of Operation Sinbad, as we moved across the city, was to concentrate on attempting to clear out those elements police station by police station. Only two days ago, I spoke at some length to the head of the police training team, an assistant chief constable by the name of Dick Barton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "Any policy will always depend on the conditions. It is part and parcel of what we have explained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "I say again that hon. Members may have heard what they wanted to hear. It was made perfectly clear—and I make it perfectly clear again—that all actions taken at any given time obviously depend on the conditions. What we were suggesting was an illustrative time scale of what could be achieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "Armoured vehicles and helicopters are two of the most obvious examples. The helicopter situation has been well rehearsed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"But he has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ed if it is allowed to go down that route? The hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) made a good, balanced and thoughtful speech, but I was not impressed by his argument that the situation in Iran is very different because of the wild rantings of President Ahmadinejad. I agree, of course, that that inflammatory rhetoric is extremely unhelpful, and it would be much better if he did not use it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.454.0", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "t that in the equivalent of the state opening of Parliament there—the local overseas territory legislature—the regiment turned up seven minutes late, \"largely thanks to poor time appreciation and a lack of urgency, both completely within its control. This fundamental professional error was avoidable and should not have occurred\". He also noted that it was \"apparent to the Royal Party\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-01", "file": "debates2007-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "01d377329686aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " The process was driven by the political direction of the then Secretary of State for Defence, Lord Robertson, and the then Minister for the Armed Forces, my right hon. Friend the Member for Airdrie and Shotts (John Reid) , the current Home Secretary. Nothing stands still in defence. The hon. Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) referred to the new chapter to the strategic defence review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-01b.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-02", "file": "debates2007-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "71e692ec6fd403eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02a.473.29", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "here is not the space for people to park their cars because of the need for density targets, so they end up congesting the sides of streets and parking on verges and pavements, creating a hazard for mothers with pushchairs, who have to go out into the road to get round them. I hope that the Bill will reverse the present distortion in the planning system. This is not about being nimby——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02a.473.29"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-02", "file": "debates2007-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "71e692ec6fd403eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02a.522.6", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "ities clear powers to protect green spaces and open land, so the Bill is totally unnecessary. There is another unintended consequence of the Bill that I am really concerned about, and it is the reason why I definitely cannot support it. As I understand it, it would remove the power of national Government to intervene in these matters, and such decisions would be entirely down to local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02a.522.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-02", "file": "debates2007-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "90a6be884b622b54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "preceding_text": " thought-out policy that involves an inner ring, a middle ring and outer ring and can say, \"This is the type of property, development and density that we are looking for in these rings,\" I have no problem with that. Things might become a bit more difficult owing to out-of-town shopping. However, if a council has a well-thought-out planning document in which the criteria are clearly laid out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-02", "file": "debates2007-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "90a6be884b622b54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "are under pressure to meet Government targets for brownfield developments. Planning policy guidelines define all the land within the curtilage of a dwelling as brownfield. I was intrigued by the comments of the hon. Member for Tamworth (Mr. Jenkins) about the colour of back gardens. When we think about back gardens, the colour grey does not necessarily spring to mind. Back gardens are green—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-02", "file": "debates2007-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "90a6be884b622b54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "use that would cause great irritation to the owners of property and to planning departments in local authorities that had to investigate and adjudicate on applications that are, frankly speaking, small beer that they should not have to worry about. The hon. Lady might think about proposing an amendment in Committee to ensure that permitted development is not caught by the terms of the Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-02", "file": "debates2007-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "90a6be884b622b54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "l to recognise the undeniable need for affordable housing. The teachers, police and health workers that we need in North-East Hampshire cannot afford to live there. Hook, in my constituency, is one of the 10 most unaffordable places in the country in which to buy a house. What do parents do when their children get larger and larger and do not move out because they cannot afford the local property?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-02", "file": "debates2007-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "90a6be884b622b54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "I was going to say that there are many different types of garden. I think that the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pelling) mentioned that. Some gardens are just patio areas, whereas others are vast amounts of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-02", "file": "debates2007-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "90a6be884b622b54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.522.6", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "ities clear powers to protect green spaces and open land, so the Bill is totally unnecessary. There is another unintended consequence of the Bill that I am really concerned about, and it is the reason why I definitely cannot support it. As I understand it, it would remove the power of national Government to intervene in these matters, and such decisions would be entirely down to local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-02b.522.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "806d55d88f923b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "at people can be held for three hours before a police officer comes. Actually, it is the other way around: the police officer is there, and cannot summon the immigration official. That is happening, and I have documented it. The Minister shakes his head, but I will put the letter that I sent to him in the Library, and he can see for himself. The fact is that the Essex and Kent police forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "806d55d88f923b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": ", and it is right, that it would be helpful if the Government were to clarify whether there is such a big problem. Liberty says: \"We suspect the real problem of illegal working lies not in the deceiving of honest employers but in the intentional employment of those without immigration status by unscrupulous and exploitative employers.\" I am sure that at some stage in the passage of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "806d55d88f923b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "tired of being called a fascist, a racist, a xenophobe and all the rest of it for simply pointing out that unlimited, uncontrolled immigration into this country is not a good thing. I remember that when I was dealing with the IND in a personal capacity, I went up to Birmingham one day with my wife, as I had done on a number of occasions, taking all my forms and the money in a brown envelope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "806d55d88f923b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "city, I went up to Birmingham one day with my wife, as I had done on a number of occasions, taking all my forms and the money in a brown envelope— [Interruption.] I did not get into this place as a result of that. The case officer I was dealing with, who had no idea that I was a Member of the Welsh Assembly, looked at me in surprise and said, \"Do you know, I don't meet many people like you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05a.629.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.582.4", "colnum": "582", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support and careful words. At the Civil Contingencies Committee or Cobra meeting that I attended this morning, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish officials were beamed in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.582.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "There are three things to say in response to the hon. Gentleman. First, the seasonal flu vaccine has been offered to the workers in this case. Secondly, the hon. Gentleman described Tamiflu as a vaccination, but that is not technically correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.597.4", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Sorry; I thought that the hon. Gentleman said 2006. If the question is about the 1996 Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "at people can be held for three hours before a police officer comes. Actually, it is the other way around: the police officer is there, and cannot summon the immigration official. That is happening, and I have documented it. The Minister shakes his head, but I will put the letter that I sent to him in the Library, and he can see for himself. The fact is that the Essex and Kent police forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": ", and it is right, that it would be helpful if the Government were to clarify whether there is such a big problem. Liberty says: \"We suspect the real problem of illegal working lies not in the deceiving of honest employers but in the intentional employment of those without immigration status by unscrupulous and exploitative employers.\" I am sure that at some stage in the passage of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "tired of being called a fascist, a racist, a xenophobe and all the rest of it for simply pointing out that unlimited, uncontrolled immigration into this country is not a good thing. I remember that when I was dealing with the IND in a personal capacity, I went up to Birmingham one day with my wife, as I had done on a number of occasions, taking all my forms and the money in a brown envelope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "city, I went up to Birmingham one day with my wife, as I had done on a number of occasions, taking all my forms and the money in a brown envelope— [Interruption.] I did not get into this place as a result of that. The case officer I was dealing with, who had no idea that I was a Member of the Welsh Assembly, looked at me in surprise and said, \"Do you know, I don't meet many people like you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes to insult his hon. Friend the Minister by calling him condescending and pompous, I think he will find that every other Member in the Chamber entirely disagrees with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.670.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " allows regulations to permit the use of information for specified purposes not relating to immigration, and provides that there is no need to destroy information if it is retained in accordance with another enactments. Therefore, the scope of the regulations is extremely broad. They can theoretically force any non-European economic area person to provide unlimited information for unlimited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "As I said in my opening remarks, there are some speeches that are worthy of rehearsal, and I mentioned that of the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) , and there are some perhaps that do not require to be repeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-05", "file": "debates2007-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "40e192cdc62fb86f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "As I said in my opening remarks, there are some speeches that are worthy of rehearsal, and I mentioned that of the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) , and there are some perhaps that do not require to be repeated. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman asked me a question. I have given him an answer. He should now be clear where I stand on that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-05b.672.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "e85ccb073c0ebe35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "jected cannot be right. The Secretary of State has made it clear through new clause 5 that the Government's view is that if a model must be imposed on the Assembly, it should be the new one, not one of the previous ones. I reluctantly have to say to my hon. Friend—we are usually in common cause—that I cannot support his new clause and I ask him to withdraw it. As to new clause 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "7a5863ebedfc4b26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I think that I have said—even if not to the extent that hon. Members wish—that there is no power in the Bill or the new clause for the Secretary of State to impose a Minister on the Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "7a5863ebedfc4b26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I think that I have said—even if not to the extent that hon. Members wish—that there is no power in the Bill or the new clause for the Secretary of State to impose a Minister on the Assembly. [Interruption.] I thought that I had said that to the hon. Gentleman's satisfaction, but obviously not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "7a5863ebedfc4b26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "jected cannot be right. The Secretary of State has made it clear through new clause 5 that the Government's view is that if a model must be imposed on the Assembly, it should be the new one, not one of the previous ones. I reluctantly have to say to my hon. Friend—we are usually in common cause—that I cannot support his new clause and I ask him to withdraw it. As to new clause 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "7a5863ebedfc4b26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "The Minister's words are reassuring, but this does not seem to be set out in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "7a5863ebedfc4b26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.744.3", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "er. I am giving him the benefit of my view of what the legislation says; if I am wrong, he will put me right at the end of the debate. The reality is that the triple lock—it has also been described as a quadruple lock— is now firmly in place, so the powers cannot be devolved, unless, of course, the Government were to come back to this House with primary legislation, as they always can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "7a5863ebedfc4b26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I respectfully point out that I fully expect the Alliance party to be the largest party in the Assembly after the elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "7a5863ebedfc4b26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "a number of Members, and although I was going to come on to it later, I might as well do so now. The establishment of the Department does not mean—I think that the hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson) concurs with this point—that the transfer of legislative competence to the Assembly occurs. That is a separate matter under legislation that the Secretary of State must introduce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.753.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-06", "file": "debates2007-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "7a5863ebedfc4b26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "'s certificate for non-jury trial. In other words, it would introduce an automatic judicial review in every single case. It is not a question whether there should be a facility for judicial review; the proposition is that there should be a judicial review in every case. There is the potential to become even more embroiled in the judicial process, because the trial judge would have to give reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-06b.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": ". But the system is no good—it does not work—for indicating preferences. In mathematical terms, a binary system is not designed to elicit preferences and cannot do this job properly. Instead, the Government propose a system specifically designed to enable those voting in this House to come to a decision on the issue. Members will be invited to rank preferences in numerical order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "blished? If, after the ballot, the House passes an option without a majority of first preferences, should there not be a confirmatory vote, otherwise how could the Government claim that the proposals reflected the will of the House? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that in such circumstances, the Government would not be justified in resorting to the Parliament Act? This proposal does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is saying, in traditionally extravagant language, and as he said in the papers today, that he regards my proposal as a dangerous precedent. It may not have occurred to him, but this House is about change—that is what we are here for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "The preamble to the Parliament Act 1911 held out a better prospect than anything offered by the Leaderof the House today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "he matter was extensively debated on a Conservative Opposition motion on 30 January . More tellingly, although the motion calls for an inquiry into the circumstances of the SFO action, the hon. Member for Twickenham made no mention of it. That made me wonder whether his views on the matter were now so set in stone that he did not consider that any independent inquiry was needed in any event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "e must be viewed in that light, and we are surely entitled to know what the Liberal Democrats think of the basic principle of the security co-operation between the two Governments. As far as I can tell—I look carefully at my notes—that was entirely skated over. That may be convenient for the hon. Gentleman in characterising the Liberal Democrat approach of never committing to anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was not a Defence Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "her got the business and bribed, or you didn't bribe and didn't get the business.'\" I am the first to say that that is not a reference about today or about recent years, but I find it strange that there are still those who deny that there has ever been anybody who has provided any significant evidence of bribery at any time in relation to al-Yamamah. If a Defence Secretary cannot be trusted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " in the last 10 years. What is the result of all the tough talk? Has all the legislation really made a difference? What has gone so spectacularly wrong, and why? If we look objectively at almost any aspect of the criminal justice system—every body, every institution—it is impossible to claim other than that almost every pillar of the system is in a state of perhaps irremediable crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": " the same thing applies—his DNA was picked up in one environment, but the charges were dropped, and he was subsequently charged for other offences—and the victims of Shaun Greenway, who is serving a life sentence for three rapes committed between 2002 and 2005. The Prime Minister has said clearly, in terms, that he is quite comfortable withthe notion of everybody being on the database.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4b906c610a5d6bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "er cent. to24 per cent., while fear of crime remains at historically low levels. As my hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Security and Community Safety said earlier, burglary is down by 59 per cent., vehicle theft by 60 per cent. and household offences are down by 45 per cent. All British crime survey violence offences are down 43 per cent. and all personal offences are down 41 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.829.6", "colnum": "829", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "tion will continue, and we will have to decide what to do. But that is by far an inferior and unsatisfactory alternative to plan A. Because of Sinn Fein's continuing delivery on support for policing, I expect that devolution will occur on 26 March , with an all-inclusive power-sharing Executive in which the SDLP will be represented. There should not be any reason for that not to be achieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.829.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Colin Challen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Challen", "preceding_text": "Thank you, very much, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.838.7", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ength last year. However, I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that the most important thing for the country is that we continue with the policies that in 10 years have seen not just a strong economy but money flooding into areas such as his, which has meant, for example, that he has extra numbers of nurses and doctors, extra numbers of school buildings and that there are thousands of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.838.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.839.3", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Lady and the Conservative party have taken the view that they are against changes to maternity services, because —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.839.5", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me just point out that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.839.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.839.8", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "May I ask a frank question of my right hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.839.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "at we have a loophole in the way in which we deal with terrorist finances. The most important thing—we have shown this in relation to the Abu Hamza case—is that we are prepared to take tough action against people who incite racism or extremism in our country. Let me just point out to the hon. Gentleman that every time we have introduced tougher measures on terrorism in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.840.5", "colnum": "840", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will know that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has made a bold and principled stand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.840.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": ". But the system is no good—it does not work—for indicating preferences. In mathematical terms, a binary system is not designed to elicit preferences and cannot do this job properly. Instead, the Government propose a system specifically designed to enable those voting in this House to come to a decision on the issue. Members will be invited to rank preferences in numerical order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "blished? If, after the ballot, the House passes an option without a majority of first preferences, should there not be a confirmatory vote, otherwise how could the Government claim that the proposals reflected the will of the House? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that in such circumstances, the Government would not be justified in resorting to the Parliament Act? This proposal does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "t more than 20 per cent. of Members should be appointed and that some of those appointments should be party political appointments, because all parties contain people of great expertise who are not part of the party machines, but who, subject to consideration as to both suitability and propriety, could make a good contribution in the other place. There will be a full debate on the voting proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "make a good contribution in the other place. There will be a full debate on the voting proposal. [ Interruption. ] This is a Government proposal, because the Government are responsible for ensuring good order in this House. The simple fact is that because the House was invited to say yes or no on seven choices last time, the House ended up looking very stupid and the matter ended in a train wreck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "r ensuring good order in this House. The simple fact is that because the House was invited to say yes or no on seven choices last time, the House ended up looking very stupid and the matter ended in a train wreck. [ Interruption. ] I realise that views are held with great passion on both sides of the House, which is fine. Those who oppose any change will have the opportunity to vote for no change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "he House ended up looking very stupid and the matter ended in a train wreck. [ Interruption. ] I realise that views are held with great passion on both sides of the House, which is fine. Those who oppose any change will have the opportunity to vote for no change. [ Interruption. ] However, they are not entitled to vote for an electoral system that will wreck the possibility of reaching a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is saying, in traditionally extravagant language, and as he said in the papers today, that he regards my proposal as a dangerous precedent. It may not have occurred to him, but this House is about change—that is what we are here for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "The preamble to the Parliament Act 1911 held out a better prospect than anything offered by the Leader of the House today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " let me explain the history. My predecessor as Chairman of the Committee—who was, of course, in the minority Labour party—had a private hearing with the senior Conservative member and the Comptroller and Auditor General. The Comptroller and Auditor General has told me that during that private hearing no evidence whatsoever of corruption on the part of the Ministry of Defence was found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has just made a serious allegation against BAE Systems —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "hip with Saudi Arabia in with dealing terrorism. Those links have been established at their existing level only in recent years. The amount of information we are receiving is considerable and we want to ensure that it continues at that level. We are all well aware that the Saudis were extremely concerned about the investigation and the way in which certain senior members of their Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I would say to the right hon. Gentleman that the comment was not directed at an individual hon. Member, so I took it more as a general comment than one that should be reproved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "he matter was extensively debated on a Conservative Opposition motion on 30 January . More tellingly, although the motion calls for an inquiry into the circumstances of the SFO action, the hon. Member for Twickenham made no mention of it. That made me wonder whether his views on the matter were now so set in stone that he did not consider that any independent inquiry was needed in any event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "e must be viewed in that light, and we are surely entitled to know what the Liberal Democrats think of the basic principle of the security co-operation between the two Governments. As far as I can tell—I look carefully at my notes—that was entirely skated over. That may be convenient for the hon. Gentleman in characterising the Liberal Democrat approach of never committing to anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was not a Defence Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "her got the business and bribed, or you didn't bribe and didn't get the business.'\" I am the first to say that that is not a reference about today or about recent years, but I find it strange that there are still those who deny that there has ever been anybody who has provided any significant evidence of bribery at any time in relation to al-Yamamah. If a Defence Secretary cannot be trusted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.906.6", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "I have met those gentlemen and I have every sympathy with their terrible experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.906.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " in the last 10 years. What is the result of all the tough talk? Has all the legislation really made a difference? What has gone so spectacularly wrong, and why? If we look objectively at almost any aspect of the criminal justice system—every body, every institution—it is impossible to claim other than that almost every pillar of the system is in a state of perhaps irremediable crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.919.2", "colnum": "919", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is interested in European Union affairs and, as he knows, a recent EU report revealed that non-violent crime has declined throughout the EU since about the middle of the 1990s. That has happened here as it has in other countries. The point is that in South Yorkshire and in the rest of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I could go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I will ignore that, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I would like to express surprise at such a stark apparent contradiction in the behaviour of Liberal Democrat councillors, but it happens all too often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.927.7", "colnum": "927", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "gestion that bears no scrutiny at all and is simply wrong. It is unfair—I have to say this, as it ran through the speech of the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam—to attack, however benignly, the hundreds and thousands of professionals up and down the country who are working throughout the criminal justice system. It is profoundly wrong to suggest, as the hon. Gentleman did, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.927.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "35,000 victims. Then we come to the Liberal Democrats' call to take back our town centres. Well, it would have been rather nice if they had voted for some of the measures that we have introduced on that issue. They ask for a reduction in alcohol misuse and the harms associated with it, and for more \"liberal\" licensing laws so that locals can have a more direct and profound say in the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "the same thing applies—his DNA was picked up in one environment, but the charges were dropped, and he was subsequently charged for other offences—and the victims of Shaun Greenway, who is serving a life sentence for three rapes committed between 2002 and 2005. The Prime Minister has said clearly, in terms, that he is quite comfortable with the notion of everybody being on the database.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.932.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.938.4", "colnum": "938", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "I agree. The Liberals oppose not only dispersal orders but fixed penalty notices for drunken louts. They claim to deliver greater public safety but they voted against police powers to break up unruly gangs of teenagers and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.938.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "ith the FBI and others to discuss the issue. I am sorry to say that I have received no satisfactory answers to my probing questions about the extent of e-crime in the United Kingdom. The FBI and other United States authorities have a much clearer picture of what is going on: according to them, e-crime is now taking place on a massive scale, and will be the biggest issue affecting us in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "That is one of a number of issues that we need to ensure we are getting on top of; I am just sorry that the Liberal Democrats appear to have no policies to address any such issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "pment besides. The problem is that we are having difficulty keeping up with the technology. The sad fact is that some internet service providers, including some internationally known ones, are not doing enough to safeguard against the use of chat-rooms by online child abusers and paedophiles to plan their terrible acts against children. We should remark on the only policy of the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "hat with the sentences of a few months passed down by some of our judges for such offences. Indeed, in a recent case the judge suggested that the paedophile buy his young victim a bike. There are some serious issues arising from sentencing that we need to address, and I ask my hon. Friend the Minister to consider those. Unfortunately, this debate has been initiated by the Liberal Democrats —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "r cent. to 24 per cent., while fear of crime remains at historically low levels. As my hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Security and Community Safety said earlier, burglary is down by 59 per cent., vehicle theft by 60 per cent. and household offences are down by 45 per cent. All British crime survey violence offences are down 43 per cent. and all personal offences are down 41 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-07", "file": "debates2007-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "cfb458db2ef1d1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way to the hon. Gentleman, as I have some further points to make. The Liberals, a large number of whom are here today, voted against the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-07b.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "b117a24bcc60d4d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08b.1020.4", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "t spending a titantic slug of public money more effectively. With this extra money the Minister and his colleagues in the London Assembly have increased bus ridership in London from 13 to15 passengers on average. I am just asking whether that is a good way of spending public money. My colleagues in the London Assembly are seeing how existing subsidies can be spent more effectively and efficiently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08b.1020.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "The Government's view is quite clear. It is set out in the ministerial code, which sets out the position of Ministers. As I have said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "If there is a secret, I do not know it. I am responsible for a great deal, but not for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor's appointments, any more than he is responsible for mine, so I suggest that she table questions to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.998.4", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to debate the national health service any time, including with the hon. Gentleman. I look forward to the time when he recognises the huge improvements as a result of the increases in spending in his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": ". They are happening in order to cater better for mothers' wishes about where they have their babies—there is greater demand for having babies at home or in small centres. At the same time, as anybody who has had an ill baby understands, what matters is having the very best services, which can only be specialist, concentrated and available in rather fewer centres than they are at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Lady, who is my near neighbour, for that intervention. I predicted that it might come along. However, 85 per cent. of the decline in bus use over the past 40 years took place before deregulation, and 15 per cent. happened after it. Nicholas Ridley arrested the decline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1020.4", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": " spending a titantic slug of public money more effectively. With this extra money the Minister and his colleagues in the London Assembly have increased bus ridership in London from 13 to 15 passengers on average. I am just asking whether that is a good way of spending public money. My colleagues in the London Assembly are seeing how existing subsidies can be spent more effectively and efficiently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1020.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1034.2", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Rowen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Rowen", "preceding_text": "It is a fair point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1034.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Rowen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Rowen", "preceding_text": "No, I happen to believe that people must operate a scheme that is right for the purpose, and although I believe that local communities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-08", "file": "debates2007-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "7c2627a029ecefd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "repeated when my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) winds up—she would have heard about the local initiatives and solutions. That is not a top-down approach or an attempt to say that the Government in London should tell local authorities what to do. I am advocating the idea for Bournemouth and there is huge support for it. The question is where the funding comes from —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-08c.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.3.5", "colnum": "3", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman started with a survey of the support that there is forthe scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.3.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Had.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "rnative vote ballot to establish the House's preferences on composition. I told the House that I believed that that would be the most effective way of the House being able to come to a decision on the issue, and I outlined the difficulties posed in the use of our traditional Division system in eliciting multiple preferences. I took the view, and I still do, that the new system had many advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " the use of our traditional Division system in eliciting multiple preferences. I took the view, and I still do, that the new system had many advantages. [Hon. Members: \"Had.\"] However, it became evident during the exchanges in the House on my 7 February statement and the next day during business questions that my own enthusiasm for the new system is not as widely shared as I had anticipated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " and reflected on them over the recess. I do not want discussions about procedure to overshadow the important substantive debate that we will have on the future of the House of Lords itself. I think we all agree that we must not let process get in the way of a reform to which all parties are committed. I therefore wish to tell the House that we shall not proceed with the alternative vote proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is lost for words!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Well, I think that I can reciprocate by thanking the right hon. Lady for her generosity. The—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "system, I accept his decision on the basis that he is trying to achieve the best atmosphere on procedure before we start. However, as he is embarking on a voyage of discovery in which there will be a great deal of cross-party controversy before we conclude will he assure me that he will not retreat at the next round of gunfire? Otherwise, we might as well as not embark on the process at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are all nodding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The short answer is no; I do not know whether or not new evidence about the ventilation issue has been sent. That is not one of the routes of transmission that has been suggested. Under the rules of the House, I am not allowed to look at the civil service bench to see whether officials are nodding or shaking their heads about whether or not ventilation is an issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "rage derive about three quarters of their income from the state one way or the other, are having some of their benefits uprated by the order according to an inflation index which does not explicitly acknowledge or comprehend how they spend their money. That is worth considering. I am not for a moment suggesting to the Minister that previous Governments made the calculations in any other way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "me support and other income-related benefits to which I have referred will be uprated not by RPI but by the Rossi figure of 3 per cent. To give an example from the real world, housing benefit for a single25 year-old, all things being equal, will rise from an average of £57.45 to £59.15. Income support will rise from £57.45 to £59.15. We welcome those modest increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": " was not particularly radical. As each new Secretary of State comes in and goes through the red boxes on the first day, he quickly makes a speech saying how complex the benefits system is and what a hideous nightmare it has become. He says that it must all be cut back, but then the new Secretary of State disappears somewhere after about a year. It was slightly earlier than that at one point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "There was a heady mixture —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b37c771fda0da09d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": " connection with a service that may no longer be provided in the public sector. That applies to health, some forms of education, social care, drug rehabilitation and so on. It even applies to the way in which prisoners are treated by the private sectorand the public sector. Prisoners being dealt with bya private company presumably do not have thesame protection if they are being transported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.3.5", "colnum": "3", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman started with a survey of the support that there is for the scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.3.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.13.4", "colnum": "13", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was one of the individual Members whom I promised to meet, following on from the debate on the police grant, and I am happy to discuss at such a meeting the TRAF and Slough BCU overstaffing—or otherwise—along with other matters relating to Thames Valley policing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.13.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Had.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "rnative vote ballot to establish the House's preferences on composition. I told the House that I believed that that would be the most effective way of the House being able to come to a decision on the issue, and I outlined the difficulties posed in the use of our traditional Division system in eliciting multiple preferences. I took the view, and I still do, that the new system had many advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " the use of our traditional Division system in eliciting multiple preferences. I took the view, and I still do, that the new system had many advantages. [Hon. Members: \"Had.\"] However, it became evident during the exchanges in the House on my 7 February statement and the next day during business questions that my own enthusiasm for the new system is not as widely shared as I had anticipated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " and reflected on them over the recess. I do not want discussions about procedure to overshadow the important substantive debate that we will have on the future of the House of Lords itself. I think we all agree that we must not let process get in the way of a reform to which all parties are committed. I therefore wish to tell the House that we shall not proceed with the alternative vote proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is lost for words!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I think that I can reciprocate by thanking the right hon. Lady for her generosity. The—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "system, I accept his decision on the basis that he is trying to achieve the best atmosphere on procedure before we start. However, as he is embarking on a voyage of discovery in which there will be a great deal of cross-party controversy before we conclude will he assure me that he will not retreat at the next round of gunfire? Otherwise, we might as well as not embark on the process at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he said, but I think that any Leader of the House from my party would have done this. I simply say to him—what was his point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Free votes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he said, but I think that any Leader of the House from my party would have done this. I simply say to him—what was his point? [ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "They are all free on our side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "f February 2003, may I tell the Leader of the House that I strongly supported his decision to go for a mechanism that would allow us to break the deadlock, and although I understand the reasons for his dignified and graceful capitulation, I rue it? I think that it is unfortunate. I think that he would have done better to stand firm, resist the pressure and proceed. We would have got to a solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are all nodding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The short answer is no; I do not know whether new evidence about the ventilation issue has been sent. That is not one of the routes of transmission that has been suggested. Under the rules of the House, I am not allowed to look at the civil service bench to see whether officials are nodding or shaking their heads about whether or not ventilation is an issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman speaks as a Member of the House, but I know that he also holds an exalted position as shadow Deputy Leader of the House. His question might be better directed at Members on his own Front Bench, because there seems to be some dispute among them about exactly whose scientific standards we should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "erage derive about three quarters of their income from the state one way or the other, are having some of their benefits uprated by the order according to an inflation index that does not explicitly acknowledge or comprehend how they spend their money. That is worth considering. I am not for a moment suggesting to the Minister that previous Governments made the calculations in any other way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "e support and other income-related benefits to which I have referred will be uprated not by RPI but by the Rossi figure of 3 per cent. To give an example from the real world, housing benefit for a single 25-year-old, all things being equal, will rise from an average of £57.45 to £59.15. Income support will rise from £57.45 to £59.15. We welcome those modest increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": " was not particularly radical. As each new Secretary of State comes in and goes through the red boxes on the first day, he quickly makes a speech saying how complex the benefits system is and what a hideous nightmare it has become. He says that it must all be cut back, but then the new Secretary of State disappears somewhere after about a year. It was slightly earlier than that at one point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "There was a heady mixture —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "y Rice was wrongly released on licence and went on, as the Minister pointed out, to commit the tragic murder of Naomi Bryant. The Bridges report that investigated the case made it quite clear that a factor that influenced officials who dealt with Rice was the concern that he might sue them under the Human Rights Act. Officials and organisations are therefore constantly looking over their shoulder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "nnection with a service that may no longer be provided in the public sector. That applies to health, some forms of education, social care, drug rehabilitation and so on. It even applies to the way in which prisoners are treated by the private sector and the public sector. Prisoners being dealt with by a private company presumably do not have the same protection if they are being transported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": ". Heath) and I make is that we should never trust Executives, because they always seek to exceed their powers, but nor should we trust Parliament. Parliament is not perfect. It is not representative in gender, background, race, ethnicity, colour or political view, and it does not represent the views of the people of Britain. The Government were not elected by the majority of the people of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-19", "file": "debates2007-02-19b.xml", "sha256": "884d9fd378d4f1eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "ibrary. However, I am pleased that he agrees with me that the press reporting has not helped to clarify the human rights situation. Indeed, the press reporting is considerably to blame. The best human rights myth story was picked up by a newspaper in my neck of the woods and it concerned whether the need to drag one's wheelie bin down to the end of the drive every Friday constituted forced labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-19b.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "bd9d478982e3839c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.140.6", "colnum": "140", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right. It is vital that there be much closer links between the Pakistani and Afghanistan forces. I have been up to Waziristan, to Peshawar and the border at Khyber, to urge the sides to co-operate more closely. It is a wild and woolly place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.140.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "bd9d478982e3839c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady well knows, the provision of affordable housing has gone down quite a lot under this Government in comparison with their predecessor. One of the reasons for that is that the Government have failed to provide the resources. I would have thought that the hon. Lady, as Chairman of the Select Committee, already knew that. As I argued in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "bd9d478982e3839c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "t is that the Government have failed to provide the resources. I would have thought that the hon. Lady, as Chairman of the Select Committee, already knew that. As I argued in Committee— [Interruption.] I will give way in a moment. The right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford) has only just entered the Chamber and I have already said that I will give way to him in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "bd9d478982e3839c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "I understand that, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but if you will allow me, I have been accused of misleading the House, so I would like to explain for a few moments. My point was that, as I understand it, the number of new completions has gone down, although I take the right hon. Gentleman's point about refurbishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "bd9d478982e3839c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "y Speaker, but if you will allow me, I have been accused of misleading the House, so I would like to explain for a few moments. My point was that, as I understand it, the number of new completions has gone down, although I take the right hon. Gentleman's point about refurbishment. [Interruption.] The number of new completions has fallen over the past few years—I believe that that is correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "bd9d478982e3839c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, when it comes to the tax burden we are actually in the process of overtaking Germany, so I am not quite sure thatthe hon. Gentleman's point is entirely correct —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20a.217.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20b.xml", "sha256": "a4bdb319f1a63391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend noticed that although we are talking about Scotland, and although when we discuss almost any Bill that does not apply to Scotland Scottish Members of Parliament are present and voting, there is hardly a single Scottish Member present today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20b.xml", "sha256": "a4bdb319f1a63391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady well knows, the provision of affordable housing has gone down quite a lot under this Government by comparison with their predecessor. One of the reasons for that is that the Government have failed to provide the resources. I would have thought that the hon. Lady, as Chairman of the Select Committee, already knew that. As I argued in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20b.xml", "sha256": "a4bdb319f1a63391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "t is that the Government have failed to provide the resources. I would have thought that the hon. Lady, as Chairman of the Select Committee, already knew that. As I argued in Committee— [Interruption.] I will give way in a moment. The right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford) has only just entered the Chamber and I have already said that I will give way to him in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20b.xml", "sha256": "a4bdb319f1a63391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "I understand that, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but if you will allow me, I have been accused of misleading the House, so I would like to explain for a few moments. My point was that, as I understand it, the number of new completions has gone down, although I take the right hon. Gentleman's point about refurbishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20b.xml", "sha256": "a4bdb319f1a63391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": " Speaker, but if you will allow me, I have been accused of misleading the House, so I would like to explain for a few moments. My point was that, as I understand it, the number of new completions has gone down, although I take the right hon. Gentleman's point about refurbishment. [Interruption.] The number of new completions has fallen over the past few years— I believe that that is correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-20", "file": "debates2007-02-20b.xml", "sha256": "a4bdb319f1a63391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "e on the Income Tax Bill, which rewrites the core provisions of our current income tax legislation. The Bill has been produced by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs tax law rewrite project, which is working to rewrite our direct tax legislation so that it is clearer and easier to use. It is the third rewrite Bill to venture into the complex and extensive territory of income tax. Once enacted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-20b.209.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "5fe1e4991d57a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.250.7", "colnum": "250", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "nd been left with little or nothing. Today, the Government were defeated in the courts and ordered to look again at how they have responded to the real crisis at the heart of our pension system. Does the Prime Minister agree that there is real strength of feeling on both sides of the House that those people have not been treated fairly and will he now look at working on a cross-party basis —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.250.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "5fe1e4991d57a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not, as a matter of fact. I would just like to draw attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "5fe1e4991d57a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " means, surely we must recognise that, in the last six years, issues like Guantanamo and extraordinary rendition have done huge damage to our moral authority. On the question of learning lessons, can I ask the Prime Minister this? Many of us in the House supported the intervention in Iraq, but there have been many, many bad mistakes. Is it not essential that we learn the lessons of those mistakes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.266.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "5fe1e4991d57a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.278.2", "colnum": "278", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, let me tell the hon. Gentleman that my experience over the past few years is that I am singularly incapable of spinning the media one way or another on issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "5fe1e4991d57a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "o home. I was interested to see that that point came across in the results of a recent consultation in Warwickshire. People said, \"Don't cut back our hospital services, because we cannot yet see the resources being put into the community.\" The process that the Secretary of State set in train a year ago has led to demonstrations in west Cornwall, Banbury, Chichester, Haywards Heath, Salford —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.287.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "5fe1e4991d57a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman? Oh well— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Stockton, North (Frank Cook) had angioplasty, that is one thing, but if he had primary angioplasty, it is another. If he had an acute MI —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.294.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "5fe1e4991d57a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "rs will run down their services. That has got to happen. There will be in place primary care, with the paramedics, nurse practitioners and the general practitioners in their health clinics. Secondary care will be provided in the Stockton hospital of North Tees and Hartlepool general hospital, which will take care of less acute need. Tertiary specialist care will provided in the new hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21b.326.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "would not cost taxpayers money, such as pooling the scheme funds and rolling the administration of the financial assistance scheme, which is not working properly, into the Pension Protection Fund? Will he also look at unclaimed pension assets? The fact is that those pensioners lost their money on his watch and he has time now to do something about it. [ Interruption. ] Yes. So will he agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.251.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " means, surely we must recognise that, in the last six years, issues like Guantanamo and extraordinary rendition have done huge damage to our moral authority. On the question of learning lessons, can I ask the Prime Minister this? Many of us in the House supported the intervention in Iraq, but there have been many, many bad mistakes. Is it not essential that we learn the lessons of those mistakes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.266.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": " the end of October, but I do not expect to be able to persuade the Prime Minister of that. We make common cause, however, in having regard to the history of our treatment of Iraq. In the period immediately following Halabja, the then British Government extended the amount of credit that they were willing to offer to Saddam Hussein, a matter commented on by Lord Justice Scott in his inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "e Minister a number of questions. On the Iraq study group, when the Government expressed their general support for the findings of James Baker's committee, did they endorse what the committee said about phased withdrawal and the need to engage with Iran and Syria? James Baker said that \"it is not appeasement to talk to your enemies\", yet the Bush Administration's response to these proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.269.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend and I should not have left out Surrey. In fact, I should not have left out lots of places, but I did —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.290.2", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "It is quite difficult and probably quite expensive to develop GPs with special interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.290.2", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "It is quite difficult and probably quite expensive to develop GPs with special interests. [ Interruption. ] Yes, I will give way in a minute. The silent one on the Government Benches seems to think that the doctor from Dartford needs to be heard. Well, we have heard from the doctor from Dartford too many times before to think that we could learn anything from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.290.2", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " silent one on the Government Benches seems to think that the doctor from Dartford needs to be heard. Well, we have heard from the doctor from Dartford too many times before to think that we could learn anything from him. [ Interruption. ] I do not think that we could. The point is that if GPs with special interests are valuable, their colleagues will know that and they can make referrals to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.290.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.291.2", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Well, except perhaps where the Labour party chairman was concerned. In my experience —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Is he? Oh well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Is he? Oh well— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Stockton, North (Frank Cook) had angioplasty, that is one thing, but if he had primary angioplasty, it is another. If he had an acute MI —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " shut down immediately. She does not care. At one point, the Secretary of State received proposals that the NHS hospital rebuild should be in Sutton, but she not only did not accept what the local NHS was telling her, but said that the rebuild had to be at St. Helier hospital, which—lo and behold—was in a Labour constituency, but she subsequently had to completely abandon her proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "ed to, she said: \"I've made it clear to readers of the MEN\"— That is, the Manchester Evening News — \"that I support Labour's policy of investment in the NHS and reform to improve services.\" The hon. Gentleman keeps making the point that there is a link to investment decisions or cuts, but that is not the case. Hope hospital is not in financial deficit, and more money is being invested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "d lose it. In the motion, we are seeking to reassert the right and need for the NHS locally to make decisions in the light of views expressed by professionals, patients and the public. Decisions should be based on clinical evidence, rather than being driven by deficits and financial pressures. We want an NHS in which we do not stand in the way of change. That change, however, must be managed well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.299.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I have long since learned —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.308.6", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "country, the NHS would be able to save about 500 more people's lives a year and prevent 1,000 further heart attacks. Of course there will not be such specialist services in every local hospital, because thankfully there are not enough patients to support and need a specialist team in every local hospital. This is not about closing hospitals or downgrading services, whether in A and E or elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.308.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have noticed that the Liberal Democrats are not in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "I accept the statement of opinion that is being given —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "rs will run down their services. That has got to happen. There will be in place primary care, with the paramedics, nurse practitioners and the general practitioners in their health clinics. Secondary care will be provided in the Stockton hospital of North Tees and Hartlepool general hospital, which will take care of less acute need. Tertiary specialist care will provided in the new hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Cook", "preceding_text": " Lib Dem spokesman, the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) . He complained that the Labour party did not mention reconfiguration in its manifesto, and said that if one googles those phrases, one finds that \"reconfiguration\" has been mixed with \"poll tax\", as though that proved something. The only thing that it proves to me is that they have become mixed due to the kind of untruths —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "At the beginning of this debate, I listened to the Secretary of State in utter disbelief. Either she lives on a different planet or she has never set foot in Surrey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.336.5", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "The Government have a script.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.336.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.336.5", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "The Government have a script. [Interruption.] I remember the arguments at the time and the way that I voted. If a Government and a country can afford to spend more, I am prepared to support that, but my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.336.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "I did not notice that, but I did notice that not one of them has got up to deny that the effect of their policies would be to cut public spending, which is what they believe in. They cannot deny that. It is an absolute fact that the effect of the proceeds of growth rule would be to cut public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "at they believe in. They cannot deny that. It is an absolute fact that the effect of the proceeds of growth rule would be to cut public— [ Interruption.] Well, if the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning) would like to intervene on me to deny that the effect of the proceeds of growth rule would be to cut public spending, I would be more than happy to give way. Does he want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "han there were 10 years ago. Nationally, the number of people working in the NHS has risen by 300,000 to 1,300,000. I find it difficult to take too seriously the argument that of all the possible reasons why we might have difficulties, those are due to a shortage of staff. The national health service has never had an increase in staffing like the rate of increase that we have seen in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-21", "file": "debates2007-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "2bbd86032cf4209f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "argument that of all the possible reasons why we might have difficulties, those are due to a shortage of staff. The national health service has never had an increase in staffing like the rate of increase that we have seen in recent years. [Interruption.] I am aware that Opposition Members may be saying from a sedentary position that we should make doctors work longer hours and cut their pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-21c.352.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "a90c7a603072e520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend asked a clear question: what would happen if the control orders governing those 18 were struck down tomorrow. The hon. Gentleman responded that hopefully there would be a bit more surveillance, and hopefully some evidence would come out of the woodwork so that they could be prosecuted. That is not sufficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "a90c7a603072e520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "uld happen if the control orders governing those 18 were struck down tomorrow. The hon. Gentleman responded that hopefully there would be a bit more surveillance, and hopefully some evidence would come out of the woodwork so that they could be prosecuted. That is not sufficient. [Interruption.] These are not the politics of terror. This is not a little schoolboys' club; we need to be very serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "a90c7a603072e520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "We look forward to those that are planned. I am sure that Anita Roddick, who, as I say, has been extremely brave in her remarks to the press recently, will play a full and active part. It is a pity that it requires a celebrity to highlight such an issue for the Government—the Jamie Oliver effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "a90c7a603072e520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "mber committee of MEPs, which included some smokers, decided that the ban, which had been in place in the parliament's premises in Brussels and Strasbourg since the start of last month, was 'unenforceable'\" and had been withdrawn. According to the article, a UK Independence party member, Nigel Farage, said: \"'I have been ignoring it since January 1...and I have smoked in more places than before.'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "a90c7a603072e520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Howard Stoate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Stoate", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that it should be me who draws out Tory policy, because Opposition Members did not mention it in their speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22b.498.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22c.xml", "sha256": "914d3ad19106eb2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I said that support for the Government is always welcome, and support for the Secretary of State is even more welcome, so I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his compliments, if that is what they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22c.xml", "sha256": "914d3ad19106eb2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right that wind power is very important. I am just sorry that so many applications are now blocked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22c.xml", "sha256": "914d3ad19106eb2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Next question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22c.xml", "sha256": "914d3ad19106eb2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Expensive shots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e 2012 Olympics and the budget. I happen to know a great deal about that, as I chair the Cabinet Committee dealing with the Olympics. We are examining very carefully and very rigorously all the possible costs that can arise, and in due course an announcement will be made. As the Liberal Democrats supported the Olympic bid as much as anybody else, this should not be a subject for cheap shots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22c.xml", "sha256": "914d3ad19106eb2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I cannot give my hon. Friend a precise finish date. I can only say, to be frank, that what has happened in respect of the visitor centre has been quite lamentable. It was due to be finished in September, and it is a matter of great concern to you, Mr. Speaker, I know, as well to the House of Commons Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.412.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-22", "file": "debates2007-02-22c.xml", "sha256": "914d3ad19106eb2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "No one could accuse my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State of acting in that way. He has been forthcoming in turning up to the House to make oral statements, as he has done in respect of avian flu twice this week. A written ministerial statement on the single payment scheme is on the Order Paper today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-22c.417.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "continuing concern about the risk of fraud in our electoral system and particularly by the recent report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the visit, starting today, of two rapporteurs from the Council of Europe, who are examining the risk of electoral fraud in the United Kingdom and an initial monitoring process for elections. Who would ever have thought that it would come to this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.688.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.689.4", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has obviously struck a chord in the House. I noticed many hon. Members saying that they would not be at all surprised. Perhaps I would not be either. If I am really fair about this for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.689.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He has pursued this matter assiduously and has rightly said that it is foolish to make party political points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "of individual voter registration to underpin the security of the voting system has not been adopted\". It is not the only voice. There is cross-party support, and in its recent report on the Electoral Commission, the Graham committee looked at this issue. It pointed to the success of individual voter registration in Northern Ireland, which has the most accurate and comprehensive register in the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.697.4", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "lectoral Commission wanted and we could not get consensus across the House, which was why we accepted the compromise on postal vote identifiers that was incorporated in the Act. Let me turn to the Council of Europe and its motion on the United Kingdom's electoral system. The observers to whom the hon. Gentleman referred were here at our invitation. We invited them to come along and observe —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely true. In Northern Ireland, the figures went down a little when the new systems were implemented, but they started to go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ally, and there is a legal obligation to register, but in reality, some people need a push. I am not suggesting that it is the whole answer, but it would be worth looking at. The Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs, whose constituency borders mine and that of the Under-Secretary, was positive about something which, given the shortness of time, I shall call the Hughes proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Seriously, it could take place everywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": " decided that I had to try to find other ways to do something about this. I turned my mind to that and quickly realised that the Council of Europe offered an opportunity. I did not go down that route lightly, and criticising one's own country in an international forum is not something that I relish, but I believe passionately in democracy. I also believe that I have a duty to help to stamp it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "d. My hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski) talked about those who had applied for a postal vote and had not received it. Clearly at the last election, there were many problems with those responsible for the postal vote system. In my constituency of Macclesfield, we had severe problems and a number of people had to have votes delivered to them by the borough council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "The Minister and her Back Benchers are too complacent on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "From memory, I believe that 49 allegations were made in 2000, before the extension of postal voting, which proves my hon. Friend's point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-26", "file": "debates2007-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "763f6118f094ccc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "FLOODING (SOUTH-WEST NORFOLK)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "preceding_text": " breach in the tidal floodbank, the consequence of which could be catastrophic. The question is: how can the Government appear to put a higher value on the lives of people further upstream than on those further downstream in my constituency, in terms of money going into flood alleviation projects? Once again, the people of Norfolk find themselves at the wrong end of the Government's priority list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-26b.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "nd's attention to today's Order Paper, and to the fact that the Northern Ireland Grand Committee is meeting this afternoon at 4 pm? That made me realise that I cannot remember the last time that the Scottish Grand Committee met. Does the Minister support me in thinking that the Scottish Grand Committee would be an excellent forum in which to discuss the UK Borders Bill and its effects on Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "When the Chancellor launched a feasibility study on the 2018 World cup bid, he said that he wanted England to win. He believed that Scotland was capable of winning but not, it seems, of hosting the competition. The Conservative party is the only one that supports the World cup coming to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "ia. One rather suspects that he has no voice, which given what I understand to have been the genial nature of the Standing Committee is a great sadness to us all. I am slightly relieved that the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Stephen Pound) is not here, given his propensity to trade football reminiscences. I am open about the fact that football reminiscences and I do not go together terribly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "an extent that it could not do its job of scrutinising the Mayor's business. Several extremely complex formulae were also cited in Committee. I will not attempt to describe or elaborate on them today, and I hope that no one will challenge me to do so. Even the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) would have some difficulty explaining the way in which his floors and ceilings operated —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "preceding_text": "I am sure that it was. I am surprised to hear that any part was less good than any other. I always enjoy listening to the hon. Gentleman's wise words, and he is a close neighbour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "preceding_text": "I am sure that it was. I am surprised to hear that any part was less good than any other. I always enjoy listening to the hon. Gentleman's wise words, and he is a close neighbour. [Interruption.] My hon. Friends are shouting that I should stop being so nice to the Liberal Democrats. I will stop now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "preceding_text": "I fear that those in the Chamber have become the victims of group hypnosis, which has led them to believe that the Bill removes planning powers from local authorities and gives them wholesale to the Mayor of London. That is a travesty. It seems to have slightly affected my right hon. Friend the Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford) , as well as the more susceptible Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "ith by the Mayor \"apply across London as a whole\".——[ Official Report, Greater London Authority Public Bill Committee , 16 January 2007 ; c. 222.] On those grounds there would seem to be good grounds to exempt the area covered by the City of London as well. The City is certainly a very specific and atypical area, and the policies applied there are not the same as in the rest of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.880.4", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. We have had extensive debate today and in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-27", "file": "debates2007-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "c59017cfe6c80c97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.896.4", "colnum": "896", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": "I present a petition of more than 4,000 of my constituents who have expressed their concern about the potential closure of post offices. The petition states: The Petition of the users of post offices in the constituency of Mid-Dorset and North Poole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-27b.896.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-28", "file": "debates2007-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "63f1312a804bb232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-28a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "will on the part of the Government to ensure that all of the things listed in paragraphs (a) to (e) are provided within our criminal justice system, however well minded we are, we are wasting our time. I shall conclude my remarks here. I hope that I have dealt with the various amendments and new clauses, and if I have not, it does not matter. What is important is that we get this part right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-28a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-28", "file": "debates2007-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "c589f8069ac3d51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-28b.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "The United Kingdom will provide £8.5 billion over the next 10 years for education and this will include more support for fragile states. In some countries, we will work through UN agencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-28b.915.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-28", "file": "debates2007-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "c589f8069ac3d51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-28b.968.2", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Neil Gerrard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Gerrard", "preceding_text": "nces, little attention is usually paid to an order passing through the House two or three years later. Therefore, there are no guarantees whatever in what is being offered. That is not to say that I do not trust the word of the Minister, because I do trust what he says: it is not his intention to move wholesale and to move quickly. I do not doubt his word for one moment. However, Ministers change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-28b.968.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-02-28", "file": "debates2007-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "c589f8069ac3d51a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-28b.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "will on the part of the Government to ensure that all of the things listed in paragraphs (a) to (e) are provided within our criminal justice system, however well minded we are, we are wasting our time. I shall conclude my remarks here. I hope that I have dealt with the various amendments and new clauses, and if I have not, it does not matter. What is important is that we get this part right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-02-28b.1006.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Of course the European Union can do things to tackle climate change: it does not mean that we have to give up all our sovereignty to let it do them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "rse the European Union can do things to tackle climate change: it does not mean that we have to give up all our sovereignty to let it do them —[ Interruption. ] Now listen, I am asking the Chancellor about the views of Deborah Mattinson. I am surprised that he cannot agree because she is his personal pollster and the event at which she was speaking was called \"Brown's first 100 days\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Is this business questions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ng to The Daily Telegraph , which, as we know, is accurate when it comes to the Conservative party, members of the shadow Cabinet have been \"read the Riot Act\" by the shadow Chancellor and told to stop making spending pledges without checking with him first. I am not surprised, because last week Grant Thornton said that the increase in spending promised by the Conservatives was £8.9 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "he increase in spending promised by the Conservatives was £8.9 billion. [Hon. Members: \"Is this business questions?\"] They ask whether this is business questions, but this is the question that I was asked. I was asked about spending, and I have given the answer. On the costs of the Olympics, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport will make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "f State for Health recently made a statement saying that, allowing for the use of contingency, it looks as though there will be a small surplus this year of £13 million, so I do not know where the right hon. Lady got her point from. The right hon. Lady then made some spurious comments about debate taking place in the Labour party. There is a debate in the Labour party about its future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "right hon. Lady then made some spurious comments about debate taking place in the Labour party. There is a debate in the Labour party about its future— [Interruption.] She talks about leadership campaigns, but I have to tell her that that debate is comradely in the extreme compared to what I read on the blog of the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mrs. Dorries) about what is going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ous comments about debate taking place in the Labour party. There is a debate in the Labour party about its future— [Interruption.] She talks about leadership campaigns, but I have to tell her that that debate is comradely in the extreme compared to what I read on the blog of the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mrs. Dorries) about what is going on— [Interruption.] No, this week, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1116.6", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "efforts have largely failed. Official figures now show a widening wealth gap between the richest and poorest parts of Wales. Despite hundreds of millions of pounds of EU aid being spent in west Wales and the valleys since 1999, the region is now even further behind east Wales in terms of average wealth. West Wales and the valleys are now poorer than when the Conservative party left office in 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1116.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "Let me start by wishing the whole House a happy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "42e8b418534c07d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is slightly off beam, as usual. I assume that what he says today will be directly contradicted by Nick Bourne tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1049.2", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "Do not worry, Mr. Speaker, I will not be suggesting that we go back on to the gold standard any time soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1049.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "l tax, which the Opposition opposed. Every time that we tried to deal with the problems of the car industry, the Opposition opposed us. If anybody was taking an objective view of who had done more for the environment, I do not think that they would come down in favour of the Conservative party. Of course, one reason why we can do better on the environment is co-operation within the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Of course the European Union can do things to tackle climate change: it does not mean that we have to give up all our sovereignty to let it do them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "se the European Union can do things to tackle climate change: it does not mean that we have to give up all our sovereignty to let it do them —[ Interruption. ] Now listen, I am asking the Chancellor about the views of Deborah Mattinson. I am surprised that he cannot agree, because she is his personal pollster and the event at which she was speaking was called \"Brown's first 100 days\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Action.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "preceding_text": "Both the minimum wage and the tax credits system have made an enormous contribution to reducing poverty across the country, yet 41 per cent. of London's children remain in poverty. Does the Minister agree that London needs specific, comprehensive and complex cross-Government issues, measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "preceding_text": "Both the minimum wage and the tax credits system have made an enormous contribution to reducing poverty across the country, yet 41 per cent. of London's children remain in poverty. Does the Minister agree that London needs specific, comprehensive and complex cross-Government issues, measures—[Hon. Members: \"Action.\"]—action to meet the 2020 child poverty target?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "preceding_text": "he Minister agree that London needs specific, comprehensive and complex cross-Government issues, measures—[Hon. Members: \"Action.\"]—action to meet the 2020 child poverty target? [Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"] Oh, you are pathetic. Will he meet me to discuss the matter and how the major regeneration initiatives in the east of the capital can help to reduce the number of children in poverty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1055.3", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Fiscal\".", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Good physical education and good financial education are both important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1059.4", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "To scrap the new deal would be to go against the advice of not only the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1059.6", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "es. The minimum wage is effectively a minimum income when translated through the working tax credit to something like £7 an hour for work. Unfortunately, the Liberal party has failed to support the tax credit system. The hon. Lady talks about helping low-income workers, but if I remember rightly her party also opposed the minimum wage. Is it not time that the Liberal party think again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1059.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "arty, but he should recognise that the party is fighting the Scottish Parliament elections on three separate proposals. One is to keep the British pound; one is to have a completely separate Scottish pound; and the other is to do what the Conservatives did with the exchange rate mechanism, and have a special relationship between a Scottish pound and an English pound. Each of those proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Is this business questions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ng to The Daily Telegraph , which, as we know, is accurate when it comes to the Conservative party, members of the shadow Cabinet have been \"read the Riot Act\" by the shadow Chancellor and told to stop making spending pledges without checking with him first. I am not surprised, because last week Grant Thornton said that the increase in spending promised by the Conservatives was £8.9 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "he increase in spending promised by the Conservatives was £8.9 billion. [Hon. Members: \"Is this business questions?\"] They ask whether this is business questions, but this is the question that I was asked. I was asked about spending, and I have given the answer. On the costs of the Olympics, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport will make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "f State for Health recently made a statement saying that, allowing for the use of contingency, it looks as though there will be a small surplus this year of £13 million, so I do not know where the right hon. Lady got her point from. The right hon. Lady then made some spurious comments about debate taking place in the Labour party. There is a debate in the Labour party about its future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "right hon. Lady then made some spurious comments about debate taking place in the Labour party. There is a debate in the Labour party about its future— [Interruption.] She talks about leadership campaigns, but I have to tell her that that debate is comradely in the extreme compared to what I read on the blog of the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mrs. Dorries) about what is going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ous comments about debate taking place in the Labour party. There is a debate in the Labour party about its future— [Interruption.] She talks about leadership campaigns, but I have to tell her that that debate is comradely in the extreme compared to what I read on the blog of the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mrs. Dorries) about what is going on— [Interruption.] No, this week, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n. As the hon. Gentleman is quoting the survey, he may like to note that, on reform, 90 per cent. of those surveyed apparently think that the Government need to hold their nerve on difficult reconfigurations. If we are debating the health service, what we need to debate is the very significant improvements in the quality and amount of care provided for our constituents. In his constituency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "tter, as I rightly guessed that the hon. Gentleman would raise it, and it is my understanding that this transfer was triggered by a decision to sell the property in Corby that is currently occupied by the National Offender Management Service because there was an approach—presumably by developers, as I am told that the building sits within the phase 2 area of the Corby regeneration programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Indeed, my hon. Friend is absolutely right and I pay tribute to his championing of the cause of the defence training review establishment in St. Athan. More than 5,000 jobs and investment of £16 billion will regenerate not just that area but the wider community in the valleys and surrounding areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "flation soared as the economy endured the worst two recessions since the second world war. Wales was also governed by Tory Secretaries of State from English constituencies, like governor-generals, with little knowledge or understanding of our needs, and the same fate awaits Wales if the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham gets into my job in a future Conservative Government, if there ever is one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ition parties. Antisocial behaviour orders are making Wales safer, despite the opposition of the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Liberal Democrats. Some 50,000 children have been taken out of poverty, with the help of tax credits and increases in child benefit. Child poverty rates in Wales, once among the worst in Britain, have been brought into line with those in the rest of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1110.5", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "wer and for office. The only way to stop that happening is for the people of Wales on 3 May to support continued partnership between Wales and Westminster with Welsh Labour and Rhodri Morgan in the leadership. A vote for Plaid Cymru will be a vote to put the Tories in power. A vote for the Liberal Democrats will be a vote to put the Tories in power. But if people vote Labour, they will get Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1110.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "call the tremendous role that Conservatives played in the construction of the Cardiff bay barrage and the resulting regeneration, which none of us can deny and which we all welcome. It is so conveniently forgotten by the First Minister, who opposed the barrage tooth and nail at the time, and I believe that he was not the only member of the Labour party to do so. However, I am not ungenerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1111.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1116.6", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "efforts have largely failed. Official figures now show a widening wealth gap between the richest and poorest parts of Wales. Despite hundreds of millions of pounds of EU aid being spent in west Wales and the valleys since 1999, the region is now even further behind east Wales in terms of average wealth. West Wales and the valleys are now poorer than when the Conservative party left office in 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1116.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "uch can be said in three minutes. Back Benchers have a time limit this afternoon, although I hope to be much briefer than that. It seems a long time since we discussed the length of Front-Bench speeches in the House, and it is time we did so. I have sat on the Front Bench, but I know, too, that one of the most irritating things for Back Benchers is for Front Bench speakers to go on too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It's your fault!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "y difficult member—he might have something in common with the young man I have mentioned—who was a bit of a troublemaker in the class. I advised him, in my generous way of helping young people, that the best thing to do in life was to take up politics. That young member is in his place opposite as the hon. Member for Monmouth, so I regard that as the worst political mistake of my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1138.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-01", "file": "debates2007-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "74b233d33a738b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": " Since 1999, the Welsh economy has grown by 11 per cent.—higher than the UK growth rate of 7 per cent.—and more than 130,000 jobs have been created. The high wage, high growth, low unemployment economy that we in Wales currently enjoy should be contrasted with the economy in the Tory years when there was decay and desperation for our people. They offered nothing to the people of Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-01b.1144.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-02", "file": "debates2007-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "d0cf19cea222338a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-02b.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "t applies throughout the country. There has almost been a consensus about the logic of registration to allow the police to apprehend people properly and the local community to monitor the problem effectively. In my area, the police are demanding precisely those powers. The absence of Tory Back Benchers is therefore extraordinary. Perhaps they are hiding, waiting for other subjects to be discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-02b.1204.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-02", "file": "debates2007-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "d0cf19cea222338a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-02b.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "ted that imports collapsed in 2006 to only 60,000. If that is a lasting and confirmed trend, it may be a sign that the mini-moto craze is passing, as other crazes have passed before. It may also be partly due to tougher action by the Government, local authorities and the police, and I shall talk about some of those efforts later. The Bill seeks to address this serious and widespread problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-02b.1236.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-05", "file": "debates2007-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "186b148d86ab3fd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-05b.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "It would be remiss if we did not put on record our thanks to Tanni Grey-Thompson, who retired last week. She was a fantastic role model in disability sports in particular, but in sports in general. She also coached me for the marathon, but I shall not go into that story. She was obviously successful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-05b.1271.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d0684e4e7500a7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a second. I know that the hon. Gentleman wants to ask me about the bishops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06a.1400.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1374.3", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that some local authorities—I refer to Cheshire and Macclesfield in particular—are somewhat concerned that the funding of local projects is not as transparent as the Government may seek to make out? There appears to be prejudice and, I am sorry to say this, because I am not generally very political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1380.7", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Bellingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1380.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e time limit on Back-Bench speeches on both days of the debate. When the opening speeches have been made, in the exceptional circumstances of this debate I am prepared to give an indication to those wishing to speak of whether they will be called today or tomorrow. I do not expect any Member to approach the Chair before the opening speeches have concluded: Members will have to listen to all three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1392.8", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " that if the other place is simply a revising Chamber it follows as clearly as night follows day that it must be an appointed Chamber. That view is not shared across the world in almost any other country, and it is not a view that I accept. I shall now make progress. When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister asked me to take on the issue of Lords reform 10 months ago, he encouraged me to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1392.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a second. I know that the hon. Gentleman wants to ask me about the bishops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a particular view on that matter, although I do not think the point was a particularly worthy one, but there is an issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I will, in just a moment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1408.2", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "osal puts composition in the gift of political parties. Far from strengthening Parliament, it risks the loss of the present benefits of the Lords. Far from removing cronyism, it perpetuates it. We want a House of Lords that is elected by the many but, under the proposals, it would be selected by the few. Yes, 50 per cent. of peers would be elected, but the Government propose to use a list system .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1408.2", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ion in the gift of political parties. Far from strengthening Parliament, it risks the loss of the present benefits of the Lords. Far from removing cronyism, it perpetuates it. We want a House of Lords that is elected by the many but, under the proposals, it would be selected by the few. Yes, 50 per cent. of peers would be elected, but the Government propose to use a list system . [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1414.0", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1419.4", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ouse of Lords. We argued for a strengthening of the powers of both Houses against the Executive—a point also made by the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) . We have never dissented from that. The good news is that since then the Joint Committee on Conventions, with representation from all three parties and independent Cross Benchers, has confirmed that we want no diminution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "the House is one—who realise that they must move on from 2003. It is good news that the Conservative party has also moved on in recent years, and the right hon. Member for Maidenhead and the new Conservative leader have both been influential in that respect. The progressive forces in the Conservative party have moved the party towards support for a predominantly elected second Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "That question was asked earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1441.3", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "I need to be careful not to get on one of my favourite hobby-horses. I agree with much of what my hon. Friend has said. I have not been an enthusiastic supporter of the Whips Office since I was in it—it was not one of the more edifying periods in my career. I shall not get on the hobby-horse because I could become a bore on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1463.5", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "preceding_text": "en a Member of Parliament becomes a Minister in the Government, he leaves the seat. I can tell anyone wondering what happens next exactly what does happen. In every election in France, the candidate stands and alongside that candidate is a suppliant or substitute who takes the place of any member who becomes a Minister. That would reduce the Executive's power of patronage in this House, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": " I leave the House to form its own conclusion. Incidentally, as far as the list system is concerned, the Liberal Democrats demonstrated their typical duplicity. The hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) , while arguing that the list system supported the patronage system, nevertheless had to concede that his party still supports the list system. It is regrettable that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-06", "file": "debates2007-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "309ab727477b00d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "lly, as far as the list system is concerned, the Liberal Democrats demonstrated their typical duplicity. The hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) , while arguing that the list system supported the patronage system, nevertheless had to concede that his party still supports the list system. It is regrettable that— [ Interruption. ] I am afraid that Hansard will —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-06b.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c383cbcc206badae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1524.5", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": " noble Friend Lord Cunningham of Felling, and, of course, the substantial work done by the cross-party working group, chaired by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House. I hope that today's debate will be another major step in a century's-worth of steps on the road to reform. Members will be relieved to know that I will not be giving them a year-by-year account of the history of reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c383cbcc206badae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "nd learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) both made speeches to that effect. On the other side of the argument were those who argued that a largely or wholly elected House of Lords would create deadlock. The right hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) , who is not in his place today, made a powerful and eloquent case for the proposition that it would engender deadlock —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c383cbcc206badae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " Members to reflect on how we look to the outside world. That is a difficult thing to do, because it is difficult to look at oneself. Who on earth in the United Kingdom cares about the primacy of the House of Commons? If I went out in the streets with a big banner that said \"I'm in favour of the primacy of the House of Commons\", I would not attract large groups of people to follow behind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c383cbcc206badae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": " days, should not necessarily include speeches from two Front-Bench Members. That applies to speeches by Opposition Front Benchers as well as Government Front Benchers, and, for that matter—perhaps I say this with more venom—Liberal Democrat Front Benchers. The Liberal Democrat spokesman in today's debate spoke for longer than either the Government or the official Opposition spokesmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "c383cbcc206badae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1564.0", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "inuity at our peril. Let me also say, in parentheses, that 70 per cent. of the hereditary Tory peers are aged between 40 and 60, and only 60 per cent. of Labour peers are aged between 40 and 60, so we in the Tory party have a vibrant young hereditary peerage. The argument that the Prime Minister has stuffed the other place with cronies is entirely true. However, he can be held to account for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07a.1564.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1509.0", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "James McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James McGovern", "preceding_text": "First, may I associate not only myself but, I am sure, all Members on this side of the House with the Prime Minister's message of condolence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1511.4", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "In the light of recent controversy in relation to Iraq, BAE and now cash for honours, is it not essential that the functions and responsibilities of the Attorney-General should be separate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1512.6", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "at it enables one, when one is taking one's Cabinet decisions, to make the investments in health and education, for example, that we want to have. The good thing is that we have had a consistent economic policy. Can I give the House an update on the Conservatives' policy on the married couples allowance? A few days ago, the chairman of the Conservative party was asked whether it would apply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1512.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I look forward to reading that. I did watch the match last night. Congratulations to Liverpool, who did absolutely brilliantly. Congratulations also to Chelsea—we should congratulate the blues as well as the reds on this occasion. Let us hope that we have two other teams going through as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1517.0", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "at we are doing all that we can to speed up that system. We are not in a position of difficulty with the European Commission. It is also correct that there will be enormous budget pressures on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and other Departments. The Conservative party, however, has committed itself to putting half the money that goes on public spending into tax cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1517.0", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " We are not in a position of difficulty with the European Commission. It is also correct that there will be enormous budget pressures on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and other Departments. The Conservative party, however, has committed itself to putting half the money that goes on public spending into tax cuts— [Interruption.] Yes, the extra money from growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": " 10 in terms of the views expressed in the House. As we know, this is a debate of two halves, and it falls to me to blow the whistle to start the second half today. The House will forgive me if I express the hope that the second half does not last quite as long as the first, not least because there is another game of two halves in which I have a great interest: Celtic versus AC Milan this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1524.5", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": " noble Friend Lord Cunningham of Felling, and, of course, the substantial work done by the cross-party working group, chaired by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House. I hope that today's debate will be another major step in a century's-worth of steps on the road to reform. Members will be relieved to know that I will not be giving them a year-by-year account of the history of reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "nd learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) both made speeches to that effect. On the other side of the argument were those who argued that a largely or wholly elected House of Lords would create deadlock. The right hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) , who is not in his place today, made a powerful and eloquent case for the proposition that it would engender deadlock —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " Members to reflect on how we look to the outside world. That is a difficult thing to do, because it is difficult to look at oneself. Who on earth in the United Kingdom cares about the primacy of the House of Commons? If I went out in the streets with a big banner that said \"I'm in favour of the primacy of the House of Commons.\" I would not attract large groups of people to follow behind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1534.5", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1534.9", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Leader of the House that if—as I think quite possible—there is a vote for some elected element, the Government had better not use that vote to put in our Labour party manifesto a commitment that we will carry out the decision on a three-line Whip in the next Parliament. In 37 years I have never voted against the Labour Whip, but if the Government try that on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1534.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "I begin my short contribution with a confession: as a legislator—but not, I hope, as a parliamentarian—I have been an abysmal failure since I entered Parliament in 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Clelland", "preceding_text": "Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) suggested that yesterday, and quoted from a letter that I circulated earlier this week, but he could not have read it very closely because those who signed the letter stated very clearly in bold type: \"We are not arguing for the maintenance of the status quo\". The hon. Gentleman should get his facts right before he makes such comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": " days, should not necessarily include speeches from two Front-Bench Members. That applies to speeches by Opposition Front Benchers as well as Government Front Benchers, and, for that matter—perhaps I say this with more venom—Liberal Democrat Front Benchers. The Liberal Democrat spokesman in today's debate spoke for longer than either the Government or the official Opposition spokesmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1561.2", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "I have not received a single one. Is there any appetite for another round of elections among my electors in Aldershot? I see no evidence of it. Do they want another, more expensive House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1562.5", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "re elected under whatever phoney electoral system enabled them to make their way to the upper House. They will be made to feel second-class. As someone said yesterday, if a Government motion is defeated in the other place on the back of the appointed Members, those in this place will be able to say \"They were appointed, so the decision has no legitimacy.\" Therefore, what will the proposals create?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1562.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ncreasingly in this House we do not have Members with a broad range of experience of life in our country. We have a growing number of people who come through the political system. Therefore, this House currently has 60 Labour Members who have been politicians or political organisers of some sort, and we have 20 such Members in my party. Increasingly I see in our own party people who come up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1564.0", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "inuity at our peril. Let me also say, in parentheses, that 70 per cent. of the hereditary Tory peers are aged between 40 and 60, and only 60 per cent. of Labour peers are aged between 40 and 60, so we in the Tory party have a vibrant young hereditary peerage. The argument that the Prime Minister has stuffed the other place with cronies is entirely true. However, he can be held to account for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. There is not time, because a lot of people wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1584.2", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it did not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "preceding_text": " , the House of Lords was abolished by this House as \"useless and dangerous\" to the people of England. I would not go so far as to use those words now, but I will say that for 11 years thereafter—until the Restoration—despite attempts to revive a second Chamber, this House stood up to the Lord Protector and to military force as it had previously stood up to an absolute monarchy.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1587.0", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "lf—for the first time in my life, I think—agreeing almost entirely with speeches from Conservative and Liberal Democrat Front Benchers. Until the contribution from my hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) , I was, I think, almost entirely isolated on the Labour Benches—I thought that this was the progressive side of the House—in arguing the democratic option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1587.0", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "chers. Until the contribution from my hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) , I was, I think, almost entirely isolated on the Labour Benches—I thought that this was the progressive side of the House—in arguing the democratic option. [Interruption.] I apologise to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mark Fisher) —I was absent for his contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ively revising our legislation, and with the introduction of life peerages and the work on disclaimers, the Conservative party has always been determined to ensure that effectiveness. Winston Churchill was in favour of an elected second Chamber as long ago as 1924, so it is time we attended to it. The views of Winston Churchill at various times of his life have been quoted during the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1594.7", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "That is the reason for the 20 per cent., but let us not kid ourselves: the people who have been there on the front line doing the work are in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1594.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1636.5", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM (HEREDITARY PLACES)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to make a statement. Let me say to the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-07", "file": "debates2007-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "fff4b6c6e3960504", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1637.4", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM (HEREDITARY PLACES)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the House has voted to abolish the House of Lords —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-07b.1637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-08", "file": "debates2007-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eeb9aeef761c5fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "hat their male colleagues do not think it necessary to be here. Be that as it may, I should like to welcome my hon. Friends the Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) , for Buckingham (John Bercow), for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) and for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt), and indeed the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) —oh, he has gone. At least he put in an appearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08a.1701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-08", "file": "debates2007-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eeb9aeef761c5fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "ommittee. The first question that I asked the Secretary of State when I became a member of the Committee was whether there was a gender strategy. There was not. The Department said that it would develop one. It has been making progress, and I understand that a document on that was either published yesterday or will be published today. Half of the senior civil servants in that Department are women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08a.1759.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-08", "file": "debates2007-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "26003a38cb587529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "hat their male colleagues do not think it necessary to be here. Be that as it may, I should like to welcome my hon. Friends the Members for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis), for Buckingham (John Bercow), for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) and for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt), and indeed the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) —oh, he has gone. At least he put in an appearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-08", "file": "debates2007-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "26003a38cb587529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "y. First, let us consider the great achievements that have been made. The Under-Secretary spoke at length, eloquently and correctly about violence. I especially welcome yesterday's announcement of more resources for the police to deal with trafficking. I am pleased that the Government have at last, under Conservative pressure, agreed to the terms of the Council of Europe convention on trafficking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-08", "file": "debates2007-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "26003a38cb587529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1707.4", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her interesting hagiography of Baroness Thatcher. Does she agree, however, that Baroness Thatcher was not the first woman politician to be elected as premier? The elections of both Indira Ghandi and Mrs. Bandaranaike, in India and Sri Lanka respectively, predate Mrs. Thatcher's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1707.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-08", "file": "debates2007-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "26003a38cb587529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1707.5", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "First, the hon. Lady has her facts wrong; Lady Thatcher was no longer Prime Minister when interest rates went that high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-08", "file": "debates2007-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "26003a38cb587529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1741.0", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "preceding_text": " the population—and certainly as a society we regard women as of equal value and equal importance. I find gender competition rather tedious, in the workplace in particular. I do not regard myself as a woman MP; I regard myself as an MP who just happens to be a woman. I can vouch that I have never encountered any gender prejudice in my journey through application and campaigning and so forth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-08", "file": "debates2007-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "26003a38cb587529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "ommittee. The first question that I asked the Secretary of State when I became a member of the Committee was whether there was a gender strategy. There was not. The Department said that it would develop one. It has been making progress, and I understand that a document on that was either published yesterday or will be published today. Half of the senior civil servants in that Department are women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-08b.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-09", "file": "debates2007-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4e419ec873d8c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09a.1809.2", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "n anything to do with regional government, because we can never satisfactorily draw the line on the map. Whenever anybody suggests that one area is in the south-west, somebody else says, \"Oh no it isn't, we're the real south-west.\" That is inevitable when the Government office for the south-west stretches from the Isles of Scilly to Tewkesbury and Tewkesbury is nearer Scotland than Cornwall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09a.1809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-09", "file": "debates2007-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4e419ec873d8c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09a.1821.7", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "The fact is that there came a point when the Republic decided to follow what is loosely known as Thatcherite economics. It is since then that the Republic has done extremely well, although I do not remember the Scottish National party ever agreeing with us about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09a.1821.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-09", "file": "debates2007-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4e419ec873d8c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09a.1839.0", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "As I have already mentioned, I fully intend to talk about what I believe is the proper way forward. As to timing, other hon. Members have spoken for far longer than I have so far. I am certainly going to continue with my remarks, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09a.1839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-09", "file": "debates2007-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4e419ec873d8c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09a.1839.0", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "this Bill—a well meaning but ill conceived attempt to address the issue—when what we really need is the Government to take the lead in a national debate on the issue. In the absence of that, what we propose—it has been proposed by the leader of my party—is a constitutional convention. Surely the best way to achieve constitutional change is by building a consensus and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09a.1839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-09", "file": "debates2007-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "e26833a8ab14586e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09b.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Some us have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "It is something of a liberation to speak in a debate that is not directly about a Home Office matter, which is what I am normally restricted to during the rest of the working week. I am pleased to participate in this debate because, so far as I can recall, I have never spoken in public on devolution and constitutional matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09b.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-09", "file": "debates2007-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "e26833a8ab14586e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09b.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I have lived all but a few months of my life within a mile or two of the south coast of England and I represent a south coast constituency, so I am English and, what is more, southern English. It is probably not widely known in the House that, among their various songs, Southampton football fans chant, \"Southerners! Southerners!\", when their opponents come from more northerly parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-09b.1791.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "11a2af00a9974d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "y the head economist of the Department of Health say in evidence that the funding formula is a major contributor to the deficits, and, at the following evidence session, the Secretary of State say, \"No, it's not\"? When I pointed out to the Secretary of State that her own economist had given evidence to the contrary to the Committee, she fobbed us off. Evidence to support my point is in the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12a.72.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "11a2af00a9974d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": ". Member for South Cambridgeshire that, there are much clearer measures of the burden of disease in the NHS, such as those that I listed at the beginning of the debate, including the mortality rate per 100,000 of the population under 75 from cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke, and the prevalence of diabetes in under-75s throughout the population. Those are measures of the burden of disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "11a2af00a9974d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": " that intervention, because it certainly does not make any sense. I grant that it is desirable to put all transport infrastructure in place before development takes place, but if we were to postpone development until projects such as Crossrail were in place, we would be making a serious error and we would be perpetuating the suffering of a lot of people in the south-east who need that development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "4419d95bc60dfd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I am mildly sceptical about the UNICEF report. I think that it was actually unfair to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.14.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "4419d95bc60dfd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "When the Leader of the House convenes his all-party group, would it not be wise, as well as considering the Lords, to consider cutting the number of people in the House of Commons by about a third—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "4419d95bc60dfd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or the Czechs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " climate change. The Prime Minister and I have many disagreements on European policy—no doubt we will continue to do so—but some issues go right across parties and across countries, as these negotiations show. Indeed, I have found out something over the last year, whether in talking to Nicolas Sarkozy, or the Swedish Prime Minister, or the Nordic Foreign Ministers, or the Greeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "4419d95bc60dfd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "argets are necessary? Clearly, all targets need to be backed by independent auditing. What measures will be taken to ensure that targets are independently set and independently audited so that we do not fail to meet them? The summit also rightly concluded that we need a separate target for renewable energy as a share of energy consumption. When will we see the country-by-country allocations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.25.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "4419d95bc60dfd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "rt in that. By way of conclusion, I say to the right hon. Gentleman that we will need alliances to build all this. It was interesting, when we got to the discussion about what would be in the Berlin declaration, that there was a general agreement that we should put in a measure on climate change and protecting the environment. I must say that the only Prime Minister who spoke against it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.26.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "4419d95bc60dfd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2006-07", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way, because I am about to finish my remarks. If we couple that policy with the effect of sharing the proceeds of growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.90.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-12", "file": "debates2007-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "4419d95bc60dfd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2006-07", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "of receiving funding unless they meet them. The reality is that the Department looks to local authorities to implement national priorities. That was reinforced by the Committee's earlier observation: \"While the Department insists that councils are free to set their own priorities, this does not match the local authority interpretation of the guidance and assessment for funding.\" In addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-12b.116.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-13", "file": "debates2007-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "b47bbd4bd10778af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-13b.155.4", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That shows you how things have changed. Usually the hon. Gentleman gives me advice; now he is asking me to give him advice. These are matters for Ministers to make a judgment on, and I cannot be drawn into whether a statement should be written or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-13b.155.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-13", "file": "debates2007-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "b47bbd4bd10778af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-13b.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "STATISTICS AND REGISTRATION SERVICE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "Actually, there has been less change at the Treasury than at many other Departments over the past few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-13b.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "75922dbef0aa1b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14b.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "context to which I have referred and said: \"We are sleepwalking towards disaster...worse than that—we are asleep at the controls of a fast-moving aircraft. Unless we wake up and take control, the outcome is all too predictable.\" He went on that to say that if Britain took the decision to renew our system now to take us through to 2055, it would inhibit and damage the part that we could play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14b.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "75922dbef0aa1b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14b.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "tary of State's advice, but that was 30 years ago, and time has moved on—not only that, but it depends who we believe about the design life of these particular vessels. Until comparatively recently, we were told that the lifespan of the Vanguard class submarine was 30 years minimum—not 30 years maximum, not 25 years with a possible extension of another five years, but 30 years minimum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14b.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "75922dbef0aa1b82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14b.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne Milton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Milton", "preceding_text": "I will be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14b.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "Cash for peerages is probably not the biggest disaster of the right hon. Gentleman's tenure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "That depends, of course, on whether the House votes for this motion. If it does, we are committing ourselves to making that reduction by the end of this year. I hope that that is a reassurance to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.300.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.309.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "red to my right hon. Friend, but I will say to him that I am not sure whether we are at cross purposes. The stage to which he refers is not likely to be reached during the present Parliament. With the deepest respect to my good and right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who is a very fine Minister indeed, he has not of course been Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman referred to events of 100 years ago. Of course, 100 years ago we had the British empire. Even when I was at school, the map of the world was coloured red.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.314.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "emained unconvinced. It would not have issued a report in the terms that it did if it did not remain unconvinced. As I have already explained, the need for the final decision to be taken now has simply not been mapped out or explained by the Government in a way that I, or the Churches, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, or all the organisations that are lobbying us, find remotely convincing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "That is a good question, because the Secretary of State for Defence came before the Select Committee and said that there was no certainty that the Americans would sell us nuclear weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "meant to end warfare never did. Westphalia, Utrecht, Versailles and events after the second world war were followed not by the outbreak of peace, but by endless wars. One reaches the regrettable conclusion that if one takes the over-confident, liberal view—it is called that, but it does not have anything particular to do with the Liberal party, although I do not mean to be disparaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.334.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "In an aside to Conservative Members a few moments ago, the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) asked what it would be like to have a facility like Faslane in the Thames valley. If he came and stood in my bedroom —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-14", "file": "debates2007-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "9ac34d0fc1228cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the support of my right hon. Friends the Members for Walsall, South (Mr. George), for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman) and for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig) and of my hon. Friends the Members for Plymouth, Sutton (Linda Gilroy) and for Newcastle upon Tyne, North (Mr. Henderson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-14c.396.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "5f723f25c553e819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "There we have it. In reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) , MPs are not only visiting schools but doing so on a Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "5f723f25c553e819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "an being left to opt out, as is currently the case? Given that more than half of all union members who pay affiliation fees do not vote Labour, should not members who opt in to political funds be able to choose annually to which party their fees should go? These are very important questions because it is, of course, Labour's financial links to the trade unions that have prevented reform until now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "5f723f25c553e819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had answered the question, and I apologise if I have not. Of course, the limit need not challenge the relationship—some suggestions are set out on page 10—but that depends not just on us but on the Conservative party. This is not a symmetrical issue. The Conservative party has issues with us and we have issues, as it were, in the other direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "5f723f25c553e819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "to me earlier. I have already made it clear that we have two concerns. The first and most important is that the school system is not adequate for the job of widening participation in the way that we all want to see. That is why we should look again at the league table system and there was some nodding by Labour Members when I made that point—perhaps the hon. Gentleman was nodding off —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "5f723f25c553e819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "When the Select Committee intervened and held a session to try to bring the two sides together in the pay dispute, I asked the general secretary of the Association of University Teachers whether she was embarrassed about taking the money after opposing the proposal. She said that she did not feel any embarrassment at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "5f723f25c553e819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": " To echo a point made earlier, we need to start this process when people are younger. If we start speaking to people when they are 14 or 15, it is probably too late. We need to do more work in our primary schools. I made that point earlier this week when I met some young scientists from the Royal Society of Chemistry representing a group called \"Voice of the Future\". Let me turn to my final point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "5f723f25c553e819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "e know that there is already a social imbalance in certain subjects: 45 per cent. of the medicine and dentistry intake come from the highest socio-economic group—higher managerial and professional people—compared with 8 per cent. from class 6, which covers semi-routine occupations. The figure for class 7 is so low that it is not even reported. The balance is better in law and business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15a.522.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " because they are labelled comprehensive or anything else, but because of good leadership, good teaching and a good ethos in the school. I accept that it is the all-ability, non-selective feature that is important, and we need to continue to hammer home the fact that that is the way forward. There are still some people harking back to a golden age, though not the Conservative party nowadays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.424.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": ", it might easily have been the case that 10 hon. Members on either or both sides could not get in to speak, as there is great demand to participate in such debates. Secondly, the case for protection on grounds of sexual orientation was made and extensively debated during the passage of the Equality Act 2006, which is the substantive legislation that gave rise to the consequential statutory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "record my party's congratulations to the organising committee, which announced Lloyds TSB as its first top sponsor yesterday. I only saw the statement 20 minutes ago, but three indisputable facts stand out. First, if one adds together all the separate parts, the budget for which the Government are responsible has nearly trebled since the London Olympics Bill left Parliament under a year ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "I welcome this pinning down of the finances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "ut the hopes, aspirations and dreams of many young people, especially in my constituency of Brent, South. I thank the Secretary of State for coming to the opening of the Willesden sports centre. We hope that at least five to 10 of those young people will be able to compete and win medals in the games. It is also important to stress that some of the Olympic games will come to Wembley stadium—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I think that we should ask for a declaration of interest from Conservative Members before every contribution, if what they really mean is that it would have been better if we had not won the Olympic games bid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I think that we should ask for a declaration of interest from Conservative Members before every contribution, if what they really mean is that it would have been better if we had not won the Olympic games bid. [Interruption.] To deal with the hon. Gentleman's point, yes, legacy is absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.459.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Scrutiny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I wonder what young people who may read or watch this debate at home—if they have nothing better to do—must make of the Conservative party's attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.464.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "an being left to opt out, as is currently the case? Given that more than half of all union members who pay affiliation fees do not vote Labour, should not members who opt in to political funds be able to choose annually to which party their fees should go? These are very important questions because it is, of course, Labour's financial links to the trade unions that have prevented reform until now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Margaret Thatcher had introduced a series of reforms that sought to change and undermine our system of party funding, but—consistent with their usual practice—never touched their own system. We will have talks, but I cannot think of any one occasion in the past 50 years when the Conservative party has taken the initiative to try to clean up party funding. As recently as 5 March —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had answered the question, and I apologise if I have not. Of course, the limit need not challenge the relationship—some suggestions are set out on page 10—but that depends not just on us but on the Conservative party. This is not a symmetrical issue. The Conservative party has issues with us and we have issues, as it were, in the other direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.480.7", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend's first point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.480.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.482.6", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.482.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "f it wishes to charge more than the basic fee. The introduction of variable fees was an incredibly difficult decision to take, but the Government had the courage to take it, and as I have said, we are being proved right. I welcome the fact that the Conservative party has shifted its ground on that issue. If I look long and hard, even some Liberal Democrats appear to be shifting their ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "d to get into even more hot water than usual when I talk about this, because I use the term \"crunchy subjects\". That is not popular with the educational establishment—it does not seem to be popular with anybody—but I continue to use it. It seems to be an article of faith that all academic subjects are equally academically challenging, but I am not sure that that is entirely true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": " earlier. I have already made it clear that we have two concerns. The first and most important is that the school system is not adequate for the job of widening participation in the way that we all want to see. That is why we should look again at the league table system, and there was some nodding by Labour Members when I made that point—but perhaps the hon. Gentleman was nodding off —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "When the Select Committee intervened and held a session to try to bring the two sides together in the pay dispute, I asked the general secretary of the Association of University Teachers whether she was embarrassed about taking the money after opposing the proposal. She said that she did not feel any embarrassment at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": " To echo a point made earlier, we need to start this process when people are younger. If we start speaking to people when they are 14 or 15, it is probably too late. We need to do more work in our primary schools. I made that point earlier this week when I met some young scientists from the Royal Society of Chemistry representing a group called \"Voice of the Future\". Let me turn to my final point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "e know that there is already a social imbalance in certain subjects: 45 per cent. of the medicine and dentistry intake come from the highest socio-economic group—higher managerial and professional people—compared with 8 per cent. from class 6, which covers semi-routine occupations. The figure for class 7 is so low that it is not even reported. The balance is better in law and business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.538.3", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman's generosity in giving way earlier, and I had more than my fair share of interventions—but let us see how the next 10 minutes go. In the 15 years before 1997—before I was elected to the House—I had some involvement in this field of activity, and I cannot remember a single act by the then Conservative Government that advanced the cause of widening participation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.538.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-15", "file": "debates2007-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "de4e561efe341a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": " believe that the key to the problem is somehow to get parity between the vocational and the academic. As long as the academic subjects lead to the kinds of careers that pay two, three, four or even 10 times as much as those to which the vocational subjects lead, parents and students will never be convinced of parity. The key lies in eliminating the nonsensical concepts of vocational and academic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-15b.540.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "It will come as no surprise to my hon. Friend that I have some sympathy with his argument, but he will have to ask the courts why they took the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman referred to modernising medical careers as being dumbed-down, but it is nothing of the kind. Modernising medical careers is the outcome of years of work by the medical royal colleges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "rk by the medical royal colleges, postgraduate deans, the British Medical Association, junior doctors and other key partners, including NHS employers across the country. If the hon. Gentleman really thinks, as he seems to, that the new system is a disaster compared to the old, perhaps he needs to listen to Dr. Simon Eccles, a consultant at Homerton University hospital, and a former chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Dr. Simon Eccles, the former chairman of the BMA junior doctors committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "d send out some four hundred and twenty rejection letters twice a year. Nobody protested and marched through the streets of Hackney because it only happened in a staggered process.\" He described how consultants would decide who to shortlist by simply dividing the piles into two and tossing a coin. One was the lucky pile, and would make the shortlist; the other one did not. That was scarcely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "lready working in the NHS, on foundation programmes, in other training places or in other medical posts in the NHS. Those doctors will continue to be needed, so the shroud-waving about unemployed doctors is absurd. The hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire need to recognise that because of our Government's investment in the NHS, and because we are training more doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "It will be the National Consumer Council. As I get into my speech, the hon. Gentleman will see what the process is. If he wants to intervene on me again, he may by all means do so. I apologise. I just lost the plot there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.601.0", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "s covered by the Bill and, indeed, to Governments when it takes the view that that is necessary. However, it seems to me vital to ensure that the responsibilities now carried out by organisations such as Postwatch and Energywatch are not lost along the way—an important point made by the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (Sir Robert Smith) . In particular, I shall deal —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "ity to do that. I know that the general public very much welcome what is happening. I shall concentrate on part 3, which amends the Estate Agents Act 1979. Members have said many times that buying a house is probably the most mystifying and expensive thing that most people will do. It is probably up on the Richter scale with getting divorced as the most stressful experience in most people's lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-19", "file": "debates2007-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "d39d05ab7c73f494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "on purpose. I confess that I was a little confused to hear her first suggest that more organisations should be involved in the Bill, and then ask why Postwatch and Energywatch were included. However, she went on to reiterate our concerns about the need to modernise the Estate Agents Act 1979. The hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Dr. Turner) , who is sadly not in the Chamber at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-19b.631.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6d8f738d2eb08eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will deal with that question in response to the next question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6d8f738d2eb08eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is a shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " people in Britain. For example, Sir Francis Baring was a Member of Parliament for 18 years and died leaving a legacy of £1 million, which was one heck of a lot of money in the 18th century. William Beckford became the first English millionaire MP. I think that there might be quite a few millionaires in the Chamber, or at least in this building, at the moment, but I am not one of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6d8f738d2eb08eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "y Corbyn) says, but I am broadly in sympathy with the points that he made this afternoon. I should begin, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) did, by declaring an interest. In 1983, when we commemorated the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, as distinct from the slave trade, I published a short life of William Wilberforce, which is now sadly out of print.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6d8f738d2eb08eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "esented in Northern Ireland a report on organised crime in the Province. Particularly apparent, apart from the dimension of paramilitary involvement, was the very important part that human trafficking was playing in the criminal's apparatus. Human trafficking was joining counterfeiting of goods, smuggling and all the other illicit and revolting things, such as money laundering and fuel laundering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6d8f738d2eb08eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "n Parliament for an annual remembrance day. In the Deputy Prime Minister's opening speech, he said that the debate on slavery had been going on for a long time. Indeed, it has. In 2004, my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Mrs. Ellman) tabled an early-day motion on the subject, yet the Government are still not sure whether we shouldhave a remembrance day. I say yes, we should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.721.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6d8f738d2eb08eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "trafficking centre led to a multi-agency operation \"which aimed to tackle trafficking for sexual exploitation and which led to 234 people being arrested.\"—[ Official Report ,20 July 2006; Vol. 449, c. 609W .] However, of those 234 people, only 132 were charged, and we do not know how many were found guilty. After a massive operation and massive cost to the taxpayer, we got no results —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "f6d8f738d2eb08eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "especially—being taken into work, such as starting as domestics and being put into bondage and slavery, or being fooled into taking a job and then finding themselves involved in prostitution. CHASTE—Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe—is run by the Reverend Dr. Carrie Pemberton, with whom I am speaking on the replica Zong on Monday, with the Minister as well, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "68dd1951fbd41457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will deal with that question in response to the next question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "68dd1951fbd41457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ready been an extensive discussion with the German presidency of the main principles contained in the declaration. The UK will also celebrate and offer our contribution to 50 years of EU success by joining our schools with others across Europe in a learning together programme that will allow schools to take advantage of talking online in real time with other schools in other parts of the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "68dd1951fbd41457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " and our Parliament. As I shadow the Deputy Prime Minister on the Floor of the House, it falls to me to respond to his remarks, although I should also declare an interest, as I have written an unpublished book on the matters under discussion. I have a deep personal interest in these matters—as I know does the Deputy Prime Minister—having revered the name of Wilberforce for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.694.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "68dd1951fbd41457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "y Corbyn) says, but I am broadly in sympathy with the points that he made this afternoon. I should begin, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) did, by declaring an interest. In 1983, when we commemorated the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, as distinct from the slave trade, I published a short life of William Wilberforce, which is now sadly out of print.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.716.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "68dd1951fbd41457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": " Parliament for an annual remembrance day. In the Deputy Prime Minister's opening speech, he said that the debate on slavery had been going on for a long time. Indeed, it has. In 2004, my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Mrs. Ellman) tabled an early-day motion on the subject, yet the Government are still not sure whether we should have a remembrance day. I say yes, we should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.721.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-20", "file": "debates2007-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "68dd1951fbd41457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "to show people how the slaves were packed into such vessels. The ale will be launched at the same exhibition opening on 23 May and will be available to all quaffers of such ale in the bars of the Palace of Westminster from 23 May till the end of our summer term. I am afraid we have not got as far as brewing something for the lady Members who do not drink beer. I will mention that to Elgoods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-20b.739.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce14e1970da5f28c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "r national income per head. We were seventh out of seven, behind Germany, Italy, France, Canada and Japan. Now we are second only to America and ahead of all those other countries. Every country has faced a trebling of oil and commodity prices, but while inflation peaked at 4.7 per cent. in America and went as high as 3.3 per cent. in the G7, here in Britain, inflation has never gone beyond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce14e1970da5f28c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": ". He normally trumpets these reports and tells us how proud he is, but today there was not even a mention. Make no mistake—the measures in the Lyons report will hit every family in the country. The Chancellor did not mention retail price inflation, either, which is now at 4.6 per cent.—almost double what he inherited. All those things are in the Budget; none of them were in the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.829.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce14e1970da5f28c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "on spending on the NHS, but nurses are being sacked. He brags about people's long-term security, but the pension system is shot to pieces. He boasts about spending on young people, but the number not in education, employment or training is up by a third. So he has not just borrowed billions; he has wasted billions. What a wasted opportunity—billions taxed, billions borrowed, billions wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.829.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce14e1970da5f28c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " addresses, but it will not save their seats. Let me tell the Chancellor what we welcome in the Budget. We welcome the capitalisation of the student loan book. We suggested that three years ago. We welcome the cut in corporation tax. We suggested that three days ago. In fact, if one looks at the whole approach of this Budget, one reaches an inescapable conclusion. Spending is going to grow —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.831.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce14e1970da5f28c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "s, if I might put it that way, but let them consider the physical factors. My partner and I have lived in the same house for more than 23 years, and I know the streets in my area like the back of my hand. I know who has had double glazing in the past 10 years. It is not always possible to see round the back of people's houses; even so, I know who has had a conservatory fitted in the past 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce14e1970da5f28c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "y the Secretary of State for Education and Skills. Hon. Members should see the buildings and talk to the people who use them. The hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) was a distinguished and well-to-do businessman before he entered Parliament—he might well still be, as I do not know whether he is moonlighting. So many hon. Members on his side of the Chamber do —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce14e1970da5f28c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "We can hurl dry economic statistics back and forth across the Chamber, but we are talking about people's lives. This is the sixth Budget debate in which I have participated on Budget day. There is usually a barrage of criticism and comments from the Conservatives about productivity and Government debt, coupled with stories of doom and gloom, but after 10 years, they are running out of steam—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce14e1970da5f28c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "preceding_text": "Valley—to invest in the necessary capital equipment that will reduce people's fuel bills and enable them in time to sell surplus generation back into the grid. That will not require there being huge eyesore wind turbines. I do not know whether the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) is selling any surplus generation back into his local grid—or, indeed, whether he needs to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "ent and wait to hear what announcements the Chancellor makes in a little over half an hour's time. I am surprised that she implies that there is no real improvement in, and investment going into, the automotive industry. I have listed the successes that we have had in recent years. Frankly, the last thing that the Welsh economy and Welsh business need is a return to the failed Tory policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "ittle over half an hour's time. I am surprised that she implies that there is no real improvement in, and investment going into, the automotive industry. I have listed the successes that we have had in recent years. Frankly, the last thing that the Welsh economy and Welsh business need is a return to the failed Tory policies— [Interruption.] Those failed policies led to two recessions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.801.4", "colnum": "801", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": "The development of the St. Athan defence training establishment brings great potential to my Bridgend constituency. Will my right hon. Friend agree to hold discussions with the First Minister to ensure that an appropriate skills base is developed at Bridgend college, so that such employment opportunities can be grabbed by my constituents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.801.5", "colnum": "801", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "at Welsh Labour has drawn up for the next Assembly Government, new skills academies will provide key industries, including the St. Athan project, with access to excellence in training and learning. My hon. Friend can maximise the potential of local further education and training opportunities in her constituency by working with the Welsh Assembly Government, and I am happy to help facilitate that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.801.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Si�n James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n James", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that answer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is simply not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The gap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is simply not correct. [ Interruption. ] No, it is not. It is absolutely correct that wealthy people have got wealthier, but it is also correct that the poorest have got wealthier, too. Let me tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman how they have got wealthier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "on. ] No, it is not. It is absolutely correct that wealthy people have got wealthier, but it is also correct that the poorest have got wealthier, too. Let me tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman how they have got wealthier. [Hon. Members: \"The gap!\"] I am sorry, he is absolutely wrong. Those at the bottom end have actually done extremely well over the last 10 years. Let me tell him why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is simply not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is simply not correct. [ Interruption. ] No, it is not correct. As a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that delivering the Olympics is inevitably expensive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "Early-day motion 992, signed by 84 MPs, concerns the injustice done to a local community football team, AFC Wimbledon, whose hopes of promotion are over because it has been docked 18 points. It did not know that one of its players, who previously played for Cardiff City in the English championship, needed a —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "r national income per head. We were seventh out of seven, behind Germany, Italy, France, Canada and Japan. Now we are second only to America and ahead of all those other countries. Every country has faced a trebling of oil and commodity prices, but while inflation peaked at 4.7 per cent. in America and went as high as 3.3 per cent. in the G7, here in Britain, inflation has never gone beyond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "But this Chancellor cannot run away from his record. He is the Chancellor who has put the tax burden up. He is the Chancellor who has taken one tax down but put 99 taxes up. The average family is paying £1,300 more because of his Budget decisions. We will check carefully what is happening to the aligning of national insurance, because we think that it might be hitting middle-income families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor who has put the tax burden up. He is the Chancellor who has taken one tax down but put 99 taxes up. The average family is paying £1,300 more because of his Budget decisions. We will check carefully what is happening to the aligning of national insurance, because we think that it might be hitting middle-income families. [Interruption.] Let me tell you, Mr. Deputy Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": ". He normally trumpets these reports and tells us how proud he is, but today there was not even a mention. Make no mistake—the measures in the Lyons report will hit every family in the country. The Chancellor did not mention retail prices inflation, either, which is now at 4.6 per cent.—almost double what he inherited. All those things are in the Budget; none of them was in the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "investment, but he did not tell us that the Red Book shows that half of last year's foreign direct investment was accounted for by the restructuring of one company—Shell. That did not get a mention. In spite of all the extra taxes, let us look at the borrowing figures. The Chancellor listed them through gritted teeth. They might have been whitened, straightened and privately polished —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "on spending on the NHS, but nurses are being sacked. He brags about people's long-term security, but the pension system is shot to pieces. He boasts about spending on young people, but the number not in education, employment or training is up by a third. So he has not just borrowed billions; he has wasted billions. What a wasted opportunity—billions taxed, billions borrowed, billions wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.5", "colnum": "829", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " shot to pieces. He boasts about spending on young people, but the number not in education, employment or training is up by a third. So he has not just borrowed billions; he has wasted billions. What a wasted opportunity—billions taxed, billions borrowed, billions wasted. [Interruption.] The Chancellor has run out of money, so let us look at the big tasks, the big things that he said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " addresses, but it will not save their seats. Let me tell the Chancellor what we welcome in the Budget. We welcome the capitalisation of the student loan book. We suggested that three years ago. We welcome the cut in corporation tax. We suggested that three days ago. In fact, if one looks at the whole approach of this Budget, one reaches an inescapable conclusion. Spending is going to grow —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "y moving from 22p to 20p than they gain by abolishing the 10 per cent. starting rate, and that is contrary to what I understood the right hon. Gentleman to say. Secondly, he has not referred to the gains, set out on page 208, for those at the lower end of the scale. For example, there are increases in age allowances and child tax credit, and the threshold of the working tax credit is to be raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that if the productivity growth under the last Conservative Government in the 1990s had been continued in the NHS through the term of this Government we would today have no waiting lists for any operations at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.855.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "It might, but I was not trying to go into detail. I just wanted to make the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "m and gloom that Opposition Members put about and the talk about black holes. Other colleagues mentioned all that sort of stuff. In preparation for that, I looked at the financial press with a little care over the past six weeks or so to see what was being said in the run-up to the Budget. It is often said in this place that much of the press is not necessarily friendly to the Labour party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.872.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "s, if I might put it that way, but let them consider the physical factors. My partner and I have lived in the same house for more than 23 years, and I know the streets in my area like the back of my hand. I know who has had double glazing in the past 10 years. It is not always possible to see round the back of people's houses; even so, I know who has had a conservatory fitted in the past 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "y the Secretary of State for Education and Skills. Hon. Members should see the buildings and talk to the people who use them. The hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) was a distinguished and well-to-do businessman before he entered Parliament—he might well still be, as I do not know whether he is moonlighting. So many hon. Members on his side of the Chamber do —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "We can hurl dry economic statistics back and forth across the Chamber, but we are talking about people's lives. This is the sixth Budget debate in which I have participated on Budget day. There is usually a barrage of criticism and comments from the Conservatives about productivity and Government debt, coupled with stories of doom and gloom, but after 10 years, they are running out of steam—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.894.4", "colnum": "894", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House is aware of the work that my hon. Friend has done in that field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.894.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-21", "file": "debates2007-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "ae1d0f19dea5939d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "preceding_text": "Valley—to invest in the necessary capital equipment that will reduce people's fuel bills and enable them in time to sell surplus generation back into the grid. That will not require there being huge eyesore wind turbines. I do not know whether the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) is selling any surplus generation back into his local grid—or, indeed, whether he needs to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-21b.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-22", "file": "debates2007-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "dbedc0d5d337a766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I of course accept what the Leader of the House has just said about the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. What is slightly more surprising is the absence of any Labour Members in large numbers to defend the Budget —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22a.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-22", "file": "debates2007-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "dbedc0d5d337a766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "t, but are wondering how they will ever get on the housing ladder on their salaries. If they are each earning £13,000 a year, their income tax bill just got £224 higher. Then take two-earner couples on lower incomes with kids. Say one earns £7,500 part-time and the other earns £18,000 and they have one child. Even after tax credits, they will be £234 worse off —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22a.963.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-22", "file": "debates2007-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "dbedc0d5d337a766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " parity. That is a long way from where we were before we undertook several initiatives, which he has been active in, to encourage more young women to come into apprenticeships. Let us talk about higher education. Variable tuition fees were one of the major policy reforms of recent years—an act of political courage by a Government who could so easily have ducked the issue. It taught us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-22", "file": "debates2007-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "dbedc0d5d337a766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "o reduce the rates as well. That is entirely sensible, but for smaller companies, he has done quite the reverse: increased the rate and increased additional allowances. That seems an illogical, and perhaps unfortunate, position. Perhaps there is an explanation that we have not heard. I raised a point earlier about the curious phrase \"legitimate small businesses\". There may be an explanation there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22a.1027.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-22", "file": "debates2007-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "be0b87f10d358bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22b.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "t, but are wondering how they will ever get on the housing ladder on their salaries. If they are each earning £13,000 a year, their income tax bill just got £224 higher. Then take two-earner couples on lower incomes with kids. Say one earns £7,500 part-time and the other earns £18,000 and they have one child. Even after tax credits, they will be £234 worse off —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22b.963.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-22", "file": "debates2007-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "be0b87f10d358bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22b.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "If one speaks to the Royal College of Nursing, one realises that it is not a happy organisation. The hon. Lady is aware that the RCN is campaigning vigorously against the latest wage increase, which seems to have been staggered and is below the rate of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22b.1033.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-22", "file": "debates2007-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "be0b87f10d358bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22b.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "ialist schools and whether there is really any evidence that they work. Specialist schools make up about 85 per cent. of the school system now. The percentage of good GCSEs gained generally within the system is about 58 per cent. In specialist schools, it is 3 per cent. higher, at 61 per cent. My hon. Friend the Member for North Durham gave us a clear exposition of the state of the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-22b.1049.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-23", "file": "debates2007-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "124e215810c092f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-23b.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Brian Iddon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Iddon", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to be conducting this Dutch auction in the House today. I await the correspondence that will undoubtedly flood in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-23b.1110.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-23", "file": "debates2007-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "124e215810c092f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-23b.1128.2", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "COMMUNITY COHESION", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": " cannot, despite their best efforts, learn the language of the country in which they now live, in which their children were born and are growing up, and in which they will continue to live? They are not people who are here today, gone tomorrow. What greater ghettoisation could there be than to ghettoise people behind a veil of ignorance? It is extraordinary that Nazma Begum, my constituent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-23b.1128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "When the decision was made to incorporate RAF Fylingdales into the US missile defence system, there was a full debate in the House in relation to the role that it would play. That role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "dales and that there is other co-operation through technical programmes. All that is entirely consistent with the issue of principle. The House also knows that the Government's position—I think that most hon. Members share this view—is that it would be irresponsible not to explore with the US and its NATO allies the possible implications of the system for the security of the UK —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is pronounced \"Leeman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "our economy forward, with 400,000 people working in environmental industries, compared with 170,000only five years ago. Venture capital is moving into environmental industries, with London's alternative investment market becoming the market of choice, listing more than 60 clean technology companieswith a combined market capitalisation of more than£4 billion. Meanwhile, Lehman Brothers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "pital is moving into environmental industries, with London's alternative investment market becoming the market of choice, listing more than 60 clean technology companieswith a combined market capitalisation of more than£4 billion. Meanwhile, Lehman Brothers—[Hon. Members: \"It is pronounced \"Leeman.\"] I say \"Leyman\", they say \"Leeman\"—I think we are talking about the same company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman raised that issue. One of the joys of the real worldof government, rather than the dream world of opposition, is that collective discussion sorts out the best proposals from the not-so-good proposals. Thatis why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"As Chancellor or Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I have not yet been asked to join the campaign team, but I assure the hon. Gentleman, who will be concerned about the issue, that, as I have said for three years, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is an outstanding Prime Minister in waiting, and I believe that he will do outstanding service for the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1185.4", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": " cent. reduction in the amount of waste that is sent to landfill. However, with the rate of increase at £3 per tonne, the incentives are not yet right for a fundamental shift away from landfill, which is why the tax will rise by £8 per tonne every year from April 2008 until at least 2010-11. That should save greenhouse gas emissions of at least 200,000 tonnesof CO2 equivalent per year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1185.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ng present at meetings. I sit on the council of environment Ministers as well as the council of agriculture Ministers. WhatI can tell the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) —and I am sure that it will interest him—is that the clout of all parts of the United Kingdom is all the greater for a United Kingdom presence at the negotiating table, rather than a splintering of our efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "hat a marine Bill will be guaranteed in the 2007 Queen's Speech, whoever is Prime Minister at the time? There is no guarantee. There was no mention of support for our rural communities. The sole rural dimension was a 2p a litre increase in the tax rate on red diesel. Of course, as the House has heard, many farmers and people in remote rural areas will be caught by the increased tax on 4x4s —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "ax credits will take people up to a certain limit and will guarantee a certain income. This woman, working the hours and getting the tax credits that she does, will receive a guaranteed income. That is the difference. That is why we are bringing in progressive taxation and benefits and helping women exactly like this. These are the sort of people who are our people, who we are looking after—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "or poor working families, for single parents like Ms B. They are now able to work because of the Budget and other Labour initiatives, which were done in spite of the Opposition. We need more single parents like Ms B to feel they can afford to do vital jobs like working in child care. The fall in unemployment over the last decade in Islington, South and Finsbury has made a real difference to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": " explain—to embrace Conservative party policy. As I was saying, the Chancellor's great mistake was to think that the British people would be taken in—but they will not be. After all the stealth taxes of the past 10 years, they are paying more, and getting less for it, and they know it. An attempt was made to presentit as less pounds or bang, whatever the phrase is, for your buck—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said it. That came in 304,974th, but it was streets ahead of the third work he has authored, this time with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "e on the campaign trail this evening and is therefore unable to be with us. He made an important call for us to sharpen up the European emissions trading scheme. I agree. His commitment to tackling poverty and inequality is genuine, even though I would not agree with the measures that he advocated. Unfortunately, I will not be one of the 44 Members signing his nomination form, but I wish him well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "n up the European emissions trading scheme. I agree. His commitment to tackling poverty and inequality is genuine, even though I would not agree with the measures that he advocated. Unfortunately, I will not be one of the 44 Members signing his nomination form, but I wish him well. [Interruption.] Mine will not be one of the 44 signatures that he needs in order to stand in the leadership election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) ?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ists and would have thought that listening to its proceedings would have been more interesting. However, his call for action on carbon capture and storage was interesting. In my experience, we should be able to make progress on both coal and gas, and I hope that that will be looked at carefully when the competition is run. Finally, I listened carefully to the speech by the hon. Member for Fareham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1268.9", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I am not doing that at all. As the Secretary of State has said we have worked very closely together on the full range of these tax policies. He made it clear in his speech that he has the same sceptical view of the tax on airlines as I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1268.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "8ce581a7bad5d989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "in February 2002, it happened to be provision of IVF treatment, but it was piled on top of other priorities that changed again later. For example, I was studying the position of audiology treatment the other week and discovered that it took an average of 40 weeks for people to get hearing aids fitted. Then the Government issued their review and decided that there should be an 18-week target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "When the decision was made to incorporate RAF Fylingdales into the US missile defence system, there was a full debate in the House in relation to the role that it would play. That role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "dales and that there is other co-operation through technical programmes. All that is entirely consistent with the issue of principle. The House also knows that the Government's position—I think that most hon. Members share this view—is that it would be irresponsible not to explore with the US and its NATO allies the possible implications of the system for the security of the UK —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Start early.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "We have to get the whole thing through tomorrow, which means that we have to debate it early so that the other place can then debate it. It is a very short Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1160.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"China\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "ll arms destined for Harare. I have another report that a team of Israelis are going to Harare to advise on demonstration control and that, furthermore, they are sending tear gas from Israel to Harare to support the Government there. Will this Government investigate whether those reports are true, and if so raise the matter at the highest level with the Governments of Mozambique, Israel and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1180.5", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "eduction. It complemented measures in previous Budgets and pre-Budget reports, the Climate Change Bill and European negotiations. It set the stage for further measures in the next few months in the waste strategy, the energy White Paper and international discussions and negotiations, first in the G8 plus 5 in June and subsequently in the United Nations framework. Vice-President Al Gore said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1180.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "tal is moving into environmental industries, with London's alternative investment market becoming the market of choice, listing more than 60 clean technology companies with a combined market capitalisation of more than £4 billion. Meanwhile, Lehman Brothers—[Hon. Members: \"It is pronounced \"Leeman.\"] I say \"Leyman\", they say \"Leeman\"—I think we are talking about the same company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman raised that issue. One of the joys of the real world of government, rather than the dream world of opposition, is that collective discussion sorts out the best proposals from the not-so-good proposals. That is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"As Chancellor or Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I have not yet been asked to join the campaign team, but I assure the hon. Gentleman, who will be concerned about the issue, that, as I have said for three years, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is an outstanding Prime Minister in waiting, and I believe that he will do outstanding service for the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1185.4", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "cent. reduction in the amount of waste that is sent to landfill. However, with the rate of increase at £3 per tonne, the incentives are not yet right for a fundamental shift away from landfill, which is why the tax will rise by £8 per tonne every year from April 2008 until at least 2010-11. That should save greenhouse gas emissions of at least 200,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1185.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "g present at meetings. I sit on the council of environment Ministers as well as the council of agriculture Ministers. What I can tell the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) —and I am sure that it will interest him—is that the clout of all parts of the United Kingdom is all the greater for a United Kingdom presence at the negotiating table, rather than a splintering of our efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "hat a marine Bill will be guaranteed in the 2007 Queen's Speech, whoever is Prime Minister at the time? There is no guarantee. There was no mention of support for our rural communities. The sole rural dimension was a 2p a litre increase in the tax rate on red diesel. Of course, as the House has heard, many farmers and people in remote rural areas will be caught by the increased tax on 4x4s —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1194.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1211.6", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "chool, 69 per cent. of the children get free school meals, 74 per cent. speak English as a second language and 93 per cent. do not come from a white British background. The Government's efforts to tackle child poverty have been unparalleled. Under the Tories, child poverty doubled, but now, because of sound economic management, more people are in work with their pay topped up by tax credits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1211.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "x credits will take people up to a certain limit and will guarantee a certain income. This woman, working the hours and getting the tax credits that she does, will receive a guaranteed income. That is the difference. That is why we are bringing in progressive taxation and benefits and helping women exactly like this. These are the sort of people who are our people, whom we are looking after—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "or poor working families, for single parents like Ms B. They are now able to work because of the Budget and other Labour initiatives, which were done in spite of the Opposition. We need more single parents like Ms B to feel they can afford to do vital jobs like working in child care. The fall in unemployment over the last decade in Islington, South and Finsbury has made a real difference to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "ed on children in families on benefits—makes my constituency the sixth poorest in the UK. The new measures in the Budget are therefore welcome, as they will directly help those families. They include significant increases in the threshold for full working tax credit and in the child element of the child tax credit, which will help incentives to work. Perhaps most welcome though is the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "explain—to embrace Conservative party policy. As I was saying, the Chancellor's great mistake was to think that the British people would be taken in—but they will not be. After all the stealth taxes of the past 10 years, they are paying more, and getting less for it, and they know it. An attempt was made to present it as less pounds or bang, whatever the phrase is, for your buck—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "em. Not only do such people not understand because the system and the forms that they have to fill in are so complicated, but when the Government overpay them they add insult to injury by seeking to claw back all the overpayment and saying that despite the complexities in the system people should have been able to identify at the time that something was wrong with the payments they were receiving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": " trick on the British people. They do not like being conned, and it is quite plain that they have seen through the Chancellor's smoke-and-mirrors exercise and recognised it for the con that it is. Given that he is never wrong, if and when he moves next door to No. 10, he will have the consolation of there being someone else at No.11 whom he can blame when the economy fails to respond to all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "d Economic Policy: Towards Greater Economic Stability\", edited by the hon. Gentleman and the former permanent secretary to the Treasury, Gus O'Donnell—probably the only former permanent secretary who is still speaking to the Chancellor. When I checked Amazon yesterday, I found that it is not one of its most popular books—it is ranked at No. 77,287 in Amazon's list of bestsellers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said it. That came in 304,974th, but it was streets ahead of the third work he has authored, this time with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "e on the campaign trail this evening and is therefore unable to be with us. He made an important call for us to sharpen up the European emissions trading scheme. I agree. His commitment to tackling poverty and inequality is genuine, even though I would not agree with the measures that he advocated. Unfortunately, I will not be one of the 44 Members signing his nomination form, but I wish him well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "n up the European emissions trading scheme. I agree. His commitment to tackling poverty and inequality is genuine, even though I would not agree with the measures that he advocated. Unfortunately, I will not be one of the 44 Members signing his nomination form, but I wish him well. [Interruption.] Mine will not be one of the 44 signatures that he needs in order to stand in the leadership election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) ?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ists and would have thought that listening to its proceedings would have been more interesting. However, his call for action on carbon capture and storage was interesting. In my experience, we should be able to make progress on both coal and gas, and I hope that that will be looked at carefully when the competition is run. Finally, I listened carefully to the speech by the hon. Member for Fareham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1268.7", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not. The details require further inspection, not least for their cost and civil liberties consequences. As for the tax proposal, it would apply only to domestic flights, business would be able to claim back the VAT and, even by 2020, it would save in one year what we achieve in one week through the climate change levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1268.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1268.9", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I am not doing that at all. As the Secretary of State has said, we have worked very closely together on the full range of these tax policies. He made it clear in his speech that he has the same sceptical view of the tax on airlines as I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1268.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-26", "file": "debates2007-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "4de3798040ce08b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "IVF TREATMENT", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "in February 2002, it happened to be provision of IVF treatment, but it was piled on top of other priorities that changed again later. For example, I was studying the position of audiology treatment the other week and discovered that it took an average of 40 weeks for people to get hearing aids fitted. Then the Government issued their review and decided that there should be an 18-week target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-26b.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "2e63697c464cf946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " the matter of the date of 26 March . He was belligerent with us all; he warned us and told us. I said to him, \"You can argue with Ulster people, and you can present your arguments strongly. You can even be stern with them, but if you bully them, you'll get nowhere.\" He did not believe me, but he believes me now; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. I do not think that we should rub that in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27b.xml", "sha256": "a5086c8fdb2f74ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27b.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "dits soften the blow. What he is saying, in effect, is, \"I'll take away more of your money, but you can have some of it back if you wade through these 72 pages of forms and explanatory notes on tax credits.\" The Budget will drive more people into the benefits system and into dependency. Let us look at the tax credit system that people are being driven into. We support the use of tax credits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27b.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1312.5", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I have to say yes. In a republican area of Belfast there is graffiti saying, \"Hain is insane\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " the matter of the date of 26 March . He was belligerent with us all; he warned us and told us. I said to him, \"You can argue with Ulster people, and you can present your arguments strongly. You can even be stern with them, but if you bully them, you'll get nowhere.\" He did not believe me, but he believes me now; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. I do not think that we should rub that in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor. The hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Prisk) , who has just spoken, repeated some of them. Anyone taking an objective view over the past15 years would say that someone who could be Labour's shadow Chancellor for five years in the build-up to Government, and then perform as my right hon. Friend has in the role of Chancellor for 10 years, yet remain fundamentally sane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "or two Ministers who are in the Chamber who were influential in that vital decision. Let us leave it at that. I said that the Chancellor is respected throughout the country, and I can assure Opposition Members, much to their disappointment, that we will not let our policies or decisions be affected by short-term fluctuations in opinion polls. Those who look at those short-term fluctuations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1366.5", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "In fairness to the hon. Gentleman, he made that point earlier. He made one or two sensible points among others that were party political, and I take them absolutely in the spirit in which they were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "itute a major improvement in the quality of life for all taxpayers. It is difficult for non-experts—for MPs even—to cope with long Budget statements, but if the personal allowance was raised to £15,000, more than 13.5 million people would no longer have to pay any income tax at all. That is more than the number of people who voted for Labour in the 2005 or 2001 general elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1407.2", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "vernment has put in place have yet to make a significant impact on the UK carbon emissions trajectory.\" On the 2004 pre-Budget report, it stated: \"It is disappointing that the Treasury, after consulting in both 2002 and 2003 on fiscal measures for domestic energy efficiency, was unable to include in Budget 2004 a more significant package of measures.\" In 2005, the EAC comes out again to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady well knows, the Conservative Government signed Kyoto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "change? Absolutely nothing. The Budget mentions zero stamp duty for new homes that meet the zero carbon standard, which appears to send a signal to the building industry to invest in zero-carbon homes for the future, but no. The Chancellor has put a five-year limit on that zero duty. It will end in 2012, so the likelihood of builders changing the way that they build homes is small to non-existent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "r. I turn from the environment to the other issues that most concern my constituents. The last Labour party manifesto promised that the share of national wealth spent on education would increase by the end of this Parliament. I should be interested to hear the Minister confirm or deny that. The truth is that, at 2.5 per cent., it is growing at less than the predicted rate of growth of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1412.3", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": " the Conservatives return to power in 2009 or 2010, over the following 15 or 20 years we will see those on low pay removed from that system, a transformation of people's economic activity and, therefore, an eventual increase in the tax take. We could fulfil the vision, which my hon. Friend did not entirely detail, of more investment in public services, while lifting the low paid out of paying tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "ffset that loss against their other income, in effect productions will not get the 80 per cent. funding to which the 20 per cent. credit would apply. The instrument needs to be carefully considered by Ministers and their advisers in the Treasury. I hope that when the Finance Bill works its way through the Committee stage, Ministers will pay more attention to the matter than they are at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "015a015aaf90df95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "dits soften the blow. What he is saying, in effect, is, \"I'll take away more of your money, but you can have some of it back if you wade through these 72 pages of forms and explanatory notes on tax credits.\" The Budget will drive more people into the benefits system and into dependency. Let us look at the tax credit system that people are being driven into. We support the use of tax credits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27c.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "med by the Chancellor, and the Labour party has committed itself not just to keeping but to revaluing the hated council tax, causing misery to hundreds of thousands of Scottish families, is it any wonder that Cabinet Ministers cannot even remember the name of the First Minister, and that the First Minister has taken to calling the Secretary of State rude names in French? Who is responsible —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1282.3", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "Who is responsible for the taxation position, and the shambles and negativity in the Labour Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What's his name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "Yes. I know those communities very well indeed, and I was pleased to be in Stornoway two weeks ago with the First Minister when he announced that, if he is re-elected as First Minister, there will be a ferry discount commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1312.5", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I have to say yes. In a republican area of Belfast there is graffiti saying \"Hain is insane\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " the matter of the date of 26 March . He was belligerent with us all; he warned us and told us. I said to him, \"You can argue with Ulster people, and you can present your arguments strongly. You can even be stern with them, but if you bully them, you'll get nowhere.\" He did not believe me, but he believes me now; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. I do not think that we should rub that in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "e Chancellor. The hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Prisk) , who has just spoken, repeated some of them. Anyone taking an objective view over the past 15 years would say that someone who could be Labour's shadow Chancellor for five years in the build-up to Government, and then perform as my right hon. Friend has in the role of Chancellor for 10 years, yet remain fundamentally sane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "or two Ministers who are in the Chamber who were influential in that vital decision. Let us leave it at that. I said that the Chancellor is respected throughout the country, and I can assure Opposition Members, much to their disappointment, that we will not let our policies or decisions be affected by short-term fluctuations in opinion polls. Those who look at those short-term fluctuations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1366.5", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "In fairness to the hon. Gentleman, he made that point earlier. He made one or two sensible points among others that were party political, and I take them absolutely in the spirit in which they were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "itute a major improvement in the quality of life for all taxpayers. It is difficult for non-experts—for MPs even—to cope with long Budget statements, but if the personal allowance was raised to £15,000, more than 13.5 million people would no longer have to pay any income tax at all. That is more than the number of people who voted for Labour in the 2005 or 2001 general elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1407.2", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "overnment has put in place have yet to make a significant impact on the UK carbon emissions trajectory.\" On the 2004 pre-Budget report, it stated: \"It is disappointing that the Treasury, after consulting in both 2002 and 2003 on fiscal measures for domestic energy efficiency, was unable to include in Budget 2004 a more significant package of measures.\" In 2005, the EAC came out again to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady well knows, the Conservative Government signed Kyoto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "change? Absolutely nothing. The Budget mentions zero stamp duty for new homes that meet the zero carbon standard, which appears to send a signal to the building industry to invest in zero-carbon homes for the future, but no. The Chancellor has put a five-year limit on that zero duty. It will end in 2012, so the likelihood of builders changing the way that they build homes is small to non-existent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "r. I turn from the environment to the other issues that most concern my constituents. The last Labour party manifesto promised that the share of national wealth spent on education would increase by the end of this Parliament. I should be interested to hear the Minister confirm or deny that. The truth is that, at 2.5 per cent., it is growing at less than the predicted rate of growth of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1412.3", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": " the Conservatives return to power in 2009 or 2010, over the following 15 or 20 years we will see those on low pay removed from that system, a transformation of people's economic activity and, therefore, an eventual increase in the tax take. We could fulfil the vision, which my hon. Friend did not entirely detail, of more investment in public services, while lifting the low-paid out of paying tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": " that loss against their other income, in effect productions will not get the 80 per cent. funding to which the 20 per cent. credit would apply. The instrument needs to be carefully considered by Ministers and their advisers in the Treasury. I hope that when the Finance Bill is working its way through the Committee stage, Ministers will pay more attention to the matter than they are at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "dits soften the blow. What he is saying, in effect, is, \"I'll take away more of your money, but you can have some of it back if you wade through these 72 pages of forms and explanatory notes on tax credits.\" The Budget will drive more people into the benefits system and into dependency. Let us look at the tax credit system that people are being driven into. We support the use of tax credits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1428.3", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "We will certainly match the announcement on education. As for the rest, we want to wait for your comprehensive spending review. You must produce the CSR, and we will produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1430.5", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "I will not give way for the moment. In terms of what I was talking about, the increase in the national minimum wage this October to £5.52 per hour will further help. There was also a fiscally neutral package of simplification and reform of the corporate tax system to boost businesses and growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1430.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1430.9", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "But that change is offset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1430.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1430.9", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "But that change is offset. [Interruption.] Small businesses that invest will pay less tax as a result of the package. Figures released today show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1430.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-27", "file": "debates2007-03-27d.xml", "sha256": "8129f955434be3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1430.9", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "But that change is offset. [Interruption.] Small businesses that invest will pay less tax as a result of the package. Figures released today show— [Interruption.] They show that there has been a big increase in business investment, which the Budget will strengthen further. Also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-27d.1430.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1527.3", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "tion, as I do myself, to check the text of annual reports to ensure that we do indeed abide by the rules and do not risk going outside them. I accept that the role of a modern Member of Parliament is very different from that of previous generations of politicians. We are all familiar with the stories of times gone by. Enoch Powell used to compose handwritten letters to constituents in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1534.3", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "yself, I take some pleasure in ensuring that I respond, usually on the basis of need but certainly in date order, to Mrs. Miggins with her spidery writing, who is every bit as entitled to my attention as someone—we all have these people among those we represent, sadly—who e-mails an hour and a half after their original e-mail, usually at 4 inthe morning, to ask why we have not replied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "details or even the principle of it—would be hypocritical if they subsequently used any of it. That is simply nonsense, and a misreading of what the House is for. We take decisions, express our opinions and vote. Once the matter has been voted on, however, individual Members, whether they thought a proposal was a good idea or not, have a duty to their constituents to use the funds available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "d Edinburgh. Such a view also fails to reflect the Joint Committee's intentions. The Committee expected regional casinosto be large-scale entertainment complexes offering gambling alongside a wide range of non-gambling facilities. Anyone who has been to Manchester in the past 10 years can see that the city is at least as compatible with the concept of a leisure destination casino as anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "response; it is a response to the persistent advocacy of my hon. Friends, and a proper response for this Government to make. Looking to the future, the Government intend to accept the amendment tabled in another place by my noble Friend Baroness Golding, calling for the creation of a fresh Joint Committee of both Houses to look at the casino advisory panel to see what lessons can be learned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1562.4", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "us\". How does that square with the Secretary of State's claim that her legislation will protect the vulnerable? The Secretary of State's explanations of the casino advisory panel's terms of reference are simply not sufficient. We have no confidence that the rationale of the casino advisory panel was the same rationale as this House had in mind when it agreed to a pilot scheme of new casinos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne Milton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Milton", "preceding_text": "trast, the hon. Member for Manchester, Central (Tony Lloyd) persisted in telling us about Manchester's needs. The debate this afternoon is not about the needs of the people of Manchester; it is about—I say it again—proper parliamentary scrutiny. My right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith) rightly pointed out that there is some uncertainty —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1595.3", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or Blackpool.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) , the Leader of the Opposition, chimed in: \"It was the right decision that it went to the north and actually is going to have a regeneration impact. I've nothing against Greenwich at all, but, after all London did get the Olympics, and so I think that Manchester or Blackpool probably made more sense.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d4a2836344001e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1595.3", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who is that?", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ct. I've nothing against Greenwich at all, but, after all London did get the Olympics, and so I think that Manchester or Blackpool probably made more sense.\" [Hon. Members: \"Or Blackpool.\"] Well, at least I give the full quotations: some people do not. On the podcast from the Greater Manchester chamber of commerce, we come to the crème de la crème: the shadow Minister for Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28a.1595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1490.2", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says that there is absolutely no doubt that when our service personnel were taken, they were in Iraqi territorial waters. Given that UK forces are operating all the time in Iraqi waters and they are all operating under a UN mandate, will he make sure that they have clear rules of engagement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1491.5", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Again, if I could ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman to look at the matter in the round, over the past 10 years those families have seen their income rise in percentage terms by more than the top people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1491.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1492.7", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Because overall it was better for business that we cut —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1492.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We are not punishing small firms. As I just pointed out to the right hon. Gentleman, as a result of the tax measures that the Chancellor has announced over the years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We are not punishing small firms. As I just pointed out to the right hon. Gentleman, as a result of the tax measures that the Chancellor has announced over the years —[ Interruption. ] Actually, according to the international surveys, the United Kingdom became the biggest recipient of foreign direct investment of any country in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ns by small business, when we came to power it was 40 per cent. We took it down to 10 per cent., which is a huge boost for small business. Let me say something else to the right hon. Gentleman: small businesses, like large businesses, benefit from a strong economy. Over the past 10 years, we have delivered a strong economy. The only experience that he has had as someone running our economy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1493.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman was working at the Treasury was that the last Conservative Government promised tax cuts and spending rises at the same time. What is his proposal now? Exactly the same—tax cuts and spending rises, which will lead, as they did then, to precisely the same result. We have a very, very clear choice between a Chancellor who has delivered the strongest economy on record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I approve entirely of the Budget. Over the past few years, as a result of what the Chancellor has done, we have given enormous support to charities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1494.4", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that by next year NHS spending will have tripled since the Government came to office. We have 85,000 more nurses and 32,000 more doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman says is not correct. It does nothing for the morale of our armed forces for it to be said that they are not getting proper treatment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "to do. Let me explain to the hon. Gentleman why I believe that separation is so wrong. Scotland benefits from the Union, just as England benefits from it. We are able to have a stronger Scottish economy with 200,000 more jobs and Scottish unemployment below the UK average for the first time in a generation. The hon. Gentleman's policies would not just tear Scotland out of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1513.3", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "If I may, I will begin by offering congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood (Paddy Tipping) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1519.4", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, £7,000 of the allowance may be spent on stationery and pre-paid envelopes, which will leave about £3,000 for other things such as websites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1519.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1527.3", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "inistration, as I do, to check the text of annual reports to ensure that we do indeed abide by the rules and do not risk going outside them. I accept that the role of a modern Member of Parliament is very different from that of previous generations of politicians. We are all familiar with the stories of times gone by. Enoch Powell used to compose handwritten letters to constituents in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "Indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "Indeed— [ Interruption ] — and a Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1534.3", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "self, I take some pleasure in ensuring that I respond, usually on the basis of need but certainly in date order, to Mrs. Miggins with her spidery writing, who is every bit as entitled to my attention as someone—we all have these people among those we represent, sadly—who e-mails an hour and a half after their original e-mail, usually at 4 in the morning, to ask why we have not replied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1536.6", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "I think then that we need to consider the promotion of council candidates within annual reports. I think there is an issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1536.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "details or even the principle of it—would be hypocritical if they subsequently used any of it. That is simply nonsense, and a misreading of what the House is for. We take decisions, express our opinions and vote. Once the matter has been voted on, however, individual Members, whether they thought a proposal was a good idea or not, have a duty to their constituents to use the funds available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONTRIBUTORY PENSION FUND", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": " Edinburgh. Such a view also fails to reflect the Joint Committee's intentions. The Committee expected regional casinos to be large-scale entertainment complexes offering gambling alongside a wide range of non-gambling facilities. Anyone who has been to Manchester in the past 10 years can see that the city is at least as compatible with the concept of a leisure destination casino as anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONTRIBUTORY PENSION FUND", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "response; it is a response to the persistent advocacy of my hon. Friends, and a proper response for this Government to make. Looking to the future, the Government intend to accept the amendment tabled in another place by my noble Friend Baroness Golding, calling for the creation of a fresh Joint Committee of both Houses to look at the casino advisory panel to see what lessons can be learned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONTRIBUTORY PENSION FUND", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "If we had more time, perhaps we could go back over the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1562.4", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONTRIBUTORY PENSION FUND", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "us\". How does that square with the Secretary of State's claim that her legislation will protect the vulnerable? The Secretary of State's explanations of the casino advisory panel's terms of reference are simply not sufficient. We have no confidence that the rationale of the casino advisory panel was the same rationale as this House had in mind when it agreed to a pilot scheme of new casinos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Anne Milton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Milton", "preceding_text": "trast, the hon. Member for Manchester, Central (Tony Lloyd) persisted in telling us about Manchester's needs. The debate this afternoon is not about the needs of the people of Manchester; it is about—I say it again—proper parliamentary scrutiny. My right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith) rightly pointed out that there is some uncertainty —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"East Devon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "edale (Mr. Greenway) , who ably chaired that Committee. Indeed, he guided much of our debate in the Standing Committee. Opposition Members' speeches sounded more like those delivered on Second Reading of the Gambling Bill—tomorrow's Hansard will certainly show that to be true of the speech by the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) . I should point out to the hon. Member for North Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": " Gambling Bill—tomorrow's Hansard will certainly show that to be true of the speech by the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) . I should point out to the hon. Member for North Devon—[Hon. Members: \"East Devon.\"] I am sorry, I did not mean to inflict anyone on North Devon. I should remind the hon. Member for East Devon that the Gambling Bill reached the statute book in April 2005 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "st Devon that the Gambling Bill reached the statute book in April 2005 —[ Interruption. ] Well, I did not know from his contribution whether the hon. Gentleman understood that the Bill had reached the statute book in 2005. It will become fully operational on 1 September this year, which is why the Executive will have the powers to intervene in internet gambling, which we did not have —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "er the hon. Gentleman understood that the Bill had reached the statute book in 2005. It will become fully operational on 1 September this year, which is why the Executive will have the powers to intervene in internet gambling, which we did not have —[ Interruption. ] No, that is not the subject of the debate, but at the heart of the Gambling Act was the need to protect the vulnerable —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1595.3", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or Blackpool.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) , the Leader of the Opposition, chimed in: \"It was the right decision that it went to the north and actually is going to have a regeneration impact. I've nothing against Greenwich at all, but, after all London did get the Olympics, and so I think that Manchester or Blackpool probably made more sense.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-28", "file": "debates2007-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c49327cc5516418", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1595.3", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who is that?", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ct. I've nothing against Greenwich at all, but, after all London did get the Olympics, and so I think that Manchester or Blackpool probably made more sense.\" [Hon. Members: \"Or Blackpool.\"] Well, at least I give the full quotations: some people do not. On the podcast from the Greater Manchester chamber of commerce, we come to the crème de la crème: the shadow Minister for Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-28b.1595.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d95a03adf52b27c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that information. I think that that Adjournment debate was held this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1619.10", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No; I cannot take a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1619.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1621.2", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read all of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "If the Liberals had joined us in supporting the minimum wage, they might have had more things to say. According to the Institute for Fiscal Study's response to the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1623.4", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "It is a very firm budget —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1628.3", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "pport of the Budget, as does the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) , who gave an extraordinary speech from the Conservative Benches in favour of the Budget only a few days ago. On Make Poverty History, the figures are now available, and one in three teenagers wore a Make Poverty History armband during the campaign. The idea that we were talking only to a minority —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1629.8", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should compare our record since 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1629.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady's constituents are better off because of the Budget and the measures that we have introduced for families. In a revealing comment, the Institute for Fiscal Studies makes it clear that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "cause of the Budget and the measures that we have introduced for families. In a revealing comment, the Institute for Fiscal Studies makes it clear that— [Interruption.] \"the tax and benefit reforms introduced by the Labour government\"— since 1997 \"have been strongly redistributive, favouring lower-income families\" in the hon. Lady's constituency—again, reforms that she has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1635.2", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman's characterisation of the system. The system is doing a great job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1641.0", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "at were not announced by means of oral statements include the formation of the Employment Service in 1987, the splitting of the Department of Health and Social Security into the Department of Health and the Department of Social Security in 1988, the formation of the Central Statistical Office in 1989—during a recess, incidentally—the formation of the Department of Energy in 1992—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1641.0", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "stice to the House of Commons, allowing it to hold the Minister accountable. Finally, on a homeland security Minister, the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden does not seem to realise that we already have a counter-terrorism Minister, the Minister for Policing, Security and Community Safety, my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, East (Mr. McNulty) . He already exists. The sum total—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I disagree with my right hon. Friend on every point. I respect his judgments. I do not think they have always been right in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "th the points made by my right hon. Friend. It is important that we co-ordinate. I have said to my right hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Clarke) , the former Secretary of State, that we have different judgments on the matter. I do not regard all my judgments to be right, or all his to be wrong. It is perfectly possible for those of us who have the responsibility of government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1655.2", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "gise, because I failed to read out some of the business for Westminster Hall. On Thursday 19 April , there will be a debate on the report from the Trade and Industry Committee on \"New Nuclear? Examining the Issues\", and on Thursday 26 April , a debate on a report from the Transport Committee on \"How Fair are the Fares? Train Fares and Ticketing\". Those titles may be elocution tests as well —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1656.4", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "To pick up on the sedentary comment by the Patronage Secretary, it is obvious that we are in the process of transition from Camelot to Spamalot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1688.2", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION NO. 85", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good case. There are a number of lady members of the Lions, but we might look into that. I will refer the issue to my hon. Friend the Member for Rayleigh (Mr. Francois) , who has been installed as the president of the organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION NO. 85", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that information. I think that that Adjournment debate was held this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-03-29", "file": "debates2007-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "9ed2aa43f02b03a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION NO. 85", "cue_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "preceding_text": "ast also talked about the reorganisation of the criminal justice system. He is a distinguished member of the Select Committee on Constitutional Affairs. I shall ensure that those issues are pursued and that he gets replies to them. The hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) spoke about the importance of the justice system. I have visited Peterborough prison over the years—I know it well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-03-29b.1720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "7788035cebd7ae8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I simply do not recognise the claimof a cut of £500 million. That is the kind of financial probity that we have come to expect from the Liberal Democrats, which is why I am afraid that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "7788035cebd7ae8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we need a royal commission; we just need some common sense in the game. In rugby union, rugby league and cricket, do we get the professional players or the managers arguing about the officials in those sports? No, we do not. I thought that it was time to write to the chairmen—the chairpersons, I should say, because I think that there was one lady among them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "7788035cebd7ae8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "at the hands of the pariah regime of Iran? But even if Ministers do not feel responsible for that, they cannot avoid the direct responsibility for the second fiasco; the media handling of the return of the captives. The eventual return of the captives, welcome as it was, was not a shock and the shambles around the media handling is unforgivable. The Government initially excused the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "7788035cebd7ae8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to be drawn into a discussion that involves us sitting here, in the comfort of these Benches, and criticising the behaviour of young people whom we have asked to carry out a very dangerous job in dangerous circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "7788035cebd7ae8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "y of others. I pass the life sentence with a heavy heart because it seems to me that to send you to prison for life when you have a disorder within the Mental Health Act is an inept disposal. But it is forced on the court because the consultant psychiatrist says that your personal disorder is untreatable so I cannot make a hospital order.\" That is precisely what is wrong with the treatabilitytest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "7788035cebd7ae8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Once again, the Secretary of State is making our argument for us. It is perfectly clear that far from resorting to CTOs, the Government should have been trying to work out how superviseddischarge arrangements can be used more effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "7788035cebd7ae8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "t for us. It is perfectly clear that far from resorting to CTOs, the Government should have been trying to work out how superviseddischarge arrangements can be used more effectively. [ Interruption. ] Compulsion is not the same as supervision. What is required in order to promote patient compliance is, wherever possible, to achieve close supervision in circumstances that do not involve compulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "7788035cebd7ae8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "rly in terms of closing the Bournewood gap. In Committee I hope that she will propose impact assessments in respect of advocacy for the Bill as a whole and particularly the advocacy requirements that she anticipates will be needed to do true justice tothe way in which she has decided to close the Bournewood gap. I am unsure whether information on that is available now, or if it is being worked on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I simply do not recognise the claim of a cut of £500 million. That is the kind of financial probity that we have come to expect from the Liberal Democrats, which is why I am afraid that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we need a royal commission; we just need some common sense in the game. In rugby union, rugby league and cricket, do we get the professional players or the managers arguing about the officials in those sports? No, we do not. I thought that it was time to write to the chairmen—the chairpersons, I should say, because I think that there was one lady among them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "The Archbishops Council has been giving careful consideration to the effect of the regulations and will be producing general advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "at the hands of the pariah regime of Iran? But even if Ministers do not feel responsible for that, they cannot avoid the direct responsibility for the second fiasco; the media handling of the return of the captives. The eventual return of the captives, welcome as it was, was not a shock and the shambles around the media handling is unforgivable. The Government initially excused the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to be drawn into a discussion that involves us sitting here, in the comfort of these Benches, and criticising the behaviour of young people whom we have asked to carry out a very dangerous job in dangerous circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ssment. He has already announced a public inquiry into the apprehension of the service personnel. He has apologised for the media handling, but he has not so far commented on the third national embarrassment—that certain of the service personnel, when they were apprehended and paraded on Iranian television, chose to apologise for their behaviour and for the fact that their country had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Office and other parts of the Government who secured the release of our people from unjustified detention should be congratulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.52.5", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ny of us, too, have cared for a family member suffering from mental ill health—as I did over many years for one of my sisters. Our debates on the Bill will therefore be affected by the experiences of our constituents and, for many of us, by personal experience as well. Therefore, although I do not endorse all the views expressed about the Bill, I entirely respect the strength of those views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.52.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "dment by the other place, unfortunately changing the law does not always change the reality on the ground. My understanding is that since the new law was introduced in Scotland, with a requirement for age-appropriate accommodation, the number of young people and children being treated in adult wards has actually increased, not fallen, which is the opposite of the intention of the amendment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": " of others. I pass the life sentence with a heavy heart because it seems to me that to send you to prison for life when you have a disorder within the Mental Health Act is an inept disposal. But it is forced on the court because the consultant psychiatrist says that your personal disorder is untreatable so I cannot make a hospital order.\" That is precisely what is wrong with the treatability test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.59.4", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "I have some sympathy with what the Secretary of State is talking about, because I am familiar with a case in which someone with a severe personality disorder was excluded from treatment—as is so laughingly dismissed by Members on the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.59.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Once again, the Secretary of State is making our argument for us. It is perfectly clear that far from resorting to CTOs, the Government should have been trying to work out how supervised discharge arrangements can be used more effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " for us. It is perfectly clear that far from resorting to CTOs, the Government should have been trying to work out how supervised discharge arrangements can be used more effectively. [ Interruption. ] Compulsion is not the same as supervision. What is required in order to promote patient compliance is, wherever possible, to achieve close supervision in circumstances that do not involve compulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.69.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "That is a completely false understanding of how logic works. It is entirely wrong to suggest that we would have to lock up 2,000 people. We might have to lock up only one person to prevent one homicide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "ly in terms of closing the Bournewood gap. In Committee I hope that she will propose impact assessments in respect of advocacy for the Bill as a whole and particularly the advocacy requirements that she anticipates will be needed to do true justice to the way in which she has decided to close the Bournewood gap. I am unsure whether information on that is available now, or if it is being worked on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-16", "file": "debates2007-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "8aa39aa8dc9ccec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "TOURISM (BEDFORDSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that you are in the Chair tonight, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-16b.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "he Bank of England explaining why it is rising. Well, the Chancellor never was much of a forecaster. Whether in terms of rising inflation, the record tax burden, the billions of pounds that we see being wasted on projects such as the NHS computer system, or that con-trick Budget—or, indeed, the pensions raid—this Chancellor's boast of economic competence is unravelling before our eyes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "er system, or that con-trick Budget—or, indeed, the pensions raid—this Chancellor's boast of economic competence is unravelling before our eyes. [Interruption.] The first, and worst, of all his mistakes was that raid on pensions. When he stands up to respond, let us find out if he can look Britain's pension holders in the eye and say \"sorry\". One Browne has already done that this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "nsions. When he stands up to respond, let us find out if he can look Britain's pension holders in the eye and say \"sorry\". One Browne has already done that this week. [Interruption.] Let us see if another Brown has the courage to do so again today. The road to the Chancellor's first and worst stealth tax began, strangely enough, in a hotel room, because the pension tax plans were dreamt up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.167.7", "colnum": "167", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "n has said on several occasions that when Labour came to office, we had one of the strongest pension provisions in Europe. Now we have probably some of the weakest. That was the situation in 1997. The right hon. Member for Birkenhead did not know about the dividend tax changes because, presumably, they were kept secret from him. They have done enormous damage, as I think that he understands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.168.8", "colnum": "168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ion. Their advice was clear, and we know the truth thanks to the two-year campaign undertaken by The Times . I congratulate that newspaper on its efforts, which it maintained despite the costs incurred. The Chancellor should be condemned for his efforts to stop that campaign. Indeed, I hope that he will be able to confirm something that a member of the Government told me privately yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.168.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.168.8", "colnum": "168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "that a member of the Government told me privately yesterday—[ Interruption. ] I can tell the House that someone in my job gets quite a lot of advice about the Chancellor from members of the Government. Yesterday, I was told that the documents were finally released only because the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury refused to go on funding the legal costs involved in blocking their release.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.168.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "amage that has been done. The day after that Budget he said: \"Pensioners...will not lose out over this.\" Ten years on, he is still peddling that ridiculous line. Tell it to the single parent, working part-time, contributing about £100 a month, who has to increase her annual contributions by £850 to make up the damage caused by the Chancellor's decision, or the young professional—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "predicted by David Simon, the chairman of BP, who wrote that abolishing dividend tax credits would \"reduce funds available for reinvestment\" and \"significantly jaundice... the attitudes of investors in UK projects\". If officials were saying that there would be no overall effect on investment and Ministers were warning of a negative impact, why were the public told that investment would go up? Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "c told that investment would go up? Why? [Interruption.] The Economic Secretary is peddling another claim that is simply not the case. Business investment as a proportion of GDP has been at a record low. Now, Mr. Speaker, we hear a lot of excuses from the Chancellor about his pensions tax. What we never hear is any expression of sympathy for the millions who have had their retirement funds raided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "nd Opposition alike, have a duty to help those people. So far, frankly, the help has been inadequate. The Government's financial assistance scheme has cost£9 million to administer, but has paid out just£3 million to date. Even by this Chancellor's standards, that is pretty poor value for money. We need a new approach, an approach that meets our moral obligations to those victims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": " he personalises his attacks on the Chancellor and makes them as unpleasant as he does, the more his behaviour borders on a form of paranoia and suggests that he lacks self-confidence. If I may offer him some advice—although he seems to have found much in my book, I doubt that he will take this from me across the Chamber—he would do well to moderate the personal nature of his attacks .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "sh;he would do well to moderate the personal nature of his attacks . [ Interruption. ] That remark was meant to be constructive; it was made to the hon. Gentleman in perfectly cordial terms. Let me address a couple of points made by the former Chancellor. He makes a great deal of his four-year period as Chancellor. The Opposition often talk about the golden legacy that we inherited in 1997 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "ion have been distinctly unsuccessful on three occasions in gaining the country's trust. People saw through all that they said on immigration at the last election, as they saw through what they tried to do on tax in previous elections. They jumped on an apparently attractive bandwagon, but the wheels came off when they were under scrutiny. With that mind, let us deal with the central issue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "of failed schemes or failed companies that fall outside the recently introduced lifeboat—we will return to that when we address the Pensions Bill tomorrow and the excellent proposals that the shadow pensions Secretary and his colleagues will put forward. The constituents of the hon. Member for Wirral, West (Stephen Hesford) must be raising concerns. It would be very strange if they were not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "ut DTC had had an effect on the stock market. The problem with that argument was not only that it abandoned the main burden of what the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) had been saying, but that—I pointed this out in an intervention—if the right hon. Gentleman's logic was right, the stock market could not have recovered under this Government, although it has. It seemed to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "ut forward, although I do not think that we have even got to that stage, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor made a strong case for us when he spoke in the debate. Putting aside party politics, I want to consider, in the cold light of day, what the City makes of the debate. Last week in the business section of The Independent , Jeremy Warner talked about the fact that the issue had been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "provision—a rise of 5 per cent. since 1997 or 2.1 million more people. More thoughtful Labour Members will find that a sobering thought. At a time when the economy has broadly done quite well—if not as well as the Chancellor likes to make out—and this country has grown richer and had a period of stability, thanks to the foundations laid by the last Conservative Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "at that was completely wrong. Despite a few mumblings off in private, I have not heard any Government Minister say in public that Lord Turner was lying, so if that is what the Government want us to believe, perhaps someone will jump up and say so. The hon. Gentlemen then claimed that the whole package stimulated business investment, but business investment has fallen as a percentage of GDP —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "or the 125,000 people whose pension schemes have failed with insufficient funds to pay them what they are due, the crisis is not a future problem, but something that is real and immediate. The Chancellor has turned his back on those people, which was why my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) today outlined the measures that we will propose with cross-party support in the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate all my hon. Friends, who made excellent speeches in the debate. I will come to their speeches in a second. We heard two interesting things from the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.262.4", "colnum": "262", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "The problem—and it is a problem not just for the right hon. Member for Charnwood but for all the Opposition Members who spoke in the debate—is that the logic of his speech is that he would reverse the changes to dividend tax credit. That is the one policy that we all waited to hear about today, but we did not hear it. It was conspicuous that in the speeches of Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17d.xml", "sha256": "07e9fabf9e9fb68c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "riend's reforms was to make sure that we could then go further and cut corporation tax. They cut the dividend tax credit, but they never cut the main rate of corporation tax, which is the problem that the right hon. and learned Gentleman must address. I have only two minutes left, and everyone will be glad to know that the remaining 12 pages of my speech will probably never be heard in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17d.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.147.5", "colnum": "147", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "preceding_text": "And that is too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "he train operating companies is weighing carriages—rather than individual passengers. Perhaps he will be relieved to hear that. It is, however, fair to say that there is a real challenge in relation to capacity in the south-east and across the network. That is why we have announced the 1,000 extra carriages and why it will be one of the key priorities for the high-level output specification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "preceding_text": "ir area about specified matters; and for connected purposes. I must say that this is the best attended 10-minute rule Bill debate that I have ever come across. The title of the Bill is unlikely to set the world on fire. It will certainly not result in dancing in the streets or spontaneous outbreaks of public joy. I am sorry, folks, but the Planning (Consultation) Bill sounds profoundly dull—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "preceding_text": "d. Some things have been done to ease the burden of those who wish to submit planning applications, and in almost every area it can be done online by computer, cutting out paperwork and trips to the council offices. The quid pro quo is that councils are beginning to use their online services as an excuse for consultation. Someone can make an online planning application and people can see it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "he Bank of England explaining why it is rising. Well, the Chancellor never was much of a forecaster. Whether in terms of rising inflation, the record tax burden, the billions of pounds that we see being wasted on projects such as the NHS computer system, or that con-trick Budget—or, indeed, the pensions raid—this Chancellor's boast of economic competence is unravelling before our eyes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "er system, or that con-trick Budget—or, indeed, the pensions raid—this Chancellor's boast of economic competence is unravelling before our eyes. [Interruption.] The first, and worst, of all his mistakes was that raid on pensions. When he stands up to respond, let us find out if he can look Britain's pension holders in the eye and say \"sorry\". One Browne has already done that this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "nsions. When he stands up to respond, let us find out if he can look Britain's pension holders in the eye and say \"sorry\". One Browne has already done that this week. [Interruption.] Let us see if another Brown has the courage to do so again today. The road to the Chancellor's first and worst stealth tax began, strangely enough, in a hotel room, because the pension tax plans were dreamt up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is far too noisy in the Chamber. The hon. Gentleman is entitled to be heard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.167.6", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "There are two points. One is whether the assets looked strong. The second is the crucial factor of the running down of pension surpluses. If the hon. Gentleman were more honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.167.7", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "tleman has said on several occasions that when Labour came to office, we had one of the strongest pension provisions in Europe. Now we have probably some of the weakest. That was the situation in 1997. The right hon. Member for Birkenhead did not know about the dividend tax changes because, presumably, they were kept secret from him. They have done enormous damage, as I think he understands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.168.8", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ion. Their advice was clear, and we know the truth thanks to the two-year campaign undertaken by The Times . I congratulate that newspaper on its efforts, which it maintained despite the costs incurred. The Chancellor should be condemned for his efforts to stop that campaign. Indeed, I hope that he will be able to confirm something that a member of the Government told me privately yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.168.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.168.8", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "that a member of the Government told me privately yesterday—[ Interruption. ] I can tell the House that someone in my job gets quite a lot of advice about the Chancellor from members of the Government. Yesterday, I was told that the documents were finally released only because the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury refused to go on funding the legal costs involved in blocking their release.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.168.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "amage that has been done. The day after that Budget he said: \"Pensioners...will not lose out over this.\" Ten years on, he is still peddling that ridiculous line. Tell it to the single parent, working part-time, contributing about £100 a month, who has to increase her annual contributions by £850 to make up the damage caused by the Chancellor's decision, or the young professional—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.172.6", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "h;that is what he said. How did the CBI respond to his claim? The then director general, Adair Turner, went on the radio to say that it was \"completely untrue\" and that \"at no time whatsoever did the CBI support the policy...when the change was introduced...I wrote to the Chancellor expressing our disagreement.\" If the hon. Gentleman disagrees with that comment, perhaps he would like to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "predicted by David Simon, the chairman of BP, who wrote that abolishing dividend tax credits would \"reduce funds available for reinvestment\" and \"significantly jaundice... the attitudes of investors in UK projects\". If officials were saying that there would be no overall effect on investment and Ministers were warning of a negative impact, why were the public told that investment would go up? Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "c told that investment would go up? Why? [Interruption.] The Economic Secretary is peddling another claim that is simply not the case. Business investment as a proportion of GDP has been at a record low. Now, Mr. Speaker, we hear a lot of excuses from the Chancellor about his pensions tax. What we never hear is any expression of sympathy for the millions who have had their retirement funds raided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " Opposition alike, have a duty to help those people. So far, frankly, the help has been inadequate. The Government's financial assistance scheme has cost £9 million to administer, but has paid out just £3 million to date. Even by this Chancellor's standards, that is pretty poor value for money. We need a new approach, an approach that meets our moral obligations to those victims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Will the shadow Chancellor not also acknowledge that we are the first Government to create an auto-enrolment pension scheme that will mean that all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.175.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.177.8", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Is he not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.177.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Chancellor for giving way, but is it not the case —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.180.8", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.180.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.180.8", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "That is not true. [ Interruption. ] The shadow Chancellor thinks that the matter is so important that he did not even mention it in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.180.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.181.5", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "As I just said, the bigger fall in defined benefit schemes was between 1990 and 1995, when there was a 5 per cent. fall; there was only a 2 per cent. fall between 1995 and 2000. I have to accept that around the world, particularly in America, defined benefit schemes were running into trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.181.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Mr. Fallon) , who sits on the Treasury Committee—I am very grateful to him for praising my economic record a few weeks ago, which would not have gone down well with the shadow Chancellor—is a member of the No Turning Back group, which is recommending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "It has been estimated that council tax payers are paying an extra £175 a year in council tax because local authority pension funds have had so significantly to increase their contributions because of the pension tax raid. What does the Chancellor say about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": " he personalises his attacks on the Chancellor and makes them as unpleasant as he does, the more his behaviour borders on a form of paranoia and suggests that he lacks self-confidence. If I may offer him some advice—although he seems to have found much in my book, I doubt that he will take this from me across the Chamber—he would do well to moderate the personal nature of his attacks .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "sh;he would do well to moderate the personal nature of his attacks . [ Interruption. ] That remark was meant to be constructive; it was made to the hon. Gentleman in perfectly cordial terms. Let me address a couple of points made by the former Chancellor. He makes a great deal of his four-year period as Chancellor. The Opposition often talk about the golden legacy that we inherited in 1997 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": " serious problem. We face a savings problem and a long-term pensions problem, and we have to find consensus to deal with that. Those who have chosen to make a personal attack on the Chancellor and to turn the issue to temporary party political advantage have done nothing to advance the debate, which is one in which the whole House and all the parties have to engage. That has been made clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "ion have been distinctly unsuccessful on three occasions in gaining the country's trust. People saw through all that they said on immigration at the last election, as they saw through what they tried to do on tax in previous elections. They jumped on an apparently attractive bandwagon, but the wheels came off when they were under scrutiny. With that mind, let us deal with the central issue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "No, it is not, but never mind. If the hon. Gentleman reads the text in Hansard he will be able to see what I was saying. The Chancellor said that the percentage of dividends paid out would decline; in fact, it has risen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "of failed schemes or failed companies that fall outside the recently introduced lifeboat—we will return to that when we address the Pensions Bill tomorrow and the excellent proposals that the shadow pensions Secretary and his colleagues will put forward. The constituents of the hon. Member for Wirral, West (Stephen Hesford) must be raising concerns. It would be very strange if they were not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "ut DTC had had an effect on the stock market. The problem with that argument was not only that it abandoned the main burden of what the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) had been saying, but that—I pointed this out in an intervention—if the right hon. Gentleman's logic was right, the stock market could not have recovered under this Government, although it has. It seemed to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "ut forward, although I do not think that we have even got to that stage, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor made a strong case for us when he spoke in the debate. Putting aside party politics, I want to consider, in the cold light of day, what the City makes of the debate. Last week in the business section of The Independent , Jeremy Warner talked about the fact that the issue had been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"But—\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to join in the debate, which has been an interesting one, and to follow the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Wright) . I have never served on a Committee with him, but I like him a great deal and admire him enormously as a hard-working constituency Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to join in the debate, which has been an interesting one, and to follow the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Wright) . I have never served on a Committee with him, but I like him a great deal and admire him enormously as a hard-working constituency Member. [Hon. Members: \"But—\"] But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "provision—a rise of 5 per cent. since 1997 or 2.1 million more people. More thoughtful Labour Members will find that a sobering thought. At a time when the economy has broadly done quite well—if not as well as the Chancellor likes to make out—and this country has grown richer and had a period of stability, thanks to the foundations laid by the last Conservative Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "r to say that that was completely wrong. Despite a few mumblings off in private, I have not heard any Minister say in public that Lord Turner was lying, so if that is what the Government want us to believe, perhaps someone will jump up and say so. The hon. Gentlemen then claimed that the whole package stimulated business investment, but business investment has fallen as a percentage of GDP —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "or the 125,000 people whose pension schemes have failed with insufficient funds to pay them what they are due, the crisis is not a future problem, but something that is real and immediate. The Chancellor has turned his back on those people, which was why my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) today outlined the measures that we will propose with cross-party support in the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate all my hon. Friends, who made excellent speeches in the debate. I will come to their speeches in a second. We heard two interesting things from the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "aerphilly, for Amber Valley, for Stourbridge and for Wirral, West all argued in principle in favour of the changes that we made in the Budget of 1997. They did so with conviction, and their remarks were in contrast to those made by Opposition Members. My hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool made an excellent speech. I think that I am right in saying that he was the only accountant to speak today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.260.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "No, I think that the right hon. Gentleman has conflated a number of different arguments. That was, however, a useful clarification of his speech— [ Interruption. ] It was, because it contradicted what he said in his speech, in which he made it clear that we had broken the principle of investments being exempt from taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.262.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.262.4", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "The problem—and it is a problem not just for the right hon. Member for Charnwood but for all the Opposition Members who spoke in the debate—is that the logic of his speech is that he would reverse the changes to dividend tax credit. That is the one policy that we all waited to hear about today, but we did not hear it. It was conspicuous that in the speeches of Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.262.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-17", "file": "debates2007-04-17e.xml", "sha256": "969c9d33e43176ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "riend's reforms was to make sure that we could then go further and cut corporation tax. They cut the dividend tax credit, but they never cut the main rate of corporation tax, which is the problem that the right hon. and learned Gentleman must address. I have only two minutes left, and everyone will be glad to know that the remaining 12 pages of my speech will probably never be heard in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-17e.263.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "0744f39943924c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " as well as debating the vitally important issue of climate change, also took the opportunity to discuss any innovate opportunities presented to our country—and particularly to John Lightfoot in my constituency, an innovative producer of air-sourced heat pumps that reduce CO2 emissions. Will my right hon. Friend use his good offices to support innovators such as those in Yorkshire who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "0744f39943924c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": " lifeboat fund is just another uncosted policy. They propose to make a loan from the Treasury. What is a loan from the Treasury other than public expenditure? It is a bit like going to a bank and saying, \"Give me a mortgage. I am going to find someone round the corner to pay it back.\" It is a public spending commitment, and if the Conservatives vote for it that is exactly what they will be making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased to hear my right hon. Friend tell the House that he has visited Czechoslovakia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "s well as debating the vitally important issue of climate change, also took the opportunity to discuss any innovative opportunities presented to our country—and particularly to John Lightfoot in my constituency, an innovative producer of air-sourced heat pumps that reduce CO2 emissions. Will my right hon. Friend use his good offices to support innovators such as those in Yorkshire who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I read the Deputy Prime Minister's speech on climate change—it was a very good speech—but how can he expect it to be taken seriously when the Government are cutting back on climate research at the Hadley centre and when carbon emissions in the UK have risen over the last 10 years while the share of environmental taxes in the economy has fallen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.287.4", "colnum": "287", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I have not read the comments of Mr. Barroso.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.287.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ng to Wales, and waiting times have shortened. People receive vastly improved treatment and receive it faster, and they receive it precisely because of the investment that a strong economy has allowed us to deliver. The truth of the matter is that the policies of the hon. Gentleman's party—well, the leader of the Welsh Nationalist party wants to form a coalition with the Tories, does he not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ys and wherefores of the unauthorised retention of tissue, but to spend a small amount of time on what medical information was gleaned from the biopsies and what other research was established. People's minds are uneasy about this matter. It has serious implications for those of us across the Irish sea, where there appear to be significant pockets of cancer created by nuclear spills at Sellafield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": " lifeboat fund is just another uncosted policy. They propose to make a loan from the Treasury. What is a loan from the Treasury other than public expenditure? It is a bit like going to a bank and saying, \"Give me a mortgage. I am going to find someone round the corner to pay it back.\" It is a public spending commitment, and if the Conservatives vote for it that is exactly what they will be making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "The whole point is that people do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "as gone bust. That is an issue that the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) must address in his contribution. He must decide whether his new clause 25 needs to be pressed further, notwithstanding the commitment that the Minister made today. I came to the Chamber ready to commit the Opposition to supporting the hon. Gentleman and his new clause, which extends the scheme to solvent employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.338.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman for giving way. I fully understand and sympathise with the emotions and intentions that he outlined, but there is something that puzzles me. Those emotions and intentions would be relevant if the people involved were getting no pension at all, yet we are really talking about the 10 per cent. difference between what the Government are promising and the proposal that he is making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": " people then that it would never happen again. Yet we now find ourselves in a position, five years after an event, in which many people who saved throughout their lives are living—and, in some cases, dying—in abject poverty. That is morally outrageous and morally indefensible. I would like to end on a non-technical and non-political point with the line of a song by Tracy Chapman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": " the scheme before we have responded formally to the White Paper consultation. The hon. Gentleman will be glad to know that we are working with the Pensions Policy Institute—his favourite think-tank—on a consultation event. I will be announcing another seminar to keep his diary occupied. He and Members on the Liberal Democrat Front Bench have been assiduous in attending these seminars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-18", "file": "debates2007-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "03957656e37dc956", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "little political digs, but we will deal with them later on. I join the Minister in thanking all the members of the Committee, in particular the two Chairmen who served us so well, the officials, the police, the Hansard reporters and everybody involved—some of the Bill team have become old friends. No doubt we shall all meet again in a few months' time, unless I am sacked or reshuffled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-18b.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "67e37ef5ce7cf178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19a.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": "inary surgery a routine practice. As many Members will be aware, for many years I have owned Staffordshire bull terriers. As any owner of a Staffie will confirm, they are magnificent family animals that epitomise the phrase, \"Man's best friend\". They are caring, loyal and gentle animals, which in recent times have sadly endured a bad press owing to the deplorable treatment of a minority of owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19a.543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I would be surprised if foreign vessels had come within the 6-mile limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "he number of Home Office Bills and the speed with which they are brought forward. No doubt he is looking for an opportunity to vote against yet another couple of sensible measures. I will write to the hon. Gentleman about Home Office IT procurement. The hon. Gentleman referred to the inquiry chaired by Lord Archer of Sandwell—not to be confused, Mr. Speaker, with the other Lord Archer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "em to what he calls a special all-party committee, which suggests that it is a Committee of the House and that it is all-party? In fact, it is a committee of only some Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, so bearing in mind the fact that the House makes it clear that there should be rules about all-party committees and groups, is it not wrong for people to pretend and abuse the public in that way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an interesting idea. Car sharing has an important contribution to make in reducing congestion at peak times, especially in certain travel to work areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "erally, to take account of the work of the PAC and the NAO. We unnecessarily hamstring ourselves if we cannot talk about matters such as NHS IT and the Olympic games. A very good article appeared in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday on that subject and I shall make it available to the Minister. I can probably be forgiven for saying that I thought it was a very good article because I wrote it myself .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "The Minister has a statutory instrument on that and he will have to see whether we pray against it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "o, because we have to ensure that our terrestrial and freshwater, as well as marine, environments are looked after to the highest possible standards. I am a little bit concerned that the reason why the marine Bill has not been brought forward is that there is no consensus between Departments. There is no consensus with the Department of Trade and Industry on oil and gas extraction and exploration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "preceding_text": " unified planning regime that operates both at sea and on shore in relation to the consequences of what happens at sea. I was pleased to hear the hon. Member for Leominster express his support for the idea that the planning regime set out in the White Paper should unify the land-based consequences of seaborne renewable energy activities. Even now, one local authority, Swale, has effectively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "It is always a great privilege to be called to speak on any occasion, but particularly so for me today, which is my birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "und;15 million for fisheries work and the enforcement functions of the Environment Agency through any other method, and certainly not with a direct Treasury grant. The proposal was thus quietly dropped. The Government have probably gone a bit further in the White Paper than the commitments that we gave in \"Labour's Charter for Angling 2005\". I know these things because I helped to write it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-19", "file": "debates2007-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a3257358dbe7343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "WELFARE OF DOGS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": "rgery a routine practice. As many Members will be aware, for many years I have owned Staffordshire bull terriers. As any owner of a Staffie will confirm, they are magnificent family animals that epitomise the phrase, \"Man's best friend\". They are caring, loyal and gentle animals, which in recent times have sadly endured a bad press owing to the deplorable treatment of them by a minority of owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-19b.543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-20", "file": "debates2007-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "507a91302b014199", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-20a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And taxes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "hich I have had particular difficulty, local authorities. All people sometimes have a natural reluctance to explain what they think is sensitive information. That may be an innate human response, but the truth is that it is, as often as not, the people's money that is being spent, and I maintain that they have an absolute right—I go too far, because nothing in life is absolute, except death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-20a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-20", "file": "debates2007-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "e6eff39ae467ccb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-20b.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And taxes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "hich I have had particular difficulty, local authorities. All people sometimes have a natural reluctance to explain what they think is sensitive information. That may be an innate human response, but the truth is that it is, as often as not, the people's money that is being spent, and I maintain that they have an absolute right—I go too far, because nothing in life is absolute, except death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-20b.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "r for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mr. Purchase) who is in his place. The situation of pension schemes in the private sector today, however, was not simply caused by the Chancellor's tax changes in 1997, as some—but, to their credit, not all—Opposition Members would seek to suggest. I agree that those tax changes, taken by themselves, had an adverse effect on private pension funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "ted, and legislation, such as the Finance Bill, can aim to push through provisions for that. Those on the Opposition Front Benches said that the Bill could upset the economy. However, as other hon. Members have argued, we have an extremely stable economy. We have low and stable inflation. Yes,there are peaks and troughs within that, but overallthe situation is extremely stable compared with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": " people were persuaded to change their habits. They moved to driving vehicles with unleaded fuel. I hope that the relief for new zero-carbon homes will persuade people that it is right to move towards having zero-carbon homes. Any assistance in that regard has to be positive. Criticism was made about domestic microgeneration. Given that the Leader of the Opposition has or had a wind turbine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "tive as an incentive, as was originally intended. That is a great pity. It is incumbent on us, as tax legislators, to send strong and consistent signals, and if the Chancellor wishes them to work and get companies and individuals to respond as he chooses, they must be applied over a period of years. It is no good putting in an incentive in one year and then ditching it in the following year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Tami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Tami", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman mentions a raft of measures that he believes could be taken. I believe that what we really need to do is invest in the next generation of nuclear power stations, but it is something that his leader seems very coy about. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree with me on that?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " Bench to set out detailed tax proposals for three or four years hence. That would be too difficult to gauge because the world is too uncertain. It is surprising that, in the case of at least one tax in this Budget, we are being asked to legislate for the next decade. That seems premature, even though the movement is in the right direction and very welcome. I shall conclude my brief remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "rive ever more of them into the Chancellor's highly complicated tax credit system, in which we now know that more than half of all the payments are wrong. More than 333,000 people appealed last year against the attempted recovery of an over-payment and fewer than one in 20 are likely, on the latest figures, to succeed. The tax credit system devised by the Chancellor is crying out for reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "The specific answer is that there are plans in Gallion Park in the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary for precisely the sort of development that we want to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "86af1e6ecb551c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "EUROPEAN SCRUTINY", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "g place in Government on how the funding mechanism for that should be handled. Representations made by the hon. Gentleman and others are of course being considered as we work out how the scheme can best come about. The hon. Gentleman made a rather startling claim when he said that this Government were the least democratic for two centuries. Universal suffrage has not been around for two centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "The system is far from perfect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "As one trade unionist to another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "bers, I want to make a point about regional policy. We need to re-think regional policy, to consider what we need to do to bring about greater opportunity for regions, including mine—the north-east of England—which have not been as successful in the past in purely economic terms. That is not to say that the way of life in those regions is not desirable, which is a separate issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "Not every single clause in the Bill deals with those issues, which could be dealt with through a beefed-up Budget resolution process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mr. Purchase) , who is in his place. The situation of pension schemes in the private sector today, however, was not simply caused by the Chancellor's tax changes in 1997, as some—but, to their credit, not all—Opposition Members would seek to suggest. I agree that those tax changes, taken by themselves, had an adverse effect on private pension funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "ed, and legislation such as the Finance Bill, can aim to push through provisions for that. Those on the Opposition Front Benches said that the Bill could upset the economy. However, as other hon. Members have argued, we have an extremely stable economy. We have low and stable inflation. Yes, there are peaks and troughs within that, but overall the situation is extremely stable compared with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": " people were persuaded to change their habits. They moved to driving vehicles with unleaded fuel. I hope that the relief for new zero-carbon homes will persuade people that it is right to move towards having zero-carbon homes. Any assistance in that regard has to be positive. Criticism was made about domestic microgeneration. Given that the Leader of the Opposition has or had a wind turbine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "tive as an incentive, as was originally intended. That is a great pity. It is incumbent on us, as tax legislators, to send strong and consistent signals, and if the Chancellor wishes them to work and get companies and individuals to respond as he chooses, they must be applied over a period of years. It is no good putting in an incentive in one year and then ditching it in the following year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a crass point from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Tami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Tami", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman mentions a raft of measures that he believes could be taken. I believe that what we really need to do is invest in the next generation of nuclear power stations, but it is something that his leader seems very coy about. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree with me on that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " Bench to set out detailed tax proposals for three or four years hence. That would be too difficult to gauge because the world is too uncertain. It is surprising that, in the case of at least one tax in this Budget, we are being asked to legislate for the next decade. That seems premature, even though the movement is in the right direction and very welcome. I shall conclude my brief remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "rive ever more of them into the Chancellor's highly complicated tax credit system, in which we now know that more than half of all the payments are wrong. More than 333,000 people appealed last year against the attempted recovery of an over-payment and fewer than one in 20 are likely, on the latest figures, to succeed. The tax credit system devised by the Chancellor is crying out for reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "The specific answer is that there are plans in Gallion Park in the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary for precisely the sort of development that we want to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-23", "file": "debates2007-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "235f4b98df36dc8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "BALANCED AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "g place in Government on how the funding mechanism for that should be handled. Representations made by the hon. Gentleman and others are of course being considered as we work out how the scheme can best come about. The hon. Gentleman made a rather startling claim when he said that this Government were the least democratic for two centuries. Universal suffrage has not been around for two centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-23b.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "They are wrong because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "fair one; the British Medical Association is today warning that literally thousands of junior doctors could end up going overseas. What is the Government's response? Well, we saw the document produced in the Department of Health last week. It was not published, but it found its way out. The Government are \"volunteering\" junior doctors to join the Voluntary Service Overseas, so that they go abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "s to misinterpret that and say, \"You're saying that they are all going to be unemployed, and that's shroud-waving.\" She said on 19 March that \"the shroud-waving about unemployed doctors is absurd.\"—[ Official Report , 19 March 2007; Vol. 458, c. 582 .] In a letter to me on 27 March she stated: \"It is wrong to conclude . . . that there is a danger that these doctors will be unemployed\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for the chance to make a second intervention. I ask my right hon. Friend not to answer the Liberal Democrats' endless plea for a post mortem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I take that point. When the professor says that there is a lack of leadership from the top, we need to know whether he is referring to the Secretary of State, or a civil servant —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Crockard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I take that point. When the professor says that there is a lack of leadership from the top, we need to know whether he is referring to the Secretary of State, or a civil servant —[ Interruption. ] MTAS is a Department of Health initiative, so we need to know from the Minister to whom Alan Crockford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "No; I am going to conclude in a minute because many Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "gthened system. The suggestion crept into many of the comments today that there were no unfairnesses or problems in the old way of doing things. That simply is not the case. If we accept the principles of MMC, we must also accept that there were myriad unfairnesses in the old system. The difference is that those unfairnesses were not out in the open, in the transparent way that they are now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "evaluation will mean that bills go up. That is exactly what happened in Wales. Despite assurances from Ministers that the revaluation would be revenue neutral, four times as many homes moved up a band as went down, and the average bill went up by 10 per cent. in the first year. We fear that that would happen in England. No one is under any illusion about how expensive and intrusive revaluation is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "tral, four times as many homes moved up a band as went down, and the average bill went up by 10 per cent. in the first year. We fear that that would happen in England. No one is under any illusion about how expensive and intrusive revaluation is. [ Interruption. ] Regardless of whether people own their home or rent it, they will be taxed on home improvements and the quality of their neighbourhood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "preceding_text": " much during those years. In many ways, I wonder whether the Lyons report will end up adding much more than the Layfield report did in terms of changing local government finance. In many ways, much of this debate could have been repeated 25 years ago, and I am not sure whether we add much to debate when we get involved in ritual condemnatory remarks about one particular local authority or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Trafford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "sh (Mr. Slaughter) that every time he speaks about Hammersmith council I know exactly what the wedding guests felt like in \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\". The Secretary of State made an interesting point but was rather unkind about Trafford. I took the opportunity to look into all the metropolitan district councils surrounding Trafford—and guess which authority had the lowest council tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Conservatives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "y what the wedding guests felt like in \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\". The Secretary of State made an interesting point but was rather unkind about Trafford. I took the opportunity to look into all the metropolitan district councils surrounding Trafford—and guess which authority had the lowest council tax? [Hon. Members: \"Trafford.\"] Yes, Trafford, and guess which party controls Trafford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "fd2d8aeafb73f420", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " made in the past 10 years and the £1 billion extra provided through the local authority business growth initiative scheme, which is welcomed by councils across the political spectrum. The Liberal Democrats claim that their policies are original and sound, but the problem, as a predecessor said, is that when they are original they are not sound, and when they are sound they are not original.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24b.901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "We acknowledge the PAC report, but it happens to be a year out of date, and it is based on a previous National Audit Office report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.774.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "tandards for access to patient information\", and that \"The Programme has the potential to generate substantial benefits for patients and the NHS.\" It also says: \"The Department and NHS Connecting for Health have made substantial progress with the Programme.\" On the electronic patient record, it is important that we take time to get it right; that is better than speeding ahead and getting it wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.774.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "As I have said, there are as yet no settled proposals for service improvements in west Surrey—or, indeed, in east Surrey. As the hon. Gentleman will be aware from Professor Sir George Alberti's recent report on emergency medicine, there is already a very wide range of different kinds of A and E departments, from those providing the full range of trauma centres down to those providing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "They are wrong because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "s a fair one; the British Medical Association is today warning that literally thousands of junior doctors could end up going overseas. What is the Government's response? Well, we saw the document produced in the Department of Health last week. It was not published, but it found its way out. The Government are \"volunteering\" junior doctors to join Voluntary Service Overseas, so that they go abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "s to misinterpret that and say, \"You're saying that they are all going to be unemployed, and that's shroud-waving.\" She said on 19 March that \"the shroud-waving about unemployed doctors is absurd.\"—[ Official Report , 19 March 2007; Vol. 458, c. 582 .] In a letter to me on 27 March she stated: \"It is wrong to conclude . . . that there is a danger that these doctors will be unemployed\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ted by Ministers or the Department of Health; it is determined by the individual trusts and postgraduate deaneries on the basis of what is needed by the service. We spent several months and a great deal of work establishing the number of training posts that would be available. The noble Lord Warner, then the Minister responsible, made a statement on that subject towards the end of last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for the chance to make a second intervention. I ask my right hon. Friend not to answer the Liberal Democrats' endless plea for a post mortem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention, but I made the point that the principles of the system were widely supported at the start and I highlighted the concerns about the previous system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I take that point. When the professor says that there is a lack of leadership from the top, we need to know whether he is referring to the Secretary of State, or a civil servant —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Crockard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I take that point. When the professor says that there is a lack of leadership from the top, we need to know whether he is referring to the Secretary of State, or a civil servant —[ Interruption. ] MTAS is a Department of Health initiative, so we need to know from the Minister to whom Alan Crockford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "hom I met to discuss some of these issues at length last week, I hear pertinent points about where they wish to see improvements, but there is pride in the fact that modern management, modern doctors and modern GPs now receive the funding that they deserve and have the tools to do the job. That is a fundamental difference from the past. I shall illustrate that with one of the campaigns that I ran.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": " point because it is precisely on the issue of modernising medical careers in areas that have been underfunded, traditionally and historically, and which because of that have had recruitment problems for many years. The shift in allocation is one of the bravest things that the Government have done. The 11.5 per cent. increase in PCT funding last month was the biggest in the north of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "No; I am going to conclude in a minute because many Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "gthened system. The suggestion crept into many of the comments today that there were no unfairnesses or problems in the old way of doing things. That simply is not the case. If we accept the principles of MMC, we must also accept that there were myriad unfairnesses in the old system. The difference is that those unfairnesses were not out in the open, in the transparent way that they are now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I have very little time and I want to do justice to the Members who spoke in the debate, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me. Like other Members, the hon. Member for Gosport spoke about the double cohort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "evaluation will mean that bills go up. That is exactly what happened in Wales. Despite assurances from Ministers that the revaluation would be revenue-neutral, four times as many homes moved up a band as went down, and the average bill went up by 10 per cent. in the first year. We fear that that would happen in England. No one is under any illusion about how expensive and intrusive revaluation is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "tral, four times as many homes moved up a band as went down, and the average bill went up by 10 per cent. in the first year. We fear that that would happen in England. No one is under any illusion about how expensive and intrusive revaluation is. [ Interruption. ] Regardless of whether people own their home or rent it, they will be taxed on home improvements and the quality of their neighbourhood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.867.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the Secretary of State to mock the device of the parliamentary question that is open to hon. Members to elicit factual information from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman got right the way down the Conservative briefing on that point, but he certainly asked a number of interesting questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "nt. Unitary authorities seem to be the problem. Well, the Conservatives thought of unitaries first. They introduced them in Wales and Scotland and they have introduced them in Avon and Berkshire. Indeed, four Conservative county councils are currently bidding for unitary status. Unitaries have their place, especially where there is clear local support and validation. I fully understand that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.876.8", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "It is probably time for me to make some progress, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.876.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "preceding_text": " much during those years. In many ways, I wonder whether the Lyons report will end up adding much more than the Layfield report did in terms of changing local government finance. In many ways, much of this debate could have been repeated 25 years ago, and I am not sure whether we add much to debate when we get involved in ritual condemnatory remarks about one particular local authority or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Trafford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "ush (Mr. Slaughter) that every time he speaks about Hammersmith council I know exactly what the wedding guest felt like in \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\". The Secretary of State made an interesting point but was rather unkind about Trafford. I took the opportunity to look into all the metropolitan district councils surrounding Trafford—and guess which authority had the lowest council tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Conservatives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "ly what the wedding guest felt like in \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\". The Secretary of State made an interesting point but was rather unkind about Trafford. I took the opportunity to look into all the metropolitan district councils surrounding Trafford—and guess which authority had the lowest council tax? [Hon. Members: \"Trafford.\"] Yes, Trafford, and guess which party controls Trafford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-24", "file": "debates2007-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "a32ac3b27bc9244c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " made in the past 10 years and the £1 billion extra provided through the local authority business growth initiative scheme, which is welcomed by councils across the political spectrum. The Liberal Democrats claim that their policies are original and sound, but the problem, as a predecessor said, is that when they are original they are not sound, and when they are sound they are not original.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-24c.901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-25", "file": "debates2007-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "65b584b05b5e6c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "tly e-mailed me to lobby me about the issue and, indeed, was the first person to raise it with me. With that in mind, and as part of the ongoing overhaul of A-levels, the awarding body, OCR, is, as we have heard, proposing to redesign the suite of qualifications it offers in classics. However, I stress that the discontinuation of ancient history is only a proposal, not a foregone conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-25", "file": "debates2007-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5cd9a16451e3e8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.928.4", "colnum": "928", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "There are certainly unfunded liabilities for the future, as is always the case in any budget circumstance. The incoming Executive and the incoming Finance Minister, the hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson) , will have an opportunity to examine the position in-year. I can tell my hon. Friend, however, that thanks to this Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.928.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-25", "file": "debates2007-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5cd9a16451e3e8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.933.2", "colnum": "933", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am not going to express a view on this, but I will point out that in this House and elsewhere, we have one of the most transparent systems anywhere in the world. Occasionally, Members of Parliament should stand up for the public service that they give and do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.933.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-25", "file": "debates2007-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5cd9a16451e3e8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention and the reassurance, on the record, that the legal agreement is legally binding and is genuinely a legal agreement. That is quite important. I have heard it said before that it is a legal agreement, but as a lawyer myself, although I have to confess that my practising certificate has lapsed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-25", "file": "debates2007-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5cd9a16451e3e8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that. To answer the previous intervention, from the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk, what we need is a legal opinion. We can have reassurances from the Broads Authority and from the hon. Member for Norwich, North, but we need a legal opinion that confirms how the agreements are legally enforceable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-25", "file": "debates2007-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5cd9a16451e3e8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "for Mid-Norfolk, what we need is a legal opinion. We can have reassurances from the Broads Authority and from the hon. Member for Norwich, North, but we need a legal opinion that confirms how the agreements are legally enforceable. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Waveney (Mr. Blizzard) is seeking to intervene from a sedentary position, but I cannot hear what he is saying, so we will move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-25", "file": "debates2007-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5cd9a16451e3e8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "that imposes. We all recognise that the cost of dredging, disposal and recovery has increased by an average of about 50 per cent., and that of dredging and disposal at landfill by 235 per cent. over the past four years. That is why navigation authorities consider both the economic and environmental benefits when carrying out dredging. A body under the august title of the wet dredgings group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-25", "file": "debates2007-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5cd9a16451e3e8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "ANCIENT HISTORY A-LEVEL", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "tly e-mailed me to lobby me about the issue and, indeed, was the first person to raise it with me. With that in mind, and as part of the ongoing overhaul of A-levels, the awarding body, OCR, is, as we have heard, proposing to redesign the suite of qualifications it offers in classics. However, I stress that the discontinuation of ancient history is only a proposal, not a foregone conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-25b.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ce31c31cc6997776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In Berkshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e hope that that is working better, but all of us are extremely anxious to ensure that, first, there are prompt inquests and, secondly, that they are thorough and that, when they take place, they show proper respect to the young man or woman who was killed in action and to their families and comrades. I am afraid that I will have to write to the hon. Gentleman about the train crash in Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ce31c31cc6997776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "ducts that fulfil the needs of our armed forces and that exportability is key to work force stability and preferable to public money being used for labour market reasons rather than defence capability alone. The Government are to be commended for the defence industrial strategy and the work done by Lord Drayson, which has made an important contribution to the debate about future procurement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ce31c31cc6997776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "e from my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government that once we have the facts before us, he will meet hon. Members to listen to their concerns and digest the content of the two reports. Question put and agreed to. Adjourned accordingly at twenty-nine minutes past Six o'clock. Correction Official Report, 24 April 2007 : in column 785 after \"Ms Winterton:\" insert \"They are wrong because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "That is another wonderful pay-off line—absolutely terrific.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite right. I should have said, \"Baroness Thatcher\". On value for money, the figures show year after year after year that council tax costs people less with Labour authorities. The average council tax is much lower under Labour. We provide better value for money, and if I were Leader of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In Berkshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e hope that that is working better, but all of us are extremely anxious to ensure that, first, there are prompt inquests and, secondly, that they are thorough and that, when they take place, they show proper respect to the young man or woman who was killed in action and to their families and comrades. I am afraid that I will have to write to the hon. Gentleman about the train crash in Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1043.5", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do agree. The earlier that we are able to provide children with good teaching stimulation about being good citizens, the better it is for this country. I am of a generation—my hon. Friend is not quite of that generation, but approaching it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1043.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "When does the Minister envisage bringing back the British Army on the Rhine, given the extra costs of those personnel serving there rather than here? If he is thinking of super garrisons, will he please consider Bicester in the list? It was a super garrison for the Romans, and it would be an ideal super garrison location for the UK Army in the 21st century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " that we are committed to those aircraft carriers. A number of factors have to be taken into account, and we will announce the decision when we are ready to do so. The hon. Gentleman will just have to wait, like everyone else, for that announcement. I stated earlier that we have decided where the joint combat aircraft is going to be based, and a very clear commitment has been given in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1067.2", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "I asked General Richards the question on Tuesday. I think I asked, \"Is there anything you'd like to say about caveats, or has it all been said?\" and I think his answer was, \"Well, actually it's all been said.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1067.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "ducts that fulfil the needs of our armed forces and that exportability is key to work force stability and preferable to public money being used for labour market reasons rather than defence capability alone. The Government are to be commended for the defence industrial strategy and the work done by Lord Drayson, which has made an important contribution to the debate about future procurement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-26", "file": "debates2007-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e20b2a4335163eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "e Committee five or six years ago—has done anything about this issue other than table a few parliamentary questions? Who has asked questions of the Civil Contingencies Committee or the civil contingencies secretariat, which are vital to responding to a devastating attack? I wish that we would put our house in order in that regard. I have not yet touched on the main points of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-26b.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-27", "file": "debates2007-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "971740275afb2588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-27c.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) also made an intervention, which might better have been made in Committee, but that is by the by. The Liberal Democrats have attended for most of these debates, but have had a slight tendency to want to have the Second Reading in the Committee stage, and the Committee stage debate on Report and then on Third Reading. I hope that they are catching up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-27c.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-27", "file": "debates2007-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "971740275afb2588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-27c.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "preceding_text": "stinguish between those people and the well-intentioned employers who have made what they thought was every effort to comply with the legislation or relevant regulations, but have found that they have transgressed in some small way and laid themselves open to large fines. The Conservative party has committed itself, as have all Members, to the highest possible standards of health and safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-27c.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-27", "file": "debates2007-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "971740275afb2588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-27c.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "preceding_text": "We are not trying to prevent the judge from having that power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-27c.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-27", "file": "debates2007-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "971740275afb2588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-27c.1209.13", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "BA FLIGHT 149", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ence, but that means facts. It means specific affidavits, if he has them. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept, in the spirit of friendly parliamentary debate, that simply saying that there are affidavits and not producing them is not particularly helpful for a Minister who is willing to consider matters and to check whether they contain facts that might allow the matter to be taken further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-27c.1209.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "26f90cad0c4b120a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "tory impact assessment, which was published at the same time as the Finance Bill and which covers many of the issues that the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet is concerned about in her amendment. Importantly, the responses to the consultation have allowed us to refine the approach that the legislation takes in a way that enables us to deal with the key concerns that have been raised. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1219.10", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ryan", "preceding_text": "The identity card scheme will apply throughout the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1219.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I have given the hon. Gentleman a misleading impression, but I am not the general secretary of a Soviet-style central planning system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments; as usual, they are considered. Again, I do not know anything about Sholing in Southampton, but I am happy to increase that ignorance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments; as usual, they are considered. Again, I do not know anything about Sholing in Southampton, but I am happy to increase that ignorance —[Interruption] — I meant to say increase my knowledge, of Southampton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I know how serious this matter is, but we have to be careful: the Home Secretary is not making a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1236.2", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "convention, as he will well know—but on the question of West Yorkshire police, just let me say that the matter was investigated by the Intelligence and Security Committee. It could not be referred to at the time because of the sub judice rule, but I can tell him that, having investigated the allegations that he makes, the ISC was satisfied that there was no wrongful conduct on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "No, it is responsible for invisibles; as the hon. Lady should know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "That point is very well made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1320.2", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention, because it brings me to my next point. Von Clausewitz said that war was the continuation of diplomacy by other means. The hon. Lady seems to be seeking to have the whole argument about IR35 over again, having lost that battle —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "swered many of the questions that the hon. Lady raised about freelancers on Second Reading, and she will have the opportunity to probe this one in a lot more detail and depth in the Public Bill Committee. I am happy that we should do that, but the intention behind the legislation is clear, and it is not to catch those genuinely in business on their own account and managing their own affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-04-30", "file": "debates2007-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "20447d153cc25d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "tory impact assessment, which was published at the same time as the Finance Bill and which covers many of the issues that the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet is concerned about in her amendment. Importantly, the responses to the consultation have allowed us to refine the approach that the legislation takes in a way that enables us to deal with the key concerns that have been raised. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-04-30b.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ebb583fa53b129df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "how anyone could rationally want to oppose them? Furthermore, how could we possibly conceive of having a referendum on what are essentially procedural and administrative matters, or even on matters relating to personnel management and job description? If we are going to have a referendum on that kind of thing, surely we should simply put all the amendments in the Finance Bill this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ebb583fa53b129df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "hat the opinion of member states has moved little hitherto. I am certainly not going to conduct, in public, negotiations that have yet to commence seriously. We have made it clear that there should not be anything that has the characteristics of a constitution. There would be merit, however, in having an amending treaty, which could tidy up some of the ways in which the European Union works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ebb583fa53b129df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1362.6", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "te consistent on this issue. We made it clear that, because of the constitutional nature of the constitutional treaty, it would require a referendum. Again, however, the hon. Gentleman should check with his own Front Bench Members precisely what the Government's policy should be. We have been asking them to set out their position, but unfortunately, the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1362.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ebb583fa53b129df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": " include it in the first place? That is the problem that the Economic Secretary has to think about. The reality is that the measure was well understood by the industry. Perhaps the Economic Secretary will tell us why the Government included the provision in the Finance Act 2004, because the Committee would be interested to hear that. I would happily give way to enable him to give that explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ebb583fa53b129df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "y, an egregious fashion in the Government's proposals. It occurs when a transaction is concluded between two or more citizens who believe that no tax applies, or a certain type of tax applies, and then find afterwards that a new tax is levied on them. It is exactly as if I had agreed today with the Financial Secretary to buy his tie for—what would it be worth? I suppose £5 or so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ebb583fa53b129df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1426.7", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for your clarification, Mrs. Heal, as to exactly what I am doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1426.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ebb583fa53b129df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "r for Twickenham went into that. That is a perfectly sensible option. It is in our own policy document. But, for the Liberals, it is not an option; it is a firm policy commitment, as they know. A question naturally follows: if they want to replace APD with a new aircraft tax, why have they not tabled an amendment that proposes exactly that? Why do they need the Treasury to assess their own policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1347.7", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Questionnaire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "There is nothing to make an urgent statement about at the moment. I do not recall the letter that the right hon. Gentleman referred to, unless he is referring to some kind of questionnaire that came round a little time ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1347.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1347.7", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "t the moment. I do not recall the letter that the right hon. Gentleman referred to, unless he is referring to some kind of questionnaire that came round a little time ago—[Hon. Members: \"Questionnaire?\"] Yes. I presume that Conservative Members know what a questionnaire is: people ask us questions and we fill in the answers, so that they can get a picture of the general range of views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1347.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "how anyone could rationally want to oppose them? Furthermore, how could we possibly conceive of having a referendum on what are essentially procedural and administrative matters, or even on matters relating to personnel management and job description? If we are going to have a referendum on that kind of thing, surely we should simply put all the amendments in the Finance Bill this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "hat the opinion of member states has moved little hitherto. I am certainly not going to conduct, in public, negotiations that have yet to commence seriously. We have made it clear that there should not be anything that has the characteristics of a constitution. There would be merit, however, in having an amending treaty, which could tidy up some of the ways in which the European Union works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "Lord Hutton had access to all documents he wished to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "Lord Hutton had access to all documents he wished to see. [ Interruption. ] Both John Scarlett and John Williams—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "t amendments to the European treaties and, in that light, clearly affected the relationship between Westminster and Brussels, which is what the shadow Minister for Europe has been talking about. It introduced a common foreign and security policy, a European security and defence policy, a new competence for the EU in respect of co-operation in the field of justice and home affairs, qualified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1362.6", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "n quite consistent on this issue. We made it clear that, because of the constitutional nature of the constitutional treaty, it would require a referendum. Again, however, the hon. Gentleman should check with his own Front Benchers precisely what the Government's policy should be. We have been asking them to set out their position, but unfortunately, the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1362.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ing majority of individual accesses before the security breach was closed came from an internet address belonging to ITN, the providers of \"Channel 4 News\". The access by ITN began at about 2 pm and ceased at about 5 pm. More than two hours elapsed between ITN and \"Channel 4 News\" starting to access personal information and \"Channel 4 News\" actually notifying the Department of the security breach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "ronic Security Group, is also advising the Department, and the MTAS site will be re-opened as soon as we have the necessary security assurances. Those two security breaches were utterly deplorable. They should not have happened and appropriate steps are now being taken. However, there is no evidence that members of the public or other unauthorised people, apart from ITN and \"Channel 4 News\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": " necessary security assurances. Those two security breaches were utterly deplorable. They should not have happened and appropriate steps are now being taken. However, there is no evidence that members of the public or other unauthorised people, apart from ITN and \"Channel 4 News\"— [Laughter.] I am very sorry that the Opposition regard this as a matter of such enormous levity. There is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Once again, the Secretary of State has had to make a statement to the House about the appalling shambles that has become the Government's system of selecting training for junior doctors. I am sorry that the Secretary of State could not bring herself to say sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": " include it in the first place? That is the problem that the Economic Secretary has to think about. The reality is that the measure was well understood by the industry. Perhaps the Economic Secretary will tell us why the Government included the provision in the Finance Act 2004, because the Committee would be interested to hear that. I would happily give way to enable him to give that explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I am only up to page 6, so there is plenty of time before we discuss that. I hope I did not inadvertently mislead the Committee. I am clear that £160 million is the Government's estimate of what the costs would have been in the future. It would be interesting to know what they think the cost is now and what they thought the cost might have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ts, but the Association of British Insurers told us in April that some policies risked not getting the proper treatment because insurers had taken longer to process claims than they and the ABI had previously expected. That is why the amendments prolong the transitional period. I will reflect on the language issue; I will have to take advice on my hon. Friend's question about the word \"But\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "y, an egregious fashion in the Government's proposals. It occurs when a transaction is concluded between two or more citizens who believe that no tax applies, or a certain type of tax applies, and then find afterwards that a new tax is levied on them. It is exactly as if I had agreed today with the Financial Secretary to buy his tie for—what would it be worth? I suppose £5 or so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1426.7", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for your clarification, Mrs. Heal, of exactly what I am doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1426.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "r for Twickenham went into that. That is a perfectly sensible option. It is in our own policy document. But, for the Liberals, it is not an option; it is a firm policy commitment, as they know. A question naturally follows: if they want to replace APD with a new aircraft tax, why have they not tabled an amendment that proposes exactly that? Why do they need the Treasury to assess their own policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-01", "file": "debates2007-05-01b.xml", "sha256": "b66e277bf0e4ca4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1450.2", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "They were both tax rises. The amendment that the hon. Lady tabled last year on VED was outside the scope of what was eligible to be tabled for debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-01b.1450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1500.0", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tories!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The EU, the United Kingdom and, indeed, the Welsh Administration all share a concern about the collapse of some species in Wales. There was a target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "And if the right hon. and learned Gentleman's policy had been implemented, Saddam Hussein and his two sons would still be running Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1505.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1507.5", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, I should thank the hon. Gentleman for paying tribute to what we are doing for pensioners. I have some other things to add that the Liberal Democrats have posted on their website about the Government's record over the past 10 years. They have given the \"Blair/Brown years...4 out of 10\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1507.5", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " add that the Liberal Democrats have posted on their website about the Government's record over the past 10 years. They have given the \"Blair/Brown years...4 out of 10\" — [ Interruption. ] The six I kind of accepted, but what are the four things that we have got right, according to the Liberal Democrats? They are: \"stability for the economy. A Foreign Policy with an ethical dimension\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1507.5", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray\".", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y\". Fourthly: \"After initially sticking to Tory spending limits, investment in Britain's dilapidated public services started. The fruits of that investment can now be seen. In the NHS\"— this is from the Lib Dems!— \"more staff, reduced waiting lists, better care in...areas such as cancer. In Education a schools building programme, better paid teachers, more books, and better equipment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1513.2", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is a new Member, and he must be given some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend points to a matter that I hope will be thoroughly negotiated out of these documents by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend points to a matter that I hope will be thoroughly negotiated out of these documents by the Minister. [Interruption.] The Minister says from a sedentary position that my right hon. Friend is wrong. Well, my right hon. Friend has referred directly to the document in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": " of a debate of this kind. Of course, it is precisely because the European Scrutiny Committee is so diligent and accurate in its analysis—given our expert advisers and legal advisers—that we are in a position to be able to challenge the assumptions on which things otherwise would simply roll forward. For example, in some other countries—the Minister might take note of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "at dialogue is profitable and constructive, but I worry about what we are dealing with in the LTTE. It is a sophisticated and well equipped organisation, uniquely so for a terrorist organisation—and I regard it as a terrorist organisation that can fight on land, on sea and in the air, although it is wrong to describe it as having an air force; I think that there is one light aircraft —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "018735fa2e1dade5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ier than expected, and I was chairing a Select Committee evidence session on Iran. I am speaking in two capacities: as the MP representing a constituency with a large Sri Lankan Tamil community and as the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. I am in an unfortunate position, in that the Committee is publishing a report on south Asia on Friday, but it is embargoed so I cannot quote from it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02a.1604.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1500.0", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tories!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The EU, the United Kingdom and, indeed, the Welsh Administration all share a concern about the collapse of some species in Wales. There was a target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1503.3", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have to disagree with the Prime Minister. The reason why people want an independent inquiry is the scale of what happened in London on 7 July , when 52 people were murdered and 700 were injured. The reason why people want a full inquiry is to get to the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman's policy had been implemented, Saddam Hussein and his two sons would still be running Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "One part of the Government's —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1507.5", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, I should thank the hon. Gentleman for paying tribute to what we are doing for pensioners. I have some other things to add that the Liberal Democrats have posted on their website about the Government's record over the past 10 years. They have given the \"Blair/Brown years...4 out of 10\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1507.5", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " add that the Liberal Democrats have posted on their website about the Government's record over the past 10 years. They have given the \"Blair/Brown years...4 out of 10\" — [ Interruption. ] The six I kind of accepted, but what are the four things that we have got right, according to the Liberal Democrats? They are: \"stability for the economy. A Foreign Policy with an ethical dimension\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1507.5", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray\".", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ly\". Fourthly: \"After initially sticking to Tory spending limits, investment in Britain's dilapidated public services started. The fruits of that investment can now be seen. In the NHS\"— this is from the Lib Dems— \"more staff, reduced waiting lists, better care in...areas such as cancer. In Education a schools building programme, better paid teachers, more books, and better equipment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "In 1997, the Prime Minister said that one of the reasons why people elected a Labour Government was their concern that the NHS was failing them and their families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1508.8", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will be aware that yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1508.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1510.4", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Burden", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for visiting my constituency a few weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1510.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman is that we cannot have a situation in which people come to this country and engage in acts of terrorism, inciting terrorism or encouraging terrorism, and then we are told that we cannot deport them back to their own country, even with a memorandum of understanding with that country, when they simply say, \"We may be mistreated when we go back there\", despite what they are doing here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1513.2", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is a new Member and he must be given some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend points to a matter that I hope will be thoroughly negotiated out of these documents by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend points to a matter that I hope will be thoroughly negotiated out of these documents by the Minister. [Interruption.] The Minister says from a sedentary position that my right hon. Friend is wrong. Well, my right hon. Friend has referred directly to the document in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": " of a debate of this kind. Of course, it is precisely because the European Scrutiny Committee is so diligent and accurate in its analysis—given our expert advisers and legal advisers—that we are in a position to be able to challenge the assumptions on which things otherwise would simply roll forward. For example, in some other countries—the Minister might take note of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1540.3", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "e debated on the Floor of the House and we so recommend.\" We are debating the issues. The Minister knows in advance that there will not be a Division on this question, so, as I said before, he might just as well have given us a better explanation of the basis on which a satisfactory resolution of the outstanding concerns will be delivered. Time is running out, so I want to get on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "at dialogue is profitable and constructive, but I worry about what we are dealing with in the LTTE. It is a sophisticated and well-equipped organisation, uniquely so for a terrorist organisation—and I regard it as a terrorist organisation that can fight on land, on sea and in the air, although it is wrong to describe it as having an air force; I think that there is one light aircraft —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-02", "file": "debates2007-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "2ce94fcb45ff1bce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ier than expected, and I was chairing a Select Committee evidence session on Iran. I am speaking in two capacities: as the MP representing a constituency with a large Sri Lankan Tamil community and as the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. I am in an unfortunate position, in that the Committee is publishing a report on south Asia on Friday, but it is embargoed so I cannot quote from it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-02b.1604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "050da3be5b085147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03a.1704.3", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Horam", "preceding_text": "ypically spent an average of three years there, so the staff had a chance to turn round their behaviour. There was much less time to do that in the London home, because children spent an average of only one year there. Moreover, the approach in Hamburg was noticeably more relaxed. For example, the reporter was amazed to find that some of the children got a massage before lights-out in the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03a.1704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "050da3be5b085147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03a.1733.0", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "in our city. One of the key questions that we must ask is whether that was predictable. There was a long period of time when we were taking officers away from neighbourhood policing duties. Now, there is a trend to return them to such duties, which is welcome. It started too late, but I am very thankful that it did finally start. I want briefly to discuss the role of gangs in youth-on-youth crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03a.1733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "ss support is lost in bureaucracy; the Minister managed to overlook that. However, it also now appears that some RDAs are misusing their money. In March, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury launched a political pamphlet called, \"Redesigning Regionalism\". That pamphlet said that the RDAs are wonderful and marvellous and should have more powers—and, indeed, that they should have more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "ch, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury launched a political pamphlet called, \"Redesigning Regionalism\". That pamphlet said that the RDAs are wonderful and marvellous and should have more powers—and, indeed, that they should have more money. [Interruption.] It turns out that three of the RDAs spent £15,000 of taxpayers' money on self-serving paper, so can the Minister explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1629.0", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not accept that last psephological point. We have long-term ambitions both to reduce carbon emissions and for the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1634.7", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "Such a move would cost the UK economy 3 million jobs, would massively damage our export markets and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1634.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1640.4", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Question 16?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Jim Cunningham to ask Question 17.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1656.3", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "As it happens, I am aware of that post office in King's Lynn, because when I visited King's Lynn while campaigning some years ago I was given a print of the post office building. I note what the hon. Gentleman says and I shall draw it to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1676.0", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "POLICING IN LONDON", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is making a powerful case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "POLICING IN LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "preceding_text": " I do not think that that is very likely. People are being taken for a ride. Contrary to the protestations that the scheme is universally popular, considerable unease has been expressed from those at the top—Len Duvall, the chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority—right down to the individual sergeants and officers on the beat. I wish that this was not a party political issue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1704.3", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "POLICING IN LONDON", "cue_speaker": "John Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Horam", "preceding_text": "ypically spent an average of three years there, so the staff had a chance to turn round their behaviour. There was much less time to do that in the London home, because children spent an average of only one year there. Moreover, the approach in Hamburg was noticeably more relaxed. For example, the reporter was amazed to find that some of the children got a massage before lights-out in the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1715.3", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "POLICING IN LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady for allowing Members to hear the kind of party political propaganda that is used in Wandsworth, and I shall tell her why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "POLICING IN LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "e cultural change that we need for a London police force. Just a little thing: about six months ago, a constituent came to see me who wanted to become a special constable—or perhaps a PCSO, I cannot remember—but they had been told that they could not do so because they had a tattoo. That view seems a bit 1950s; we really need to move on if such things are still a serious barrier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1733.0", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "POLICING IN LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "in our city. One of the key questions that we must ask is whether that was predictable. There was a long period of time when we were taking officers away from neighbourhood policing duties. Now, there is a trend to return them to such duties, which is welcome. It started too late, but I am very thankful that it did finally start. I want briefly to discuss the role of gangs in youth-on-youth crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-03", "file": "debates2007-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "3e596c3a0710046b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1742.0", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "POLICING IN LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "bility. People will see through gimmicks, such as those that rely on section 106 agreements or taking money out of more deprived communities—north Fulham and the new deal for communities were mentioned. They want deliverability and sustainability throughout their communities. My hon. Friend the Member for Regent's Park and St. John's Wood—not St. John's Wood, but somewhere round there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-03b.1742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c602de1b2c0955e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": " talked out a Bill that would have guaranteed the ability of local councils to set energy efficiency and microgeneration standards higher than the national standard. That was a shameful performance; the DCLG allowed its control-freak tendencies to get the better of its green instincts. We have seen nothing from it as imaginative as the warm homes package that we Liberal Democrats suggested —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c602de1b2c0955e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "lag up the problems and we can support those sentiments, the tenor of the Government amendment is far too complacent. That was borne out by the rather self-congratulatory tone of the Minister's introductory remarks. The amendment paints a far too rosy picture of what most people still agree is the Cinderella service of the NHS, and CAMHS is the Cinderella service of that Cinderella service —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.1.9", "colnum": "1", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne Begg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Begg", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time to work out how much of that spending might be blocked by a political party that may be in government in Scotland and that has policies that are likely to prevent some of that vital work from being done in Scotland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.1.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.3.1", "colnum": "3", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Fewer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that there are less service jobs in Scotland, less bases in Scotland, less shipbuilding jobs in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.3.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I do not recognise a word of what the hon. Gentleman says. He will know, if he was out on the doorsteps in the national campaign, that Conservative authorities across the country have the best record on recycling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": " talked out a Bill that would have guaranteed the ability of local councils to set energy efficiency and microgeneration standards higher than the national standard. That was a shameful performance; the DCLG allowed its control-freak tendencies to get the better of its green instincts. We have seen nothing from it as imaginative as the warm homes package that we Liberal Democrats suggested —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "s over decades. This has been a Cinderella service for a long time. However, I am trying to be open and straightforward by saying that I acknowledge the extra investment that was put in place until deficits and top-slicing in many parts of the health economy caused real problems over the past year or two. There is no inconsistency in my argument. The Lib Dems supported the extra investment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "g to be open and straightforward by saying that I acknowledge the extra investment that was put in place until deficits and top-slicing in many parts of the health economy caused real problems over the past year or two. There is no inconsistency in my argument. The Lib Dems supported the extra investment —[ Interruption. ] We voted in favour of the increase and argued the case for it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "entre for Mental Health concluded that investment in community-based services would free up millions of pounds that is currently spent on African and Caribbean people in psychiatric hospitals and secure units. Such people are six times more likely to be in medium-secure units than white people in our capital city. There are all sorts of reasons for that discrimination within health services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "on has been preceded by several voluntary admissions, and make patients wait until a further crisis and a further compulsory hospitalisation have occurred. As a supporter of the Zito Trust wrote in March, \"What possible benefit can the mentally ill person gain by obtaining a CTO only after being hospitalised twice? Once is enough\". It is beyond belief that the Opposition are supporting that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am referring to what the hon. Gentleman said on Second Reading, and what his party supported in the other place. If he is resiling from what his party did in the other place, that is fine, but that is the current situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "lag up the problems and we can support those sentiments, the tenor of the Government amendment is far too complacent. That was borne out by the rather self-congratulatory tone of the Minister's introductory remarks. The amendment paints a far too rosy picture of what most people still agree is the Cinderella service of the NHS, and CAMHS is the Cinderella service of that Cinderella service —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-08", "file": "debates2007-05-08b.xml", "sha256": "e694941e3d946172", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "It has been a long day, especially for those of us serving on the Mental Health Bill, who have been debating mental health issues for about seven solid hours. However, this does make up slightly for the recent dearth of health debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-08b.121.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-09", "file": "debates2007-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "6a1022421240a1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, as a result of the changes that are already being made, the number of foreign prisoners being deported is about 50 per cent. up from last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-09", "file": "debates2007-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "6a1022421240a1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "g the prisons and probation with the courts will make a lot more sense, because such cases can be managed from the courts system through to prisons and probation. That is why many other countries have the Ministry of Justice system. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to talk about deportations and policy, let me bring the House up to date with Tory policy in this area. A couple of months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-09", "file": "debates2007-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "6a1022421240a1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Soon, the Prime Minister will have plenty of time to read all our speeches, but he just does not get it. How can the Department of Health sort itself out when we all know that the Secretary of State is for the chop? The new Secretary of State for Justice was pathetically pleading for his job on the radio this morning: everyone knows that he will not last five minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-09", "file": "debates2007-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "6a1022421240a1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for what he said about pensioners in 1997 and now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-09", "file": "debates2007-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "6a1022421240a1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "troduced. I entirely understand what my hon. Friend says, and he will know that not only am I extremely sympathetic to the point of constitutional principle—which is that this House should have primacy over the other House—but I have never understood why Blackpool and Manchester should be pitted against each other. If the money is there and the investment is possible, let us have both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-09b.158.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "18a294ac1dce4d7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "[Interruption.] I am sorry, Mr. Speaker—I missed the fact that the right hon. Lady had finished; I do apologise. I was waiting for the finale. As the right hon. Lady knows, I spent 18 years in opposition and I am looking forward to her spending —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10a.297.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "18a294ac1dce4d7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " Salisbury referred to the Valuation Office Agency. It is already the case that an empty property is valued, so we do not anticipate a surge, or even a blip, in the work of the VOA. Its work is already part of the tax base. The hon. Member for Surrey Heath will know—perhaps from reading lurid headlines, which I think of as scaremongering—that we are computerising the valuation process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10a.359.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "What the Conservative party will not acknowledge when supposedly talking about the economy is that, as the Conservative party mid-term report on policy said—[Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"] They do not like it, because the report also talks about a \"period of unprecedented prosperity\" in our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.286.4", "colnum": "286", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "dren who do not go to school at the moment will get the chance to do so. One of the ways in which that can be progressed is linking schools in our country with schools in Africa, so that teachers undertake exchanges with teachers in Africa. We thus build up the links that consolidate public opinion not only in Britain but in other countries, so that we can support the education for all initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.286.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "[Interruption.] I am sorry, Mr. Speaker—I missed the fact that the right hon. Lady had finished; I do apologise. I was waiting for the finale. As the right hon. Lady knows, I spent 18 years in opposition and I am looking forward to her spending —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "er spending —[Interruption.] I therefore have avuncular, comradely advice for the Opposition. They should not believe their own propaganda when it comes to local election results. We had a difficult day last Thursday and Friday—that is obvious—and the Conservative party had a slightly better day. In my Blackburn constituency, however, the popular vote was up and we gained a seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "negligence, but I would be interested to know whether she will make proposals to cut that sum in her manifesto at the next election. Sums paid out for clinical negligence have been rising because of an increase in patients' rights and a greater readiness by courts to award high amounts of damages. If she is saying that in future patients will not have those rights or that the sums paid out —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Definitely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that each year hundreds of people are needlessly killed and scores more injured all because we go through the ridiculous ritual of putting our clocks back every autumn? May we, therefore, have a debate on the benefits of extending British summer time throughout the year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "ctively with the incoming SNP Administration? Will the Leader of the House clarify the Government's position, bearing in mind the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement that he will not work with the SNP? Perhaps the Leader of the House would like to take this opportunity to be the first Minister graciously to commend and congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The Opposition Whip says, \"Don't be tempted\", but I always congratulate everybody who wins an elected position in any forum because that is the essence of our democracy. That can be taken in the spirit in which it is intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jim Devine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Devine", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate on so-called size zero models?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.304.5", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There will be questions on Tuesday in respect of the Ministry of Justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.304.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "preceding_text": "r Benches, Eric Heffer, was in full flow. If Eric Heffer had a fault, it was that he had a bit of a temper. He was being baited mercilessly by one of our younger whippersnappers on the opposite side of the House. Eventually, Heffer completely lost his cool, spun round and shouted, \"Shut up, you stupid git!\" From the Chair, Mr. Speaker Weatherill said, \"Order, order. I think I'm meant to say that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "We have had a good, short debate. I commend hon. Members on the thoroughness of their research. The points have been made reasonably and, in response to the tribute to my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary, eloquently and authoritatively. It is right and proper that we reply as fully as possible to the points made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-10", "file": "debates2007-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "f4b2299ca244dc00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " Salisbury referred to the Valuation Office Agency. It is already the case that an empty property is valued, so we do not anticipate a surge, or even a blip, in the work of the VOA. Its work is already part of the tax base. The hon. Member for Surrey Heath will know—perhaps from reading lurid headlines, which I think of as scaremongering—that we are computerising the valuation process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-10b.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-14", "file": "debates2007-05-14b.xml", "sha256": "b4cb07b011ef320c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-14b.389.4", "colnum": "389", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend update us on the Type 45s, two of which are sitting in my constituency being fitted out, with a third to join them before the end of the year? What is happening with ships Nos. 7 and 8 in particular, as we know that four are required to defend each aircraft carrier?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-14b.389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-14", "file": "debates2007-05-14b.xml", "sha256": "b4cb07b011ef320c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-14b.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Send them back!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-14b.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-15", "file": "debates2007-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "afc5d29138187220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "No, I do not remotely think that thatis a major difference between the motion and the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-15", "file": "debates2007-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f76295b9d1ad276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "Perhaps rather unusually, I find myself in agreement with the right hon. Gentleman in recognising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-15", "file": "debates2007-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f76295b9d1ad276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "No, I do not remotely think that that is a major difference between the motion and the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-15", "file": "debates2007-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f76295b9d1ad276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.496.5", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "As I remember, that was a question about which party should be elected —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.496.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-15", "file": "debates2007-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f76295b9d1ad276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "nt that we should not have any illusion that procedural mechanisms will enable us to deal with all the practical problems that arise and all the moral and ethical challenges that we face in these situations. In the case of Iraq, unlike all the previous controversies, we have had not one, not two, but three votes, which effectively decided that Parliament was in favour of going to war as necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-15", "file": "debates2007-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f76295b9d1ad276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "hly unsatisfactory given the quality of the alleged evidence against Saddam on which Parliament was to rely in reaching its conclusions and voting accordingly. In case anyone has any misgivings or qualms about this, let me say that Saddam was an awful tyrant and that no one in his right mind could ever have said a good word about him. That, however, is beside the point; it is another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-15", "file": "debates2007-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f76295b9d1ad276e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "e will. That involves not only the eventual deployment of troops, but the campaign planning that is vital to any successful mission. We would not want to inhibit such contingency planning. Several right hon. and hon. Members drew attention to the need carefully to consider what should fall within the scope of any such arrangement. The right hon. and learned Member for Kensington and Chelsea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-15b.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "chnology and the system's delivery. I understand that she will also be making a statement after Prime Minister's questions, so the matter is best left for then. While the right hon. Gentleman is on mistakes, let me point out what this Government have done in office, compared with what his Government did. You gave us boom and bust, and we gave an economy of economic growth. You put 3 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "have no idea where in the country their jobs will be, or even in which country they will be. If the Government are going to start admitting to mistakes, should they not also start holding Ministers to account? Given the right hon. Gentleman's long experience of sitting at the Cabinet table, which we have all just celebrated, who does he think is to beheld responsible for the junior doctors fiasco?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.604.2", "colnum": "604", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Wicked Tories!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Yes, the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Given those circumstances, he should not ask for that. This Chancellor has been responsible for an awful lot of Government policy. That has resulted in a record period in office, with us winning three elections despite all the calls for general elections that we have had. The right hon. Gentleman points to difficulties to do with differences in view. May I ask him, as I have seen this today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " May I ask him, as I have seen this today—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] I just wish to make a point. I notice that the leader of his party is away today and that there has been a change of policy on grammar schools. When the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) was leader, he promised that there would be one in every town. I do not know how popular this U-turn is within his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " in kitchens and central heating. A little old lady in central London told me that she was delighted with her central heating because, she said, \"I can now invite my kids without worrying that they will be cold.\" That is the difference that has been made for millions of people. The hon. Gentleman is not taking full account of the social housing provision in the Housing Association programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "(Urgent Question) To ask the Secretary of State for Health to make a statement about the medical training application scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " academic and clinical experience? These are the people who arequite likely to be the doctors we remember—thosewho treat us when we go to hospital. They are senior professionals and the way in which they are being treated is appalling. Even at this late stage, these people do not know where they will be working on 1 August . It may be anywhere from Cromer to St. Albans in the eastern region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Frit!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Not at this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. Instead of listening to the hon. Gentleman, let us listen tothe experts—for example, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " valuable source of wisdom and judgment? No, it was reviled and joined the ranks of the vested interests. This listening and learning Government decided to be deaf to consumers just when it mattered. This was not just a U-turn, but hypocrisy at the heart of HIPs. We are aware that one body is supportive of the proposals. That, of course, is the Association of Home Information Pack Providers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " zero carbon in the years ahead will be—ashe said in answer to a parliamentary question—\"negligible\". Ten years in office, and no progress on the environment. Yet as soon as my right hon. Friendthe Member for Witney was elected leader of the Conservative party, Ministers were galvanised into greenery. Just imagine what we could do for the environment if we were actually in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members keep contradicting themselves. One minute they want bigger HIPs; the next minute they want no HIPs at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "nd if I have an answer before I complete my comments, I will give it to him. If not, I will get backto him. A good number of charities are indeed corporate bodies and are already covered. I want to ensure that we do not add a burden to smaller charities in particular. I will reflect on this issue and examinein detail whether such bodies might be added under amendment No. 32, should it be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92c81fd19260e456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to hon. Members for their support. I would not minimise in any way the effect of such deaths on families, which is the motivation behind the Bill and the wider health and safety package. We have debated individual liability extensively throughout the Bill's passage. The Government andthe official Opposition agreed that individual liability was not appropriate for this Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16a.707.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "chnology and the system's delivery. I understand that she will also be making a statement after Prime Minister's questions, so the matter is best left for then. While the right hon. Gentleman is on mistakes, let me point out what this Government have done in office, compared with what his Government did. You gave us boom and bust, and we gave an economy of economic growth. You put 3 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ave no idea where in the country their jobs will be, or even in which country they will be. If the Government are going to start admitting to mistakes, should they not also start holding Ministers to account? Given the right hon. Gentleman's long experience of sitting at the Cabinet table, which we have all just celebrated, who does he think is to be held responsible for the junior doctors fiasco?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.604.2", "colnum": "604", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Wicked Tories!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Yes, the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Given those circumstances, he should not ask for that. This Chancellor has been responsible for an awful lot of Government policy. That has resulted in a record period in office, with us winning three elections despite all the calls for general elections that we have had. The right hon. Gentleman points to difficulties to do with differences in view. May I ask him, as I have seen this today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " May I ask him, as I have seen this today—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] I just wish to make a point. I notice that the leader of his party is away today and that there has been a change of policy on grammar schools. When the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) was leader, he promised that there would be one in every town. I do not know how popular this U-turn is within his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.606.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "his old secondary school. He will be interested to know that the college is going to expand in order to increase the opportunities for young people in my constituency. During the last few weeks of his time in office, will he ensure that he does all that he can to promote the development of the college's next phase, and to ensure that the architecture is of the standard that we have come to expect?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " in kitchens and central heating. A little old lady in central London told me that she was delighted with her central heating because, she said, \"I can now invite my kids without worrying that they will be cold.\" That is the difference that has been made for millions of people. The hon. Gentleman is not taking full account of the social housing provision in the Housing Association programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I did not mark Dick Cheney particularly, although I met him once or twice. I recall that we met for the first time via video screen because, after the terrible 9/11 business, he was in a cave somewhere under security control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "(Urgent Question) To ask the Secretary of State for Health to make a statement about the medical training application scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "cademic and clinical experience? These are the people who are quite likely to be the doctors we remember—those who treat us when we go to hospital. They are senior professionals and the way in which they are being treated is appalling. Even at this late stage, these people do not know where they will be working on 1 August . It may be anywhere from Cromer to St. Albans in the eastern region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Frit!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Not at this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. Instead of listening to the hon. Gentleman, let us listen to the experts—for example, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " valuable source of wisdom and judgment? No, it was reviled and joined the ranks of the vested interests. This listening and learning Government decided to be deaf to consumers just when it mattered. This was not just a U-turn, but hypocrisy at the heart of HIPs. We are aware that one body is supportive of the proposals. That, of course, is the Association of Home Information Pack Providers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.634.9", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I look forward to that. I appreciate that the right hon. Gentleman, as well as bringing expertise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.634.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will you confirm that it is not necessary to declare one's interest in an intervention?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "ero carbon in the years ahead will be—as he said in answer to a parliamentary question—\"negligible\". Ten years in office, and no progress on the environment. Yet as soon as my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney was elected leader of the Conservative party, Ministers were galvanised into greenery. Just imagine what we could do for the environment if we were actually in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members keep contradicting themselves. One minute they want bigger HIPs; the next minute they want no HIPs at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": " if I have an answer before I complete my comments, I will give it to him. If not, I will get back to him. A good number of charities are indeed corporate bodies and are already covered. I want to ensure that we do not add a burden to smaller charities in particular. I will reflect on this issue and examine in detail whether such bodies might be added under amendment No. 32, should it be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-16", "file": "debates2007-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "9428e4cc9403e404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to hon. Members for their support. I would not minimise in any way the effect of such deaths on families, which is the motivation behind the Bill and the wider health and safety package. We have debated individual liability extensively throughout the Bill's passage. The Government and the official Opposition agreed that individual liability was not appropriate for this Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-16b.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.738.4", "colnum": "738", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "come to the House to clarifythe Government's position, and can we have a debate on the meaning of ministerial responsibility? It is now certain that the Chancellor will be the next Prime Minister, but because of Labour party rules we have to wait weeks for him to take office, with the country and the Cabinet in limbo. Who will make prime ministerial statements in this House for the next few weeks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Very generous\".", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am about to offer the Conservatives a debate in Government time on the disarray in the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": ") did not ask for a debate on education, but as the right hon. Gentleman rather did the subject to death, I shall not pursue not. However, we oughtto give an opportunity to Conservative Back Benchers to have their say about the change in the policy on grammar schools. Lastly, I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman noticed the perplexing comment by the Deputy Prime Minister yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.748.5", "colnum": "748", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that for a moment. There have often been such transitions. There has been a change of Prime Minister between general elections on five previous occasions, four of which happened totake place under Conservative Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.748.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There is a big, continuing problem, which I shall draw to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "b-postmasters greater freedom to find new business opportunities, encouraging local councils to see what services they can provide through post offices, and making the Post Office card account, which is so vital to the future of the network, a more flexible financial tool with much greater scope. Will the Secretary of State explain to the House why the Government have rejected those options—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State for giving me advance sight of his statement today. I regret that the consultation process has not led to a fundamental rethink. The Liberal Democrats have a fully funded rescue strategy for the Post Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "the point quite strongly that when the whole performance culture was introduced, a clear signal was given that those who achieved the targets would get extra power, responsibility and freedom. They said that now that they face the next generation of targets, they cannot see why they should try hard to meet them because they did not get anything worth while when they met the original targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman would have my entire support were it not for my belief that if we allow that cosy deal, not the industry but the Government will let people down. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman will not say that, but in 10 years of this Government there have been only a few pathetic improvements in the building regulations. Part L is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ucial to capture the vision and agreed priorities in local areas, but it is the engagement and negotiation between local partners, and the way in which they put strategies and agreed targets at the heart of their business, that will make them a success. That is a rather long way of saying, \"You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make it drink\"—the proof of the pudding, in other words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "esses the amendment to a vote, he will receive our support and he will also receive it if it appears in another place. I think that the Minister said that the Government are already working on this issue—or that the Chancellor is, at least, in the form of eco homes. I remind the Minister that so far, the Chancellor has issued a press release, so there is still quite a lot of work to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ible for care services. Amendment No. 33 alters the power given to the Secretary of State in clause 172(3), so that the Secretary of State has the power only to add to the activities of a LINK and not to remove or vary those activities. I hope that Opposition and Government Members will welcome the announcement. That was one of our early champagne moments; I have not forgotten my obligation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f21fb39c2bbc1317", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Let me make two points. First, the debate is being conducted on the false premise that patient forums are perfect organisations, yet by the hon. Gentleman's own admission the situation is patchy. I supplied figures to the Public Bill Committee and I will not delay the House further by running through them all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.724.4", "colnum": "724", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "products that they buy. So far, however, that approach seems totally beyond the ambition of the Government. Part of the problem, as the Green Alliance has noted, is that no single body is driving progress in this area. Will the Minister therefore consider constructively the submission of the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment to the Conservative quality of life policy review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wokingham!", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "No, not the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) . I have forgotten the right hon. Gentleman's constituency, and I am not allowed to use his name in the Chamber. Anyway, I think he would be very concerned about the hon. Gentleman's suggestion that we need yet another regulatory body to regulate something that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.726.6", "colnum": "726", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "Let me say first that I am very sad that the Secretary of State decided not to stand for the leadership of his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.726.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "it has been set up at Tory central office to track my activities—clearly it is being taken to rather ridiculous lengths—but since the hon. Gentleman asks, and although this may be shocking to the House, at the National Farmers Union I actually used the gents toilets. As it happens, at the gents toilet I met a farmer from Wales who subsequently entered into correspondence with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.738.4", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ome to the House to clarify the Government's position, and can we have a debate on the meaning of ministerial responsibility? It is now certain that the Chancellor will be the next Prime Minister, but because of Labour party rules we have to wait weeks for him to take office, with the country and the Cabinet in limbo. Who will make prime ministerial statements in this House for the next few weeks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So is Australia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " will have a debate on Zimbabwe—I promised that to the House and it will happen. As for suggestions that the Government should ban a cricket tour, I made it clear in 2004 that we disapproved of the England team touring Zimbabwe and that we would have preferred the England and Wales Cricket Board not to have gone ahead with the tour, but this is a democracy and we do not have any power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Very generous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am about to offer the Conservatives a debate in Government time on the disarray in the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": ") did not ask for a debate on education, but as the right hon. Gentleman rather did the subject to death, I shall not pursue it. However, we ought to give an opportunity to Conservative Back Benchers to have their say about the change in the policy on grammar schools. Lastly, I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman noticed the perplexing comment by the Deputy Prime Minister yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "priate, and I welcome what he said at the beginning of his statement. However, is it not rather strange that the Government are doing all that they can—including three-line Whips, \"unofficial\" though they may be, to get Parliamentary Private Secretaries to come in—to support a Tory Member's Bill that is completely inappropriate, given that MPs' correspondence is already well protected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.748.5", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that for a moment. There have often been such transitions. There has been a change of Prime Minister between general elections on five previous occasions, four of which happened to take place under Conservative Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.748.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There is a big, continuing problem, which I shall draw to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The whole Cabinet promised a referendum and I was pleased to make that promise myself when the appropriate moment came—Easter 2004, I recall. The proposition is not yet clear, however, and the Government will have to take a decision on it as a whole. I reassure the hon. Gentleman, who is a constituency neighbour and has some good opinions on some things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "b-postmasters greater freedom to find new business opportunities, encouraging local councils to see what services they can provide through post offices, and making the Post Office card account, which is so vital to the future of the network, a more flexible financial tool with much greater scope. Will the Secretary of State explain to the House why the Government have rejected those options—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State for giving me advance sight of his statement today. I regret that the consultation process has not led to a fundamental rethink. The Liberal Democrats have a fully funded rescue strategy for the Post Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Chorley?\" \"Mid-Sussex?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Member for Crawley that this is a very sad day for our constituents across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "the point quite strongly that when the whole performance culture was introduced, a clear signal was given that those who achieved the targets would get extra power, responsibility and freedom. They said that now that they face the next generation of targets, they cannot see why they should try hard to meet them because they did not get anything worth while when they met the original targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "al Government Information Unit. I hope that Ministers will reflect on whether something can be done to set out such a statement. The reason for taking such an approach was highlighted by my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) when he raised the issue of targets and centralism. I was in France the other Sunday for the second round of the French presidential elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman would have my entire support were it not for my belief that if we allow that cosy deal, not the industry but the Government will let people down. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman will not say that, but in 10 years of this Government there have been only a few pathetic improvements in the building regulations. Part L is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ucial to capture the vision and agreed priorities in local areas, but it is the engagement and negotiation between local partners, and the way in which they put strategies and agreed targets at the heart of their business, that will make them a success. That is a rather long way of saying, \"You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make it drink\"—the proof of the pudding, in other words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "sses the amendment to a vote, he will receive our support and he will also receive it if it appears in another place. I think that the Minister said that the Government were already working on this issue—or that the Chancellor is, at least, in the form of eco-homes. I remind the Minister that so far, the Chancellor has issued a press release, so there is still quite a lot of work to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must deal with the Question that I am putting to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ible for care services. Amendment No. 33 alters the power given to the Secretary of State in clause 172(3), so that the Secretary of State has the power only to add to the activities of a LINK and not to remove or vary those activities. I hope that Opposition and Government Members will welcome the announcement. That was one of our early champagne moments; I have not forgotten my obligation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ntirety of how health and social care should be held to account. What we are debating is the best mechanism for looking at the provision of services from the patient's point of view. It is therefore the provision of the service, not the service provider—effectively, the interface with the patient—that we believe is important. Time is pressing and other hon. Members want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-17", "file": "debates2007-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "e34323019722964d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Let me make two points. First, the debate is being conducted on the false premise that patients forums are perfect organisations, yet by the hon. Gentleman's own admission the situation is patchy. I supplied figures to the Public Bill Committee and I will not delay the House further by running through them all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-17b.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "The second petition is also from Councillor James MacCleary and others of like disposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "The second petition is also from Councillor James MacCleary and others of like disposition. [Interruption.] The petition expresses concern about the increasingly common practice of fingerprinting children in schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.877.8", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which one is this?", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "The next petition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.877.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.877.8", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "The next petition—[Hon. Members: \"Which one is this?] It is the third petition, to answer the question from the Labour Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.877.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.880.5", "colnum": "880", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You were giving advice to the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) about the length of his speech. Under what Order of the House are speeches time-limited? I was not aware that the Speaker could limit the length of time that we speak, so I am a little confused as to why you should mention it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.880.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain a list of the amendments that have been selected for debate today until quite late on. I am a relatively new Member of this House, and some of us —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.885.8", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "h time was taken up and given to Members speaking, which perhaps precluded other people from making a contribution. I urge today that we make progress, which is why I made the initial remarks that I did to the hon. Member for Lewes, who was on his feet last time. The debate was adjourned and he is now continuing. I wish to ensure that all Members who wish to contribute get that opportunity —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.885.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Maclean", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Legally!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Maclean", "preceding_text": "party that boasts that that third party has acquired correspondence from that Member that was sent to a public authority on behalf of a constituent. I have other examples. Hon. Members who have supported me in the Aye Lobby have told me that some of their correspondence relating to a constituent has been released against their will. Theoretically, it could be protected under data protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.900.5", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Maclean", "preceding_text": "I just want to put on record that my Bill had been on the Order Paper for some time. It received a completely unopposed Second Reading, and I could not talk on a Bill with an unopposed Second Reading. In Committee, it had the unanimous support of Labour, Conservative, and Ulster Unionist Members, and the support of the Liberal Democrat Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-18", "file": "debates2007-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "9acc8a198131110b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " that are already in place to give protection. Let us say that the information was put into the public domain in that way. If that is the case, it raises two important questions. First, was any action taken subsequent to the release of that material? Was it referred to the Information Commissioner? Was the public authority involved reminded of its duties under law? Was there any subsequent action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-18b.901.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-21", "file": "debates2007-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fc15d5b9055b6d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "den development should be on the table. However, that does not add up to a serious policy proposal from the Opposition. Let us consider the hon. Lady's town centre policy proposals. She says that we should not remove the needs test. Does she not accept that the needs test can have a perverse effect on town centres? We need a policy that promotes the vitality and sustainability of our town centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21a.983.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-21", "file": "debates2007-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "e22045ccca988fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "den development should be on the table. However, that does not add up to a serious policy proposal from the Opposition. Let us consider the hon. Lady's town centre policy proposals. She says that we should not remove the needs test. Does she not accept that the needs test can have a perverse effect on town centres? We need a policy that promotes the vitality and sustainability of our town centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-21", "file": "debates2007-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "e22045ccca988fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ncipal. The Quality Improvement Agency has established a forum to allow practitioners and providers to share best practice. Quality assurance is also essential. Excellence must be delivered as a matter of course, and when that is not happening, fast and effective intervention will be necessary. Members of the House of Lords; sorry, Members of the other place. A junior speech writer, I fear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-21", "file": "debates2007-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "e22045ccca988fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "We published a regulatory impact assessment. We made various pieces of information available as the Bill progressed through the other place. We will do likewise as the Bill goes into Committee in this place. If my hon. Friend is making a bid to be a member of the Committee, I am sure the usual channels will have picked that up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-21", "file": "debates2007-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "e22045ccca988fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or her.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "hat face further education and the skills agenda that faces our country, the omissions are extraordinary. Why have not we heard from the Secretary of State about what is really happening to apprenticeships? When the Chancellor—or the Prime Minister elect—talks about apprenticeships, he hopes that we think that he means an experienced, gnarled craftsman, wearing his blue overalls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-21", "file": "debates2007-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "e22045ccca988fb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "It has been described by Ministers elsewhere as largely a tidying-up exercise. I do not think that it merits the view expressed by the Secretary of State that 2007-08 is the year of skills. The Secretary of State is no longer in his place; I assume that he has gone off to run his campaign, which is probably a lot more exciting than listening to a speech from the Liberal Democrat Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-21b.1011.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-22", "file": "debates2007-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "3257b196dbb7d977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-22b.1098.7", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "NICE", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, I am afraid not for the first time, has simply misrepresented the position. First, MTAS has not been abandoned. It has been reopened to the postgraduate deaneries, which can continue to use it for the recruitment process. On the issue of the software, as I told the House last week, because of the continuing concerns of junior doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-22b.1098.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-22", "file": "debates2007-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "3257b196dbb7d977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-22b.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "NICE", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Secretary of State about a three-bedroom house for which a planning application has already been made for a third bedroom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-22b.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-22", "file": "debates2007-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "3257b196dbb7d977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-22b.1157.5", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Alison Seabeck) raises an interesting point, so yes, I will ask the Minister, as my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) seemed unable to answer me; I was quite shocked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-22b.1157.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-22", "file": "debates2007-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "3257b196dbb7d977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-22b.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Only five!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ster, and I would agree with him. We were in a bit of a mess and my right hon. Friend did come and sort things out. God bless him for that. There are only four or five weeks left before jokes about public schoolboys can become part of our debates again without any embarrassment on our part. I am looking forward to that because I am told that there are five old Etonians in the shadow Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-22b.1200.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I most certainly will not advise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I most certainly will not advise —[ Interruption. ] I will not advise abandoning the programme or the home information packs at all.It is extraordinary that the Conservative party is opposing energy performance certificates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Everybody knows that energy performance certificates could be introduced anyway—that fig leaf is not even green. Last Wednesday in the House of Commons, the Housing Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Everybody knows that energy performance certificates could be introduced anyway—that fig leaf is not even green. Last Wednesday in the House of Commons, the Housing Minister —[ Interruption. ] The Prime Minister should listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We do support the aims of the right to read campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "t rid of the renewables obligation, yet it has meant that we have doubled the amount of wind farm energy over the past two and a half years and that we are on track to reach the target of 15 per cent. by 2015—triple the current amount, as clearly set out in the White Paper. The Tory policy is to get rid of it. On top of that, Tory councils up and down the country are objecting to wind farms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "clearly set out in the White Paper. The Tory policy is to get rid of it. On top of that, Tory councils up and down the country are objecting to wind farms. [Interruption.] Let us take the London Array—one of the largest offshore wind farms in Europe that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and I consented to. Who is objecting to it? Tory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"What about 4?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "Yes, perhaps unsurprisingly I agreewith my hon. Friend that a preferential voting system—1-2-3—is easy for people to do and means that their vote counts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "Yes, perhaps unsurprisingly I agreewith my hon. Friend that a preferential voting system—1-2-3—is easy for people to do and means that their vote counts. [Hon Members: \"What about 4?\"] Let me make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "s given by my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) in a Westminster Hall debate and in his Bill as an MSP in Edinburgh, we see that the problems did not happen by accident. When he was an MSP, my hon. Friend put forward a Bill in the Scottish Parliament that called for decoupling, and the Conservatives have been saying the same thing throughout —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ny serial failures for which the Secretary of State has been responsible over the past two years. In 2005, there was the botched reorganisation of primary care trusts, which led within months to the resignation of Nigel Crisp, now Lord Crisp, as chief executive of the NHS. Under this Secretary of State, we saw the NHS plunge into its largest ever deficit. Since May 2005, the number of staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "y 2005, the number of staff working in the national health service has fallen. Payment by results and the tariff—a critical element of NHS reform—collapsed in February 2006, weeks before the start of the financial year in which the NHS plunged into its largest ever deficit. In payment by results and the tariff, we have a system that is necessary but is not being delivered successfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "From my recollection—I am sure I will be corrected if I am wrong—it was 1999. That was the last time that there was a substantial bout of flu. We have been lucky—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrats will support the motion this evening because of the palpable loss of confidence in the Secretary of State, especially with regard to her handling of the junior doctors shambles—a subject to which I shall return. However, to some extent the right hon. Lady is a sacrificial lamb —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What a surprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "The extent to which confidence in this Government's stewardship of the NHS has collapsed is remarkable. There has been record investment, which we supported, and some genuine progress has been made, yet both the public and health professionals have lost faith. Just this month, a \"Newsnight\" poll found that, in relation to the NHS, Labour was the least trusted party. The Liberal Democrats came top.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Absolutely\"", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "f the commissioning agency, the primary care trust, which then says that it is a matter for the strategic health authority, now a regional body. The SHA proceeds to tell us that it is not a matter that it can deal with, because the Secretary of State needs to intervene. At that point, we contact the Secretary of State for Health, who tells us that it is a matter for the local health economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "f927abdafbf35a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may say it is not true, but his leader and the shadow Chancellor have promised to cut taxes every year under a Conservative Government through a so-called proceeds of growth rule. Their new third fiscal rule applied over the economic cycle would require spending cuts—if enforced this year—of £21 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1260.3", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I agree with the right hon. Gentleman's last comment, but I should like to refer to the earlier comment by the hon. Member for south Armagh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1266.7", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1266.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "e, yet despite the fanfare at Gleneagles two years ago, there are stalled trade talks, the obstacle of an increasingly polarised and dangerous world and a failure to deliver the promised aid. As campaigners say, the world cannot wait, so does the Prime Minister believe that G8 leaders will ever live up to the hopes of their people and, if so, what does he believe is now necessary to deliver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I most certainly will not advise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I most certainly will not advise —[ Interruption. ] I will not advise abandoning the programme or the home information packs at all. It is extraordinary that the Conservative party is opposing energy performance certificates —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Everybody knows that energy performance certificates could be introduced anyway—that fig leaf is not even green. Last Wednesday in the House of Commons, the Housing Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Everybody knows that energy performance certificates could be introduced anyway—that fig leaf is not even green. Last Wednesday in the House of Commons, the Housing Minister —[ Interruption. ] The Prime Minister should listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1274.2", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "I join the Prime Minister, once again, in his expressions of sympathy and condolence. Can the Prime Minister explain why, in his manifestos of 1997, 2001 and 2005, he did not seek a mandate for renewed generation by nuclear power stations? Why is he so hellbent on nuclear power now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Sorry, I missed that one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We do support the aims of the right to read campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "t rid of the renewables obligation, yet it has meant that we have doubled the amount of wind farm energy over the past two and a half years and that we are on track to reach the target of 15 per cent. by 2015—triple the current amount, as clearly set out in the White Paper. The Tory policy is to get rid of it. On top of that, Tory councils up and down the country are objecting to wind farms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "learly set out in the White Paper. The Tory policy is to get rid of it. On top of that, Tory councils up and down the country are objecting to wind farms. [Interruption.] Let us take the London Array—one of the largest offshore wind farms in Europe to which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and I consented. Who is objecting to it? Tory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1306.0", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and his party made it clear in their amendment, which was not accepted, that they support the role of the Electoral Commission in that process: we do not. We believe that the inquiry should be independent of the commission because it is a principal stakeholder in the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": " 140,000 people had had their votes denied. Given that there was a vote both in the regional section and in the constituency section, it is perfectly conceivable that the same people are accounted for in both figures. I am not able to give a figure for the number of people involved, but I can rehearse the authoritative figures, whereas the hon. Gentleman, with absolutely no factual evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1316.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1321.7", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "I do not have the figures to hand. I did not realise that they would be an issue in the debate. However, many of my constituents welcome the opportunity to vote by post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1321.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"What about 4?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "Yes, perhaps unsurprisingly I agree with my hon. Friend that a preferential voting system—1-2-3—is easy for people to do and means that their vote counts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "Yes, perhaps unsurprisingly I agree with my hon. Friend that a preferential voting system—1-2-3—is easy for people to do and means that their vote counts. [Hon Members: \"What about 4?\"] Let me make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1325.4", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman saying that the Democratic Republic of the Congo ran a more efficient election than the Scotland Office? If so, what can the Secretary of State learn from the DRC?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Given that time is short, I shall make only a few points. First, I ask that the investigation examines the decision to have both ballots on the same day, not only in the context of possible erection irregularities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Keep it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Given that time is short, I shall make only a few points. First, I ask that the investigation examines the decision to have both ballots on the same day, not only in the context of possible erection irregularities —[ Laughter. ] I know what I meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Given that time is short, I shall make only a few points. First, I ask that the investigation examines the decision to have both ballots on the same day, not only in the context of possible erection irregularities —[ Laughter. ] I know what I meant. [Hon. Members: \"Keep it up.\"] I will endeavour to do so. That is a fair point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "s given by my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) in a Westminster Hall debate and in his Bill as an MSP in Edinburgh, we see that the problems did not happen by accident. When he was an MSP, my hon. Friend put forward a Bill in the Scottish Parliament that called for decoupling, and the Conservatives have been saying the same thing throughout —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I have —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh no\".", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the dancing on a pinhead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "It is not a problem at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I have given way far too often for the silliest of points and I do not intend to do so again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) . Sir John Arbuthnott, in particular, has been prayed in aid as somebody who made that recommendation. Let me read into the record Sir John Arbuthnott's recommendation. He said: \"We therefore invite the Scottish Executive to consider the postponement of the 2007 local government elections.\" His specific recommendation was not to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": " of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. We are about to debate a motion tabled by my right hon. and hon. Friends that states: \"the salary of the Secretary of State for Health should be reduced by £1,000.\" I therefore found it surprising that one of the signatories of the amendment is the Secretary of State for Health, who will benefit from the decision, one way or another. That would not be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ny serial failures for which the Secretary of State has been responsible over the past two years. In 2005, there was the botched reorganisation of primary care trusts, which led within months to the resignation of Nigel Crisp, now Lord Crisp, as chief executive of the NHS. Under this Secretary of State, we saw the NHS plunge into its largest ever deficit. Since May 2005, the number of staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "y 2005, the number of staff working in the national health service has fallen. Payment by results and the tariff—a critical element of NHS reform—collapsed in February 2006, weeks before the start of the financial year in which the NHS plunged into its largest ever deficit. In payment by results and the tariff, we have a system that is necessary but is not being delivered successfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "We need payment by results and the tariff to be delivered quickly, but what have we had under the Secretary of State? A chronic failure, a collapse in early 2006—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman again. [Interruption.] Five years ago, Addenbrooke's hospital told me that it was doing that already, but its problem was that it had to go at the same pace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1350.8", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Gentleman attended the meeting last night, he would have seen that more than 8,000 practices are now involved in the choose and book system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1350.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady need not take it from me. The general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "From my recollection—I am sure that I will be corrected if I am wrong—it was 1999. That was the last time that there was a substantial bout of flu. We have been lucky—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1355.2", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "tate has lost the confidence not only of the NHS but of many others with whom she has worked. Professor Halligan, the former deputy chief medical officer, has said that the NHS has \"a leadership void, which has caused it to lose its way\". Andrew Foster, the former director of human resources for the Department, has spoken of \"a growing lack of confidence in the leadership\" of the Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1363.9", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "a staff or the higher pay and we won't give you a decent public service pension either.\" Two days ago, the right hon. Member for Witney set out his seven-point policy for the NHS. His first point was \"an immediate stop to the closure of A&E and maternity services.\" Well, of course that is what he is saying. He wants the headlines. He loves the demonstrations and the marches. But let us look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1363.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1365.3", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Of course I agree with him that for the most serious —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrats will support the motion this evening because of the palpable loss of confidence in the Secretary of State, especially with regard to her handling of the junior doctors shambles—a subject to which I shall return. However, to some extent the right hon. Lady is a sacrificial lamb —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What a surprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "The extent to which confidence in this Government's stewardship of the NHS has collapsed is remarkable. There has been record investment, which we supported, and some genuine progress has been made, yet both the public and health professionals have lost faith. Just this month, a \"Newsnight\" poll found that, in relation to the NHS, Labour was the least trusted party. The Liberal Democrats came top.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has finished.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am not seeking to catch your eye in this debate, but it occurs to me that little time will be left once the Liberal Democrat Front-Bench spokesman has finished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Absolutely\"", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "of the commissioning agency, the primary care trust, which then says that it is a matter for the strategic health authority, now a regional body. The SHA proceeds to tell us that it is not a matter that it can deal with because the Secretary of State needs to intervene. At that point, we contact the Secretary of State for Health, who tells us that it is a matter for the local health economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may say it is not true, but his leader and the shadow Chancellor have promised to cut taxes every year under a Conservative Government through a so-called proceeds of growth rule. Their new third fiscal rule applied over the economic cycle would require spending cuts—if enforced this year—of £21 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-23", "file": "debates2007-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "b595904fbd5102fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "n voted against the national insurance increase that delivered extra expenditure for the health service. They voted against the increased expenditure for the health service that has been delivered and at the last election they did not promise to match us on the health service; they promised to take funds out of the health service to subsidise private care. They are not promising to match us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-23b.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Higher, higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "We are hardly taking our foot off the accelerator. There are 47 academies now. We have a manifesto commitment to have 200 academies by 2010 and we have just announced that we are to go onto build 400 academies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "al Home Affairs spokesman, the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) . I identified areas where I hope that we can carry the matter forward, but one thing is certain: when the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) cast doubt on the fact that the threat to the life and liberties of the people of this country is higher than every before, and is at the level of a national emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1431.0", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "told that the problem was that under our existing legal conventions, 18 hours was too long. As a result, I had to reduce the period to 14 hours. Let me be quite straight with the House, and say that these problems cannot be solved by charging more people, as some Opposition Members claim. Where there is sufficient evidence to charge people, we always do charge them. That is not the problem —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " on the Ministry of Justice? On Tuesday, the Government announced a two-month delay in the introduction of home information packs, which will start in August, before the \"consultation\" ends. Only a quarter of the required assessors have been trained, four-bedroom housesare being sold as three-bedroom houses with a games room and one in 10 people think a HIP is a sexually transmitted disease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend had been in the Chamber last Friday, he would know that I had four minutes to introduce my private Member's Bill, which would have guaranteed a package of measures for young people aged between 16 and 18. Of course, at the end ofthe four minutes, the Government Whip shouted \"Object\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "isedby the hon. Gentleman's inability to welcome developments—in this case a very good package of support for junior doctors. Of course, it would have been much better if it had been in place from the beginning, but it gives junior doctors better support than the NHS has provided in the past. On the issue of costs for yesterday's judicial review, of course I will consider that with sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "or the Prime Minister in those circumstances. I have left that issue with the Chair of the Procedure Committee, the right hon. Memberfor East Yorkshire (Mr. Knight), and I hope that something will happen. There is a real lacuna, and it means that over the next few months a lot of debate about reorganisations of the kind that I have mentioned will be stifled. That sounds a nerdy point, does it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1515.0", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Creep!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "passionate case for retaining the Marie Louise gardens. It is extraordinary that, despite the restrictive covenant, the local council plans to build more flats there. I hope that he will have joy in ensuring that the gardens remain. My hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Robathan) reminded us that he was speaking in his first Adjournment debate, and may I say what a welcome contribution he made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "47a567c53a7ad48d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "preceding_text": "ary by that amount over a year. The hon. Gentleman is right to remind us, however, that we need to be vigilant and to push Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs when overpayments take place. It is a difficult matter and we need to give people proper advice and confidence in the system. This has been a good debate. I am conscious that I have not answered all the points but I am going to stop now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24a.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1414.4", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "It depends on how the Leader of the Opposition takes this forward now. The hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) has made his mark and passages from his interesting speech resonated from \"The Future of Socialism\" by Tony Crosland in the 1950s. However, with all the knives out behind him, I am worried that he will not manage to make progress. If he does, he will be the Leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Higher, higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "We are hardly taking our foot off the accelerator. There are 47 academies now. We have a manifesto commitment to have 200 academies by 2010 and we have just announced that we are to go on to build 400 academies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1415.2", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Rob Wilson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "es are removed from universities. The Minister is right that we need to enthuse youngsters to study science and languages. Last Friday, I visited the excellent Clitheroe royal grammar school in my constituency and saw the new language block that has just been completed. I do not care who opens it—the Secretary of State, who would be delighted to do so, or the shadow Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "stry of Justice, the right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) , turns out to be a front runner in the deputy leadership contest for the Labour party, which may mean that she could become Deputy Prime Minister. That raises some important constitutional issues. As the hon. and learned Gentleman knows, she believes that the Law Officer's advice on Iraq should be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ral Home Affairs spokesman, the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) . I identified areas where I hope that we can carry the matter forward, but one thing is certain: when the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) cast doubt on the fact that the threat to the life and liberties of the people of this country is higher than ever before, and is at the level of a national emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1431.0", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "told that the problem was that under our existing legal conventions, 18 hours was too long. As a result, I had to reduce the period to 14 hours. Let me be quite straight with the House, and say that these problems cannot be solved by charging more people, as some Opposition Members claim. Where there is sufficient evidence to charge people, we always do charge them. That is not the problem —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The Chahal judgment took place under the Conservative Government. That is worth noting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The Chahal judgment took place under the Conservative Government. That is worth noting— [Interruption.] It is worth noting because those who claim that our problems stem from the Human Rights Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1438.2", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The business of the House for the week commencing 4 June will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "on the Ministry of Justice? On Tuesday, the Government announced a two-month delay in the introduction of home information packs, which will start in August, before the \"consultation\" ends. Only a quarter of the required assessors have been trained, four-bedroom houses are being sold as three-bedroom houses with a games room and one in 10 people think a HIP is a sexually transmitted disease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend had been in the Chamber last Friday, he would know that I had four minutes to introduce my private Member's Bill, which would have guaranteed a package of measures for young people aged between 16 and 18. Of course, at the end of the four minutes, the Government Whip shouted \"Object\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1447.2", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the changes that have been made have weakened Parliament, but we can debate this matter. Meanwhile I will send to the right hon. Gentleman transcripts of a series of lectures that I have given on the subject, in an attempt to introduce some balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "sed by the hon. Gentleman's inability to welcome developments—in this case a very good package of support for junior doctors. Of course, it would have been much better if it had been in place from the beginning, but it gives junior doctors better support than the NHS has provided in the past. On the issue of costs for yesterday's judicial review, of course I will consider that with sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1471.4", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "eir council tax, and Labour Members know to our cost that it is a politically sensitive one. What guidance will he provide to local authorities to ensure that in their consultations they do not just listen to what the majority say but provide a flexible service? My local authority makes fortnightly collections, which, while they work for some people, make life a complete nightmare for many others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "l speak briefly and pick up one or two of the points made by my friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) in a thoughtful speech. He spoke about the reorganisation of the Home Office and the creation of the Ministry of Justice, and reminded us that he is a member of the Constitutional Affairs Committee and also a member of the Sub-Committee that has been set up to look at the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister in those circumstances. I have left that issue with the Chair of the Procedure Committee, the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Mr. Knight) , and I hope that something will happen. There is a real lacuna, and it means that over the next few months a lot of debate about reorganisations of the kind that I have mentioned will be stifled. That sounds a nerdy point, does it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1515.0", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Creep!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "passionate case for retaining the Marie Louise gardens. It is extraordinary that, despite the restrictive covenant, the local council plans to build more flats there. I hope that he will have joy in ensuring that the gardens remain. My hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Robathan) reminded us that he was speaking in his first Adjournment debate, and may I say what a welcome contribution he made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-05-24", "file": "debates2007-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "9f0fcb0014ca7673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "preceding_text": "ary by that amount over a year. The hon. Gentleman is right to remind us, however, that we need to be vigilant and to push Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs when overpayments take place. It is a difficult matter and we need to give people proper advice and confidence in the system. This has been a good debate. I am conscious that I have not answered all the points but I am going to stop now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-05-24b.1522.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-04", "file": "debates2007-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "9d889ec31207bc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04b.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "lpful, in the end produced an agreement toamend the Bill. Many of the Joint Committee's recommendations were accepted, and I pay tribute to colleagues who worked to make sure than the Bill is much better than when it started. After almost six months in the Lords, the general conclusion—everybody seems to have said this—was that it was considerably improved by the amendments made there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04b.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-04", "file": "debates2007-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "9d889ec31207bc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04b.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": ".\" Lord Thomas of Gresford made the point clearly on Second Reading that the important thing about people practising in the legal profession is that they owe a duty not just to their clients, but to the courts and to the justice system. They therefore, for example, have an obligation to ensure that there is no conflict of interest, and an obligation not to state things that they know to be untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04b.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-04", "file": "debates2007-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "e76fb06e580ccb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "We always keep such decisions under careful review. The hon. Gentleman is a one-track record when he refers to all these reforms; he has nothing positive or constructive to offer. We both agree that consensus is an important part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-04", "file": "debates2007-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "e76fb06e580ccb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.19.7", "colnum": "19", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "t merely to observe but to participate in our proceedings. Does the hon. Gentleman agree with that proposition and, if so, does he accept that there is a powerful case for acting to ensure that organised school parties can have, at periodic intervals during recesses, staged debates on the Floor of the House to enhance their interest in this House and to prepare them for their future contributions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.19.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-04", "file": "debates2007-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "e76fb06e580ccb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I think that everyone in both Houses is grateful to the Committee that carried out the pre-legislative scrutiny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-04", "file": "debates2007-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "e76fb06e580ccb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "pful, in the end produced an agreement to amend the Bill. Many of the Joint Committee's recommendations were accepted, and I pay tribute to colleagues who worked to make sure than the Bill is much better than when it started. After almost six months in the Lords, the general conclusion—everybody seems to have said this—was that it was considerably improved by the amendments made there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.54.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-04", "file": "debates2007-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "e76fb06e580ccb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "is very much evident in areas such as mine, which my hon. Friend identified. Small firms often provide the cross-subsidy that allows any sort of criminal law to take place in our magistrates courts and smaller courts. Such work is not profitable and is carried out only due to the good will of small firms. If we lose them, we will lose any hope of legal aid for criminal cases in rural areas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-04c.60.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-05", "file": "debates2007-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "c9199a365b63e3ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-05b.151.6", "colnum": "151", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "important issue. However, we have moved dramatically to accept the principle that it should be in place, but we want to do two other things, too—to improve the operation of the prisons and probation ombudsman and the forum for preventing deaths in custody. If we do that, we shall deal with issues relating to deaths in custody while accepting the principle that if we need to go further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-05b.151.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "61629c8ce6dae89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ars that iSOFT's previous accounting policy, which it has now had to abandon, was based on its receipt of letters of credit, centred around advance payments from NHS Connecting for Health. In evidence to the PAC on 26 June , Richard Granger of Connecting for Health stated that it would make an advance payment only when covered by a letter of credit from a bank. That is nice work if you can get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "61629c8ce6dae89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "of credit, centred around advance payments from NHS Connecting for Health. In evidence to the PAC on 26 June , Richard Granger of Connecting for Health stated that it would make an advance payment only when covered by a letter of credit from a bank. That is nice work if you can get it. [Interruption.] That completely undermines the Department's claim that suppliers get paid only when they deliver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "61629c8ce6dae89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "f credit from a bank. That is nice work if you can get it. [Interruption.] That completely undermines the Department's claim that suppliers get paid only when they deliver. [Interruption.] But as the Minister cannot be bothered to listen, she will not understand that. iSOFT is now looking for a buyer. Its main customer, CSC or Computer Sciences Corporation, has opposed a bid by an Australian firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "61629c8ce6dae89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.272.3", "colnum": "272", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "deas? The system was meant to have been in place for more than 18 months now. Speaking of monumental incompetence, I shall leave the subject of the parallel scandalous failure of the Department to implement successfully the medical training application scheme for junior doctors to my expert colleague who will wind up for us today—the surgeon commander, my hon. Friend the Member for Westbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "61629c8ce6dae89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.272.3", "colnum": "272", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "o much, on far too big a waterfront\", and referred to the \"bunker mentality\" that Connecting for Health has built around it. I cannot argue with his critique of the programme as far as it goes, but when are the Government going to make the necessary U-turn and devolve complete power to local hospitals? One of the original architects, Lord Hunt, who is now back in post, said just last month —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "61629c8ce6dae89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "n big server farms, linked in to all sorts of interesting database apps for everything from cancer research (sob sob) to the prediction of antisocial behaviour (identify Tory voters at birth and ASBO them)\", and a smiley is tagged on at the end. It is no wonder the Tories do not like this: these are the kind of people they are taking advice from and who have fundamentalist views about the opt-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "61629c8ce6dae89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "s to be welcomed. However, there is at present a lot of money in the middle east and despite the Iraq war there is deep affection for Britain. People in the middle east understand that Britain is a good place to put their hundreds of millions—or even billions. We have neglected countries such as Oman and Kuwait. The last trade Minister to go to Yemen was Anthony Nelson in 1996, and he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "61629c8ce6dae89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "fence Ministers to their countries. That must be remedied. I can honestly say that I believe that I personally, and at my own expense, have been to more such countries than have the Secretary of State and his entire team over the past 10 years. I urge the Secretary of State to appreciate that this is a severe deficiency in the practices of his Department. The Rover inquiry has cost a lot of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06a.332.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.246.9", "colnum": "246", "heading": "MTAS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": " In some cases, it would make sense for the Welsh ambulance service to deal with patients in the southern part of my constituency. Will the Minister use whatever good offices he has to encourage Welsh Assembly Ministers to urge the Welsh ambulance service to work seamlessly with its colleagues in Gloucestershire, because we do not want the Welsh border to become a barrier to effective health care?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.246.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could contact the right hon. and learned Lady and find out why she was— [Interruption.] Let me finish. If it was on a Labour party matter, it is nothing to do with me or the House. It is only when an hon. Member makes an official visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.259.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "with the Conservative party. There are interesting links with NHS IT 23, which is where Ross Anderson appears again. Also in NHS IT 23 is Professor Geoffrey Sampson. I do not want to do a disservice to the Conservative party—I am not sure whether it threw him out of the party because of his extreme views on racism. I have a feeling it threw him out, but I might be being totally unfair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "n big server farms, linked in to all sorts of interesting database apps for everything from cancer research (sob sob) to the prediction of antisocial behaviour (identify Tory voters at birth and ASBO them)\", and a smiley is tagged on at the end. It is no wonder the Tories do not like this: these are the kind of people they are taking advice from and who have fundamentalist views about the opt-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor (Adam Afriyie) and his expert remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "t of the unquantified benefits of being on the national spine, because based on the Department's form I have no confidence that my records will not end up on Channel 4 news. What elements of NPfIT will patients be able to refuse? Can the Minister assure me and my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) that the option to opt out will be fully explained to patients? Can he say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "e it as the Department of tinkering and interference, or the Department of timidity and inaction. Behind that lies a difficult paradox, with which we all have to wrestle. In a world of globalisation where free markets are left to be free as much as possible, the interference from a Department should be minimal. Over the years there have been extreme contrasts of approach, even among Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "pointed when I opened the report, which is a pretty shoddy document full of misprints. Indeed, I am surprised that the Secretary of State ever put his name to it. I am a complete apostrophe fascist, and my copy of the report is covered in red ink. I hope that the next report will be of a much higher standard. In addition to many thousands of misprints, in some cases paragraphs just come to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "r, such as the Rover inquiry. In future, I hope that the Government will appreciate that continuity of science budgets is crucial. Earlier, mention was made on the Conservative Benches of regulation. We never hear much from the Government about that. They deny that regulation does any harm. The small business sector in particular, however, finds regulation increasingly costly and burdensome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "s to be welcomed. However, there is at present a lot of money in the middle east and despite the Iraq war there is deep affection for Britain. People in the middle east understand that Britain is a good place to put their hundreds of millions—or even billions. We have neglected countries such as Oman and Kuwait. The last trade Minister to go to Yemen was Anthony Nelson in 1996, and he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "fence Ministers to their countries. That must be remedied. I can honestly say that I believe that I personally, and at my own expense, have been to more such countries than have the Secretary of State and his entire team over the past 10 years. I urge the Secretary of State to appreciate that this is a severe deficiency in the practices of his Department. The Rover inquiry has cost a lot of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " , 17 January 2006; Vol. 441, c. 779 .] I was surprised, therefore, that on the day that I published my White Paper he urged me to go and build nuclear power stations as quickly as I possibly could. I was even more surprised that this morning, in an interview with Andrew Neil on the BBC, when he was asked what is Tory policy on nuclear, he said that \"It's pretty well the same as the Government's.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "preceding_text": "t is the institution itself that is fundamentally flawed. There are pieces of the DTI that work, that are relevant, that are effective and that are appropriate for Government to do. However, there is nearly always a related Department that also has an interest in those tasks, and they should be transferred to that Department. The dead wood should be dumped and the cost to the taxpayer saved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "preceding_text": "One can only agree with the hon. Gentleman's argument that what has been done and ignored in the past has to be dealt with now, but unfortunately, creating more waste only adds to the problem and does not diminish it. It also adds to overall costs, so there is an underlying set of issues that has to be dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "preceding_text": "As I made clear, the £8 billion figure was in our previous manifesto. As there have been changes in the DTI, we are working through the numbers again. That is not inappropriate. We did not call this debate; we are responding to it. We will come forward with the numbers. We are not changing policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.354.5", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": " having blown it, which previous Labour Governments did. They did not blow it, although they have nibbled at the edges of that inheritance and made matters more difficult. The roots of what have been achieved lie in Conservative policies. Those with longer memories will remember the mess that we inherited in 1979; that was the real mess that had to be cleared up, and it was done very successfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "arguments of the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Susan Kramer) about the Small Business Service, which seems to be a relatively unloved part of the DTI. However, her proposal certainly would not save £8 billion in the lifetime of a Parliament, even if the SBS were abolished. I cannot think of any other function—she did not, I think, name one—that could be abolished within the DTI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-06", "file": "debates2007-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "d38f06a8b10b0676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "re...It's too much hassle employing staff any more. It's becoming too much paper work, I can't even remember the numbers of the forms.\" He is not alone. Mrs. Linda Gibson, of London Colney, said: \"I spend a lot of my time dealing with formalities...The area where it is getting worse is employment. I only employ my husband, and he's not too much trouble. I would think twice before employing staff.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-06b.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "rit in this country being involved in qualified majority voting in certain areas of justice and home affairs. That would be better than the current situation of informal groupings of countries making decisions over which we cannot have any control. The right hon. Lady's point about the trade unions was an example of the old Tory party, as it was a wholly unjustifiable attack on the movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "First, I abjectly apologise to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "First, I abjectly apologise to the House— [ Interruption. ] —and to the south-west. I made the error of thinking that because the righthon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) representsa constituency not far from south-west London,but a very long way from south-west England —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The whole House shares the profound concern about Zimbabwe and the horror at what is now happening. I do not wish to make this a partisan issue, although the hon. Gentleman started to go that way, so it would be unseemly to remind the House thatit was a previous Conservative Administration who awarded Robert Mugabe an honorary knighthood —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.412.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "id in the spirit of opening a discussion. I want to make it absolutely plain that discussionon the stop-and-question powers is going on inside Government. I did not raise the matter, and neither did the police in mainland Britain. It derived from one source. However, it is also evident that at least one source has major misgivings about it. The problem is that the source is the same in both cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "il Woolas buy a car for £50,000 or £100,000 and never use it, leaving it in the garage? Why do people invest in property; to board it up and leave it empty? No—to obtain a return on their investment.\" Let me make it instantly clear that we know that the Minister for Local Government is a frugal guy and that he would never spend anything like that amount of money on a flash motor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "ct that could be profoundly deleterious, as it impacts on pension funds. Pension funds, as we all know, hold significant property assets—a point acknowledged by the Financial Secretary. If he is right, and the measure leads to the lowering of rents, thatwill mean that the capital value of those property assets will decline and the yields from those properties will decline. That means —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "tably from my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) —taken it up with alacrity because of the significance of the revenue-raising measure. Sir Michael Lyons made some interesting observations about the extent of business rates and their impact on revenue raising for the Government and on businesses in general. Rates are a very significant tax revenue raiser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "eferred to local authorities' enthusiasm for the Bill, and in discussing their response to Lyons he touched on Hampshire county council, in order to bring the point home to my hon. Friend the Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban) . It does not surprise me that local authorities might see this provision as an easy way of raising revenue because it is a stealth tax. It is not paid by the people who —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "reham (Mr. Hoban) . It does not surprise me that local authorities might see this provision as an easy way of raising revenue because it is a stealth tax. It is not paid by the people who —[Interruption.] The Minister for Local Government says from a sedentary position that it is not a stealth tax, but it is a classic stealth tax, in that nobody who puts their cross on a ballot paper —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.474.4", "colnum": "474", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "not the next financial year. This year, the property sector has seen not just a change in the relief for empty property, but the start of the abolition of the industrial buildings allowance and the agricultural buildings allowance, which we have debated in the Finance Bill Committee over the last few weeks. Those are significant tax changes that will impact on the way in which the sector operates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "elopers made speculative decisions. I presume the word \"speculative\" means that they takea risk. At present they know that they will not be required to pay business rates on empty properties, so they factor that in. My right hon. Friend the Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton, West (Mr. McAvoy) is ever present and I need to answer the debate. He is not in the Chamber; he is just ever present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "71770469383463b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "n; Manchester, £37 million; and so forth. The latest figures published last year show at the bottom of the list areas such as Teessdale at £91,000; Chester-le-Street, £192,000; and Castle Morpeth, £307,000—but they are not all in the north. I was hoping to tempt an intervention from a southern Member, but so far I have not. I am holding back on some in the list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07a.480.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "rit in this country being involved in qualified majority voting in certain areas of justice and home affairs. That would be better than the current situation of informal groupings of countries making decisions over which we cannot have any control. The right hon. Lady's point about the trade unions was an example of the old Tory party, as it was a wholly unjustifiable attack on the movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "First, I abjectly apologise to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "First, I abjectly apologise to the House— [ Interruption. ] —and to the south-west. I made the error of thinking that because the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) represents a constituency not far from south-west London, but a very long way from south-west England —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The whole House shares the profound concern about Zimbabwe and the horror at what is now happening. I do not wish to make this a partisan issue, although the hon. Gentleman started to go that way, so it would be unseemly to remind the House that it was a previous Conservative Administration who awarded Robert Mugabe an honorary knighthood —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Look behind you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "May I, Mr. Speaker, from a position of total sycophancy say that you are absolutely right? However, I can tell the hon. Member for New Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) that I wish that the matter was that simple. The truth is that all the problems that I faced when I was Home Secretary arose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate on the double standards of the BBC?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "d in the spirit of opening a discussion. I want to make it absolutely plain that discussion on the stop-and-question powers is going on inside Government. I did not raise the matter, and neither did the police in mainland Britain. It derived from one source. However, it is also evident that at least one source has major misgivings about it. The problem is that the source is the same in both cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "il Woolas buy a car for £50,000 or £100,000 and never use it, leaving it in the garage? Why do people invest in property; to board it up and leave it empty? No—to obtain a return on their investment.\" Let me make it instantly clear that we know that the Minister for Local Government is a frugal guy and that he would never spend anything like that amount of money on a flash motor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "t that could be profoundly deleterious, as it impacts on pension funds. Pension funds, as we all know, hold significant property assets—a point acknowledged by the Financial Secretary. If he is right, and the measure leads to the lowering of rents, that will mean that the capital value of those property assets will decline and the yields from those properties will decline. That means —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "tably from my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) —taken it up with alacrity because of the significance of the revenue-raising measure. Sir Michael Lyons made some interesting observations about the extent of business rates and their impact on revenue raising for the Government and on businesses in general. Rates are a very significant tax revenue raiser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "eferred to local authorities' enthusiasm for the Bill, and in discussing their response to Lyons he touched on Hampshire county council, in order to bring the point home to my hon. Friend the Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban) . It does not surprise me that local authorities might see this provision as an easy way of raising revenue because it is a stealth tax. It is not paid by the people who —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "reham (Mr. Hoban) . It does not surprise me that local authorities might see this provision as an easy way of raising revenue because it is a stealth tax. It is not paid by the people who —[Interruption.] The Minister for Local Government says from a sedentary position that it is not a stealth tax, but it is a classic stealth tax, in that nobody who puts their cross on a ballot paper —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.474.4", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "not the next financial year. This year, the property sector has seen not just a change in the relief for empty property, but the start of the abolition of the industrial buildings allowance and the agricultural buildings allowance, which we have debated in the Finance Bill Committee over the last few weeks. Those are significant tax changes that will impact on the way in which the sector operates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "lopers made speculative decisions. I presume the word \"speculative\" means that they take a risk. At present they know that they will not be required to pay business rates on empty properties, so they factor that in. My right hon. Friend the Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton, West (Mr. McAvoy) is ever present and I need to answer the debate. He is not in the Chamber; he is just ever present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "n; Manchester, £37 million; and so forth. The latest figures published last year show at the bottom of the list areas such as Teessdale at £91,000; Chester-le-Street, £192,000; and Castle Morpeth, £307,000—but they are not all in the north. I was hoping to tempt an intervention from a southern Member, but so far I have not. I am holding back on some in the list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-07", "file": "debates2007-06-07b.xml", "sha256": "23745d0d7934c955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "e provide help to such businesses. The hon. Gentleman then contradicted his argument by saying that we would damage pension funds because rents would decrease. As I have said, both arguments cannot be true. However, the hon. Gentleman was gracious enough to praise the Financial Secretary's thoroughness and eloquence, although he did not say that about my contribution, for which I cannot blame him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-07b.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "859b23ef4592d0a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11a.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ke us in the future? The Conservative motion is inadequate because I do not think that a Privy Council inquiry is necessarily the ideal format. Such an inquiry would exclude people who were not members of the Privy Council, even though the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks suggested that several people could become Privy Councillors instantly so that they could take part in the inquiry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11a.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "859b23ef4592d0a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We won.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ighting operations that involve high-intensity combat, yet unlike the second world war, when civilians in London and Coventry were being bombed out of their homes, or the Falklands campaign, when the entire nation was engaged and glued to the evening news to find the latest reports from the front, today the rest of us are enjoying the cricket—I do not know the result of the test match—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11a.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "859b23ef4592d0a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I honestly think that the hon. Gentleman has not listened to the answers that have already been given on that point. That inquiry examined not the past, but how to deal with the present —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "859b23ef4592d0a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "tion. ] Does the hon. Gentleman want an answer, or does he want to heckle? The inquiry was carried out to try to find solutions to some of the difficulties that we have to address. However, the motion calls for a different inquiry. I listened attentively to hon. Members' speeches. They talked about the past and some indeed argued that we should go beyond the immediate past and further back —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First of all, let me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The protection of minority communities is an important issue. That is where Russia, for example —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ke us in the future? The Conservative motion is inadequate because I do not think that a Privy Council inquiry is necessarily the ideal format. Such an inquiry would exclude people who were not members of the Privy Council, even though the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks suggested that several people could become Privy Councillors instantly so that they could take part in the inquiry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "The only way we can help the Iraqis at the moment is by bringing stability to the current position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Will he come?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "I have invited the Prime Minister to our inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "Earlier, Mr. Deputy Speaker suggested that there had been a late surge of interest in the debate. That has been fully confirmed by the quality of the speeches we have heard, not least that of the hon. and learned Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews) . As is customary with him, he put the interests of the country and Parliament before his own narrow party interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We won.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ighting operations that involve high-intensity combat, yet unlike the second world war, when civilians in London and Coventry were being bombed out of their homes, or the Falklands campaign, when the entire nation was engaged and glued to the evening news to find the latest reports from the front, today the rest of us are enjoying the cricket—I do not know the result of the test match—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I honestly think that the hon. Gentleman has not listened to the answers that have already been given on that point. That inquiry examined not the past, but how to deal with the present —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "tion. ] Does the hon. Gentleman want an answer, or does he want to heckle? The inquiry was carried out to try to find solutions to some of the difficulties that we have to address. However, the motion calls for a different inquiry. I listened attentively to hon. Members' speeches. They talked about the past and some indeed argued that we should go beyond the immediate past and further back —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.604.5", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "As part of the review of the needs of carers, we will listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.604.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-11", "file": "debates2007-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "17d110f8c4d11f08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-11b.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "af19e0568cb9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.648.5", "colnum": "648", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.648.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "af19e0568cb9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": " by section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, but under strict safeguards. ACPO has confirmed its very strong view that it is fully satisfied with its powers in that area and is concerned about the wide extension of powers that the amendment provides. Liberty has also expressed its concerns, agreeing with the Government's position on the total lack of safeguards in this clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "af19e0568cb9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "henanigans.\" It is always unfortunate when Ministers see fit to insult lawyers, and the Minister of State, albeit that he was goaded from this side, concurred with that description. Let us remember that many thousands of people each year are acquitted of offences with which they have been charged; they are innocent people. Without the \"shenanigans\" of lawyers, heaven knows where they would end up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "af19e0568cb9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "e measure in its current form is an attack on our criminal justice system. It is an attack on the presumption of innocence, the equality of arms and, crucially, the right to a fair trail before an independent court. Almost every aspect of the system is being attacked. I hope that the Government will think again about the orders in Committee. We in this place far too often use the word \"draconian\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "af19e0568cb9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "suggested that while he was thinking about it he might like to leave an aide-mémoire in the Library each week, so that we could be reminded of how many we have created. As the hon. and learned Member for Harborough never goes out, because he is always making sure that he holds this Government to account, even he does not know the exact number, and neither do I. I doubt whether anybody does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "ef010214f6dad68b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "I am happy to have that conversation and to inform the hon. Gentleman that I shall be visiting Dounreay next Friday, where I will be able to hold discussions with local management. If the hon. Gentleman wants to come along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "ef010214f6dad68b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.648.5", "colnum": "648", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.648.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "ef010214f6dad68b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "ortant to get all the assorted building blocks in place through the action plans and in other ways prior to ratification. My hon. Friend knows—I cannot remember the details—that a range of other nations have signed, but the last time I looked at the matter, Moldova had managed to ratify and that was it. I am not sure if that is still the case. A few more states may have ratified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "ef010214f6dad68b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": " by section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, but under strict safeguards. ACPO has confirmed its very strong view that it is fully satisfied with its powers in that area and is concerned about the wide extension of powers that the amendment provides. Liberty has also expressed its concerns, agreeing with the Government's position on the total lack of safeguards in this clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.671.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "ef010214f6dad68b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "e measure in its current form is an attack on our criminal justice system. It is an attack on the presumption of innocence, the equality of arms and, crucially, the right to a fair trail before an independent court. Almost every aspect of the system is being attacked. I hope that the Government will think again about the orders in Committee. We in this place far too often use the word \"draconian\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "ef010214f6dad68b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "suggested that while he was thinking about it he might like to leave an aide-mémoire in the Library each week, so that we could be reminded of how many we have created. As the hon. and learned Member for Harborough never goes out, because he is always making sure that he holds this Government to account, even he does not know the exact number, and neither do I. I doubt whether anybody does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-12", "file": "debates2007-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "ef010214f6dad68b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.718.4", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "r to be persuaded of those allegations, will still apply the civil standard, but it will slide up the civil standard. If there is an allegation of murder, the court will require to be better persuaded than if there is an allegation that somebody parked on a double yellow line. That is simply a flexible application of the civil standard. The Minister should not persuade himself that the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-12b.718.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "ec7752c32a9b5ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "d him that the Sex Offences Act 2003 created and redefined more than50 sex offences and set tough new maximum sentences. We set up the sex offenders register. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 allows us, for the first time, to give indeterminate sentences for the most dangerous, violent or sexual offenders. What did the right hon. Gentleman do when that Act came before Parliament? He voted against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "ec7752c32a9b5ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "With reference to what the Leader of the Opposition has just said about press coverage, why did my right hon. Friend pull his punches when speaking about the press yesterday? Is he not aware that, over these years, a huge proportion of the press coverage of politicshas consisted of fiction, propaganda and gossip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.752.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "ec7752c32a9b5ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ely plain about why I took12 months. I said that I would consider this with all the stakeholders and the evidence at home and abroad. The problem with the hon. Gentleman is that he predicted that we would not, should not and could not share this information outside of officialdom. He is on the side of the officials and the professionals; we have now carried the officials and professionals with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.767.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "ec7752c32a9b5ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. If he restrains himself for just a moment longer, he will discover that I was about to come on to the contribution that the British Government have made. I regret the fact that he seeks to create division in the House today, where I thought, to judge by the opening comments, there would be no significant division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "ec7752c32a9b5ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "are likely to direct the resources primarily to areas where there are huge numbers of population involved or, dare I say it, where Members of Parliament are affected. I know that the Minister does not like that, but it is true. How many hospitals are the Government closing in areas where there are Labour Members of Parliament, as opposed to areas where there are Conservative Members of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "9d32576a1314512f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.749.5", "colnum": "749", "heading": "G8", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State for his answer and I agree with him. However, does he agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.749.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "9d32576a1314512f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, let me remind the right hon. Gentleman of what Sara Payne said about what the Home Secretary is going to announce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.752.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "9d32576a1314512f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.753.4", "colnum": "753", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Office. Let me make it clear that the criticism of the Attorney-General in relation to this matter is completely unfair and wrong. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman wants to blame anyone, he can blame me. I am perfectly happy to take responsibility for it. Let me explain why I gave the advice that I did. First, the allegations are strenuously denied by the Saudi royal family. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.753.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "9d32576a1314512f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.754.4", "colnum": "754", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Brian Iddon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Iddon", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend agree that the best mental health care is provided by multidisciplinary teams of professionals working together in the best interests of the patient? Does he agree that the amendments made to the Mental Health Bill in the House of Lords were not made in that spirit, and that people with serious personality disorders can benefit from treatment in a modernised mental health service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.754.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "9d32576a1314512f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "eholders and the evidence at home and abroad. The problem with the hon. Gentleman is that he predicted that we would not, should not and could not share this information outside of officialdom. He is on the side of the officials and the professionals; we have now carried the officials and professionals with us. [ Interruption. ] The parents of this country have the right to the information —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.767.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-13", "file": "debates2007-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "9d32576a1314512f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "EU MIGRANTS (PETERBOROUGH AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": " to direct the resources primarily to areas where there are huge numbers of population involved or, dare I say it, where their own Members of Parliament are affected. I know that the Minister does not like that, but it is true. How many hospitals are the Government closing in areas where there are Labour Members of Parliament, as opposed to areas where there are Conservative Members of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-13b.829.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "in public services. If he does not think so, why does he always say to business audiences outside the House—he knows that they have to hear the truth about it—that Labour has had great success on the macro-economy? Why does he have to admit that the Tories left the economy in a mess? [Interruption.] Oh yes. There were interest rates of 15 per cent. under the Conservatives in the 1990s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend referred to the Finance Bill Committee. I have served on six of the last seven Finance Bill Committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend, and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor in particular, on behalf of my son-in-law and daughter, who has just given birth to a bouncing baby boy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Selous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " Industry and create a Department for energy—but we have heard that before. Two years ago, the Government changed the DTI's name to the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, but they changed it back again within days—I see the Deputy Leader of the House smiling—when they realised what the initials spelled out. I am too much of a lady to mention it in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.865.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I know about the hon. Gentleman's experience in the forces; he was a member of the Grenadier Guards for some years. The Ministry of Defence is clear that the allowance for UK-based forces is significantly above that for dogs, and so it should be. That is the information with which I have been provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I know about the hon. Gentleman's experience in the forces; he was a member of the Grenadier Guards for some years. The Ministry of Defence is clear that the allowance for UK-based forces is significantly above that for dogs, and so it should be. That is the information with which I have been provided— [Interruption.] Army dogs. Army dogs have to be fed, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Okay. That is unusual, because the hon. Gentleman normally provides a running commentary on everything I say. The hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning) was certainly talking about Army dogs in the Daily Mail yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Okay. That is unusual, because the hon. Gentleman normally provides a running commentary on everything I say. The hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning) was certainly talking about Army dogs in the Daily Mail yesterday. [Interruption.] If I missed the point of what he was saying, I am sorry, but I thought that he was continuing what he said in the Daily Mail yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.886.11", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "eas with two-tier systems. However, the problem arose because although some metropolitan district councils are the relevant authority, it could be argued that they do not have the functions of county councils. The definition was therefore changed to: \"a district council, other than a council for a district in a county for which there is a county council\". That is a very important technical change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.886.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am seeking to ascertain whether the information that as a result of the amendment will be obtained from a particular class of local authority will be made available to the BBC. That is my point about this information The reason I ask that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "of recommendations on this measure and on local government finance in general, they accept only the measures that they can introduce quickly, and which automatically yield revenue, and why they have not given adequate consideration to those other thoughtful—and perhaps more complex, but none the worse for that—series of arguments that enjoined on them a degree of caution in proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-14", "file": "debates2007-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "6dc86d2b5ee34fa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I note the gracious way in which the Minister has acknowledged that consultation will take place on the \"taking the roof off\" issue, but he will remember from Second Reading what we might characterise as the \"windy night\" debate. I should say, for the benefit of Hansard , that that is \"windy night\" as in a night when it is windy, not Wendy Knight, whoever she may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-14b.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-15", "file": "debates2007-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "2a32516c55351c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-15a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "lar example, but I am more than willing to look further into it for her. On the face of it, it seems that it could fall outside the planning guidance, but I should not give any commitments. However, she cannot say on the one hand that we all want an environmentally sustainable future and then say on the other hand that we want more car parks. We need a policy that recognises that difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-15a.996.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-15", "file": "debates2007-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "30126dc56a54474b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-15b.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "rticular example, but I am more than willing to look further into it for her. On the face of it, it seems that it could fall outside the planning guidance, but I should not give any commitments. However, she cannot say on the one hand that we all want an environmentally sustainable future and then say on the other that we want more car parks. We need a policy that recognises that difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-15b.996.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-15", "file": "debates2007-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "30126dc56a54474b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-15b.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "nt is a function of the strength of feeling at local level. The stronger the feeling at local level, the greater the embarrassment of the Secretary of State of the day in refusing such requests. There is no attempt in my proposals not to provide for accountability and reporting to Parliament, and I believe that I have covered the issue in my proposals on the reporting of the decision on functions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-15b.999.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-15", "file": "debates2007-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "30126dc56a54474b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-15b.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "be extremely welcome. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd) on getting it through the House. Perhaps he could inform the House why it is that new Members come up high in the private Member's Bill ballot and old lags like me never come anywhere in it. A Privy Council inquiry should be held into why bearded Members do not get high places in the private Member's Bill ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-15b.1030.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f86ff51a53a1f6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "bout 25,000 people in England, which is about 500 for each county, and many will require additional support to what is already being provided by the existing excellent mental health service professionals. We thus need to explore the mechanism for delivery at greater length. Perhaps the noble Lords in the other place will do so when the Bill returns to them. The hon. Member for Finsbury Park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18a.1178.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f86ff51a53a1f6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "at they are subject to best practice and effectively delivered. Who will be responsible for providing training? How much will it cost and how will it be given? Will it be on the job or will front-line practitioners have to be taken away from their patients to spend time learning about the new techniques? I hope that the Minister doesnot think I am being churlish when I raise these concerns —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f86ff51a53a1f6e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "atient. These put beyond doubt the fact thatthe conditions must be about either ensuring that the patient receives treatment, or preventing harm to the patient or others. That means that we have responded to the concerns brought forward in Committee and in the other place and made it absolutely clear what the conditions are about. Given that we have tabled these amendments to the conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "026945ac8d376588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Iran!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "e taking steps to try to stop that traffic and to get the message back directly—on this occasion, directly by conversations between, among others, our respective ambassadors in Afghanistan, in order to get the message across to the Iranians. I think that the House knows that Iraq is already meddling in a detrimental way in the affairs of a significant number of countries in the region—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "026945ac8d376588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend probably knows more about international law than I do, but I am not sure that we can do that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "026945ac8d376588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1177.2", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "I raised my concerns about community treatment orders in Committee and, with the indulgence of the House, I will do so again on Report. I hope that I have the Minister's indulgence and that she will not mind if I raise my concerns with as good grace as I can muster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "026945ac8d376588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "bout 25,000 people in England, which is about 500 for each county, and many will require additional support to what is already being provided by the existing excellent mental health service professionals. We thus need to explore the mechanism for delivery at greater length. Perhaps the noble Lords in the other place will do so when the Bill returns to them. The hon. Member for Finsbury Park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "026945ac8d376588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "county, and many will require additional support to what is already being provided by the existing excellent mental health service professionals. We thus need to explore the mechanism for delivery at greater length. Perhaps the noble Lords in the other place will do so when the Bill returns to them. The hon. Member for Finsbury Park— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Finsbury, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-18", "file": "debates2007-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "026945ac8d376588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "t they are subject to best practice and effectively delivered. Who will be responsible for providing training? How much will it cost and how will it be given? Will it be on the job or will front-line practitioners have to be taken away from their patients to spend time learning about the new techniques? I hope that the Minister does not think I am being churlish when I raise these concerns —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-18b.1178.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ae6135fee62971a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "some of the 8,000 prison places coming on stream and then, at the beginning of 2008, from the additional prison places I have announced today. In addition to increased prison capacity, I have authorised the issuing of guidance to prison governors to allow them to make wider use of the prison rules provisions to authorise release on licence for offenders who are coming to the end of their sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ae6135fee62971a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "e for offenders who are coming to the end of their sentence. [Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"] The guidance will authorise release on licence, in accordance with existing prison rules, up to 18 days before their release date, for those who have been sentenced to a determinate prison sentence of four years or less. This is a temporary measure. Let me be clear for all those in the House who are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ae6135fee62971a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "e events of 23 March were not the result of a single gross failing or individual human error, but of the coming together of a series of vulnerabilities, many relatively small when viewed in isolation, which together placed our personnel in a position that could be exploited by Iran. His conclusions suggest that there is no case for disciplinary action against any of the individuals involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ae6135fee62971a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "d as a mental disorder nor considered in society as a disorder. Indeed, people are protected by anti-discrimination laws and by the Human Rights Act against such an approach. The House of Lords discussed at great length all sorts of fetishes, transvestism and auto-erotic strangulation, on which they proved to be something in the way of experts. What a lot of fun they do have in the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "ae6135fee62971a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "I echo the Minister's words in saying that the Bill has provoked much debate and controversy, which I think is probably something of an understatement. It has been a long haul; as she said, nine years have gone by. I think that I have been responsible for the matter on the Opposition Benches for five of those nine years, and that she has had responsibility for a little longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19a.1337.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "d learned Gentleman with figures on these matters. The ones that he mentions are projections, and as I said, we are planning to review those projections in August. I will shortly announce steps to be taken on prison population issues with which I suspect that he, even if not his Front-Bench colleagues such as the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) , will have some sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "some of the 8,000 prison places coming on stream and then, at the beginning of 2008, from the additional prison places I have announced today. In addition to increased prison capacity, I have authorised the issuing of guidance to prison governors to allow them to make wider use of the prison rules provisions to authorise release on licence for offenders who are coming to the end of their sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "e for offenders who are coming to the end of their sentence. [Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"] The guidance will authorise release on licence, in accordance with existing prison rules, up to 18 days before their release date, for those who have been sentenced to a determinate prison sentence of four years or less. This is a temporary measure. Let me be clear for all those in the House who are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "grateful to the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) for raising some issues. May I put him straight on one thing? He said that I am reannouncing 1,500 prison places, but I am not: I am announcing new money—£80 million—from the Chancellor of the Exchequer for 1,500 prison places. That is over and above the 8,000 places we have already committed to for this period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "e events of 23 March were not the result of a single gross failing or individual human error, but of the coming together of a series of vulnerabilities, many relatively small when viewed in isolation, which together placed our personnel in a position that could be exploited by Iran. His conclusions suggest that there is no case for disciplinary action against any of the individuals involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1255.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "not address that situation directly, but it has been put to me that, on several occasions, megaphones have been used outside Carriages Gates to broadcast foul and abusive language when young children have been present. I have asked the police in the Palace whether they wish to take action and I have been informed that they have asked the Metropolitan police from outside the House to attend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": ", which would exclude, for example, reports by third parties of self-harm or suicide attempts. The examination would, therefore, be confined to what was happening there and then. That is why we believe that \"manifestations\" is a better word to use than \"signs\". My hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda, with the support of Committee members, and latterly of the Opposition parties, has certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": ", knowledge and experience overridden. They might not present to those services at all, and would therefore not get any help from them. Their condition might fester under the clinical radar and, as a result, they could be even more likely to commit suicide or to commit some harm against members of the public. The hon. Gentleman has no evidence to back up the prognosis he is putting forward —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1289.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1292.5", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "Game show like, my colleagues shout, \"Lower\", because it is a lower test —[ Interruption. ] You don't get anything for a pair on this show, either. That is the answer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1292.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1306.0", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "e new clause would introduce a new test which would subordinate issues of necessity and risk to the question of the patient's decision-making ability. It builds on provisions that we have been working with since 1983. Detention should be based on whether the patient is at serious risk of harming themselves or others. What the new test would mean is uncertain, as it is unprecedented in English law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1309.5", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "nd Shoreham said earlier in this debate. He said that very large numbers would have impaired decision making. He then said that some people would retain capacity, and quoted a study that said that 15 per cent. of people under detention retained capacity. He then said that the IDM test is a lower percentage, so there would be much lower numbers who could not be detained as a result of the proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1309.7", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman needs to look at the record tomorrow, because he said that the percentage would therefore be lower. The percentage who would qualify under the impaired decision-making test for not being detained is shown in the figures that I have given. He must accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1309.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "I rise to move amendment No. 88. I have never moved an amendment in the House before and I cannot think of a better one with which to start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1318.2", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "If we do not progress with the amendment, I hope that the Minister and others will look further into the way that mental illness is approached in the community, particularly by the police, and try to find ways of ensuring that when the police are confronted with a violent mentally ill person, they can recognise the situation and call on the help of clinical experts to help them to manage it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "d as a mental disorder nor considered in society as a disorder. Indeed, people are protected by anti-discrimination laws and by the Human Rights Act against such an approach. The House of Lords discussed at great length all sorts of fetishes, transvestism and auto-erotic strangulation, on which they proved to be something in the way of experts. What a lot of fun they do have in the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "Once again, we return to a topic that was a matter of considerable controversy and impassioned debate throughout the passage of the Bill, and indeed during its long gestation. That is whether it is necessary to include on the face of legislation a list of matters that are not to be regarded as mental disorders. My hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) put his finger on it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "We are not discussing that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1334.2", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. The Mental Health Act 1983 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "I echo the Minister's words in saying that the Bill has provoked much debate and controversy, which I think is probably something of an understatement. It has been a long haul; as she said, nine years have gone by. I think that I have been responsible for the matter on the Opposition Benches for five of those nine years, and that she has had responsibility for a little longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "s, but not always for its own—as, for example, with our discussion of compulsory treatment orders; and that each side quotes opinion surveys, but only the ones that suit. Personally, I have difficulty in any case involving complex matters in believing that the majority are necessarily right. I sometimes have difficulty in believing that even the Liberal Democrats are necessarily right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-19", "file": "debates2007-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "c43263c5ac17db1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "s are good—they will be put in the other place—we would expect concessions and not stubbornness. Ultimately, this is not for any of us a political issue. It is about putting good legislation in place on a very difficult subject, which will last for decades. Whether it is done through truculence in the Lords or Socratic questioning in the Commons, we can secure better legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-19b.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "297ed7fb1fbb0961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "Over the years, my right hon.Friend has visited my constituency on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "297ed7fb1fbb0961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ctorate who put us in power. Nothing is set in concrete forever; even the Minister will accept that things cannot remain static forever. In some circumstances, repatriation has blatantly become necessary. That is the sentiment of the British people, and it is probably also the sentiment of most other European countries. We must achieve the mechanism to deliver that, in the interests of the voters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "297ed7fb1fbb0961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "not remain static forever. In some circumstances, repatriation has blatantly become necessary. That is the sentiment of the British people, and it is probably also the sentiment of most other European countries. We must achieve the mechanism to deliver that, in the interests of the voters. [Interruption.] Is the Minister expressing approval? I think he must be, as he cannot disagree with my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "297ed7fb1fbb0961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1444.0", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "I was not a Member in the 1990s but I watched the great European debates about Maastricht, so it is a great honour to follow speakers such as the hon. Members for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd), for Stone (Mr. Cash) and for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies). It is easy to see why this place must have been electrifying during those debates in the '90s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "297ed7fb1fbb0961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": " access to European grants to try to provide new opportunities for young people in training and enterprise. We even have motorbike shops that trade in euros. For that to happen is a sign of the enthusiasm for Europe in Fife. I want to make two quick points before I move on the main thrust of my speech. Yesterday we found out that there has been movement on the official legal recognition of whisky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1445.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "297ed7fb1fbb0961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "the past 10 years, this country has been graced with a Prime Minister who can passionately believe several different things at the same time. So, at first, the Prime Minister adamantly opposed a referendum, then he was adamantly in favour of letting the people have their say. Now he is adamantly against a referendum because that suits his purposes. I am not responsible for his mental machinations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "297ed7fb1fbb0961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1475.7", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor, who is now apparently committed to open and transparent Government, but who remains as opaque as ever on this question, as indeed he was yesterday morning on GMTV? Is it the Foreign Secretary, who I am afraid to say is struggling to remain in the loop at all on this, or is it the Minister for Europe who is tacking between No. 10 and No. 11, just struggling to remain in a job?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20a.1475.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "616786948e01863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "Over the years, my right hon. Friend has visited my constituency on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1375.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "616786948e01863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "not remain static forever. In some circumstances, repatriation has blatantly become necessary. That is the sentiment of the British people, and it is probably also the sentiment of most other European countries. We must achieve the mechanism to deliver that, in the interests of the voters. [Interruption.] Is the Minister expressing approval? I think he must be, as he cannot disagree with my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "616786948e01863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1444.0", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "I was not a Member in the 1990s but I watched the great European debates about Maastricht, so it is a great honour to follow speakers such as the hon. Members for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd), for Stone (Mr. Cash) and for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies). It is easy to see why this place must have been electrifying during those debates in the '90s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "616786948e01863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": " access to European grants to try to provide new opportunities for young people in training and enterprise. We even have motorbike shops that trade in euros. For that to happen is a sign of the enthusiasm for Europe in Fife. I want to make two quick points before I move on the main thrust of my speech. Yesterday we found out that there has been movement on the official legal recognition of whisky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1445.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "616786948e01863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "the past 10 years, this country has been graced with a Prime Minister who can passionately believe several different things at the same time. So, at first, the Prime Minister adamantly opposed a referendum, then he was adamantly in favour of letting the people have their say. Now he is adamantly against a referendum because that suits his purposes. I am not responsible for his mental machinations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1475.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-20", "file": "debates2007-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "616786948e01863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "uropean Council, the German Chancellor, and the French, Czech, Dutch, Swedish and Greek Prime Ministers. The hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands) seems fascinated by other people's diaries. Perhaps he could tell us what the Leader of the Opposition is doing. Perhaps he is visiting a grammar school in Buckinghamshire with the hon. Member for Buckingham, or visiting a museum somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-20b.1484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ca2ae753745c5e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21a.1511.4", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "kly as possible. That does not mean to say that the Government have been inactive. We have allocated £600 million to private finance initiative schemes to improve the quality of street lighting to reduce the amount of lighting that simply goes up into the sky and spoils the view, as the right hon. Gentleman rightly says. Progress has also been made in domestic and sports facilities lighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21a.1511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ca2ae753745c5e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And the world.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n both sides of the House. It is worth recording that he was the last serving Member of Parliament to have served in the second world war. He joined the colours for the Indian army, which is a reminder not only of his bravery but of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people from the Indian sub-continent—Pakistan, India and Bangladesh—fought, and many died, to save freedom in Europe", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21a.1518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ca2ae753745c5e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for hon. Gentleman's thanks in the first part of his question. He illustrates how the doubling in real terms of spending on the health service has had benefits right across the country and potentially in his constituency as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ca2ae753745c5e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "uitment is properly incentivised, and where a commanding officer of a battalion makes it his job to ensure that his battalion is fully recruited, it can be done. There is not the will to recruit those numbers, because if they were recruited, the money would have to be found from other budget headings, and that would be a painful process. I was speaking about tour intervals. It is surprising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": "e Minister's interest in reducing bureaucracy, but would he admit that for farmers such as myself—I declare my interest—the real problem with the scheme is that they are now faced with their third year of disfunction in terms of the delivery of payments, while at the same time any minor mistakes that they make in good faith in compliance with the scheme are disproportionately punished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": "ld he admit that for farmers such as myself—I declare my interest—the real problem with the scheme is that they are now faced with their third year of disfunction in terms of the delivery of payments, while at the same time any minor mistakes that they make in good faith in compliance with the scheme are disproportionately punished? [ Interruption . ] An hon. Member: It's Gordon Brown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1511.4", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "kly as possible. That does not mean to say that the Government have been inactive. We have allocated £600 million to private finance initiative schemes to improve the quality of street lighting to reduce the amount of lighting that simply goes up into the sky and spoils the view, as the right hon. Gentleman rightly says. Progress has also been made in domestic and sports facilities lighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1517.3", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ahh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the future business. This may be the last time that he takes business questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And the world.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "sides of the House. It is worth recording that he was the last serving Member of Parliament to have served in the second world war. He joined the colours for the Indian army, which is a reminder not only of his bravery but of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people from the Indian sub-continent—Pakistan, India and Bangladesh—fought, and many died, to save freedom in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1518.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1523.6", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Conservative party, must consider the fact that when the Conservatives were in office, they brought before the House the Single European Act and the Maastricht treaty, which, on any basis, provide for major and significant changes and shifts in the balance of power between the United Kingdom and Brussels. On those occasions, the Conservative Government refused any suggestion of a referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1523.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for hon. Gentleman's thanks in the first part of his question. He illustrates how the doubling in real terms of spending on the health service has had benefits right across the country and potentially in his constituency as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1535.5", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " As I was explaining, the impact will be felt among those who believe that their career paths may be temporarily stalled. All that has to be taken into account, but this is a point of readjustment as we look towards the future Navy. As I say, that will apply to the new types of warships that will come into play, including the new aircraft carriers, which we look forward to joining the fleet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-21", "file": "debates2007-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "cb6ca3c6b8facde3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "uitment is properly incentivised, and where a commanding officer of a battalion makes it his job to ensure that his battalion is fully recruited, it can be done. There is not the will to recruit those numbers, because if they were recruited, the money would have to be found from other budget headings, and that would be a painful process. I was speaking about tour intervals. It is surprising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-21b.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "86b9d4395cfb0f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.13.5", "colnum": "13", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: we have said in two election manifestos that we willsell the Tote into racing. It is not the Treasury that has been the major problem, but Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.13.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "86b9d4395cfb0f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " will be difficult for them. The national Parliaments point is absolutely right. I had not realised that it was a Conservative party taskforce recommendation; despite that, I am still in favour of it. His last point is important, because even though I am a very strong supporter of the American alliance, I also believe that it is important that Europe has a common foreign and security policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "86b9d4395cfb0f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is simply wrong about the common foreign and security policy. It remains intergovernmental: that is made absolutely clear in the overview article that I described earlier.He says that he has heard it all from me before—but frankly, I have heard it all from him before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "86b9d4395cfb0f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There he is!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "vernmental: that is made absolutely clear in the overview article that I described earlier.He says that he has heard it all from me before—but frankly, I have heard it all from him before. [ Interruption. ] It is probably greatly to the benefitof both of us that neither of us will have to hear the other again. I cannot see the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "86b9d4395cfb0f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.35.4", "colnum": "35", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Exactly. It was a pick-and-choose method, which is absolutely the right thing to have on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25a.35.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "Well, the chairman of CPRE will continue to lobby —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.11.5", "colnum": "11", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Sir Gerald Kaufman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.11.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.13.5", "colnum": "13", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: we have said in two election manifestos that we will sell the Tote into racing. It is not the Treasury that has been the major problem, but Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.13.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": " also frustrated, but I do not have a magic wand. When one enters into negotiations, one has to negotiate with a whole series of parties. We have had difficulties with the European Union, as I have admitted, but the parties have come together now. There is an agreement with all the constituent parts of the parties involved in racing. I hope that in the very near future, when that consortium—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.14.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ls. He is wrong on all three counts. Let us take the issue of the treaty being different from the constitution. The constitution had an EU president, a single legal personality, a Foreign Minister and the loss of the veto; the treaty has an EU president, a single legal personality, a Foreign Minister and the loss of the veto in 60 areas. Far from being dead, the constitution has been resuscitated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ad an EU president, a single legal personality, a Foreign Minister and the loss of the veto; the treaty has an EU president, a single legal personality, a Foreign Minister and the loss of the veto in 60 areas. Far from being dead, the constitution has been resuscitated. [ Interruption. ] Was not the German Chancellor telling the truth when she said that \"much of the substance has been maintained\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " will be difficult for them. The national Parliaments point is absolutely right. I had not realised that it was a Conservative party taskforce recommendation; despite that, I am still in favour of it. His last point is important, because even though I am a very strong supporter of the American alliance, I also believe that it is important that Europe has a common foreign and security policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is simply wrong about the common foreign and security policy. It remains intergovernmental: that is made absolutely clear in the overview article that I described earlier. He says that he has heard it all from me before— but frankly, I have heard it all from him before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There he is!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "nmental: that is made absolutely clear in the overview article that I described earlier. He says that he has heard it all from me before— but frankly, I have heard it all from him before. [ Interruption. ] It is probably greatly to the benefit of both of us that neither of us will have to hear the other again. I cannot see the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.35.4", "colnum": "35", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Exactly. It was a pick-and-choose method, which is absolutely the right thing to have on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.35.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.35.6", "colnum": "35", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First of all, Germany is a parliamentary democracy—I mean, come off it. I have not come across those comments, but if the President made them, I disagree with them, and I suspect that most German people do. I do not think that when there was a German election recently, people thought that it was not a parliamentary democracy. Secondly, with respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.35.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "xception, I agree entirely with what my hon. Friend says. In any event, it is important to recognise that it requires something fundamentally different about a particular treaty in Europe to justify a referendum. Incidentally, that is why not only is Britain saying that this is a conventional amending treaty, but so are the other countries, or many of the other countries that have had referendums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-25", "file": "debates2007-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ede58b6225fa4509", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What is he talking about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-25b.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7b6c3c6dcbf00b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that his admiration for me is fully reciprocated. He has confirmed his unenviable reputation for being someone who never misses an opportunity for opportunism and I congratulate him on his consistency. The hon. Gentleman knows that it is simply not true that capital spending was cut last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7b6c3c6dcbf00b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": " some welcome details about the introduction of the regulations. One accusation that is occasionally thrown at us is that we do not want the measure to succeed. Although we are still sceptical whether the 200,000 figure will be reached, and although the Economy Secretary did not answer the point originally raised by my hon. Friend the cynical and sceptical Member for Braintree (Mr. Newmark)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7b6c3c6dcbf00b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.288.5", "colnum": "288", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The Bill rises to that challenge with targeted and economically efficient carbon saving measures—for example, to air passenger duty and vehicle excise duty. There are measures to reduce household carbon emissions as well, including incentives for energy efficiency in the current building stock and in new build.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7b6c3c6dcbf00b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "ly damaging impact on scientific research and the innovation that we need to fight climate change. Those restrictions will catch a huge number of innocent transactions. The Minister has said that he can solve the problems with guidance. For the reasons that we set out throughout the debate, one cannot draft excessively wide legislation and allow HMRC discretion to cut down its scope with guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7b6c3c6dcbf00b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "ve the problems with guidance. For the reasons that we set out throughout the debate, one cannot draft excessively wide legislation and allow HMRC discretion to cut down its scope with guidance. [ Interruption. ] Frankly, that contravenes the spirit underlying the 1688 Bill of Rights and the fundamental constitutional principle that it is for Parliament to determine taxation and not the Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7b6c3c6dcbf00b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "ng of information occurs. Such consultation is not intended to duplicate matters on which widespread pre-legislative scrutiny has already occurred. I hope that Treasury Ministers will take the proposal on board and take it up with the Leader of the House. I hope that they will be constructive about the matter, because they have been so about other matters and we have held genuinely useful debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7b6c3c6dcbf00b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "re-legislative scrutiny has already occurred. I hope that Treasury Ministers will take the proposal on board and take it up with the Leader of the House. I hope that they will be constructive about the matter, because they have been so about other matters and we have held genuinely useful debates. [Interruption.] For example, we have received responses to our concerns about the word \"think\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.149.5", "colnum": "149", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend will accept that it is not for me to intervene directly in the decisions that are taken by local authorities where people are democratically elected to serve their local community —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.149.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that his admiration for me is fully reciprocated. He has confirmed his unenviable reputation for being someone who never misses an opportunity for opportunism and I congratulate him on his consistency. The hon. Gentleman knows that it is simply not true that capital spending was cut last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I am happy to dwell on this point if hon. Members really want me to do so. There are two fixed points. We start from zero. Under any definition, that figure is zero, or thereabouts —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"New homes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "anning permission for that estate was moving forward—it is. The opposite of going forward is going backwards. As I am sure that the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies) would agree, the Government believe in going forward, not backwards, which is exactly what we are doing on the planning inquiry. As I said, we start from zero. By 2016, all homes will be zero-carbon homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": " some welcome details about the introduction of the regulations. One accusation that is occasionally thrown at us is that we do not want the measure to succeed. Although we are still sceptical whether the 200,000 figure will be reached, and although the Economy Secretary did not answer the point originally raised by my hon. Friend the cynical and sceptical Member for Braintree (Mr. Newmark)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 requires that the Government consider, by November next year, whether it is appropriate to introduce targets for microgeneration and, if they are introduced, to report annually on things done to meet those targets. That decision will be made by November next year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.228.5", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am about to draw my remarks to a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.228.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mrs. Villiers to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.281.6", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "y the approach we are taking to ASPs is right and why it would be quite wrong to go down the route of the amendments. I would point out to the hon. Gentleman that the vast majority of pensioners have bought an annuity well before the age of 75 and would never be able to consider the option of an ASP in any case. It is only those with the largest pension pots who would be able to consider doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.281.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "they have come back and tried to restrict ASPs to make them less flexible and less attractive to people as a means of providing flexibility in retirement. The problem with the Government's approach is that they are out of step with the desire of most people in this country to have greater control over their pension funds. They are out of step with the people of this country who want choice —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. The Budget targeted fairness as well. Changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.288.5", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The Bill rises to that challenge with targeted and economically efficient carbon saving measures—for example, to air passenger duty and vehicle excise duty. There are measures to reduce household carbon emissions as well, including incentives for energy efficiency in the current building stock and in new build.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "ly damaging impact on scientific research and the innovation that we need to fight climate change. Those restrictions will catch a huge number of innocent transactions. The Minister has said that he can solve the problems with guidance. For the reasons that we set out throughout the debate, one cannot draft excessively wide legislation and allow HMRC discretion to cut down its scope with guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "ve the problems with guidance. For the reasons that we set out throughout the debate, one cannot draft excessively wide legislation and allow HMRC discretion to cut down its scope with guidance. [ Interruption. ] Frankly, that contravenes the spirit underlying the 1688 Bill of Rights and the fundamental constitutional principle that it is for Parliament to determine taxation and not the Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "and allow HMRC discretion to cut down its scope with guidance. [ Interruption. ] Frankly, that contravenes the spirit underlying the 1688 Bill of Rights and the fundamental constitutional principle that it is for Parliament to determine taxation and not the Executive. [ Interruption. ] The Bill's provisions on pensions continue to demonstrate the Chancellor's mismanagement of the tax system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "ng of information occurs. Such consultation is not intended to duplicate matters on which widespread pre-legislative scrutiny has already occurred. I hope that Treasury Ministers will take the proposal on board and take it up with the Leader of the House. I hope that they will be constructive about the matter, because they have been so about other matters and we have held genuinely useful debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "re-legislative scrutiny has already occurred. I hope that Treasury Ministers will take the proposal on board and take it up with the Leader of the House. I hope that they will be constructive about the matter, because they have been so about other matters and we have held genuinely useful debates. [Interruption.] For example, we have received responses to our concerns about the word \"think\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-26", "file": "debates2007-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "d18b3884ffe3aebf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Deferred Divisions", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "preceding_text": " Vehicle Licensing Agency, that one could get a scheme that cost £80 million. I suspect that if that went before the Public Accounts Committee or the Transport Committee, those costs would be very quickly reduced. To answer my hon. Friend's point about whether I ever thought that this was a perfect Bill, there are many ways in which the Bill could be improved. Exemptions could be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-26b.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "fe01a01a06183d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27b.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Under Secretary met with the clerks yesterday to listen to their arguments. It has been the view of the Government that no compensation is appropriate, and nothing was put forward in those discussions that changed the Government's mind on the matter. The clerks are not salaried, as the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey suggested: they are fee-paid office holders —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27b.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "fe01a01a06183d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27b.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "uggesting a list of goods was debated in Committee, we looked at the list in the policy statement that we issued some time ago stating how we would use the powers in the Bill and found some differences between the two lists. That made the point that if we make a list, someone will have a bright idea about an item that should be added to it. What is proposed in the amendment is far too rigid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27b.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27c.xml", "sha256": "edd27f9978e4a650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.318.6", "colnum": "318", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William McCrea", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State inform the House of what criminal activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.318.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27c.xml", "sha256": "edd27f9978e4a650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.319.6", "colnum": "319", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mark Tami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Tami", "preceding_text": "Great progress has been made in Northern Ireland, progress that would have seemed impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.319.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27c.xml", "sha256": "edd27f9978e4a650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I could not have put the point better myself. The whole purpose of the panel is to do exactly that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.321.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27c.xml", "sha256": "edd27f9978e4a650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "On behalf of everyone on these Benches, may I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his remarkable achievement of being Prime Minister for 10 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27c.xml", "sha256": "edd27f9978e4a650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Predecessor?", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": " by the previous Government's pit closure programme and under-investment in public services. Does he agree that the investment that the Government have put into public services has served my constituents well in the past three days? Hundreds of them have been removed from their homes because of flooding in the villages of Catcliffe, Treeton and Wiston. Will he make sure that his predecessor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.327.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27c.xml", "sha256": "edd27f9978e4a650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "are being drawn down further into the suffocating quicksand and expensive bureaucracy of the European Union? If he and his successor genuinely believe in trusting the people of this country as they claim, will they now honour their commitment at the last general election to a referendum to enable the people to decide on the new treaty that is in substance the old discredited constitutional treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.330.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-27", "file": "debates2007-06-27c.xml", "sha256": "edd27f9978e4a650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has visited the city of Sheffield on a number of occasions over the past 10 years to see for himself the work done by that city in rebuilding itself after the economic devastation of the 1980s. Now, of course, we have to start all over again. On his final day as Prime Minister, can I ask my right hon. Friend what message he has for the people of Sheffield?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-27c.332.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-28", "file": "debates2007-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "21792a896cde28df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-28b.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "And I'll plead guilty—I was worried about my hon. Friend for a second—because I think the hon. Gentleman may be after a job. I made it clear last week that we are a broad church, and I am always happy to co-operate with the hon. Gentleman or anyone else on the Liberal Democrat Benches. I look forward to their seeing the light in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-28b.478.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-29", "file": "debates2007-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "8fd96f14c1d14ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-29b.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": " Gentleman well in his attempts to make progress, and I agree that some of the signage that we see can be a little odd. In my county, we are used to seeing bilingual road signs as we approach Wales. I was slightly confused recently when I saw some road signs that I thought were in Welsh, but they were a bit too far east to justify being bilingual. Then I discovered that they were in Polish —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-29b.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-06-29", "file": "debates2007-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "8fd96f14c1d14ad6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-29b.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "y are now in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. They thought that they had got rid of Humberside, but the region is still referred to as Yorkshire and the Humber. Our regional development agency, Yorkshire Forward, represents not only Yorkshire but north Lincolnshire. One councillor from north Lincolnshire told me, \"As far as we are concerned, it is Yorkshire Forward and Lincolnshire backwards.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-06-29b.611.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-02", "file": "debates2007-07-02b.xml", "sha256": "08ba17f198b77749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-02b.712.5", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "Well, I think that it is important to stress that, when one is on the Treasury Committee, if one cannot get to the Sub-Committee meetings, it is disruptive simply not to agree with things, even if one might have disagreements, when one has not heard the evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-02b.712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-02", "file": "debates2007-07-02b.xml", "sha256": "08ba17f198b77749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-02b.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "Opposition wish to stop that ambition, and they do not have any vision to offer Europe in the technological field at all. Instead, they will rely on GPS from America and hope that it will remain free, or they would rely on Russia, because its service will be free, or even China, which will also provide a free service. They do not, however, have the ambition to operate an independent system —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-02b.774.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-02", "file": "debates2007-07-02b.xml", "sha256": "08ba17f198b77749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-02b.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "possibility of someone turning off the system. I did say that there is a possibility of charges being placed on the system when it suits the US supplier. That would be disruption due to cost. I think that there should be an alternative. If the Russians think that there should be an alternative and the Chinese are developing an alternative, Europe should think about developing an alternative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-02b.783.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "Palestinian unity is important, but the violence, the killing, the feuding between Hamas and Fatah representatives and supporters has deep roots. I cannot agree with the hon. Gentleman when he says that it is all the fault of the Americans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "uestion Time for regional Ministers. But while we will listen to all proposals to improve our constitution in the light of devolution, we do not accept the proposal for English votes for English laws, which would create two classes of Members of Parliament—some entitled to vote on all issues, some invited to vote on only some. We will do nothing to put at risk the Union. I am reminded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " is very confused. I've read his speech and it's filled with contradictions. There are one or two good things in it but one glimpses them, as it were, through a mist of misunderstanding...I'd be quite happy to give him a few more tutorials on civil liberties.\" Where we disagree on the European referendum, I can again do no better than quote the chairman of the democracy commission, who said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "on. ] We are seeking bipartisan agreement, but there is a case for some bipartisan agreement within the Conservative party itself. The chairman of the Conservative democracy commission said that the treaty referendum proposal put forward by the Conservative party was \"Frankly absurd\". He said: \"a lot of intelligent, well-educated ...businessmen type constituents... would think I was dotty\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.834.5", "colnum": "834", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " a family house, and who want to protect those assets not only for their own sake but more especially—I am thinking of specific cases now—to protect their children, perhaps their children from their first marriage. The first marriage may have ended in divorce or widowhood and the person may subsequently fall in love with somebody else and want to live with or marry somebody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.834.5", "colnum": "834", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "the relationship breaks down. That is an important aspect of the potential injustice that currently occurs. There have been suggestions that the law should be changed to provide the same regime as currently applies to married couples—in respect of the distribution of assets in the event of a breakdown—to co-habitees who are not married. I am not in favour of going down that road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "May I say how pleased I am that the hon. Gentleman is the Liberal Democrat spokesman? We have history, the hon. Member for Norfolk South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": " the private sector while their document also endorses, of course, the principle of payment by results. The inevitable consequence will be that some hospitals will become unviable. The Conservative spokesman referred to the importance of care closer to home, which is again likely to make some hospitals unviable. I would like to see a degree of honesty from Conservative Members on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.860.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "266978b473e19c7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "preceding_text": "under the Tories. They closed our local hospital—the Princess Alexandra—and let our other hospital go to rack and ruin. Then, as now, the Opposition had no proper strategy for increasing access. It has been my dubious pleasure to listen to every health Opposition day debate for the past 18 months. I have been proud to be on the front line since 2005. The Government will continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03a.863.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "Palestinian unity is important, but the violence, the killing, the feuding between Hamas and Fatah representatives and supporters has deep roots. I cannot agree with the hon. Gentleman when he says that it is all the fault of the Americans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.808.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "uestion Time for regional Ministers. But while we will listen to all proposals to improve our constitution in the light of devolution, we do not accept the proposal for English votes for English laws, which would create two classes of Members of Parliament—some entitled to vote on all issues, some invited to vote on only some. We will do nothing to put at risk the Union. I am reminded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " is very confused. I've read his speech and it's filled with contradictions. There are one or two good things in it but one glimpses them, as it were, through a mist of misunderstanding...I'd be quite happy to give him a few more tutorials on civil liberties.\" Where we disagree on the European referendum, I can again do no better than quote the chairman of the democracy commission, who said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "tion. ] We are seeking bipartisan agreement, but there is a case for some bipartisan agreement within the Conservative party itself. The chairman of the Conservative democracy commission said that the treaty referendum proposal put forward by the Conservative party was \"Frankly absurd\". He said: \"a lot of intelligent, well-educated...businessmen type constituents...would think I was dotty\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "ved that that should be done by way of resolution. Will he consider whether that should be put on a proper statutory footing? I also support the intention to establish a national security council, but from where will members of that council be drawn? Will they simply be drawn from the Ministries or will there be opportunities for Members of Parliament to serve on the council? I also believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.823.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.834.3", "colnum": "834", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "onduct of his personal affairs that he currently does not have. It will make it possible for him, when he contemplates entering into a marriage—and, though the short title does not make it clear, when he contemplates a new relationship or he or she is in a relationship—to make an arrangement, which will subsequently be enforceable by the courts, to determine in advance the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.834.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.834.5", "colnum": "834", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "the relationship breaks down. That is an important aspect of the potential injustice that currently occurs. There have been suggestions that the law should be changed to provide the same regime as currently applies to married couples—in respect of the distribution of assets in the event of a breakdown—to co-habitees who are not married. I am not in favour of going down that road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "y mishandled and has compromised the freedom to refer that GPs always had. Out-of-hours services under the new contract have de-emphasised the role of general practitioners. The hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford will recall that we had to fight that one too, because GPs simply did not form part of the out-of-hours service in south Lincolnshire, and we had to persuade Ministers to involve them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.843.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman now supports the core values and principles in the NHS document. We have always believed that public money should go to NHS patients, and that we should not put that money into the private sector, as was the Conservatives' previous policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Nurses are indeed critical, and their pay has risen over the past 10 years. With reference to this year's staged pay increase, it was a Cabinet decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Nurses are indeed critical, and their pay has risen over the past 10 years. With reference to this year's staged pay increase, it was a Cabinet decision— [Interruption.] We will not be looking at that again. We have made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.851.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "We are still in consultation on the issue that the hon. Gentleman raises, but these issues are driven locally, and they are driven predominantly on the basis of clinical decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ltation on the issue that the hon. Gentleman raises, but these issues are driven locally, and they are driven predominantly on the basis of clinical decision. [Interruption.] I am sorry, but Opposition Members have spent a long time putting forward scare stories about NHS closures, job losses and bad services. It is no wonder they do not wish to hear the Government's record over the last 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-03", "file": "debates2007-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a0ca41688841b915", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or 10 months ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Sadly, I do not have time to go into that subject at the moment, but I assure the hon. Lady that she will have opportunities to raise it in future. PCTs need to work with their GPs to devolve decision making and ensure that practice-based commissioning transforms services for patients. The NHS now looks very different from the way that it looked 10 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-03b.856.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-04", "file": "debates2007-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "ddd46440e37e78ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We can ban it under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. Of course— [Interruption.] The Leader of the Opposition forgets that I have been in this job for five days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-04", "file": "debates2007-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "ddd46440e37e78ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.952.5", "colnum": "952", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " course—when I was Chancellor of the Exchequer—looked at how the Customs and Excise authorities can work better with the police to secure border arrangements. However, I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that everyone who looks at the issue, including Lord Stevens, who considered it for him, has concluded that the need for identity cards is complementary to a border police force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.952.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-04", "file": "debates2007-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "ddd46440e37e78ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.955.5", "colnum": "955", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for Defence is doing a full-time job. [Interruption.] Someone pointed out to me the hon. Gentleman's website this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.955.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-04", "file": "debates2007-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "ddd46440e37e78ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.1008.4", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": " raises the question of why a new agency is needed at all. HMRC already collects our taxes and has systems for making calculations—for example, those used in tax credits. We need to know why the Government feel the need for an additional layer of bureaucracy. Why not let HMRC collect the money that absent parents should be paying for their children? That would be quicker, fairer and simpler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.1008.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-04", "file": "debates2007-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "ddd46440e37e78ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH BILL [ LORDS] (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "As I said, the code of practice will make that clear, but \"suitably competent\" means —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-04", "file": "debates2007-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "ddd46440e37e78ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH BILL [ LORDS] (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": " factors that a clinician must consider when placing a patient under SCT. They include the risk of a patient getting worse in the community. In assessing that risk, the clinician must consider the patient's history. Those are reasonably clear safeguards in terms of thresholds. The hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) usually makes measured contributions, and did so again in his brief speech today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-04b.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "059539a99bcd9ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Thirty\".", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I cannot give my hon. Friend the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1074.6", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "current network is not sustainable, as has the National Federation of SubPostmasters. I urge the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends to work with us. I hear what he says about concerns about rural areas. I think we have addressed them, but I am rather surprised that he chose not to take part in the recent consultation exercise about the future of the post office network affecting his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1074.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1085.4", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "No, I am not aware of such evidence, and I do not believe that it exists. A Government-commissioned Hayes McKenzie study published in 2006 concluded that there was no evidence of adverse health effects from wind turbines. We are aware that there are myths and concerns, and we have established a noise working group, which I have asked to meet quietly along the corridor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1085.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Thirty\".", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I cannot give my right hon. Friend the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1088.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "HMRC", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "This is the last time that I will be speaking to the House in the role of my party's spokesperson for women and equality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1090.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Apologise!", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "On 25 September —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "It is good to see three good women on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "ter the flower show the garden will be moved to the Birmingham botanical gardens in my constituency, where it will be accessible to all the schools in Birmingham and the area. May we have a debate in the House on the way in which our schools use outdoor facilities and available allotments, particularly in our big cities, for educational purposes so that such gardens, like outdoor classrooms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "etary of State referred to extra spending of £400 million. Will he confirm that the sum is within the education spending totals that the then Chancellor announced earlier this year, and thus in the totals that were already set? If so, will he make it clear where exactly the resources are coming from in the overall Budget that the now Prime Minister announced when Chancellor of the Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": " whether that was part of a Cabinet mentoring scheme, but I do not think that the Secretary of State needs it. I do not think that poverty or low income should ever be a barrier to entry into any form of education, at whatever level. When I went to school in a working-class area of Swansea, there were people in my primary school who were far brighter than I was, yet for all sorts of reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-05", "file": "debates2007-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "03cc6b765865ffb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Kramer", "preceding_text": "he death knell, in a sense, for Energywatch and Postwatch, but both organisations have played an extraordinary role in supporting and protecting consumers, thanks to the way they have handled complaints and investigated underlying issues. An excellent example was given by the right hon. Member for Coatbridge—he has given me leave not to attempt to pronounce the rest of his constituency name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-05b.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-09", "file": "debates2007-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "4ae454d3705c1fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and his party, as well as the official Opposition, have taken a consistently oppositional approach to the use of identity cards to support our objectives in relation to immigration, how we counter terror, and how we make sure that people in this country get the things to which they are entitled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-09", "file": "debates2007-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "4ae454d3705c1fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "ficult decisions are being made. On the case to which the hon. Gentleman refers, it is about the release of information being prepared for and provided to Ministers to allow the most rigorous analysis to be made of the ongoing costs of delivering a very important policy—ID cards. I am, of course, completely in favour of freedom of information, but it is also my view that there will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-09", "file": "debates2007-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "4ae454d3705c1fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend that it is important that we all take collective responsibility for our safety. It is fair to say that my hon. Friend Sir Alan West highlighted that at the weekend, which is an important aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-09", "file": "debates2007-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "4ae454d3705c1fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "ESTIMATES, 2007-08", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "though that was perhaps not the response that should have come from the Secretary of State, she should have been fully engaged in the decision-making processes that led to the problems that the RPA faced. She was the Secretary of State when the policies were designed and when the implications were considered, and she ultimately carried the responsibility for what happened in her Department —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-09", "file": "debates2007-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "4ae454d3705c1fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "ESTIMATES, 2007-08", "cue_speaker": "Mark Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Todd", "preceding_text": "Indeed so, and all member states grappled with the dilemma of how to deal with rather small holdings of an inactive nature. They did not attempt to handle those claims in exactly the same way. As I recall, there was a de minimis approach, which would have made it possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-09", "file": "debates2007-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "4ae454d3705c1fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "ESTIMATES, 2007-08", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": " farming sector forward yet further in that direction. It also has the potential to bring real savings for consumers and taxpayers, and economic benefits for society. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the CAP currently costs €1,000 a year for a family of four, and will leave the EU economy €100 billion poorer over the period from 2007 to 2013—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-09", "file": "debates2007-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "4ae454d3705c1fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "ESTIMATES, 2007-08", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "nd effectively excludes exports from many developing countries. Net welfare benefits to the developing countries from CAP reform are estimated to range between $24 billion and $43 billion annually. The Government have promoted those objectives for several years, which is in line with our ambition for farming, the environment, trade and development. Let me deal with some of the issues raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-09", "file": "debates2007-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "4ae454d3705c1fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "ESTIMATES, 2007-08", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "countries. Net welfare benefits to the developing countries from CAP reform are estimated to range between $24 billion and $43 billion annually. The Government have promoted those objectives for several years, which is in line with our ambition for farming, the environment, trade and development. Let me deal with some of the issues raised— [Interruption.] It is a fly; the environment is bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-09b.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-10", "file": "debates2007-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "b5a9a52562a0a494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10a.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "e) suggests that redundancy notices are being sent around West Lothian. Is the Minister aware that the letters have been sent out implement single status under the delegated powers given to West Lothian's chief executive by the outgoing Labour Administration. The letters make it perfectly clear that not one single redundancy is intended and that not one single redundancy notice has come out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-10", "file": "debates2007-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "b5a9a52562a0a494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "May I welcome the hon. Gentleman to his new post and congratulate him on his Front-Bench appointment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-10", "file": "debates2007-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "b5a9a52562a0a494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "It is in a long tradition of legislation on human rights. We have an opportunity during the summer to ensure that the sort of consultation that I have talked about is delivered. We have a fantastic track record on families and marriage, and this Bill will be one example of it. I was therefore enraged today to hear Conservative Members saying that my party does not care about families and marriage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-10", "file": "debates2007-07-10b.xml", "sha256": "0eb3f74ce399c7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " Fife (Sir Menzies Campbell) , who leads the hon. Gentleman's party, I am wary of invitations to join anyone, lest the doors open in a fashion that one does not expect. I welcome the hon. Gentleman to his position. I understand that, like me, he has dual responsibilities and I congratulate him on his promotion to both those challenging jobs. I look forward to working for him—sorry, with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-10", "file": "debates2007-07-10b.xml", "sha256": "0eb3f74ce399c7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "ggests that redundancy notices are being sent around West Lothian. Is the Minister aware that the letters that have been sent out implement single status under the delegated powers given to West Lothian's chief executive by the outgoing Labour Administration. The letters make it perfectly clear that not one single redundancy is intended and that not one single redundancy notice has come out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-10", "file": "debates2007-07-10b.xml", "sha256": "0eb3f74ce399c7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1307.3", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to explain exactly how his party promises to plug that £1 billion black hole, but he failed to do so. He spoke about delegated powers to councils and also had the opportunity to explain his party's policy to remove from councils the right to raise local revenue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-10", "file": "debates2007-07-10b.xml", "sha256": "0eb3f74ce399c7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "May I welcome the hon. Gentleman to his new post and congratulate him on his Front-Bench appointment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-10", "file": "debates2007-07-10b.xml", "sha256": "0eb3f74ce399c7cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "It is in a long tradition of legislation on human rights. We have an opportunity during the summer to ensure that the sort of consultation that I have talked about is delivered. We have a fantastic track record on families and marriage, and this Bill will be one example of it. I was therefore enraged today to hear Conservative Members saying that my party does not care about families and marriage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-10b.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02a1d10cb7225774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1440.2", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me just remind the Prime Minister of what Lord Ara Darzi says. He says: \"the days of the district general hospital...are over\" and that we need \"fewer, more advanced hospitals\". That would mean that maternity units, accident and emergency units and specialist services will go. Is not the truth that his health policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02a1d10cb7225774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "ducation Acts and 29 criminal justice Acts, and more than 3,000 new criminal offences have been created. The mantra might have been, \"Education, education, education\", but the reality has been, \"Legislation, legislation, legislation.\" I shall deal with some of the points raised in the Prime Minister's statement. On the issue of education, he said that it is the Government's intent to raise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02a1d10cb7225774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1485.2", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": " a thing can be done, but we need to learn why that has not happened in many cases. The real tragedy is that, according to the Stroke Association, approximately 80 per cent. of strokes are preventable. I am pleased that several Health Ministers are in the Chamber. It would be nice to have official notice of which Minister is responsible for public health and their specific responsibilities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02a1d10cb7225774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1517.0", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ly better results in terms of addiction levels than ours, one with one approach and one with another, the hon. Gentleman is proving that there is no absolute truth about this. However, there is good reason to suppose that the Netherlands, which happens to have the lowest rate of addiction in the sample that we are talking about—three or so per 1,000—has a method that is worth pursuing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02a1d10cb7225774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1551.0", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "e analyses of the problem. Even in my own constituency of Tunbridge Wells, which in many ways is a byword for comfort and prosperity, I have had some shocking experiences. One of the most shocking occurred when I was on patrol with the police on a Friday night. It might surprise you to hear, Madam Deputy Speaker, that Friday night in Tunbridge Wells can be as rowdy as Friday night in other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02a1d10cb7225774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1564.0", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I am interested to hear what the Minister has to say, but I am not sure that the logic of her argument suits general Government policy. The Government have been quite happy, through the Attorney-General, to prosecute battalion commanders for ostensibly vicarious responsibility for offences allegedly committed by soldiers under their command in Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02a1d10cb7225774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "old Ministers, reshuffled, coming up with the same tired old arguments that were introduced on the past several occasions. I am sorry, because I had thought better of the hon. Lady who is dealing with the arguments on behalf of the Government, but I have to suggest that when she read out her she was reading it for the first time; if a woman of her calibre had thought about it more carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11a.1574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1436.3", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "The Department's overall aim is to reduce poverty, and we have made a commitment to channel aid to the poorest countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1440.2", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me just remind the Prime Minister of what Sir Ara Darzi says. He says: \"the days of the district general hospital...are over\" and that we need \"fewer, more advanced hospitals\". That would mean that maternity units, accident and emergency units and specialist services will go. Is not the truth that his health policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1444.4", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister claims to treat everyone equally, so why do nurses in his constituency earn more —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "For over one and a half centuries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1451.0", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "manifesto. The country has moved on, but he simply has not. Let us deal with whether the Prime Minister is really listening to people's priorities, which is what he told us on the radio this morning. Some 86 per cent. of people in this country want a referendum on the European treaty, so where is the Bill for a referendum? Does that not show that his promise to listen is a complete and utter sham?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members should please allow the right hon. Gentleman to be heard. He is the Leader of the Opposition and he is entitled to be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "ducation Acts and 29 criminal justice Acts, and more than 3,000 new criminal offences have been created. The mantra might have been, \"Education, education, education\", but the reality has been, \"Legislation, legislation, legislation.\" I shall deal with some of the points raised in the Prime Minister's statement. On the issue of education, he said that it is the Government's intent to raise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It's pronounced 'Murray'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "ous changes for which the National Assembly calls? It is pleasing that the Government are reconsidering planning gain supplement. On business, the Prime Minister mentioned regulation of the minimum wage. Will there be something on corporation tax—perhaps export assistance through research and development? A week ago, together with my hon. Friend the Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " huge amount of investment, worth billions of pounds, went into improving more than 1 million council housing and social housing tenancies. As a result, many children, pensioners and other people who were living in substandard accommodation are now living in decent accommodation. Therefore, it is wrong of the hon. Gentleman to portray the last 10 years as a period when we failed to renovate stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " 1 million council housing and social housing tenancies. As a result, many children, pensioners and other people who were living in substandard accommodation are now living in decent accommodation. Therefore, it is wrong of the hon. Gentleman to portray the last 10 years as a period when we failed to renovate stock. [Interruption.] Exactly: we have renovated stock. We now have to build more stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1467.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1485.2", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": " a thing can be done, but we need to learn why in many cases that has not happened. The real tragedy is that, according to the Stroke Association, approximately 80 per cent. of strokes are preventable. I am pleased that several Health Ministers are in the Chamber. It would be nice to have official notice of which Minister is responsible for public health and their specific responsibilities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1517.0", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "tter results in terms of addiction levels than ours, one with one approach and one with another, the hon. Gentleman is proving that there is no absolute truth in such matters. However, there is good reason to suppose that the Netherlands, which happens to have the lowest rate of addiction in the sample that we are talking about—three or so per 1,000—has a method that is worth pursuing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " figures would not have changed. In fact, the number has decreased from 1.8 million to 1.4 million—a bigger fall than for the number of those receiving below 60 per cent. of median income. One of the Opposition's central claims about our approach to poverty—that we have almost been fiddling the figures and appear to have done something about poverty when we have not—is incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1522.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1540.2", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "t should be run, the space that it should take up and the facilities that it should provide. Manchester royal infirmary is now one of the star hospitals in the entire country, and that achievement has been brought about by this Government's policies. On law and order, that lot—the Liberal Democrats in particular—opposed ASBOs. They are now queuing up for ASBOs in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1551.0", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "e analyses of the problem. Even in my own constituency of Tunbridge Wells, which in many ways is a byword for comfort and prosperity, I have had some shocking experiences. One of the most shocking occurred when I was on patrol with the police on a Friday night. It might surprise you to hear, Madam Deputy Speaker, that Friday night in Tunbridge Wells can be as rowdy as Friday night in other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1551.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-11", "file": "debates2007-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "814305667c1c914b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "rs, reshuffled, coming up with the same tired old arguments that were introduced on the past several occasions. I am sorry, because I had thought better of the hon. Lady who is now dealing with the arguments on behalf of the Government, but I have to suggest that when she read out her speech she was reading it for the first time; if a woman of her calibre had thought about it more carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-11b.1574.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d6480ea286a9d5ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "be facing their courts in London protected by our system. I believe that we should pause and reflect on whether our relations are spiralling down very badly. A few moments ago, my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) referred to Russia's stalling on the conventional armed forces in Europe treaty and there is also the attitude to Kosovo. I think that we are on a dangerous course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.28.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d6480ea286a9d5ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.36.4", "colnum": "36", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "rought together with the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia and phrases such as \"Lives were at risk\" were put to him. He did not immediately cease the inquiry; it required three meetings with senior officials and the ambassador before he finally agreed, on 13 December , to do so. That is taken from the account that the Government have given of the chronology—I am not manufacturing any of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.36.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d6480ea286a9d5ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "I shall send the hon. Gentleman the documents and he can work it out for himself. [ Interruption. ] I do not think that it is right to read out the names of the Government's lawyers on the Floor of the House, although I shall if he carries on asking that question. Let me just move on to my final point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d6480ea286a9d5ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "ocus everybody's minds. The Government are second to none in the transparency and rigour of their regulation of arms exports and dual-use goods. I remind the House that before manufacturers are allowed to export, they submit applications for export licences to the Department of Trade and Industry, as it was. Hon. Members will excuse me if I cannot remember what the new Department is called —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d6480ea286a9d5ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are the Treasury's figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "If we are to understand that in the course of eight months the estimated yield from scrapping taper relief has increased from £4.5 billion to £6 billion, it makes me wonder on what I can rely in the overall equation that the Liberal Democrats have calculated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d6480ea286a9d5ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They do.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " be paid by non-doms on income generated in this country or repatriated to the UK—as well as, potentially, a much bigger hit on the UK economy, as I am sure everyone would recognise, if a shake-out of the non-dom rules causes the relocation of control of significant operations from the UK to places outside it, as many in the City fear. I am afraid that the Lib Dem numbers just do not add up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16a.111.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "e facing their courts in London, protected by our system. I believe that we should pause and reflect on whether our relations are spiralling down very badly. A few moments ago, my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) referred to Russia's stalling on the conventional armed forces in Europe treaty and there is also the attitude to Kosovo. I think that we are on a dangerous course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.28.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.35.4", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman mentioned The Guardian, with which his party is in a conspiracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.35.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.36.4", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "rought together with the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia and phrases such as \"Lives were at risk\" were put to him. He did not immediately cease the inquiry; it required three meetings with senior officials and the ambassador before he finally agreed, on 13 December , to do so. That is taken from the account that the Government have given of the chronology—I am not manufacturing any of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.36.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "I shall send the hon. Gentleman the documents and he can work it out for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "I shall send the hon. Gentleman the documents and he can work it out for himself. [Interruption.] I do not think that it is right to read out the names of the Government's lawyers on the Floor of the House, although I shall if he carries on asking that question. Let me just move on to my final point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "ocus everybody's minds. The Government are second to none in the transparency and rigour of their regulation of arms exports and dual-use goods. I remind the House that before manufacturers are allowed to export, they submit applications for export licences to the Department of Trade and Industry, as it was. Hon. Members will excuse me if I cannot remember what the new Department is called —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "have voted for the minimum wage and—in Committee—for every increase. I said that it would be dangerous if the Government proceeded with increases in the minimum wage that were not aligned with the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission, which governs the minimum wage. The context is quite different. We are fully supportive of the minimum wage and the increases that have taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are the Treasury's figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "If we are to understand that in the course of eight months the estimated yield from scrapping taper relief has increased from £4.5 billion to £6 billion, it makes me wonder on what I can rely in the overall equation that the Liberal Democrats have calculated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They do.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " be paid by non-doms on income generated in this country or repatriated to the UK—as well as, potentially, a much bigger hit on the UK economy, as I am sure everyone would recognise, if a shake-out of the non-dom rules causes the relocation of control of significant operations from the UK to places outside it, as many in the City fear. I am afraid that the Lib Dem numbers just do not add up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.114.4", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that he had spent the weekend reading our tax plans, but having heard what he just said, I am not sure that he could have done so. Our environmental package is based first on the taxation of flights. We want to tax emissions more heavily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.114.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-16", "file": "debates2007-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "0cda1167fe83cded", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "MOD STAFFORD", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "stituents' interests are fully represented as we go through the process of determining the future defence presence on the Stafford site and in the west midlands area more generally. Once again, he has set out his case cogently and well. I also echo my hon. Friend's generous words about my predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow (Mr. Ingram) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-16b.137.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-17", "file": "debates2007-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "9700e7ba7db0b30c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-17b.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": " that we will use them to supplement the FAS payments, if we can do so without incurring an unacceptable risk to the taxpayer. The Opposition have raised false expectations about the assets that there might be, and setting up an agency of the kind proposed is likely to prove enormously expensive. The cost of setting it up could conceivably be more than the value of the assets; we just do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-17b.199.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "5ba5536047f79d13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18a.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "me frame that I would have expected. It highlights, if I may say so, the difference between what will be done to everybody else, and what will affect the Prison Service, the custodial environment and the police. The right hon. Gentleman earlier prayed in aid the health and safety legislation. As I think he knows, that is the area in which I practised in the years before coming to this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18a.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I give an absolute assurance on the first point. I am the first Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain to sit in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Timetabling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " made an absolute commitment that nothing in our efforts to provide for more consultation of the draft legislative programme will detract in any way from either the formality or the importance of the state opening of Parliament by Her Majesty the Queen which takes place at the beginning of each Session. Now I have forgotten the hon. Gentleman's second question, and sadly it is not a Freudian slip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "would be released. We made it absolutely clear at the time, and it is disingenuous for the Leader of the Opposition now to come back and say the opposite. On any individual cases of probation that he raises, I assure him that the Justice Secretary will investigate, but let us remember that we also announced at the time—and the Conservative party must tell us what its views are on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Those 344 criminals who were released had been convicted of violent offences, such as violence against the person. Is the Prime Minister saying that he does not think that is serious? On whether police and probation staff have been overruled, Harry Fletcher, one of the leaders of the National Association of Probation Officers, said that in many cases probation and prisons staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I have investigated what has happened as a result of the Home Secretary's statement on Monday. Everybody who was released was released after debate within the Prison Service and the probation service about what should happen, and it is wrong for the right hon. Gentleman to say that Ministers did not listen to any discussion that took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "d as a result of the Home Secretary's statement on Monday. Everybody who was released was released after debate within the Prison Service and the probation service about what should happen, and it is wrong for the right hon. Gentleman to say that Ministers did not listen to any discussion that took place. [Interruption.] On the issues of future policy that he raises, I come back to tell him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "This from the party under which crime doubled, the party under which the number of police officers fell, and the party whose shadow Chancellor has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.271.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "year. There are now 317,000 more lone parents in work than there were when we came to power in 1997. I will happily talk about our record any time that the hon. Gentleman likes, including in relation to today's very good employment figures. The hon. Gentleman made some points about youth unemployment, although they were not specific. Actually, youth unemployment has been all but eradicated —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "t recommended a change to the way in which we encourage lone parents into work. We have agreed and taken that change forward. A change was recommended on using the more specialist expertise that is available in the private and voluntary sectors, as well as the public sector. After 12 months, we have adopted that approach. In some cases, we did so before 12 months, as I said in my statement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The truth is that more people have come on to the labour market in the past year than ever before, yet employment has still been rising, and unemployment is still falling —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "heir employers have said that the problem lies. We need to ensure that all sector skills councils do that as appropriate to their industries. Other initiatives, such as academies, are being developed; I think that there is going to be one for the nuclear industry. That is another way in which employers and providers can collaborate to meet the whole range of skills that are needed within a sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.307.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend and to other hon. Members who have expressed their concern in robust but restrained terms. My colleagues and I have listened with great care and this has been an iterative process —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "me frame that I would have expected. It highlights, if I may say so, the difference between what will be done to everybody else, and what will affect the Prison Service, the custodial environment and the police. The right hon. Gentleman earlier prayed in aid the health and safety legislation. As I think he knows, that is the area in which I practised in the years before coming to this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruptio n.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " shows the Government's will to implement immediately the steps that are required at a managerial level and ensure that these services come on board within a reasonable period. I urge the Secretary of State to do that, because if he does not there is a risk that this ping-pong will continue. Listening to his remarks, many in this House and in the other place will remain profoundly depressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " I thank him for that. He is one of the few Labour Ministers I would trust: I think that his word means something in this House and I am sure that he is well intentioned. He must understand, however, how difficult it is for us to accept his word when it relates to a period after the next general election. It is extremely unlikely that either he or a Labour Government would then be in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "This has been an interesting debate and I am grateful for the acknowledgement of the changes made as a result of this set of amendments. I am pleased better to have informed the right hon. and learned Member for—is it still Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "This has been an interesting debate and I am grateful for the acknowledgement of the changes made as a result of this set of amendments. I am pleased better to have informed the right hon. and learned Member for—is it still Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg)? [Interruption.] Well, it changes every election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.373.4", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "vices and to open up work with offenders to both internal and external markets. It also set up NOMS, with its national and regional structures. Interestingly enough, on 20 July 2004 the Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, the hon. Member for Wythenshawe and Sale, East (Paul Goggins) , who is one of the many Labour Members of Parliament who have become Ministers in the past 10 years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.373.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-18", "file": "debates2007-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "ed51c0b07d2a0568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "is to be found on the last page of the main body of the Bill, in clause 38. The provision permits the Secretary of State to designate an appointed day for the Bill to come into force. Amendment No. 38 would mean that the appointed day would be provisional on the factors referred to in subsections (1A) and (1B) in the amendment. Those seem entirely sensible and logical matters to take into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-18b.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "ee9e5ed039ce1aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " If the right hon. Lady wishes us to consider any additional individual points, we are happy to so do. Our determination is to strengthen the House's role, as we believe that strong Government works best when held to account by a strong Parliament. On the right hon. Lady's individual issues, she first raised the question of the BBC. Both I and the Government are strong supporters of the BBC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "ee9e5ed039ce1aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": ", it might be better, as has been suggested, for Second Reading to take place the other side of the recess, if the Government are to be able to bring forward further issues in that Bill. The right hon. Lady raised the question of the cannabis review. There is new evidence that the cannabis being used, particularly by young people, is stronger than it used to be, and therefore more dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "ee9e5ed039ce1aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "aid in his statement of 3 July that we should proceed in line with the wishes of this House, which all accept is the primary Chamber. That approach was underlined in the Green Paper on constitutional reform, \"The Governance of Britain\", which I published on the same day. The Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties are committed by their 2005 manifestoes to a substantially elected House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "ee9e5ed039ce1aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " got to in the cross-party talks—possibly accompanied by draft clauses that would form elements of the final reform Bill. Our intention through the work of the cross-party group is to formulate a comprehensive reform package that we would put to the electorate as a manifesto commitment at the next general election and which hopefully the other main parties would include in their manifestoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "ee9e5ed039ce1aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.451.8", "colnum": "451", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": " that maintaining the primacy of this House should not mean weakening the Lords? It should mean strengthening Parliament as a whole so that the Executive can be held properly to account. I welcome the Lord Chancellor's comment that the constitution does not belong to any one party and that it should not be used as a party tool. It is important that we move forward on the basis of consensus —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.451.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "ee9e5ed039ce1aa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.451.8", "colnum": "451", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": " closed lists and large, artificial, multi-member constituencies would keep power in the hands of party bosses. We cannot accept the removal of the independence and authority of the present Lords unless real democratic accountability is put in its place. Does the Lord Chancellor agree that we should aim for a strong revising second Chamber with democratic legitimacy, not a House of party placemen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19a.451.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " If the right hon. Lady wishes us to consider any additional individual points, we are happy to so do. Our determination is to strengthen the House's role, as we believe that strong Government works best when held to account by a strong Parliament. On the right hon. Lady's individual issues, she first raised the question of the BBC. Both I and the Government are strong supporters of the BBC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "summer, it might be better, as has been suggested, for Second Reading to take place the other side of the recess, if the Government are to be able to bring forward further issues in that Bill. The right hon. Lady raised the question of the cannabis review. There is new evidence that the cannabis used, particularly by young people, is stronger than it used to be, and therefore more dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must allow the Leader of the House to reply to the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "said in his statement of 3 July that we should proceed in line with the wishes of this House, which all accept is the primary Chamber. That approach was underlined in the Green Paper on constitutional reform, \"The Governance of Britain\", which I published on the same day. The Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties are committed by their 2005 manifestos to a substantially elected House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e got to in the cross-party talks—possibly accompanied by draft clauses that would form elements of the final reform Bill. Our intention through the work of the cross-party group is to formulate a comprehensive reform package that we would put to the electorate as a manifesto commitment at the next general election and which hopefully the other main parties would include in their manifestos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.451.8", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": " that maintaining the primacy of this House should not mean weakening the Lords? It should mean strengthening Parliament as a whole so that the Executive can be held properly to account. I welcome the Lord Chancellor's comment that the constitution does not belong to any one party and that it should not be used as a party tool. It is important that we move forward on the basis of consensus —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.451.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.451.8", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": " closed lists and large, artificial, multi-member constituencies would keep power in the hands of party bosses. We cannot accept the removal of the independence and authority of the present Lords unless real democratic accountability is put in its place. Does the Lord Chancellor agree that we should aim for a strong revising second Chamber with democratic legitimacy, not a House of party placemen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.451.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "stands why he did so, given the extent of the division on the issue in his party. He did very well to get through his contribution, notwithstanding the noises directly behind him that punctuated his speech. I was reminded of the late Iain Macleod's commentary that when one is speaking from the Front Bench, while one might have the opposition in front of one, one always has the enemy behind —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ountries cannot be governed because there is no clarity about which chamber has power. We do not disagree with the description set out in Cunningham 2 of the balance of powers of the two Chambers. I hope that the totality of power of both Chambers together will grow. However, we take issue with whether the conventions are adequate, and Lord Wakeham supports us in that respect. My last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.462.4", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruptio n.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The one is part of the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.462.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "I am not sure why the hon. Gentleman thinks that we are going to lose PCSOs. There are now 16,000 of them supporting the important work of police officers in neighbourhoods. That is an important development in the crime-fighting family in the past few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.470.3", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—sorry, I mean the hon. Gentleman; we are not friends yet, although we might be after our night out in Kettering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.474.4", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And what a night!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "What a day it is going to be!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-19", "file": "debates2007-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "dcd1a739cc3786b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "The meeting is planned for later in the year and we have made our position clear on this. We are in discussions and there needs to be a solution to the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-19b.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "bb1f16467b40778e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": " social houses a year would be needed if we were to make any impact on the growing waiting list for social housing. Currently, housing associations have managed an average of about 25,000 houses a year. The Green Paper proposes an increase, by 2011, to only 45,000. Will the Minister explain such poverty of ambition after all the hype, in the face of desperate housing need? On sustainability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "bb1f16467b40778e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "olicy, does the Minister share the apparent concern of the legal adviser to the European Scrutiny Committee that, because the safeguard on foreign affairs is only a non-legally binding declaration, it may be meaningless? On the fourth red line regarding taxation, which we have argued all along was put up as a red herring, has the Minister seen the BBC Europe editor, Mark Mardell's blog of 6 July ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "bb1f16467b40778e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.623.5", "colnum": "623", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "I have spent 10 hours on live phone-in radio this week, in front of hundreds of thousands of listeners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "bb1f16467b40778e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.623.5", "colnum": "623", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "his, and ask you and other Members, Mr. Speaker, to answer it honestly in their hearts: would this Committee have published such a report against the leader of the Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrat parties two days before polling day in a by-election in London? Every one of you knows that it would not. A kind of freemasonry would apply, and we know about that, Mr. Speaker, you and me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "bb1f16467b40778e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cousin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "got money indirectly from the oil-for-food programme, and I do not think that anybody can question that, given the evidence before us in the report. Indeed, the hon. Gentleman solicited that money from Mr. Zureikat—not Tony Zureikat, and I would agree with some of the hon. Gentleman's analysis of him as an individual—but Fawaz, his brother, which was a different thing altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that, although physical education is good for all young people, and perhaps also for quite a number of adults, team sports in schools are particularly important? Team sports can inculcate discipline and a sense of working together. Team spirit and team sports are critical. What emphasis is the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "FLOODING", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ecause those rules cover the immediate emergency clear-up costs. We have extended the time in which local authorities can make claims, because we recognise that the clear-up itself may take quite some time. The issue that he raised would be picked up in the normal discussions between the relevant department and the local authority. If it is a road that the Highways Agency has an interest in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "hich is meant to help social tenants to get on to the housing ladder, is failing? On page 82 of the Green Paper, the Minister admits that of 1,400 housing associations, only 78 have offered the scheme. In April this year, she came to the House and told us that only 33 houses had been sold under the scheme. Perhaps she can give us an update today. We absolutely accept the need to build more houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "blies the real reason why their powers are being seized? Page 30 of the Green Paper says that regional spatial strategies will be reviewed by 2011. Will the Minister promise the House that none of those regional plans will involve the deletion of green belt protection? In my constituency, we are running a campaign called \"No Way To 10k\"—in other words, no way to 10,000 houses. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "rgets are unsustainable. Has the Minister read the Roger Tym report, commissioned by her own Department, into increasing building targets in the south-east? It says that the Government's building plans will \"have a negative impact on the character of the countryside\" and the green belt. Trunk roads will be unable to cope, leading to congestion, pollution and soaring carbon dioxide emissions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman welcomes the increase in affordable housing, and in housing across the board. I know that, as a former housing Minister, he takes a strong interest in these matters. As part of this investment, we are getting greater efficiencies from housing associations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "olicy, does the Minister share the apparent concern of the legal adviser to the European Scrutiny Committee that, because the safeguard on foreign affairs is only a non-legally binding declaration, it may be meaningless? On the fourth red line regarding taxation, which we have argued all along was put up as a red herring, has the Minister seen the BBC Europe editor, Mark Mardell's blog of 6 July ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.604.2", "colnum": "604", "heading": "INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "Again, I pay tribute to the work of my right hon. Friend as a former Minister for Europe. He is correct that the treaty transfers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "nything other, when it is composed of politicians? It is po-faced, pompous and preposterous to ask the public to believe—as the Chairman of the Committee asked me to believe—that the individual politicians on the Committee leave their politics at the door. That flies in the face of everything that we know about ourselves, and of all the history of the existence of this Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Havant\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "f all the history of the existence of this Committee— [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members shake their heads. I shall have to educate them with some recent examples. Perhaps they were not here at the time. My problem is that I have been here for a long time and have an elephantine memory. I remember when the very considerable brain of Mr. Willetts—forgive me, I forget his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "I am coming to you in just a minute—not you, of course, Mr. Speaker. I suppose I have to call him the hon. Gentleman—he has sneaked up on me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is going too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "fore I am going to be thrown out of the House anyway. We all know that that is what is going to happen. I said that I was a short-sword fighter, but I am a short-sword fighter in Spartacus's army. It is Caesar's legions gathered here tonight who are going to expel me from the House. Everybody knows that that is true. Everybody knows that I am going to be expelled from the House this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.623.5", "colnum": "623", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "I have spent 10 hours on live phone-in radio this week, in front of hundreds of thousands of listeners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.623.5", "colnum": "623", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "his, and ask you and other Members, Mr. Speaker, to answer it honestly in their hearts: would this Committee have published such a report against the leader of the Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrat parties two days before polling day in a by-election in London? Every one of you knows that it would not. A kind of freemasonry would apply, and we know about that, Mr. Speaker, you and me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-23", "file": "debates2007-07-23b.xml", "sha256": "4f178b643d64c3d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "STANDARDS AND PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cousin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "got money indirectly from the oil for food programme, and I do not think that anybody can question that, given the evidence before us in the report. Indeed, the hon. Gentleman solicited that money from Mr. Zureikat—not Tony Zureikat, and I would agree with some of the hon. Gentleman's analysis of him as an individual—but Fawaz, his brother, which was a different thing altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-23b.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0236f28483e086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.668.8", "colnum": "668", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " in complementary and alternative medicine? Primary care trusts are not listening to patient demand. The situation is well illustrated in London, where the Royal London homeopathic hospital, which provides a range of services that go way beyond homeopathy, is being cut. If the Secretary of State really believes in patient choice, which is to be his flagship with his new broom Front Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.668.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0236f28483e086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.668.8", "colnum": "668", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " The situation is well illustrated in London, where the Royal London homeopathic hospital, which provides a range of services that go way beyond homeopathy, is being cut. If the Secretary of State really believes in patient choice, which is to be his flagship with his new broom Front Benchers— [ Interruption. ] Well, there are some new brooms, because all the old Ministers were sacked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.668.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0236f28483e086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot provide the hon. and learned Gentleman with all the information, but some of the places are in new prisons. Some are in additional units in existing prisons, and some are the result of doubling or trebling in prison cells, which is far better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0236f28483e086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "d the need for additional places, which is why in the past 10 years we have provided additional prison places at twice the rate under the previous Administration. Sorry, but that is a fact. It took the Conservatives 18 years to produce just under 20,000 places. It has taken us 10. In other words, they added an average of 1,000 places a year, whereas we have added an average of 2,000 places a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0236f28483e086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "\"Build more prisons,\" they say, without any details of how to pay for them. Let me come on to some of the key issues that the hon. Gentleman must face if he is going to be serious about having a prison policy. He told the Littlehampton Gazette —of which, I hope that he tells its editor, I have become an assiduous reader—that \"offenders should serve their sentence in full—period.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0236f28483e086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.746.4", "colnum": "746", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "n estimates of up to £90 billion a year. That is the total cost to society of the crimes committed in a year. If we doubled the prison population and spent not £3 billion but £6 billion to house 160,000 people, taking out the 85,000 recidivist offenders, we would actually make a net saving according to the Government's own figures—yes, on the Government's own figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.746.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0236f28483e086b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " that voyage of discovery has taken me to 25 custodial institutions, adult prisons and young offender institutions in England and Wales. That is probably rather more—I am subject to correction—than the present Lord Chancellor visited when he was Home Secretary and started the fiasco that we are now having to sort out. It is true that the Minister has already been to one or two prisons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.668.8", "colnum": "668", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " in complementary and alternative medicine? Primary care trusts are not listening to patient demand. The situation is well illustrated in London, where the Royal London homeopathic hospital, which provides a range of services that go way beyond homeopathy, is being cut. If the Secretary of State really believes in patient choice, which is to be his flagship with his new broom Front Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.668.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.668.8", "colnum": "668", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " The situation is well illustrated in London, where the Royal London homeopathic hospital, which provides a range of services that go way beyond homeopathy, is being cut. If the Secretary of State really believes in patient choice, which is to be his flagship with his new broom Front Benchers— [ Interruption. ] Well, there are some new brooms, because all the old Ministers were sacked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.668.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I understand the point that my hon. Friend makes, because such headlines are totally unhelpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "First, may I welcome the hon. Gentleman, who is making his first outing at the Dispatch Box? I disagree profoundly with him and with other Opposition Members on this issue. As I understand it, they are asking for a moratorium on any change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "First, may I welcome the hon. Gentleman, who is making his first outing at the Dispatch Box? I disagree profoundly with him and with other Opposition Members on this issue. As I understand it, they are asking for a moratorium on any change. [ Interruption. ] Yes, I read the seven steps. Step one was to have a moratorium on reconfigurations. Indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Lady is putting her powerful argument to the PCT as it decides its spending on IVF—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "hildren's Palliative Care and the Association of Children's Hospices want children's palliative care services to be included in the national indicator for disabled children that is currently being developed as part of the public service agreements for the next comprehensive spending review. Will the Under-Secretary delight the House by saying today that he will consider that suggestion favourably?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": " I am very disappointed that she is mimicking the approach of her predecessor, who admitted that, in the Tory party, \"we've not had a clear transport strategy\" in recent years and that \"we've had tactical positions\". The absence of long-term strategic thinking is characteristic of today's Tory party. Let me deal with the specific questions that the hon. Lady asked at the beginning of her comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "rtainly do not make any apology for that. Our approach is based on making targeted investments in the services that matter most for today's passengers. We do not want to spend huge sums of taxpayers' and fare payers' money on risky, expensive technologies that do not deliver what we need to meet passenger demand. I am surprised that it is her policy to commit to a north-south high-speed rail link.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot provide the hon. and learned Gentleman with all the information, but some of the places are in new prisons. Some are in additional units in existing prisons, and some are the result of doubling or trebling in prison cells, which is far better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "some absconds. If his policy is for no open prisons, let him say so. The number of absconds from open prisons has dropped dramatically from more than 1,000 in 1996-97, when there was a Government whom he supported, to nearly half that number, 556, in the last year for which we have figures. Secondly, if his concern is about absconds from an open prison, why on earth is he opposing proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " length. The hon. Gentleman says that we have done that, but I remind him that that was supposed to be a temporary measure. It was made permanent in the Criminal Justice Act 1991. The end of custody licence is necessary to cope with the current prison numbers, and it is proportionate to the problem. It involves the early release of prisoners who are serving less than four years just 18 days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "he need for additional places, which is why in the past 10 years we have provided additional prison places at twice the rate as under the previous Administration. Sorry, but that is a fact. It took the Conservatives 18 years to produce just under 20,000 places. It has taken us 10. In other words, they added an average of 1,000 places a year, whereas we have added an average of 2,000 places a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "\" they say, without any details of how to pay for them. Let me come on to some of the key issues that the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs must face if he is going to be serious about having a prison policy. He told the Littlehampton Gazette —of which, I hope he tells its editor, I have become an assiduous reader—that \"offenders should serve their sentence in full—period.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.737.3", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "lmarsh is not just a high security prison, but a local prison for that part of south-east London. One of the things that struck me was that far fewer prisoners were addicted to drugs in prison, which is reflected by the numbers. The number of prisoners testing positive for drugs has dropped from about 30 per cent. to about 9 per cent., and the regimes in prison are much better than they ever were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.746.4", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "n estimates of up to £90 billion a year. That is the total cost to society of the crimes committed in a year. If we doubled the prison population and spent not £3 billion but £6 billion to house 160,000 people, taking out the 85,000 recidivist offenders, we would actually make a net saving according to the Government's own figures—yes, on the Government's own figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.746.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-24", "file": "debates2007-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "07942e65bed86b05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " that voyage of discovery has taken me to 25 custodial institutions, adult prisons and young offender institutions in England and Wales. That is probably rather more—I am subject to correction—than the present Lord Chancellor visited when he was Home Secretary and started the fiasco that we are now having to sort out. It is true that the Minister has already been to one or two prisons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-24b.752.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "yed centrally or are departmental statisticians. I should declare that had I worked harder at university I would probably have joined the civil service like my brother, my father and our grandfather, and that I might therefore have been approaching this matter from the other end. One remaining doubt raised about Sir Michael Scholar is whether he can be president of St. John's, Cambridge and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "cester, East (Keith Vaz) . That makes it important that the House has an opportunity to reflect on the matter. I have had representations to the effect that it is an inappropriate choice, although that is not a view that I had formed personally. I was asked to ask the Leader of the House if it was being done so that the right hon. Gentleman could be the new Chairman. Is that the Government's plan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": " about the procedure that the Government are adopting. During the former Prime Minister's final Question Time, which was a memorable occasion, he said in reply to my question, \"I like the hon. Gentleman.\"—[ Official Report , 27 June 2007; Vol. 462, c. 331 .] I say that with some pride—some people may ask why, but I took the comment with pride. He then went on to say other things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "In response to the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) , I should say that the Modernisation Committee is different from other Select Committees. It has always been chaired by the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "What I perhaps should say is that my right hon. Friend has been voted by this House on to the Constitutional Affairs Committee. Clearly, the House regarded him as suitable for that. I am asking the House to consider him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "islative scrutiny; and we are publishing for the first time the draft legislative programme. The work of the Leader of the House is important, and I stand by my commitment to do it in the interests of the House. However, it is also important to keep a sense of proportion. This motion is in order. It moves the Member concerned from the Constitutional Affairs Committee to the Home Affairs Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "l parties reflecting all opinions within the Chamber. It is likely, however, that if the reduction of the new Committee from 14 members to 11 is allowed to proceed, the Scottish National party would lose its only place on a departmental Select Committee. It would leave the joint SNP-Plaid Cymru group with only one departmental Select Committee place—on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "nting Members to serve on a Select Committee. That was said to be necessary for a variety of reasons. People can read Hansard and decide whether they share my judgment on that or agree with the Leader of the House. It is not right that we have cast into the hands of the Leader of the House, through the mechanism of a Committee that already has so many Parliamentary Private Secretaries on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "arke) . Through it, he proposes that these two Committees—the ancient and important Select Committee on Procedure, and the Modernisation Committee—should be merged and under the chairmanship of an Opposition Member. He does so because there must be a certain detachment in the assessment of what is appropriate for the House. I know that my objections and arguments will be brushed aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "hat consultations should not be considered, and it will not be helpful if ideas are not taken on board. Flexibility will be required, as will hard work in October by civil servants and others employed in Departments, and Ministers must be honest about any good ideas that are made. We look forward to that. My position and that of my fellow Liberal Democrat Members can be summarised by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "3981022f0bcb4ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS — HARMONDSWORTH AND CAMPSFIELD HOUSE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "ple representing the various Governments around these islands, only two were members of the governing party in this place; none were members of the Conservative party; and none were members of the Liberal Democrats—in other words, the three parties that dominate this Chamber are in a tiny minority in terms of the configuration of the political geography that has arrived around these islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25a.997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "Positive action has already been taken by the Prison Service, and I have asked the director to review measures to reduce the supply of, and demand for, illegal drugs in prisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.828.8", "colnum": "828", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "In the Minister's opinion, are the sentences handed down by the courts in Northern Ireland for drug-related offences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.828.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that answer. However, there is a specific question that some local councils are asking about the compensation that they will receive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The agreement that we got on the budget is good for Britain. It means that we will make a proper contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.835.7", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "This morning, the Prime Minister said in an interview about the EU constitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.835.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.835.7", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister said in an interview about the EU constitution— [Interruption.] There is plenty more. He said: \"if I thought I was doing something that needed a referendum I would say so.\" The Irish Prime Minister says that 90 per cent. of the constitution remains in the treaty and the Spanish Foreign Minister says that 98 per cent. remains. What figure would the Prime Minister put on it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.835.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ferred to, there is no majority for separation and no majority for independence in either Scotland or Wales. I would have thought that the Conservative party had learned its lesson on these issues. When the leader of the Conservative party is in Scotland, he says that he supports devolution wholeheartedly, but when he is in England, he says that he has doubts about whether it should happen at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " anxious as other people in this House that we as a nation can move forward with a united agreement on this matter. Such a consensus would serve this House well. I believe that we can find a solution to this problem if we have a debate and dialogue about it that allows people to listen to all sides of the argument. The Leader of the Opposition asked about two other things. On Hizb ut-Tahrir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "d offence at an earlier stage in investigations, when a prime facie case for a charge can be established? Finally, why is there no reference in the statement to the possibility of a more extensive use of plea bargaining, so that those on the periphery of conspiracies may be used as credible witnesses against those who are the principals in terrorist activity? There is a balance to be struck—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ilance and dedication to duty. As the right hon. and learned Gentleman said today and I said yesterday, a way must be found in our honours system of both recognising and celebrating the work they do. I hope there will be agreement between the parties on the other matters we have discussed, and that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will use the summer and autumn period, when I invite him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.868.2", "colnum": "868", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "munities throughout the country, as well as for our shipbuilding infrastructure and the industry that will support the surface fleet for decades to come. It is right that we should continue to negotiate and consider this project and the way in which we have handled it before getting to this stage. The hon. Gentleman asked several specific questions, which is of course his wont at the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.868.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "STATISTICS BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "yed centrally or are departmental statisticians. I should declare that had I worked harder at university I would probably have joined the civil service like my brother, my father and our grandfather, and that I might therefore have been approaching this matter from the other end. One remaining doubt raised about Sir Michael Scholar is whether he can be president of St. John's, Cambridge and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Leicester, East as a member of the Constitutional Affairs Committee. The motion is before the House. I accept that it would have been better if the nomination had come through the Committee of Selection in the usual way, but, even if Members do not agree with my decision to proceed in this way, I ask them at least to accept that it is a result of the timing, and not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.922.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend for making an extremely pertinent point that goes to the very heart of the argument made by the Leader of the House. Either no Select Committee that has a member who is in the Government and needs to be replaced can continue to do its work over the summer recess, or not. The Leader of the House cannot say that the Home Affairs Committee is somehow different from those other Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "East (Keith Vaz) . That makes it important for the House to have an opportunity to reflect on the matter. I have had representations to the effect that it is an inappropriate choice, although that is not a view that I had formed personally. I was asked to ask the Leader of the House whether it was being done so that the right hon. Gentleman could be the new Chairman. Is that the Government's plan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "about the procedure that the Government are adopting. During the former Prime Minister's final Question Time, which was a memorable occasion, he said, in reply to my question: \"I like the hon. Gentleman.\"—[ Official Report , 27 June 2007; Vol. 462, c. 331 .] I say that with some pride—some people may ask why, but I took the comment with pride. He then went on to say other things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "In response to the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) , I should say that the Modernisation Committee is different from other Select Committees. It has always been chaired by the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "What I perhaps should say is that my right hon. Friend has been voted by this House on to the Constitutional Affairs Committee. Clearly, the House regarded him as suitable for that. I am asking the House to consider him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "islative scrutiny; and we are publishing for the first time the draft legislative programme. The work of the Leader of the House is important, and I stand by my commitment to do it in the interests of the House. However, it is also important to keep a sense of proportion. This motion is in order. It moves the Member concerned from the Constitutional Affairs Committee to the Home Affairs Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "l parties reflecting all opinions within the Chamber. It is likely, however, that if the reduction of the new Committee from 14 members to 11 is allowed to proceed, the Scottish National party would lose its only place on a departmental Select Committee. It would leave the joint SNP-Plaid Cymru group with only one departmental Select Committee place—on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "nting Members to serve on a Select Committee. That was said to be necessary for a variety of reasons. People can read Hansard and decide whether they share my judgment on that or agree with the Leader of the House. It is not right that we have cast into the hands of the Leader of the House, through the mechanism of a Committee that already has so many Parliamentary Private Secretaries on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "arke) . Through it, he proposes that these two Committees—the ancient and important Select Committee on Procedure, and the Modernisation Committee—should be merged and under the chairmanship of an Opposition Member. He does so because there must be a certain detachment in the assessment of what is appropriate for the House. I know that my objections and arguments will be brushed aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "DRAFT LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "onsultations should not be considered, and it will not be helpful if ideas are not taken on board. Flexibility will be required, as will hard work in October by civil servants and others employed in Departments, and Ministers must be honest about any good ideas that are suggested. We look forward to that. My position and that of my fellow Liberal Democrat Members can be summarised by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "DRAFT LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "ate they can influence the legislative programme. If the massed ranks of the Scottish Liberal Democrats really felt that they could influence the Government's programme—if they thought they had the potential to influence all the things that they bang on about week after week in the local papers—they would have been here all evening, rather than turning up a mere four minutes ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "DRAFT LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "ple representing the various Governments around these islands, only two were members of the governing party in this place; none were members of the Conservative party, and none were members of the Liberal Democrats—in other words, the three parties that dominate this Chamber are in a tiny minority in terms of the configuration of the political geography that has arrived around these islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-25", "file": "debates2007-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "d4ece8ee24676d6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "DRAFT LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I am conscious of the fact that it is eight minutes since the hon. Lady started speaking and the Leader of the House has still not appeared. Does the hon. Lady happen to know where the Leader of the House is, and where she is on her way from? It seems rather a long time to be leaving the hon. Lady on her own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-25b.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a53b516233c0e2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26a.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "ative Front Benchers could be dealt with positively in schools, if that curriculum were taught without exception. Investment in youth workers is important. Many hon. Members know that before I became a Member of Parliament my professional career for 17 years was as a tax consultant, but the first job that I was trained to do was as a children's play leader for the YMCA and for the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26a.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a53b516233c0e2be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "has amounted to cherry picking and to allowing the private competitors to cream off the Royal Mail's most profitable bulk mail business. Real competition has proved a myth, with no other competitor being prepared to develop a national collection and do all the things that we are so used to with Royal Mail. Those who run Royal Mail, Mr. Leighton and—I've forgotten his name, but I do know him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Twelve per cent.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": " has been significant improvement in the educational performance of children in care. For example, between 2000 and 2006 the percentage of children in care obtaining a GCSE has increased from 49 per cent. to 63 per cent., the percentage of those children obtaining five A to Gs has increased from 35 per cent. to 41 per cent. and the percentage obtaining five A to Cs from 7 per cent. to 12 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "o the House first. The right hon. Lady mentioned the review of the policy on cannabis. Bearing in mind the evidence of the greater strength of cannabis, and new evidence of links between cannabis use and serious mental health problems, especially among the young, it is good that we are reviewing the policy and that the Prime Minister should announce that to Parliament when responding to questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "he greater strength of cannabis, and new evidence of links between cannabis use and serious mental health problems, especially among the young, it is good that we are reviewing the policy and that the Prime Minister should announce that to Parliament when responding to questions. [Interruption.] The Prime Minister has made two, or three, oral statements already since becoming Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": " the underlying causes of those problems. The Institute for Public Policy Research report, out today, confirmed everything that we said in the social justice report a couple of weeks ago: youths in Britain are more likely to drink, take drugs, have sex, join gangs and get into fights than youths almost anywhere else in Europe. It confirms, too, the findings of February's UNICEF report about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman could not resist the temptation of repeating the latest Daily Mail mantra and in so doing writing off all our young people, as the newspaper does today, as the worst in Europe. He had the opportunity to give the serious response that the issue deserves. He could have accepted the invitation at the end of my statement to be positive about young people, to commit the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "ngly, as I said, for about 10 seconds before he lapsed easily into his default position. The hon. Gentleman could have committed his party to challenging the negative stereotypes which young people, in the most extensive ever consultation of them, told us that they detest—but no; he thinks that it will be to the Tories' political advantage to trash teenagers. That is what he did today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "—but no; he thinks that it will be to the Tories' political advantage to trash teenagers. That is what he did today— [ Interruption. ] Not only is the picture that he painted untrue of the vast majority of young people, but I do not understand how he thinks it will help his party for him constantly to run down Britain and young people—the broken society that he spoke about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "ative Front Benchers could be dealt with positively in schools, if that curriculum were taught without exception. Investment in youth workers is important. Many hon. Members know that before I became a Member of Parliament my professional career for 17 years was as a tax consultant, but the first job that I was trained to do was as a children's play leader for the YMCA and for the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "has amounted to cherry picking and to allowing the private competitors to cream off the Royal Mail's most profitable bulk mail business. Real competition has proved a myth, with no other competitor being prepared to develop a national collection and do all the things that we are so used to with Royal Mail. Those who run Royal Mail, Mr. Leighton and—I've forgotten his name, but I do know him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Horam", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Regulatory Reform.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Horam", "preceding_text": "dies in my constituency, who run an organisation called the Community Care Protection Group, I petitioned against the change, under the slogan \"beds before bookkeepers\", and managed to save Orpington hospital, which is one of my greatest triumphs as a Member of Parliament. I give the Government great credit for the fact that the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and something else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "r for Europe on the issue of how to deal with defence scrutiny through an amendment to existing treaties that would allow the current structure of the Western European Union to be broadened out to include all member states of the EU. In our case the delegation comprises 36 members—18 full and 18 substitute members. I believe that delegations should be responsible for national scrutiny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "te members. I believe that delegations should be responsible for national scrutiny— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) shakes his head, but had he been a member, it might be different. The current chair of the parliamentary Labour party is an enthusiastic member. The former Deputy Prime Minister is about to lead the British delegation to the Council of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-07-26", "file": "debates2007-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "438dd97f683aee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "he moment, and other Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Members of Parliament. The problem arises because East Midlands airport is the United Kingdom's freight hub. There are other airports—in particular, Stansted, Gatwick and Heathrow—that attract more traffic. However, Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted are at least what is called designated under the Civil Aviation Act 1982.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-07-26b.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "b8997ee9eb350da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08a.43.4", "colnum": "43", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "the surface, and the movement of vehicles. Why were there vehicles on the site at Pirbright? They were on the site because, as the hon. Gentleman knows, we are in the process of investing a considerable sum of money in upgrading the facilities. The answer to his question is that, in 2002 and 2003, reports were produced. In 2005, the Government decided that we would invest £121 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08a.43.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "b8997ee9eb350da7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "ervention programme has been cut 13 per cent. this year. It is currently £149 million. It was over £170 million last year. That is another example of the Government saying that they are going to try to do something, but the controller of the purse strings, our new Prime Minister, cut resources to the Home Office. Consequently, the Home Office is having to make cuts in those programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "rt. Of course, issues related to the Iraq-Iran border will be taken care of in that part of our work and we will also have to look carefully at whether there is a re-intervention capability in the spring, but the main work of our troops is what we have been aiming to achieve for years—to train Iraqi forces so that they can do the job for themselves. As far as the numbers are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Interruption. ] —I am coming to exactly that point: 5,500 troops at the beginning of September, 4,500 immediately after provisional Iraqi control is declared, then down to 4,000 and then 2,500. That was not the announcement I made in Iraq last week. The announcement I made in Iraq last week was about what would happen in the next few weeks. This is the long-term strategy for overwatch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.27.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I said that the figure on 1 September was 5,500 troops. It is now falling, after provincial Iraqi control, to 4,500. It then falls to 4,000, and then it will fall to 2,500. The idea that we are not reducing the numbers is completely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.30.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.43.4", "colnum": "43", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "the surface, and the movement of vehicles. Why were there vehicles on the site at Pirbright? They were on the site because, as the hon. Gentleman knows, we are in the process of investing a considerable sum of money in upgrading the facilities. The answer to his question is that, in 2002 and 2003, reports were produced. In 2005, the Government decided that we would invest £121 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.43.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand the concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.63.5", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "nd no incentive for prisoners to behave themselves, and that we should return to the lunacy that the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) tried to put through the House between 1996 and 1997—he utterly failed and had to withdraw his own shambles—as the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs proposes, that would involve an increase of 60,000 places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.63.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.63.5", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "that is now his party's proposal. Secondly, we should look at the experience in the United States. We have locked up about 145 per 100,000 people, which is the highest level in Europe. Proportionate to its population, the United States has five times that number locked up. The Opposition propose that this country should have 700 prisons and 400,000 people locked up, which is the consequence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.63.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "between the local security agencies and ours, bundled on a plane and brought into the jurisdiction that way. Either we have an extradition process or we do not. Although we have all had to hold our nose over that case, it was right and proper of the courts to order his release in those circumstances. I come to an issue that was raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to do so: it is because they are not put in prison for long enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.105.4", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "nterested in the parts of the Bill that deal with the NHS. I ask the Minister to consider something with an open mind. As he might know, I serve as a special constable with British Transport police, which is funded by the rail operators and has made most train stations, particularly in London, much safer. I will not bore him with the anecdote, but I once had to deal with a situation in a hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "ention programme has been cut 13 per cent. this year. It is currently £149 million. It was over £170 million last year. That is another example of the Government saying that they are going to try to do something and the controller of the purse strings, our new Prime Minister, cutting resources to the Home Office. Consequently, the Home Office is having to make cuts in those programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "Well, we can deal with that in a minute or doubtless the right hon. Gentleman can write to the newspapers to get it sorted out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.126.5", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " the House, and to Parliament as a whole, if, when we had a criminal justice Bill, it dealt with criminal justice, and when we had an immigration Bill, it dealt with immigration, and that neither incidentally dealt with all sorts of other things. Worthy aims though the other provisions seek to hit, the current process leads to rather complicated, and therefore less popularly understandable, Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-08", "file": "debates2007-10-08b.xml", "sha256": "77ff98d34315e458", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.126.5", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": ", Pavilion, the hon. Member for Reading, West (Martin Salter) and several other Labour Members—I hope that they will forgive me if I do not mention them by name—mentioned the problems of internet pornography. My hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford) has been a long-standing champion of the need to improve the protection of children in particular from sex offences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-08b.126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "915d5ac15377a14b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You always apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "First, may I apologise if we sent a series of blank sheets of paper to the Liberals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "915d5ac15377a14b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Linda Gilroy) . I hope that she will regard it as a significant compliment when I say that the way in which she represents her constituents' case reminds me very much of our late colleague Rachel Squire, who represented another port. I see that her successor, the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East is here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "915d5ac15377a14b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ash;Her Majesty's armed forces—is in the hands of a man who has no understanding of, let alone empathy for, the armed forces. Why else would he have made the Defence Secretary's job and the Minister of State's job part-time? Why else would he have scrapped the Defence Export Services Organisation, which has helped Britain's defence industry to achieve annual export sales of £5 billion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I find that a peculiar question, given that we have just been through a referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I find that a peculiar question, given that we have just been through a referendum— [Laughter.] That is the next question. We have just been through an election campaign in Turkey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A boring approach.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman approached this issue in a serious way and he deserves a serious answer to his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.160.5", "colnum": "160", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "Not at all. It is absolutely clear that the legally binding protocol and the charter of fundamental rights offer very strong protection indeed. That is acknowledged by other member states and other prominent politicians. As the president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.160.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "o achieve our high, demanding and necessary targets for reductions in carbon emissions, we need to get the necessary implementing legislation through in a timely fashion and unambiguously and that, for that purpose, we need to have QMV in a Union of 27 members? Therefore, is there not evidently more than the usual degree of confusion in the minds of those on the Opposition Benches who claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " this week. The International Monetary Fund has said that this international uncertainty will have an effect on growth right across the world, and independent forecasters expect growth next year in America, the euro area and Japan to fall to 2 and 2½ per cent. In those circumstances, it is right that we, too, are cautious. So my forecast for growth next year is also 2 to 2½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.167.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I thank the shadow Chancellor for his response. It strikes me that he might have benefited —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "in information just a few hours ago, and I can tell the House that we are spending more on health than the Conservatives thought. Helpfully, one of their Members—perhaps someone waiting to cross over to us in the next few months—left the Tory crib sheet in the photocopier in the House of Commons. There is a suggested question on this and, by the way, I have all the suggested questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I thank the Chancellor for an advance copy of his statement, but 12 of the 18 pages were blank. Is that a new signal of open government and transparency? I congratulate him on adopting our long-standing policy on aviation taxation. There have also been welcome announcements on overseas aid, carers and social housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.179.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.185.2", "colnum": "185", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend a bit more about his welcome announcement of increased spending on law and order, especially on local police budgets and local police teams? What would that mean in terms of the number of officers? Many people, including those in my own area, want to see more armed officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could make a general point to the hon. Gentleman, which I might equally make to the Welsh and Scottish nationalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could make a general point to the hon. Gentleman, which I might equally make to the Welsh and Scottish nationalists— [Interruption]— well, I certainly see a Scottish nationalist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is clear that this is money that we have set aside within the defence budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "oing back to some previous target for procurement of a particular type of equipment. Whenever I asked what the Conservative Front Benchers proposed to do about the problem, however, I always got the same answer that we have heard this afternoon. No, they were not committed to spending any more money. They would either reduce their commitments, or if not, they might think a bit more about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "Afghanistan is dire. Reports have mentioned only half of the Apache helicopters working, only 70 per cent. of the Chinooks being available, only 16 of 96 promised armoured vehicles being delivered, engineers moving high explosives in soft-skinned trucks and soldiers having to buy their own kit as the Army provisions were below requirement and not fit for purpose. That is an unacceptable situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.219.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "I want to leave that question to the Under-Secretary, because there is an enormous amount of detail about how one should conduct defence procurement and procurement projects in the Ministry of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.233.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "That surprises me, because this will be one of the biggest defence projects for a number of years and there was no mention of it in the Minister's speech. We suspected that the decision was taken more for political reasons: the former Prime Minister wishing to get the decision out of the way before the new Prime Minister came on board, thus keeping his hands clean —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-09", "file": "debates2007-10-09b.xml", "sha256": "d5fe868c8fb31bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ash;Her Majesty's armed forces—is in the hands of a man who has no understanding of, let alone empathy for, the armed forces. Why else would he have made the Defence Secretary's job and the Minister of State's job part-time? Why else would he have scrapped the Defence Export Services Organisation, which has helped Britain's defence industry to achieve annual export sales of £5 billion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-09b.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "03584676dea02cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10b.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "y, important as that is? Innovation and spreading best practice are clearly good things. Is it right, though, to set up another quango to deliver them? Is that necessarily the best way of achieving the aim? How will it sit alongside the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which already does work in this area? The statement gives little attention to care for elderly people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10b.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "03584676dea02cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10b.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "e unrecognised scandals of our time? Although I welcome the tentative step towards some sort of resolution, is not the issue far more urgent than the Government acknowledge? The royal commission in 1999 recommended free personal care. The Liberal Democrats forced such a provision through in Scotland, and we want people in the rest of the UK to benefit in the way that people in Scotland already do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10b.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "03584676dea02cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10b.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": " it done as quickly as possible. Finally, I come back to home condition reports. I still believe that one of the fundamental problems with buying and selling a home in this country is that people not only make offers without knowing the condition of a property, but often buy it with only a minimal survey having been done. Such a survey will not reveal potential fundamental flaws with the property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10b.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.286.6", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will therefore be very —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.286.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.286.9", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "e the industrial dispute at Royal Mail? I am sure that, as the owner of the business, the Government share everybody's concern about the interruptions in the cash flow of small businesses, in the contacts between constituents and their MPs and in the daily lives of all residents, including those in rural communities. Given that both sides of the dispute say that they share the same interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.286.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "e, get in your car, go down to Buckingham palace and call that election. The Prime Minister now tells us that he was planning to change the rules on inheritance tax and non-doms all along. He is treating the British people like fools. Next, he will be telling us how much he admires Margaret Thatcher! Let us try another example of straight talking from the Prime Minister. Your manifesto said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.288.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Because I have the report here and it makes a distinction between the treaty— [ Interruption. ] Oh yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.288.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "y, important as that is? Innovation and spreading best practice are clearly good things. Is it right, though, to set up another quango to deliver them? Is that necessarily the best way of achieving the aim? How will it sit alongside the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which already does work in this area? The statement gives little attention to care for elderly people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "e unrecognised scandals of our time? Although I welcome the tentative step towards some sort of resolution, is not the issue far more urgent than the Government acknowledge? The royal commission in 1999 recommended free personal care. The Liberal Democrats forced such a provision through in Scotland, and we want people in the rest of the UK to benefit in the way that people in Scotland already do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " fencing removed as part of the settlement to give them greater freedom to spend money on priorities. That could well mean spending much more on social care. The problem that he identifies is how we keep that contribution sustainable, as the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Angela Browning) said, so that an increasing elderly population receive better care services than they do at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " 11: a failure to prepare a whole generation. For young people preparing to meet the challenge of a changing world of work, this Government have failed to deliver on the basics. The number of students getting five good passes at GCSE, including English, maths, science and a modern language, is now 25 per cent. of the total, down since 1997: a failure to equip the young for a world of rapid change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "e good passes at GCSE, including English, maths, science and a modern language, is now 25 per cent. of the total, down since 1997: a failure to equip the young for a world of rapid change. [ Interruption. ] I notice that the hon. Member for Dudley, North (Mr. Austin) is monosyllabic; he is capable of uttering only one word. If he would care to make an intervention, I shall be delighted to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are debating serious matters today. We must not have continual interventions from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Right hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Surrey Heath for our programme of catch-up tuition for those falling behind in writing and maths, but I say to him that if he wants a serious debate on educational reform, he needs to monitor a little more closely the standard of the Leader of the Opposition's articles on education policy before they are submitted. The proposal by the hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.325.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Of course I stand entirely by the manifesto on which we fought the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that over the past 10 years, education spending has risen by 5 per cent. a year in real terms. Between 1979 and 1997, it rose by only 1.4 per cent. a year, so it is clear that when the Conservative Government were in power, they failed to achieve their objectives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "ed in the small print that it meant that the Government would manage in 2021 or 2022 to get state school per pupil expenditure to the level of that in the private sector in 2006, or 2005. At virtually all times in the history of our country, it must have been the case that those who were reliant only on the state sector were funded at the same level as those in the private sector 20 years earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": " secondary school to become an independent school. On the other hand, we have all these nods and winks from Ministers to those that they want to keep onside that there are no changes. On the day before the Secretary of State's first statement, an article in the Financial Times , a reputable newspaper, said that it had been briefed that the academies programme would be cut back and throttled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.334.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "said just 30 seconds ago that I do not criticise Tory MPs who oppose individual developments, as they might well be atrocious and inappropriate. However, I do criticise Conservative MPs who oppose overall increases in housing because they think that there should be fewer homes in their constituencies and across the country. They are not supporting the additional homes that the country needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "priate. However, I do criticise Conservative MPs who oppose overall increases in housing because they think that there should be fewer homes in their constituencies and across the country. They are not supporting the additional homes that the country needs— [ Interruption. ] The Labour party supports having 3 million more homes by 2020 and I challenge the Conservatives to do the same —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "lcome in a traditional manufacturing constituency. Although it benefits hugely from the retail and leisure sectors, it needed some modern service industries, at the cutting edge, to support its economy. Some of the world's leading names support the LMS platform and it has provided important work for my constituents. I asked its managing director, Andy Knee, what effect the motion would have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": " it done as quickly as possible. Finally, I come back to home condition reports. I still believe that one of the fundamental problems with buying and selling a home in this country is that people not only make offers without knowing the condition of a property, but often buy it with only a minimal survey having been done. Such a survey will not reveal potential fundamental flaws with the property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "rning on the streets of Bromley and Chislehurst, and I might add that the view remained firmly the same. There was, however, a great deal of support for my party's proposal on stamp duty and making home ownership more accessible for first-time buyers. That said, it is a pretty worrying state of affairs that is indicative, perhaps, of the Government's situation, that the Minister for Housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-10", "file": "debates2007-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "84513ad65059387c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.405.7", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": "t actually about 10,000 homes. It just happened to rhyme.\" I am a proud member of the Government and of the Labour party, but my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) , who is no longer in his place, suggested another rhyme. I bear no responsibility for this appalling piece of poetry, but instead of \"No way to 10k\", it should be, \"Hip, hip, hooray; let's have 6k\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-10c.405.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "5be3255fa4493dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e party political point scoring at Prime Minister's questions yesterday. Having had the Punch and Judy then, we can spare the House the Judy and Judy show today. This is a statement on the business of the House, and it will be business as usual. Turning to the points of business that the right hon. Lady raised, on the Ministry of Justice, there is an ongoing review. There has been no announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "5be3255fa4493dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That's not a referendum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "isation Committee, and we shall have to look into it further to make sure that we are doing the best we can in the House to scrutinise proposals from Europe. The right hon. Lady referred to how the House is dealing with the European reform treaty. She will know that if the Government reach an agreement on intergovernmental issues relating to Europe it will come to the House for ratification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "5be3255fa4493dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11a.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "s were displaced, and many businesses were closed. Of course, many people had to leave their homes; some of them had to be rescued from their top floor. It was a desperate situation. When we lost the water supply, we had to live off water supplied by bowsers—a word I had never come across before 20 July —and the filling of bowsers and the delivery of bottled water became a major issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11a.521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "9b337e33e85a88ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e party political point scoring at Prime Minister's questions yesterday. Having had the Punch and Judy then, we can spare the House the Judy and Judy show today. This is a statement on the business of the House, and it will be business as usual. Turning to the points of business that the right hon. Lady raised, on the Ministry of Justice, there is an ongoing review. There has been no announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "9b337e33e85a88ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That's not a referendum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "isation Committee, and we shall have to look into it further to make sure that we are doing the best we can in the House to scrutinise proposals from Europe. The right hon. Lady referred to how the House is dealing with the European reform treaty. She will know that if the Government reach an agreement on intergovernmental issues relating to Europe it will come to the House for ratification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "9b337e33e85a88ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e House and in our democracy. We should all be concerned that people do not like the idea that big money comes in and assists people in buying seats. That has been pervasive in the United States and has undermined public confidence. This \"arms race\", in which all sides have been spending more and more on elections, has simply been correlated with a fall in turnout. The public are turned off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "9b337e33e85a88ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it is not. It is reserved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is well aware of the terrible difficulties that foot and mouth and bluetongue have caused, particularly the effect on hill farmers, of whom there are many in Wales. Of course, the hon. Gentleman will know that this is a devolved matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "9b337e33e85a88ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is reserved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is well aware of the terrible difficulties that foot and mouth and bluetongue have caused, particularly the effect on hill farmers, of whom there are many in Wales. Of course, the hon. Gentleman will know that this is a devolved matter—[Hon. Members: \"No, it is not. It is reserved.\"] The devolved Assemblies have formed their own package of compensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "9b337e33e85a88ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman has had an opportunity to read the evidence that Sir Callum McCarthy gave to the Treasury Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.479.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "9b337e33e85a88ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "loomberg, both of whom have been able to get the supply they required through a city council that was between 80 and 90 per cent. Democrat—the opposite party to theirs. If they can do it, under a system that requires a simple majority, I am darned sure that any Mayor of London, of any party, can do the same. I am equally sure that the next Mayor of London will have no difficulty in doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-11", "file": "debates2007-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "9b337e33e85a88ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND IMMIGRATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "s were displaced, and many businesses were closed. Of course, many people had to leave their homes; some of them had to be rescued from their top floor. It was a desperate situation. When we lost the water supply, we had to live off water supplied by bowsers—a word I had never come across before 20 July —and the filling of bowsers and the delivery of bottled water became a major issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-11b.521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2b60db8e1e40310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I will consider the occupancy rate throughout the country to see whether it is causing problems, but the top priority is always safety. One minute the NHS is being criticised for not being productive enough, the next it is being criticised for being over-productive. Obviously, there must be a balance, but it must never compromise patient safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2b60db8e1e40310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15a.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "retary of State's attention to something that I identified at the time, but has not mentioned in his responses so far? It is the crucial role of ward sister. Ward sister, unlike management, matron or the director of nursing, is there all day. She used to fulfil the role of boss: \"Nurse, why is that drip empty?\"; \"Nurse, why is this man in his own diarrhoea?\" If she still fulfilled that role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15a.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f2b60db8e1e40310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "s correct. The hon. Gentleman argues, secondly, that trade unions are subject to litigation instigated by those to whom they owe a duty of care in the provision of those services. Yes, again, that is true, but both arguments are true of any other body regulated by the Bill. If it is argued that bodies—alternative business structures or others—require additional regulation beyond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "9ab81c50906e39ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.540.8", "colnum": "540", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Renditions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I always take Liberal Democrat renditions of particular stories with a pinch of salt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.540.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "9ab81c50906e39ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ere poor. It goes on to list a whole series of the most appalling errors that took place at the hospital but do not happen at other hospitals around the country. That should not be put to one side as if there is an excuse for this hospital because it was also dealing with national targets. I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's point, although it is of course typical of the Opposition at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "9ab81c50906e39ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I will consider the occupancy rate throughout the country to see whether it is causing problems, but the top priority is always safety. One minute the NHS is being criticised for not being productive enough, and the next it is being criticised for being over-productive. Obviously, there must be a balance, but it must never compromise patient safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "9ab81c50906e39ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "State's attention to something that I identified at the time, but that has not been mentioned in his responses so far? It is the crucial role of ward sister. Ward sister, unlike management, matron or the director of nursing, is there all day. She used to fulfil the role of boss: \"Nurse, why is that drip empty?\"; \"Nurse, why is this man in his own diarrhoea?\" If she still fulfilled that role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "9ab81c50906e39ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "ws, as has been demonstrated during progress of the Bill, that no matter what is said by the sleek packaging of the new Conservative party, when it comes to legislation the old Tory party of vested interests and conservative nature emerges. The way in which the Conservatives have conducted themselves on this Bill is a great example of that. I am pleased that the amendment will be supported —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "9ab81c50906e39ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "s correct. The hon. Gentleman argues, secondly, that trade unions are subject to litigation instigated by those to whom they owe a duty of care in the provision of those services. Yes, again, that is true, but both arguments are true of any other body regulated by the Bill. If it is argued that bodies—alternative business structures or others—require additional regulation beyond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-15", "file": "debates2007-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "9ab81c50906e39ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "Although I am not entirely persuaded by the Under-Secretary, I should like to ask leave to withdraw the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-15b.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State has been charged with no such responsibility. The hon. Gentleman ought not to believe everything that he reads in the newspaper, even if he has briefed the newspaper himself—indeed, especially if he has briefed the newspaper himself: that might be a reason for not believing what is in it. In relation to the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "they will have the choice of whether to wear a cycle helmet. I reiterate that I have no intention of bringing in this Bill for adults or anyone over the age of 14. Another argument against the Bill is that it will put children off cycling. I can safely say that my six-year-old son, Thomas, has no problems with wearing a cycle helmet when riding his bike—and what a good job he is doing at it!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "uation there can still be, despite the efforts of the Taliban and others to disrupt it. One of those things is that the international community involved in this operation throughout the country needs a single leadership. There is no question about that. I have to say—I believe that the hon. Gentleman will be pleased to hear this—that none of our international partners thinks otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "We will not help to encourage others—which I do a great deal—to become involved and to develop their capability and capacity to make an appropriate contribution to operations if we get into a futile bidding war about this priority as opposed to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.720.5", "colnum": "720", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "Excuse me, but I thought that the purpose of the House of Commons was for us to be able to question Ministers directly. It is an entirely appropriate place to raise such issues. Now that we have clarification on those, perhaps the Secretary of State will clarify other issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.720.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "We fought a war on two fronts against Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. We almost lost that, as a consequence of the Conservative party's leaders in the 1930s, so I will not take any spurious examples of our failing this country, when it was the hon. Gentleman's party, with names that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "r Majesty's armed forces will recognise the improvement in salaries. The shadow Minister, however, told us how badly a major is paid—using, no doubt, the bottom of a major's salary scale. I would like to be at the top of a major's salary scale—Members of Parliament would have a considerable increase in salary if we were—but, in saying that, I in no way disparage the armed forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "reat from Iran, and other threats could also be mentioned. We are spending too little on defence, and our budget should not simply be increased but be increased wisely. I am not saying that it should be increased by as much as 250 or 500 per cent., but we must imagine what might happen in five, 10 or 15 years, and take into account those countries that are trebling or quadrupling their GDPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "tled \"The Saints: The Rhodesian Light Infantry\" by Alexandre Binda, which should be required reading for all top brass, so that they can appreciate how the Rhodesians used their limited helicopter resources to devastating effect. There are plenty of helicopters on the market today that can be hired at one fifth of the cost of our own aircraft, so there really is no excuse for helicopter shortages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-16", "file": "debates2007-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "43a6ca2efbe30bae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": " will touch only briefly on Afghanistan and Iraq later, as they have been ably covered in great detail this evening. I would like to deal with a few areas that have not been elaborated on so far. First, given that this is a broad defence policy debate, I would like to discuss the ballistic missile defence shield. The fact is that in July and November last year I asked two questions about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-16b.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ues. All those changes have been brought about in the past few months, and that is why not one Government in Europe—apart from the one in Ireland, which is bound constitutionally to have a referendum on anything—is proposing a referendum on this treaty. Just as those on the Conservative Front Bench voted against a referendum in 1992, they should have the honesty to vote against it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Well, I just think that the report deserves discussion in Parliament, rather than a simple Punch and Judy show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "sity such as diabetes and heart conditions, and will bankrupt the NHS. It is important to stress that we should all take personal responsibility as individuals and as parents. Perhaps the three of us Front-Bench spokesmen should take part in the Great London run next year. I invite the Secretary of State to join me. I did it this year, and the Lib Dem health team is in pretty live condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ed that we were running to catch up on the evidence that the scientists were producing on the need to tackle obesity. We can consider various initiatives. The hon. Member for North Norfolk mentioned health inequalities. The report states that the Government's action in tackling health inequalities and climate change could help, because energy saving could help to encourage people to exercise more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "irst to try to tackle health inequalities and problems with educational attainment by saying that every primary school pupil should be able to have a free breakfast, free fruit and free lunch. What is more, we did that before Jamie Oliver, and it had a remarkable impact. The programme is due to be assessed by Hull university, yet the incoming Lib Dem authority cancelled the scheme this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.854.3", "colnum": "854", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "eed to be completed before IAH and Merial can resume full operations. I shall return to the issue of bluetongue and a potential vaccine from Merial a little later. We are now requiring of Merial that all the virus that it produces should be inactivated before it reaches even the first part of the drainage system. That will require a heat treatment facility and it needs to put that in place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "fy and reduce the very real economic and welfare pressures faced by farmers. That is why we have taken a risk-based approach to lifting movement restrictions. Clearly, the emergence of the third case on 12 September —more than a month and a bit after the previous reported case—made things much more difficult. We now know that that was the result of unreported infection in one premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "f someone undertakes a dangerous occupation on their land and any toxin or other danger emanates out to the public, they are liable under Rylands v. Fletcher and the rule of strict liability. I do not condemn the Government, but I ask them to think carefully. The Secretary of State said that he has lawyers who will advise him. There are lawyers in this House as well, and the opinion has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "4a2565f9ac64b17f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": " as the year goes on. He added that Labour had no rural representation in the Chamber, and it was unfortunate to see that there were no Labour Back Benchers listening to his speech. My hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr. Newmark) made an excellent speech, in which he claimed that the Government were speaking with a forked tongue. I suspect he was making his speech with a silver tongue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17a.890.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.807.8", "colnum": "807", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that fascinating answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.807.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says that he is being sincere—and for the record, I have always known him to be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "preceding_text": "and protection of human rights. Let me provide a few examples. In 2006-07 alone, we provided some £220 million in humanitarian assistance to sub-Saharan Africa and we have allocated £64.5 million this year to the Africa conflict prevention pool. We are the largest donor to the UN's central emergency response fund, contributing £42.2 million this year. We have also provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.808.7", "colnum": "808", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.808.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "The owner of a local small business wrote to me yesterday, saying: \"I was made redundant...and started my own small business...I am approaching retirement and was hoping the sale would help support my pension which has already reduced by...the raid on pensions made by Gordon Brown.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister came to office saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.817.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ues. All those changes have been brought about in the past few months, and that is why not one Government in Europe—apart from the one in Ireland, who are bound constitutionally to have a referendum on anything—are proposing a referendum on this treaty. Just as those on the Conservative Front Bench voted against a referendum in 1992, they should have the honesty to vote against it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister called my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) the Foreign Secretary. I have to say to him that it is just a matter of time. Let us be clear about what Labour's representative on the European Convention, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We will do what is right in the interests of the British people. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to trade quotes, he should listen to the chairman of his own democracy commission, who says that the proposal for a referendum under the Tory plans is \"crackpot\", \"dotty\" and \"frankly absurd\". I know that the Leader of the Opposition likes pre-rehearsed soundbites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ht in the interests of the British people. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to trade quotes, he should listen to the chairman of his own democracy commission, who says that the proposal for a referendum under the Tory plans is \"crackpot\", \"dotty\" and \"frankly absurd\". I know that the Leader of the Opposition likes pre-rehearsed soundbites— [Interruption.] I know that he is good at PR—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.820.4", "colnum": "820", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "orary leader of the Liberal party. If things go on in this Parliament at this rate of change, every single Liberal Member will have the chance to be leader of the Liberal party. As far as the tax issues are concerned, it is because we recognise marriage in the tax system that we have made the changes that we have on inheritance tax; it is because we recognise marriage in the tax system that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.820.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Well, I just think that the report deserves discussion in Parliament, rather than a simple Punch and Judy show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "Another day, another Lib Dem leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": " and heart conditions, could be devastating and will bankrupt the NHS. It is important to stress that we should all take personal responsibility as individuals and as parents. Perhaps the three of us Front-Bench spokesmen should take part in the Great London run next year. I invite the Secretary of State to join me. I did it this year, and the Lib Dem health team is in pretty live condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.830.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "hat we recognised that we were running to catch up on the evidence that the scientists were producing on the need to tackle obesity. We can consider various initiatives. The hon. Gentleman mentioned health inequalities. The report states that the Government's action in tackling health inequalities and climate change could help, because energy saving could help to encourage people to exercise more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "irst to try to tackle health inequalities and problems with educational attainment by saying that every primary school pupil should be able to have a free breakfast, free fruit and free lunch. What is more, we did that before Jamie Oliver, and it had a remarkable impact. The programme is due to be assessed by Hull university, yet the incoming Lib Dem authority cancelled the scheme this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": "We all know that this is a dreadful situation—as, indeed, a number of other animal disease outbreaks have been. However, will the hon. Gentleman, to be fair, acknowledge that this Government have spent a great deal of money on research into vaccination? Let us consider the example of tuberculosis, into which we had a number of inquiries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.854.3", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "eed to be completed before IAH and Merial can resume full operations. I shall return to the issue of bluetongue and a potential vaccine from Merial a little later. We are now requiring of Merial that all the virus that it produces should be inactivated before it reaches even the first part of the drainage system. That will require a heat treatment facility and it needs to put that in place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is putting a robust case, but is he telling the House that there will be no resignations at all in his Department as a result of this fiasco, which could have cost our country billions of pounds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.857.5", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has repeatedly said that, despite what I have stated, there is no evidence that DEFRA knew that the drains were in such a bad state of repair. Contrary to what he said, I am sure that I did not use the word \"damaged\", and never meant to suggest that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.857.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "nsard to find out whether the hon. Gentleman used the word \"damage\". However, the point is important because the description of what went on that I am putting before the House rests importantly on the fact that, because of the combination of events that had taken place, nobody knew that the drains were in the condition that it turned out they were in by the time the HSE investigated them in April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "fy and reduce the very real economic and welfare pressures faced by farmers. That is why we have taken a risk-based approach to lifting movement restrictions. Clearly, the emergence of the third case on 12 September —more than a month and a bit after the previous reported case—made things much more difficult. We now know that that was the result of unreported infection in one premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I have answered the second question already. Drafts are prepared, options are looked at, colleagues have discussions, and I do not propose to get into a conversation about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.863.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "lity under the principle of Rylands v. Fletcher. The Secretary of State's assertion that pure economic loss cannot be addressed could well be wrong. The fact is that this Government, to their shame, regarded the outbreak of foot and mouth disease as a suitable vehicle for establishing themselves with a reputation for competence in the run-up to the election that they believed was fast approaching.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "f someone undertakes a dangerous occupation on their land and any toxin or other danger emanates out to the public, they are liable under Rylands v. Fletcher and the rule of strict liability. I do not condemn the Government, but I ask them to think carefully. The Secretary of State said that he has lawyers who will advise him. There are lawyers in this House as well, and the opinion has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": " as the year goes on. He added that Labour had no rural representation in the Chamber, and it was unfortunate to see that there were no Labour Back Benchers listening to his speech. My hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr. Newmark) made an excellent speech, in which he claimed that the Government were speaking with a forked tongue. I suspect he was making his speech with a silver tongue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.890.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-17", "file": "debates2007-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "5cfb99115c802305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day—First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": " schools—have bullying, and it is difficult for any school to claim that it has none, because they deal with individuals who interact with one another. However, from my observation of independent schools—and I have not visited as many as I have state schools—I think that they have the problem relatively under control and are keeping it to a bare minimum. It is a matter of degree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-17b.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-18", "file": "debates2007-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "a737e227c38a5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "Minister tried, in a very unsophisticated way for someone whose intelligence and integrity I respect, to make out that our approach is that charities should not do any campaigning at all. That is absolute nonsense. We think that the law as it stands is very sensible. It allows campaigning if it is an ancillary activity. The Minister is suggesting that it should be allowed to be the dominant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-18", "file": "debates2007-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "ebbb0ff27c9ab3f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "at the police and prosecutors strengthen their work on rape; and we provide good support for victims. There will, of course, be a debate on crime on Monday. The right hon. Lady raises the question of public appointments. If she is concerned about any individual appointments, she can always bring them to my attention. She will know that the public appointments system is transparent and independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.965.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-18", "file": "debates2007-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "ebbb0ff27c9ab3f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.989.9", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "In two ways: first, by the Charity Commission being absolutely clear about what is and is not allowed; and secondly, by the other measures that we are taking to strengthen the support for local campaigning through investment by Capacitybuilders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.989.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-18", "file": "debates2007-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "ebbb0ff27c9ab3f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "Minister tried, in a very unsophisticated way for someone whose intelligence and integrity I respect, to make out that our approach is that charities should not do any campaigning at all. That is absolute nonsense. We think that the law as it stands is very sensible. It allows campaigning if it is an ancillary activity. The Minister is suggesting that it should be allowed to be the dominant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-18", "file": "debates2007-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "ebbb0ff27c9ab3f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " path would be to imperil further the independence that should be such an important characteristic of the public's perception of what makes a charity special. Public support for charities through donations has already stalled. We believe that it would be devastating for the whole sector, especially the majority in the sector, who have no desire to campaign at all, merely to provide services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-18", "file": "debates2007-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "ebbb0ff27c9ab3f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Christine Russell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christine Russell", "preceding_text": " on what I consider to be perhaps the third sector's greatest strength: its ability to reach people who are so often beyond the reach of the traditional public services. Before I was elected to the House in 1997, I worked for Mind, the mental health charity that helps give a voice to people with mental health problems and learning difficulties. I recall how challenging life was in the 1880s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-18b.998.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-19", "file": "debates2007-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "5546272c037aac3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-19b.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Fourth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I want to make a few brief remarks about the group. First, however, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, West (Sir John Butterfill) on his success in navigating his third Bill on to the statute book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-19b.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-19", "file": "debates2007-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "5546272c037aac3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-19b.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "would broaden the range of European co-operatives that could take advantage of the Bill. Lords amendment No. 3 first defines an EEA mutual society as \"a body which is a European Cooperative Society for the purposes of Council Regulation (EC) No 1435/2003 (statute for a European Cooperative Society)\". I took the trouble to print out the regulation to see what sort of mutuals might be covered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-19b.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-19", "file": "debates2007-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "5546272c037aac3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-19b.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "ter. However, I remain keen to ensure that the link between amendment No. 3 and its definition of an EEA mutual society cross-references clearly with the definition in clause 3(9) of a mutual society. Perhaps the Minister will clarify whether that linkage actually exists. It is a powerful point, because if established, it completely removes the problem of the French wine-making co-operative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-19b.1076.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "4005f74860b8406e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22a.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ext, all the UK protections that I have outlined are included in the detail we have negotiated. Parliament will have the opportunity to debate this amending treaty in detail and decide whether to ratify it. The Government will recommend that there is sufficient time for debate on the Floor of the House so that the Bill is examined in the fullest of detail and all points of view can be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22a.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "4005f74860b8406e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "d and then that the Bulgarian party had joined. Then, only a few days ago, the European People's party announced that the Bulgarians had already withdrawn from the Movement for European Reform. Then, the right hon. Gentleman has got his last remaining friends, whom he calls his closest allies in Europe—the Czech Civic Democrats—but his only allies in Europe support the amending treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "4005f74860b8406e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "ough the power of their faith, go out on the streets to take action against some of the problems that we have seen. Let me share just one experience when I was out with the street pastors in Brixton recently, dealing with problems on the street. I do not know what other hon. Members think, but I imagined that all the street pastors would be 6 ft 6—all built a bit like the England rugby pack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "4005f74860b8406e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22a.139.2", "colnum": "139", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "ol and promote high standards of educational achievement. Members will often have experience of turning round other schools in difficulties or be members of a local authority school improvement service. The members of this IEB have more experience than the former governing body. The chair is Martin North, a consultant head from Havering, and he will be joined by a national strategies expert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22a.139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "allegations that somehow injured service personnel are not adequately reflected in the figures. I have heard all sorts of scurrilous things, such as that we are deliberately trying to hide the extent of our injured service personnel. I have seen no evidence of that. I continue to be prepared to examine anything that anyone has said. If anyone can provide evidence that we are under-reporting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "nion must now be the global challenges that we face in relation to employment, prosperity, competitiveness, climate change and security. Today—in a document, \"Global Europe\", published this afternoon and available to the House now—the Government set out how we will advance those new priorities in the future. The mandate for the IGC made it clear that \"the constitutional concept\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ext, all the UK protections that I have outlined are included in the detail we have negotiated. Parliament will have the opportunity to debate this amending treaty in detail and decide whether to ratify it. The Government will recommend that there is sufficient time for debate on the Floor of the House so that the Bill is examined in the fullest of detail and all points of view can be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Penning, I must ask you to behave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "d and then that the Bulgarian party had joined. Then, only a few days ago, the European People's party announced that the Bulgarians had already withdrawn from the Movement for European Reform. Then, the right hon. Gentleman has got his last remaining friends, whom he calls his closest allies in Europe—the Czech Civic Democrats—but his only allies in Europe support the amending treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.25.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more!", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "emaining friends in Europe, the Czech Civic Democrats, support the amending treaty and are against a referendum, and the Czech Prime Minister has said, \"We cannot afford any further failure on the path to this common goal\" in Europe. The right hon. Gentleman has no friends in Europe, and he has no support from any Government; he will have to change his policy. We will defend the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "cceeded in achieving defend the British national interest. My hon. Friend is right. At some point, even the Conservative party will have to come to terms with the fact that we benefit from our membership of the European Union. It is not just 62 per cent. of our trade and 40 per cent. of all financial services activity of the EU in London—50 per cent. of investment banking is in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We have had many debates over the years, and I think that the hon. Gentleman will concede this: that if there had been a decision to recommend joining the euro, I was the first to argue that there should be a referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "ough the power of their faith, go out on the streets to take action against some of the problems that we have seen. Let me share just one experience when I was out with the street pastors in Brixton recently, dealing with problems on the street. I do not know what other hon. Members think, but I imagined that all the street pastors would be 6 ft 6—all built a bit like the England rugby pack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-22", "file": "debates2007-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "441a76dcff4f5b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.139.2", "colnum": "139", "heading": "ALDERMAN BLAXILL SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "ol and promote high standards of educational achievement. Members will often have experience of turning round other schools in difficulties or be members of a local authority school improvement service. The members of this IEB have more experience than the former governing body. The chair is Martin North, a consultant head from Havering, and he will be joined by a national strategies expert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-22b.139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "I seem to remember answering that question last year, when I was a junior Minister at the Department of Trade and Industry and responsible for time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for recognising the appropriate qualifications that Mr Gould brought to the job. Nobody reading the report can say that it is not robust and challenging; it has 120 pages. However, it is perfectly clear from the hon. Gentleman's contribution from the Dispatch Box that he has not had the opportunity to read them all yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "ort out of context, even though I am about to do just that to give the House an example of the danger of doing so—he may want to take particular note. I shall quote one sentence, from page 120: \"Almost without exception, the voter was treated as an afterthought by virtually all the other stakeholders.\" The hon. Gentleman's party falls within the definition \"all the other stakeholders\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The Conservative party's response makes my point. If you are going to comment on the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": ". Members had listened to Ron Gould when he introduced the report and was asked the very questions that lie behind the observations. In response to a particular question, he said: \"So I don't think I would absolve any party\". He was asked about gerrymandering and said: \"'Party self-interest' in this context is not necessarily related to one party.\" It behoves us all as the political classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I entirely refute the claim that my right hon. Friend has been caught with his hand in the till. That is not what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are all British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady brings a degree of personal knowledge of such conflicts to the question, as at one stage she was shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, although at the time she represented an English constituency, which she still does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady brings a degree of personal knowledge of such conflicts to the question, as at one stage she was shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, although at the time she represented an English constituency, which she still does—[Hon. Members: \"We are all British.\"] I understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.174.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.177.5", "colnum": "177", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The report does not suggest that any Minister tried to corrupt the electoral process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.179.3", "colnum": "179", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "l have the opportunity to do that somewhere else, outside the Chamber. He surely has the analysis in his mind and he should be able to tell me what it is. I challenge him to do that, because I cannot for the life of me see how any individual party is advantaged by a combined ballot paper. If he could even give me some indication through his body language whether he has any reason, that would help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.179.3", "colnum": "179", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "uspected that. Let us deal with the issue of advice. The fact is that the testing was carried out, and that it apparently revealed a certain level of error. Despite that, however, the Electoral Commission, which carried out the work, reported it back to the Secretary of State and strongly recommended the combined ballot paper on the basis of its research. It did the work, and it recommended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-23", "file": "debates2007-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "73a7530666dda131", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.183.5", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I seek your guidance, as I fear that I may have inadvertently misled the House. I had not realised that the predecessor of the Secretary of State for Scotland was also a part-time Secretary of State for Scotland, albeit that he was not simultaneously a part-time Secretary of State for Defence. Is there any way that I can set the record straight on that matter?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-23b.183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman protests too much. Before he starts examining the mote in our eye, he should look at the beam in his own. He totally misunderstands the way in which individual union members have a choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman protests too much. Before he starts examining the mote in our eye, he should look at the beam in his own. He totally misunderstands the way in which individual union members have a choice—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] They have two choices. First, under Conservative legislation, they vote in ballots at least every 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "t, under Conservative legislation, they vote in ballots at least every 10 years— [Laughter.] I do not know why Conservative Members are mocking—I am taking about their legislation. Secondly, unions can make a voluntary decision about whether to pay the political levy or opt out of it. Only one party has ever sought to act in a partisan way on party funding—the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.280.8", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my right hon. Friend could help me with a little problem that I have been wrestling with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.280.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not think that they are wrong. The right hon. Gentleman should listen to what I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.283.5", "colnum": "283", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "cision on prescription charges, and the Scottish Parliament made a decision. They make decisions within their own budgets, and their budgets are allocated under a formula agreed by both parties in this House over the past 30 years. No more money goes to Scotland or Wales as a result of their decisions on prescriptions. That is the Barnett formula that has been agreed by all parties over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.283.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " over the years. I visited a Sure Start centre in her constituency only a few months ago. The children's plan will outline what is necessary to expand both child care and education in future years. My hon. Friend is absolutely right: the expansion of opportunities for work is the best means by which we can relieve people of poverty. That is why, in providing British jobs for British workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that at all. What the Gould report said was that some decisions about the elections could have been better made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.284.5", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "How can the right hon. Gentleman possibly deny that that report says that Ministers put political interests ahead of voters' interests? I thought that politics was going to be different under this Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.284.5", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "How can the right hon. Gentleman possibly deny that that report says that Ministers put political interests ahead of voters' interests? I thought that politics was going to be different under this Prime Minister. [Interruption.] The report says that Ministers in the Scotland Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I asked for quietness on the Opposition Benches, and I also want quietness on the Government Benches. Once again, Mr. Austin, the best place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Because the right hon. Gentleman is misleading people about the conclusions of the report. Let me actually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me consult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.285.6", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "All the decisions were agreed by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.285.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Can I therefore take it that it is quite in order for Members of Parliament to accuse another Member of Parliament of misleading? If so, we will bear that in mind when we come to challenge the Government on so many occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Skinner, I am sure that you are not going to help me. I can tell the Opposition Chief Whip that I understand his anxiety. All I can say is that he should read the Hansard record tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Skinner, I am sure that you are not going to help me. I can tell the Opposition Chief Whip that I understand his anxiety. All I can say is that he should read the Hansard record tomorrow. [ Interruption. ] Order. I ask the House to bear my words in mind. I have consulted the record, and I am satisfied that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "help me. I can tell the Opposition Chief Whip that I understand his anxiety. All I can say is that he should read the Hansard record tomorrow. [ Interruption. ] Order. I ask the House to bear my words in mind. I have consulted the record, and I am satisfied that the Prime Minister— [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members must understand that I am in the Chair and that it is a rolling situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.7", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Would I be right in saying that, if anybody said that another hon. Member or right hon. Member was using the phrase \"deliberately misleading the House\"—and I see that the Clerks are nodding all together, in unison—that person would have to withdraw the remark? I have been around a long time, and I have tested the market several times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.292.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-24", "file": "debates2007-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "42477dc95001aa45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.332.7", "colnum": "332", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": ". The hon. Member for Ludlow asked a specific question about the work of the Electoral Commission in looking into possible electoral arrangements in a new unitary authority. The informal discussions we have held with the commission suggest that it is likely to be able to undertake and complete that work in time for elections in any new unitary authority in 2009. The hon. Member for Cornwall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-24b.332.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aa8ef416b3ee64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "moves to strengthen the Intelligence and Security Committee—but will the Lord Chancellor confirm that appointments to the Committee will not be in the gift of the Government Whips? We welcome the measures to allow protests around Parliament. Indeed, when the reprehensible legislation on the subject was passed, I said that it was more appropriate to Tiananmen square than to Parliament square.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aa8ef416b3ee64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "iate to Tiananmen square than to Parliament square. [Interruption.] Will the Lord Chancellor explain exactly how such a flagrant attack on freedom of expression was not found to be incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998? Was that not an example of the way in which the Act interferes with our ability to deal with terrorists and serious criminals, but fails to protect essential civil liberties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aa8ef416b3ee64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Tiananmen square are completely misplaced. I heard the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) saying from a sedentary position, but not sotto voce, that what the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs said about that was rubbish. Provided that that is parliamentary, Mr. Speaker, I agree with it. I am making a serious point to the hon. Gentleman. People died in Tiananmen square.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "4aa8ef416b3ee64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "The Lord Chancellor makes a great deal of democracy. Does he agree that given the reform treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to give the hon. Gentleman some examples. We have just given the go ahead to what will be the world's largest offshore wind farm, the London Array. When it is completed, it will generate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to give the hon. Gentleman some examples. We have just given the go ahead to what will be the world's largest offshore wind farm, the London Array. When it is completed, it will generate— [Interruption.] Well, we are getting on with it. When it is completed, it will generate enough electricity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "moves to strengthen the Intelligence and Security Committee—but will the Lord Chancellor confirm that appointments to the Committee will not be in the gift of the Government Whips? We welcome the measures to allow protests around Parliament. Indeed, when the reprehensible legislation on the subject was passed, I said that it was more appropriate to Tiananmen square than to Parliament square.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "iate to Tiananmen square than to Parliament square. [Interruption.] Will the Lord Chancellor explain exactly how such a flagrant attack on freedom of expression was not found to be incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998? Was that not an example of the way in which the Act interferes with our ability to deal with terrorists and serious criminals, but fails to protect essential civil liberties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "gnise that references to Tiananmen square are completely misplaced. I heard the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) saying from a sedentary position, but not sotto voce, that what the hon. Gentleman said about that was rubbish. Provided that that is parliamentary, Mr. Speaker, I agree with it. I am making a serious point to the hon. Gentleman. People died in Tiananmen square.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "The Lord Chancellor makes a great deal of democracy. Does he agree that given the reform treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "extremely generous odds, on whether at any stage in the next 10 years the hon. Gentleman will ask any question of the Treasury Bench that does not mention the word \"Europe\". Sadly, despite the generous odds, I have still not collected any winnings, because I have never heard him ask any question whatever that does not get on to the issue of Europe. Public conveniences in Staffordshire would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n the next 10 years the hon. Gentleman will ask any question of the Treasury Bench that does not mention the word \"Europe\". Sadly, despite the generous odds, I have still not collected any winnings, because I have never heard him ask any question whatever that does not get on to the issue of Europe. Public conveniences in Staffordshire would— [Interruption.] The answer to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "response to the consultation on the equality Bill. If the House had been sitting, I would have taken the opportunity to come to the House to make that point. The right hon. Lady asked about motorway hard shoulders. There was a written ministerial statement on that, and I am not aware of any request for an urgent question from hon. Members, but there will be Transport questions in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who is the Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "w the new electoral systems are knitting together is the subject of a review that is being led by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice. On the question of Burma, I am sure that the House will welcome the fact that a Minister in the Foreign Office has been in talks in the region, in Singapore on Monday, and with Chinese and Indian Ministers in Tonga, so work is going ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Well, just listen. A new Prime Minister took office in June and the decision was then made to publish the draft legislative programme. Hon. Members know that an awful lot of a draft legislative programme that is to be presented to the House in November is pretty finalised, as one would expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.431.5", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Phyllis Starkey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phyllis Starkey", "preceding_text": "Loughton parish council in my constituency has been forced to hold a parish poll on the subject of an EU referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I think that the House will want us to proceed with the proposal to have greater regional accountability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "May we have an early debate on the problem of prostitution, particularly about how we curb demand? There are 25,000 sex slaves operating in Britain, while brothels and massage parlours are growing in importance. It is a huge industry. Young women of only 12, 14, 16—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "es, and with Members knowing that they are likely to be called, more Members will attend. Topical debates and questions will bring more Members into the Chamber. I commend many of the Committee's proposals. I am referred to on the Order Paper today as someone who has been nominated as a member of the Committee, on which I have not served before. I will be very happy to take part in its work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ate from the system—a bit like the French Parliament, where as soon as Members become Ministers they give up their seats—but we need to think about the issue. After devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—and, I hope, further devolution—we do not need a bigger Executive; we need a smaller Executive, which will be more effective, too. Just three last points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.494.4", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Four what?", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "that we put up with it as Back Benchers is absurd. Here we had an opportunity—a real and genuine opportunity, if a small one. My amendment, which was defeated so narrowly by seven to one, was a modest proposal. I would read it out, but it is available to be read by those who are interested. It proposed just four a year, and the debates would not have been held on Fridays but during the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-25", "file": "debates2007-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "a5b158e846a0f339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": ". When Douglas Hurd was a Member of the House, however outrageous my opinions were on freedom of information, he engaged with them. I think of the repressiveness of the Home Office. My goodness, looking back, the Home Office was a bastion of liberality compared with the hurried visitors through the offices of it now—authoritarian is being redefined even as we speak on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-25b.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-29", "file": "debates2007-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "ce2bbd3d7fb10142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "Given that I went to an independent school, it would be slightly hypocritical to lecture the BBC on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-29", "file": "debates2007-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "ce2bbd3d7fb10142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "The first thing is that the hon. Gentleman should get his facts right. The most recent figures for the three months up to August 2007 show an increase in the number of UK residents who choose to go abroad by 2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-29", "file": "debates2007-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "ce2bbd3d7fb10142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "On the basis that I am given an absolutely categorical assurance that no attempt was made at any stage by Opposition Members to blow up this campaign and to exploit what everybody knew to be untrue, I am prepared to let the matter lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-29", "file": "debates2007-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "ce2bbd3d7fb10142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": " am given an absolutely categorical assurance that no attempt was made at any stage by Opposition Members to blow up this campaign and to exploit what everybody knew to be untrue, I am prepared to let the matter lie. [ Interruption. ] I place on record that there is not and has never been any question of the Red Arrows somehow being prevented from taking part in the Olympic games opening ceremony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-29", "file": "debates2007-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "ce2bbd3d7fb10142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When will they know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "The information is provided to the Olympic board at a point when the detailed work—and the hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well the level of scrutiny currently being carried out to test line by line the baseline budget I announced to the House back in March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-10-29", "file": "debates2007-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "ce2bbd3d7fb10142", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "understood my point. I am sure that he will write to me; and I will write to him and dig out the quotations of the former Secretary of State for International Development, who regularly came before the Select Committee to say, \"Hey, lads, what we are going to do now is provide more and more budget support. This is the way that DFID is going to move to meet the millennium development goals.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-10-29b.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": ", That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows: Most Gracious Sovereign, We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "led, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. Mr. Speaker— [Interruption.] That is the formalities over with. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure, after some 24 years as a Member of this House, to have been invited to move the Queen's Speech. It is also nice to address a full Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "lities over with. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure, after some 24 years as a Member of this House, to have been invited to move the Queen's Speech. It is also nice to address a full Chamber— [Interruption.] — or a nearly full Chamber, to be correct. The last time I addressed a full Chamber, I was standing at the Dispatch Box; I was recommending the casino advisory panel's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "rsity. Apprenticeships served us well, and I am pleased that apprenticeship reform is a part of the Queen's Speech. I welcome that; it will serve the nation well, too. I genuinely hope, Mr. Speaker, that people like you and me, with our backgrounds, will always have a place here. If this House ever becomes stuffed full of professional politicians, it will be a sad day for the House and the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) wants some advice, I am a little bit of an expert, having run a few election campaigns for my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) . It took JP three attempts to get to the deputy leadership of the Labour party—I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can wait that long, but I wish him well in his leadership bid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "great interest. He was also an active supporter of the anti-apartheid movement. Indeed, in those heady days of the 1980s and 1990s, working with my right hon. Friend was like riding a rollercoaster. His office was the most untidy that I have ever seen. His coffee cups were not washed for days on end and I used to say, \"Gordon, for goodness' sake, wash the coffee cups out.\" He was always demanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "got the message to call the Chief Whip, my first reaction was, \"Uh-oh, what have I done now? He's caught me.\" Then, when I was told that this honour was to be bestowed upon me, I thought, \"Uh-oh, he has caught me!\" However, my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip has such a nice way of putting things that, even if he asked me to sit on the Crossrail Bill, I would probably be inclined to say yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "have real belief in the aspirations of all the people of this country. We have so much to do and we must not shy away from the great work that Labour has done for our country. We have lifted 600,000 children out of poverty—19,700 of them in Brent alone. The minimum wage now stands at more than £5 an hour, the winter fuel benefit in Brent is £11,600—and I could go on and on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.15.0", "colnum": "15", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "South—tomorrow, Soweto.\" I understand that her ambitions are slightly different: she is in a fight to the death with her Liberal Democrat neighbour for the new Brent seat being created by boundary changes. So, for her, it is more a case of \"today, Brent South—tomorrow, Brent Central.\" Many of us have fought Liberal Democrats and know the appalling depths to which they will stoop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.15.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "go off to another meeting. But such was the measure of Piara's popularity and organisation that when Piara Khabra invited someone to his constituency to address a meeting, hundreds—indeed, on one occasion, thousands—turned out. He was a good man. He served his community and his country well. He graced the House with his presence. His life was a life well lived in the service of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "he not say in a letter that has been sent out: \"Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become Prime Minister, a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty—No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum\"? Why does he not say that he is in favour of post-ratification referendum? Is the answer yes or no? I am happy to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "d stop all closures, even medically agreed ones. But at the same time, they say they want no centrally imposed decisions. What sort of policy is that? It is confused, contradictory and not thought through. They have a housing spokesman who does not want to build houses. What sort of policy is that? They have an education spokesman who is not in favour of opportunity being extended to young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ted himself to the education leaving age being raised to 18. He has not said that he supports 50 per cent. of young people going to university, or that he supports the new diplomas in any positive way, even though business throughout the country is doing so. However, does the Conservatives' tax policy not show their real priority? The difference between their inheritance tax policy and ours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ts 50 per cent. of young people going to university, or that he supports the new diplomas in any positive way, even though business throughout the country is doing so. However, does the Conservatives' tax policy not show their real priority? The difference between their inheritance tax policy and ours— [ Interruption. ] They should listen to this. Under their policy, every single year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": " a proposal to look again at the regulation of bus services. That is a Bill that people will be particularly keen to examine. I attended a meeting with the pensioners forum in Telford last week. Those pensioners were particularly keen for us to regulate the bus service sector better. They were pleased, of course, that they are going to get free off-peak nationwide bus travel. We are proud of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Maclean", "preceding_text": "nd it was in decline before we looked at it. Apprenticeships were too long. People did not stick with them, and employers would not take on youngsters at the wages demanded for a five-year period, so the system had to be changed. Now, however, we have nothing. Doing away with the levy was not the problem, as it was sensible to do so. Companies became involved in the training of young people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "ncellor's statement is a huge disappointment for most small businesses still reeling from the increase in corporation tax announced in the last budget.\" The rise in CGT hits particularly hard the owners of the 4.5 million UK firms that employ fewer than 20 staff and contribute half the nation's GDP. Little wonder that the Minister for Trade Promotion and Investment, Lord Jones of Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": ". I suspect it reinforces the fact that we had heard much of the Queen's Speech well before the Queen graciously delivered it. After all, the Prime Minister had delivered it once, we read about it in the Sunday papers, and again on Monday and this morning, and full copies of it were made available 12 minutes before the Queen graciously delivered it in the other place. Had I been the monarch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ther measures before you, and by the way I'm off to Uganda.\" And that would have been it. We had seen the contents of the Queen's Speech well in advance. Had the Queen delivered the Address in the way I described, it would have had the virtue of being concise and 100 per cent. accurate. It is disappointing. Like others who are present, I have been a Member of Parliament for a fair few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "774135d064142229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "n, at its recent conference, the SNP took the view that it would back measures in this House for a referendum. Having committed to it on the constitution, we were honour-bound to do so if the text were not changed on the reform treaty. I signal to the Government now that they have little time left to get changes to the text, which is what they must do if they want to see our position change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.1.1", "colnum": "1", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "nt the views of his or her constituents and to participate in the process of democracy. We should ensure that every Member is heard courteously, regardless of the view that he or she is expressing. Every member of the public has a right to expect that his or her Member of Parliament will behave with civility, in the best traditions of fairness, with the highest level of probity and with integrity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.1.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": ", That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows: Most Gracious Sovereign, We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "bled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. Mr. Speaker— [Interruption.] That is the formalities over with. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure, after some 24 years as a Member of this House, to have been invited to move the Loyal Address. It is also nice to address a full Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "alities over with. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure, after some 24 years as a Member of this House, to have been invited to move the Loyal Address. It is also nice to address a full Chamber— [Interruption.] — or a nearly full Chamber, to be correct. The last time I addressed a full Chamber, I was standing at the Dispatch Box; I was recommending the casino advisory panel's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "rsity. Apprenticeships served us well, and I am pleased that apprenticeship reform is a part of the Queen's Speech. I welcome that; it will serve the nation well, too. I genuinely hope, Mr. Speaker, that people like you and me, with our backgrounds, will always have a place here. If this House ever becomes stuffed full of professional politicians, it will be a sad day for the House and the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) wants some advice, I am a little bit of an expert, having run a few election campaigns for my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) . It took JP three attempts to get to the deputy leadership of the Labour party—I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can wait that long, but I wish him well in his leadership bid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "great interest. He was also an active supporter of the anti-apartheid movement. Indeed, in those heady days of the 1980s and 1990s, working with my right hon. Friend was like riding a rollercoaster. His office was the most untidy that I have ever seen. His coffee cups were not washed for days on end and I used to say, \"Gordon, for goodness' sake, wash the coffee cups out.\" He was always demanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "got the message to call the Chief Whip, my first reaction was, \"Uh-oh, what have I done now? He's caught me.\" Then, when I was told that this honour was to be bestowed upon me, I thought, \"Uh-oh, he has caught me!\" However, my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip has such a nice way of putting things that, even if he asked me to sit on the Crossrail Bill, I would probably be inclined to say yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "have real belief in the aspirations of all the people of this country. We have so much to do and we must not shy away from the great work that Labour has done for our country. We have lifted 600,000 children out of poverty—19,700 of them in Brent alone. The minimum wage now stands at more than £5 an hour, the winter fuel benefit in Brent is £11,600—and I could go on and on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.15.0", "colnum": "15", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "South—tomorrow, Soweto.\" I understand that her ambitions are slightly different: she is in a fight to the death with her Liberal Democrat neighbour for the new Brent seat being created by boundary changes. So, for her, it is more a case of \"today, Brent South—tomorrow, Brent Central.\" Many of us have fought Liberal Democrats and know the appalling depths to which they will stoop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.15.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs a Conservative Administration in Wales to improve the hospital, so that his constituents do not have to cross the boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should look at the figures. He will find that trade unions spent more in marginal seats before the last election than the Conservative party. However, all the money in the world will not save him in High Peak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I'll wipe the wards clean—PM's amazing pledge on MRSA\". When we look at it more closely, it certainly is amazing. The Prime Minister said that \"deep cleaning\" would happen in \"every hospital\", but listen to what the Department of Health said: \"There are no plans to centrally monitor the deep cleaning of hospitals. Arrangements for the programme are entirely a matter for local determination\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Budget to \"flesh out the vision for his planned premiership.\" But when we got the Budget, there was a tax cut that turned out to be a tax con. Then they said that his vision would be in his party conference speech—and there was a vision in his speech; the only problem was that it was not his. He had borrowed it from an American. It was John Kerry's vision, and it did not work for him either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "sion would be in his party conference speech—and there was a vision in his speech; the only problem was that it was not his. He had borrowed it from an American. It was John Kerry's vision, and it did not work for him either. [ Interruption. ] After the disappointment of a conference speech that everyone can now see was just a laundry list of populist gimmicks, they said, \"Don't worry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman will find is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I wondered how long we would go before we got to the Whips' read-out question. I have to say to anyone else contemplating the Whips' read-out question that there is only one black hole in British politics, and that is the gap where the Prime Minister's credibility used to be. We have been briefed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "go off to another meeting. But such was the measure of Piara's popularity and organisation that when Piara Khabra invited someone to his constituency to address a meeting, hundreds—indeed, on one occasion, thousands—turned out. He was a good man. He served his community and his country well. He graced the House with his presence. His life was a life well lived in the service of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "lation, 15 per cent. interest rates and the worst recession since the war. The Leader of the Opposition may remember that. He was pictured side by side with Lord Lamont on Black Wednesday. Even on that day—the worst day in financial history since the war—he could not resist a photo opportunity. I listened to the Leader of the Opposition and I heard very little policy on the big issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " not say in a letter that has been sent out: \"Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become Prime Minister, a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty—No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum\"? Why does he not say that he is in favour of a post-ratification referendum? Is the answer yes or no? I am happy to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "d stop all closures, even medically agreed ones. But at the same time, they say they want no centrally imposed decisions. What sort of policy is that? It is confused, contradictory and not thought through. They have a housing spokesman who does not want to build houses. What sort of policy is that? They have an education spokesman who is not in favour of opportunity being extended to young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ted himself to the education leaving age being raised to 18. He has not said that he supports 50 per cent. of young people going to university, or that he supports the new diplomas in any positive way, even though business throughout the country is doing so. However, does the Conservatives' tax policy not show their real priority? The difference between their inheritance tax policy and ours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ts 50 per cent. of young people going to university, or that he supports the new diplomas in any positive way, even though business throughout the country is doing so. However, does the Conservatives' tax policy not show their real priority? The difference between their inheritance tax policy and ours— [ Interruption. ] They should listen to this. Under their policy, every single year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The answer is yes—unequivocally yes. Every year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.33.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.33.10", "colnum": "33", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The difference between our policy and his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.33.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "p. If he is looking for venues, he need look no further than my constituency of Twickenham. My local football club, Hampton and Richmond, has a regular attendance of 250, but on Saturday it reached the heady heights of the first round of the FA cup. At the team's current rate of progress, it will match Chelsea and Arsenal in 10 years. May I also thank the hon. Member for Brent, South (Ms Butler) ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "n's Speech, because I find it somewhat unnerving and disquieting when people say certain things about the monarchical system and then rush to Buckingham Palace when they are invited there. What they say depends on their audience. I, however, am consistent: I believe in an elected Head of State. But I digress. As I was saying, I represent a port constituency. The fact is that we need to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "because of the intervention of my good friend the hon. Member for East Antrim, whose presence reminds me of one other aspect of the Queen's Speech that I want to trespass on: our citizenship legislation. He has a privilege that does not extend to me. He is a citizen of the United Kingdom and has exercised his rights in that regard, but he could, if he so wished, be a citizen of the Irish Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker, for coming in late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": " a proposal to look again at the regulation of bus services. That is a Bill that people will be particularly keen to examine. I attended a meeting with the pensioners forum in Telford last week. Those pensioners were particularly keen for us to regulate the bus service sector better. They were pleased, of course, that they are going to get free off-peak nationwide bus travel. We are proud of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Maclean", "preceding_text": "nd it was in decline before we looked at it. Apprenticeships were too long. People did not stick with them, and employers would not take on youngsters at the wages demanded for a five-year period, so the system had to be changed. Now, however, we have nothing. Doing away with the levy was not the problem, as it was sensible to do so. Companies became involved in the training of young people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "r's statement is a huge disappointment for most small businesses still reeling from the increase in corporation tax announced in the last budget.\" The rise in CGT hits particularly hard the owners of the 4.5 million UK firms that employ fewer than 20 staff and contribute half the nation's GDP. It is little wonder that the Minister for Trade Promotion and Investment, Lord Jones of Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": ". I suspect it reinforces the fact that we had heard much of the Queen's Speech well before the Queen graciously delivered it. After all, the Prime Minister had delivered it once, we read about it in the Sunday papers, and again on Monday and this morning, and full copies of it were made available 12 minutes before the Queen graciously delivered it in the other place. Had I been the monarch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "sures before you, and by the way I'm off to Uganda.\" And that would have been it. We had seen the contents of the Queen's Speech well in advance. Had the Queen delivered the Gracious Speech in the way I described, it would have had the virtue of being concise and 100 per cent. accurate. It is disappointing. Like others who are present, I have been a Member of Parliament for a fair few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "eversed. The example of the introduction of the poll tax a year early in Scotland was cited earlier. Everybody erupted and said that it was unjust. We are now in a position whereby I cannot vote on issues that relate to Scottish constituencies yet Scottish Members of Parliament can vote on health and education in English constituencies. That is the West Lothian question, which needs to be tackled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "not vote on issues that relate to Scottish constituencies yet Scottish Members of Parliament can vote on health and education in English constituencies. That is the West Lothian question, which needs to be tackled. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Michael Connarty) says from a sedentary position that it has always existed, but when I was first elected in 1992—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "leman opened his wallet. It is still here—I do not know whether this has happened before, but I think that we are in new territory. I shall ignore it and hope that it goes away. If the West Lothian question is ignored, it will not go away. When I was first elected in 1992, I could vote on all issues relating to the United Kingdom and so could the hon. Gentleman, but the position has changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "If you do not mind, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall move to another microphone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-06", "file": "debates2007-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "e3dad70edb9f6dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "reason, at its recent conference, the SNP took the view that it would back measures in this House for a referendum. Having committed to it on the constitution, we were honour-bound to do so if the text was not changed on the reform treaty. I signal to the Government now that they have little time left to get changes to the text, which is what they must do if they want our position to change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-06b.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "93892a58800d1653", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.143.4", "colnum": "143", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will of course deal with those issues for her Department directly when she speaks later today. This is a legislative programme that builds on this Government's record over the past almost 11 years—11 years that have seen record investment and improvement in the national health service, 600,000 fewer children in poverty and 6 million more people in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "93892a58800d1653", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ndamental value and is absolute in its terms...Liberty is too precious a value to be discarded except in times of genuine national emergency...None is suggested here.\" The important phrase there is \"except in times of genuine national emergency\". That is the requirement that must be fulfilled before we give up our fundamental liberties, and this is the crux of the matter. Rather than having—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "93892a58800d1653", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "of the second day of the Queen's Speech debate to range more widely over issues relevant to tomorrow's debate on local government, next Tuesday's debate on education and Wednesday's on the economy. As the hon. Member for Cleethorpes suggested, many issues need a more holistic approach. I hesitate to use that word and I am struggling for a better one, but joined-up is equally a cliché—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "93892a58800d1653", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "ning to cut £40 million of set-up costs for the scheme? Until they can tell us unequivocally that they back ID cards for foreign nationals, their position is nearly as ludicrous—nearly, but not quite—as that of the Liberal Democrats. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) has spoken proudly of how he will break laws passed by this House on the national identity scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "93892a58800d1653", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": " availability of other official documents online, and the possibility of redacting out signatures. This is a complicated issue that also has implications for commerce and trade. The right hon. Gentleman intervened at an appropriate moment, because, as I was saying, a careful balance must be struck between the interests of the property market, which is important to the economy and well-being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "peaking in the Chamber to be prompted by information on the screen, or for a device to be used as a prompt by a Member—or a Minister for that matter—participating in proceedings. The Chair will order a Member seen to be using such an electronic device while speaking to resume their seat immediately. This ruling will be applied in Westminster Hall and in General Committees of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.143.4", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will of course deal with those issues for her Department directly when she speaks later today. This is a legislative programme that builds on this Government's record over the past almost 11 years—11 years that have seen record investment and improvement in the national health service, 600,000 fewer children in poverty and 6 million more people in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman does not mind my saying so, that is not up to his usual standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "nd the Prime Minister has flagged this point up—we now need to draw out explicitly those responsibilities that have always been implicit within the convention and the Act. That is why the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) and I will publish a draft Bill of Rights and responsibilities which will build on the Human Rights Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am happy to fight a general election in England any time. We will win and the Conservatives will lose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "If my hon. and learned Friend does not mind, I need to get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "onstituents. That point applies at the moment in respect of measures that are the responsibility of the Mayor of London. All institutions of government in the United Kingdom, apart from this House, derive their powers from this United Kingdom Parliament. If the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe objects to the powers of the Scottish Parliament, then that which is given can be taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.153.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "principles for a reformed system of party finance and spending. He was subsequently asked to chair inter-party talks with the aim of securing a broad consensus around the practicalities of a new system. I regret to tell the House that those talks were suspended last week after the Conservative party—it alone— proved unwilling to negotiate on a draft agreement put forward by Sir Hayden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "That is right. The right hon. Gentleman also knows that I rather approve of him, although I should tell him that when dealing with his successors as Home Secretary, who passed in rather rapid succession, I always thought of him as the one that got away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "e released, after spending 28 days in cells. That is what someone would get for a severe act of violence in this country. Three innocent people spent 28 days in cells. I make that point carefully because I asked the Metropolitan police whether those people were under control orders or surveillance, or whether the police had further suspicions of them. They were innocent of any charges put to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. Gentleman's last point. However, I ask him to stop using the phrase \"the longest detention period without charge in the free world\" because he does not compare like with like. It is possible in countries such as France and Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ndamental value and is absolute in its terms...Liberty is too precious a value to be discarded except in times of genuine national emergency...None is suggested here.\" The important phrase there is \"except in times of genuine national emergency\". That is the requirement that must be fulfilled before we give up our fundamental liberties, and this is the crux of the matter. Rather than having—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "ence and Security Committee a Committee of Parliament rather than one appointed by and accountable to the Prime Minister. As my right hon. Friend knows, I have argued in favour of that for a long time, but it has met stiff resistance in the past, not least from parliamentarians already on the Committee. I would gladly give way to my right hon. Friend if he would like to confirm that. Hello?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.168.7", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that and I will take the right hon. Gentleman's advice. If we are serious about increasing the power of Parliament, we could do a few things that do not require legislation. We could end the three-month summer recess, for example, which does us such damage in the eyes of our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Incontinence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "ittle less legislatively prolific and hyperactive than their predecessors. After all, this is the Government who produced 24 criminal justice Bills and 3,400 new offences in 10 years—by my reckoning, that is equivalent to making two things illegal for every day that Parliament has sat since 1997. I hope that we can now put behind us that extraordinary record of legislative promiscuity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " who produced 24 criminal justice Bills and 3,400 new offences in 10 years—by my reckoning, that is equivalent to making two things illegal for every day that Parliament has sat since 1997. I hope that we can now put behind us that extraordinary record of legislative promiscuity—[Hon. Members: \"Incontinence.\"] Incontinence even—I am casting around for the best way to describe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "f it is that he could have made it with greater comfort from the Liberal Democrat Benches. In voting against the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, for example, he would have been in no danger of remonstrance from our Whips, because we were deeply opposed to those provisions—and are, indeed, to the plethora of multiplied criminal justice legislation to which he so rightly referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "hich is well described by North East Lincolnshire, because that is where it is. The money could be better used in tackling antisocial behaviour, for example. Finally, I know that other hon. Members wish to speak, so I will be brief. I am not sure how many barristers are still left in the Chamber, although I see that some of the usual suspects have gone, so I might be safe to talk about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cleethorpes (Shona McIsaac) . I listened carefully to what she said, and she made a commendably bipartisan speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "k-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) , who brought great wisdom and objectivity to his remarks. However, with due deference to all three, I am thinking particularly of the hon. and learned Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews) . He made a fine speech, even by his standards, and that is saying something. His doctrine of non-interventionism and his love of liberty suggest that he is in the wrong party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "of the second day of the Queen's Speech debate to range more widely over issues relevant to tomorrow's debate on local government, next Tuesday's debate on education and Wednesday's on the economy. As the hon. Member for Cleethorpes suggested, many issues need a more holistic approach. I hesitate to use that word and I am struggling for a better one, but joined-up is equally a cliché—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "ider carefully as we ensure that in this area no element of compulsion or pressure is being placed on people. She spoke wisely, as she always does on this issue. I was not present when my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews) described me as the new, human and attractive face of the Home Office. That is probably a career-limiting comment, if ever there was one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "In the Secretary of State's view, how many days should be allowed for pre-charge detention?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "be sufficient, will she say why, two years ago, Labour Members were whipped to approve a limit of 90 days? That appears to be about twice the amount that is required. While I am on my feet, may I tell the Home Secretary that I said earlier that she was the human and attractive face of the Home Office? She was not here at the time, so I must add that I was making a comparison with her predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": " think—as do others, as I have identified today—provides a strong argument that there is likely to be a requirement for a period beyond 28 days. My hon. Friend and other Members appear to be asking me to put us in a position where the evidence we provide is the inability of the police to bring a charge against a suspected terrorist because they run up against the buffers of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.234.2", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "The truth of the matter is that the Government were defeated on 90 days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "ning to cut £40 million of set-up costs for the scheme? Until they can tell us unequivocally that they back ID cards for foreign nationals, their position is nearly as ludicrous—nearly, but not quite—as that of the Liberal Democrats. The hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) has spoken proudly of how he will break laws passed by this House on the national identity scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-07", "file": "debates2007-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "0d8c4457863afa44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "LAND TITLE TRANSFERS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": " availability of other official documents online, and the possibility of redacting out signatures. This is a complicated issue that also has implications for commerce and trade. The right hon. Gentleman intervened at an appropriate moment, because, as I was saying, a careful balance must be struck between the interests of the property market, which is important to the economy and well-being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-07b.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-08", "file": "debates2007-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e34dd2902e6cbdf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08a.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "oop withdrawals, and now he is playing politics with schoolchildren. A debate would allow the Prime Minister to apologise to the people he is taking for a ride. The Prime Minister wants to stop Opposition parties campaigning in his marginal seats by fixing the rules on party funding. Of course, he will not scrap the £10,000 communications allowance that Labour MPs voted for themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08a.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-08", "file": "debates2007-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "d562d1df7ca9da6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "On 25 October the House agreed new temporary Standing Orders about time limits on speeches, including special limits for topical debates and, for the first time, limits on Front-Bench speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-08", "file": "debates2007-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "d562d1df7ca9da6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "oop withdrawals, and now he is playing politics with schoolchildren. A debate would allow the Prime Minister to apologise to the people he is taking for a ride. The Prime Minister wants to stop Opposition parties campaigning in his marginal seats by fixing the rules on party funding. Of course, he will not scrap the £10,000 communications allowance that Labour MPs voted for themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-08", "file": "debates2007-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "d562d1df7ca9da6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "d firefighters. The right hon. Lady obviously takes a great interest in the visit of my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) to Manchester. She wondered what a Conservative had to do with a co-operative society. I have to tell her that my great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Keighley co-operative society; he was also one of the founders of the Independent Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-08", "file": "debates2007-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "d562d1df7ca9da6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "It is a pretty good pilot, for £15 million. When the press release came out, there was nothing about it being a pilot scheme. Some pilot!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-08", "file": "debates2007-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "d562d1df7ca9da6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "ed. Is the reality instead that the Government are just waiting to let rip with the bulldozer and the concrete mixer, regardless of the views and concerns of local residents? Why does the Secretary of State not realise that she needs to work with local communities rather than imposing her iron will, along with the clunking fist? Why can she not realise that we need to build communities, not homes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-08", "file": "debates2007-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "d562d1df7ca9da6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "Nuclear power will be discussed later. I am trying to get across—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-08b.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "466fd118423c61c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "le I wrote with the French Foreign Minister saying that while additions to the Ahtisaari plan—Ahtisaari plus, if you like—should be on the table, we cannot compromise on the basic principles that Ahtisaari accepted. I completely understand his point that the matter requires further and detailed discussion in the House. The Minister for Europe and I are keen to have such a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "466fd118423c61c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The cold war finished.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that in the last five years of the Conservative Government, the defence budget was cut by £500 million each year. It has increased by £1 billion each year in the 10 years while this Government have been in office. The largest ever reduction in the Army took place between 1990 and 1997 and involved a cut of 50,000 troops by the previous Tory Government .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "466fd118423c61c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "d be helpful for him and for the Liberal Democrats, perhaps we could arrange a meeting at which we could discuss what we understand to be the ambit of UN Security Council resolution 1244, and how it provides an important basis for these arrangements. He talked about there being a crisis within two weeks, and I would not want that to stand without his having a chance to hear that explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I am very confused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.382.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "le I wrote with the French Foreign Minister saying that while additions to the Ahtisaari plan—Ahtisaari plus, if you like—should be on the table, we cannot compromise on the basic principles that Ahtisaari accepted. I completely understand his point that the matter requires further and detailed discussion in the House. The Minister for Europe and I are keen to have such a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I have not read the report of the Transport Committee, but I look forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "With all due respect, the hon. Gentleman has already had one go and I have been speaking for too long probably. In each and every area where we promised to secure our red lines, they have been secured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.412.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The former Prime Minister, if I quote him correctly, said before the general election that the importance of the referendum on the treaty was not because of its constitutional status, but because he wanted to \"clear the air\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "Right hon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ere held later in this Parliament—that is a lot of ifs—we would have a new treaty in force that lacked democratic legitimacy in this country and in our view gave the EU too much power over our national policies. That would not be acceptable to a Conservative Government and we would not let matters rest there; the right hon. Gentleman can be assured of that. In such circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The cold war finished.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that in the last five years of the Conservative Government, the defence budget was cut by £500 million each year. It has increased by £1 billion each year in the 10 years this Government have been in office. The largest ever reduction in the Army took place between 1990 and 1997 and involved a cut of 50,000 troops by the previous Tory Government .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-12", "file": "debates2007-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "7fb556ee0c5704c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "st grounds; money is not the issue. Increasingly, however, we find that the threat that our troops face is evolving at a more rapid rate than previously envisaged. It is no exaggeration to say that the threat from improvised explosive devices evolved more quickly in 12 months in Iraq than it did in 30 years in Northern Ireland. This threat is no longer bounded in one place because al-Qaeda —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-12b.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13b.xml", "sha256": "df8bca8e84bff2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13b.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "he John Radcliffe hospital 10 years ago. Likewise with A and E services. Right across London, people might well wonder what kind of NHS they have when, after 10 years and three times the amount of money, they cannot visit their local hospital safely, because although it advertises that it has an A and E department, it does not have the necessary back-up to make it one. Lord Darzi, who is on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13b.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "There are many depths to which we will not sink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.523.4", "colnum": "523", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I disagree completely with the hon. Gentleman about the reasons for the problem, particularly, as once again, the lame excuse that targets have something to do with the failures at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells has been trotted out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.523.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "We want to get bed occupancy rates down to that level, and we are not there yet, although the averages around the country are reducing. I do not draw that parallel between bed occupancy rates and rates of health care-acquired infections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should listen. I said that I did not inform the Prime Minister because there was no blunder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should listen. I said that I did not inform the Prime Minister because there was no blunder— [ Interruption. ] Action was being taken to strengthen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "edia. As I have described, for all the registered keepers on the poultry register, information packs are ready to be delivered in the particular zones. The local media do a really important job, and the acting chief veterinary officer has given a press briefing this afternoon. If it would be helpful to right hon. and hon. Members, I was going to suggest that we do a briefing. Would that be useful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am not pretending that before 1997 the national health service did not have problems. Equally, however, if the hon. Gentleman thinks that the public think that reducing waiting times to the exclusion of their safety, through the clear increase in infection rates, is an advantage, he is absolutely wrong. In the same way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "he John Radcliffe hospital 10 years ago. Likewise with A and E services. Right across London, people might well wonder what kind of NHS they have when, after 10 years and three times the amount of money, they cannot visit their local hospital safely, because although it advertises that it has an A and E department, it does not have the necessary back-up to make it one. Lord Darzi, who is on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "in supporting the national health service. We need that incompetence to end, but I am afraid that that will happen only when we have an election. Let us look at what we have ahead of us. The Government's handling of the training scheme for junior doctors was described by the Royal College of Physicians as the worst event to impact on the medical profession for decades. We are not out of the woods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ors and dentists pay review body, which includes this epic understatement: \"We intended GPs to have benefited from the new contract but we expected more in return\". The Department did not get it, and that is true of GP contracts and its management across the NHS. This Government's epitaph will be: \"We intended to get more from our taxes, and we expected to get more in return.\" They did not get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.568.4", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Gentleman been present at Education questions yesterday, he would have heard my hon. Friend the Minister for Schools and Learners lauding the fact that we have had such a large increase in the number of physics teachers seeking qualification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.568.6", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "re interventions. Through the reforms in the Bill and our work on the curriculum, NEETs, advice and guidance, education maintenance allowances and apprenticeships to drive a culture of greater learning, I believe that we can achieve our objective of having every young person in education or training by 2013. I am pleased to tell the House that we are winning widespread support for our plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.568.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.568.6", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ounced we will deliver. Two years on, the hon. Member for Surrey Heath opposes that reform, and boasts that he will continue with a clear divide between academic and vocational qualifications. That two-tier approach to education has held Britain back for decades. Why does he now oppose the reforms that, two years ago, the shadow Chancellor not only advocated but criticised us for not implementing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.568.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "On education. It is the Conservatives' deeply held belief, which the hon. Gentleman now tells us he shares, that excellence can only be for the few, and not for the many.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.570.6", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State made a serious accusation, saying that I believe in excellence for a few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.570.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.570.6", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State made a serious accusation, saying that I believe in excellence for a few. [Interruption.] He has not backed it up. The Secretary of State knows that we believe that A-levels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.570.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.570.8", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Government clearly are not interested in excellence for everyone. We Opposition Members believe that A-levels and GCSEs—academic excellence—should be spread as widely as possible. That was the view of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, whom you spent all your time trying to subvert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.570.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "It is not for the hon. Gentleman to make that decision. He made allegations to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.571.4", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.571.4", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": ", I will make the same reply. In opposing diplomas, in coming out against our three new diplomas, and in saying that the very fact of introducing them would undermine excellence, he made it clear that in his view a comprehensive system of diplomas delivering excellence for all is not consistent with the excellence he supports. That is why he advocated a two-tier system. I can provide more details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "with the Opposition. We support a comprehensive system of diplomas, which was rejected by the Opposition, who would make vocational education available only to some people. I stand by what I said: we stand for educational excellence for all. They advocate two-tier education and excellence only for some. That is the dividing line on education. They may not like the fact that it is there, but it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I have never attended a debate where the Opposition have tried so many parliamentary techniques to try to avoid the big issue. We stand for educational opportunity for all, but they stand for opportunity for a few. We propose new diplomas; they oppose them. We propose legislation to raise the education leaving age to 18 for all young people, but they oppose that as well. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State is in grave danger of misleading the people. He alleged that somehow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.574.7", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " and they are acting against educational opportunity for all and not just some. It is the Government who are taking the long-term view and delivering educational opportunity for all and not just some. It is the Government who are preparing all our young people for the demands of the modern world. It is Labour, not the Opposition, that has the vision, and I commend the Gracious Speech to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.574.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.574.9", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.574.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "e is a gap of 10 years in life expectancy between men in Manchester and men in Kensington and Chelsea. If that is narrowed down to individual wards in cities, the inequalities are even greater. In Sheffield, there is a 14-year gap between the poorest wards in that city and the wealthiest suburbs. I find that unacceptable—as, I suspect, do many Labour Members. Surely it is unacceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "n the Health Committee will know that it gathered evidence of that— \"has not been in the long-term interests of the public health of the nation.\" That is the legacy of the financial mess in the NHS over which the Government have presided. When times and finances are difficult, the most vulnerable usually end up suffering, and that has happened in respect of the cuts in public health budgets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I do not care what the GPs think about the situation or whether it is of concern to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.578.5", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "ract removes disincentives for practices working in deprived communities. He seems unable to understand that point. The NHS Confederation says that at the extremes, a practice working in an area of high disease prevalence could end up receiving £13 per patient under QOF, whereas a practice in a leafy suburb could get £26,600 per patient. That is a perverse and outrageous outcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.578.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "he Mail on Sunday carried a provocative article entitled, 'Blair's away with the fairies...and the men in the white coats are coming'\". If that is support for the Blair reform agenda, I would hate to see what opposition looked like. The truth is that the Secretary of State was the Kim Philby of the Blair Government—outwardly part of the establishment, but secretly working for the Stalinists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "andings at its beginning and for the avoidance of doubt, I should put it on the record and make it clear to the House that the Opposition indicated last Wednesday the order in which their Front-Bench spokesmen would speak. We then made it clear what our order would be and I am sorry if there was any misunderstanding particularly between those on the two Front Benches. Having made that clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-13", "file": "debates2007-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "ed68b9cd1e44cc5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Try again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " doubt, I should put it on the record and make it clear to the House that the Opposition indicated last Wednesday the order in which their Front-Bench spokesmen would speak. We then made it clear what our order would be and I am sorry if there was any misunderstanding particularly between those on the two Front Benches. Having made that clear— [ Interruption. ] I wish I had not bothered now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-13c.631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "51a40b4755405f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.698.6", "colnum": "698", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Perhaps later on, but it would be a good idea for me to make progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.698.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "51a40b4755405f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "we are told the Government will take. Secondly, entrepreneurs build businesses with an exit strategy in mind. They are the good people who create businesses and then hand them on to people who will go on to manage and grow them. Different skills are required, yet those people will face even greater difficulty. I would love to go on for hours, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but you would not want me to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary has been dealing with it throughout the summer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary has been dealing with it throughout the summer— [ Interruption. ] It is an operational question, and I am sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary has been dealing with it throughout the summer— [ Interruption. ] It is an operational question, and I am sorry— [ Interruption. ] I am sorry that the Leader of the Opposition puts so much onus on press releases. What matters is getting things done. We checked 6,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let the Prime Minister speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.5", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The arrangements for checking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.658.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.664.3", "colnum": "664", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue. Of course I will meet him and his hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Members should not use a point of order to extend a debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "When taper relief was introduced it related to a 10-year period, rather than the two-year period that applied until the Chancellor abolished it in the pre-Budget report. The system that the Government inherited from the previous Conservative Government had retirement relief —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "l? Is the retirement relief, briefed by the Prime Minister in private, now a firm commitment? Will it be £100,000 or perhaps more? Are other concessions on the way, such as indexation? I would be happy to give way to the Chancellor so that he can clear up what the Prime Minister said. We cannot all wait to be invited for breakfast at No. 10 to find out what is going on at the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Well, I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " truancy levels continue to rise; and £84 billion in total spent on a welfare-to-work programme that the first Minister to have responsibility for it described this weekend as a \"failure\". When the Prime Minister says \"British jobs for British workers\", Labour Members blush, because they know that borrowing slogans from the National Front is no substitute for a proper welfare-to-work policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.698.6", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Perhaps later on, but it would be a good idea for me to make progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.698.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have to follow up a question from a Labour Back Bencher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "we are told the Government will take. Secondly, entrepreneurs build businesses with an exit strategy in mind. They are the good people who create businesses and then hand them on to people who will go on to manage and grow them. Different skills are required, yet those people will face even greater difficulty. I would love to go on for hours, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but you would not want me to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "ate work reviews; that job centres could be privatised and paid by results; that local authorities could be responsible for paying benefits; that absence from work without good cause could trigger a reduction in benefit; and that those with serious educational deficiencies could receive training and assistance, and similar treatment could be offered to those with drugs and alcohol misuse problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "I trust that the hon. Gentleman will put my speech on YouTube. He has form in making a Charlie of himself in that regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "unpopular to say so, but we must concede that we cannot tackle those problems only through economics: what we need is a moral culture in which people have responsibilities as well as rights. My party has a proud record of progressive incremental social reform and change in the areas that I mentioned, including housing and public health. We will not have a Conservative Government for a while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.753.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-11-14", "file": "debates2007-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "de82a7af2a0933fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14b.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-15", "file": "debates2007-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "bb7e078595ea09ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15a.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So far.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in this debate. I am also grateful to the Labour Members who, while being rather critical of what the Conservatives have to say on these matters, have not resorted to the usual tactic of denouncing anyone who queries immigration as being some sort of racist. We have had a sensible debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15a.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-15", "file": "debates2007-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "bb7e078595ea09ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15a.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman confirm whether it is the policy of his Government to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15a.881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-15", "file": "debates2007-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "7b92892c09a50735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "a regular opportunity to raise such issues at Home Office questions. The hon. Gentleman asked about the extradition treaty. Nobody in the House should argue that if there is evidence that somebody has committed a criminal offence abroad, such as in America, we should allow them to escape justice in this country and not be extradited. We have to remember that that is the basis of extradition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-15", "file": "debates2007-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "7b92892c09a50735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am going to stop the hon. Lady. She should remember that I was an Opposition Back Bencher, and the one thing she will learn is that you are sometimes disappointed by the answers that Ministers give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-15", "file": "debates2007-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "7b92892c09a50735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.833.4", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Lady has more experience than the young Back Bencher; I do not want to be patronising. Ministers give replies in good faith and I will not allow an hon. Member who feels that information is wrong to use points of order. There are other ways to raise these matters. I do not wish to prolong the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.833.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-15", "file": "debates2007-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "7b92892c09a50735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "TOPICAL DEBATE", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So far.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in this debate. I am also grateful to the Labour Members who, while being rather critical of what the Conservatives have to say on these matters, have not resorted to the usual tactic of denouncing anyone who queries immigration as being some sort of racist. We have had a sensible debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-15", "file": "debates2007-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "7b92892c09a50735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "TOPICAL DEBATE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "We did not hear very much in the Secretary of State's speech about good governance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-15", "file": "debates2007-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "7b92892c09a50735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.881.2", "colnum": "881", "heading": "TOPICAL DEBATE", "cue_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman confirm whether it is the policy of his Government to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-15b.881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c94a83df8475170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "as disappointing, and there needs to be further progress. Let me refer him to a report by the House of Lords on this issue, which states that \"the failure to give a positive Statement of Assurance does not tell the whole story... Firstly, we argue that a lack of a positive Statement of Assurance does not necessarily indicate that high levels of fraudulent or corrupt transactions have taken place.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19a.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c94a83df8475170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19a.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is straightforwardly wrong. I have the own-resources decision here. Clearly, he has not read it, but article 4 sets out the precise terms by which the UK rebate will be calculated between 2007 and 2013. That is the framework by which the EU budget will be determined in the next financial perspective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19a.1001.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c94a83df8475170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19a.1060.4", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "preceding_text": "t the Conservative party's sheer hypocrisy on European Union matters. He said that the Opposition parties' purpose was to defeat this Bill in order specifically to cause a constitutional crisis in Europe, which is what they want. We have heard a lot of facts and figures this evening, so let me start by explaining the true ones. This is a good package for Britain. The abatement is preserved —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19a.1060.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am confident that we will not have that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.943.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "TOPICAL QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No you don't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The fallout from the first bank run in 140 years gets worse each week, and today has been another day of weakness and confusion from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Of course, we all hope that a buyer can be found who will save the jobs at Northern Rock and repay the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "TOPICAL QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "fusion from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Of course, we all hope that a buyer can be found who will save the jobs at Northern Rock and repay the taxpayer. [Hon. Members: \"No you don't.\"] I am sorry that Labour Members are not interested in jobs in the north-east or in the future of Northern Rock. Perhaps they will pay attention, because we are conscious of the impact of this in the north—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "TOPICAL QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "lict of interest. An attempt is being made to sell the bank, led by the company. The company has a clear conflict of interest. It is in the interests of the directors and the management to maximise the taxpayer's contribution. The taxpayer's money is being used to prop up the bank, and to provide a profit opportunity for spivs in the City. Let us consider the alternatives. The ideal outcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "TOPICAL QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ation—which I think we all agree would be a disaster. It would devastate the north-east, the shareholders would get nothing, and the Government would lose a great deal of money. Should not the Government therefore consider the other option, which is temporarily assuming full control of the bank? That would eliminate the conflict of interest, it would provide a breathing space enabling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "TOPICAL QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": ". It would devastate the north-east, the shareholders would get nothing, and the Government would lose a great deal of money. Should not the Government therefore consider the other option, which is temporarily assuming full control of the bank? That would eliminate the conflict of interest, it would provide a breathing space enabling— [Interruption.] It would provide a breathing space—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "TOPICAL QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Jim Cousins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Cousins", "preceding_text": "The whole House will have noted that the Liberal Democrats have as much regard for the 5,500 employees of Northern Rock in the north-east—and the 6,500 nationally—as they had for the job of their former leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "TOPICAL QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I said that the shadow Chancellor was irresponsible: that is the hon. Gentleman's word, not mine. There are two issues in relation to the point that he makes. It was, and continues to be, right to give Northern Rock both the initial lender of last resort support and subsequent support. The hon. Gentleman almost implies that we should not have done that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "TOPICAL QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "'s word, not mine. There are two issues in relation to the point that he makes. It was, and continues to be, right to give Northern Rock both the initial lender of last resort support and subsequent support. The hon. Gentleman almost implies that we should not have done that— [Interruption]— but that would have meant that Northern Rock would have been in substantial difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.978.5", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I should say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "was disappointing, and there needs to be further progress. Let me refer him to a report by the House of Lords on this issue, which states that \"the failure to give a positive Statement of Assurance does not tell the whole story...Firstly, we argue that a lack of a positive Statement of Assurance does not necessarily indicate that high levels of fraudulent or corrupt transactions have taken place.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I say yes to the first question. My hon. Friend has tempted me to give a non-new Labour answer to the second question, so perhaps a fudge is in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " investment that has benefited Britain and other parts of western Europe so much. As I said earlier, it is also firmly in our interest. Allowing our partners in central and eastern Europe to grow and develop strengthens them and strengthens Europe, making us all more secure. A more developed Europe will be better able to meet the common challenges that we face, such as climate change and security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": " a degree of cruelty that I had not expected. Being nasty to the Conservatives on this matter is too easy; the phrase \"fish in a barrel\" springs to mind. Does he agree that simply because the Conservatives are bad, it does not necessarily mean that we have to accept everything that the European Union puts in front of us? Does he not agree that this is, in fact, not a particularly good deal for us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": ", it does not necessarily mean that we have to accept everything that the European Union puts in front of us? Does he not agree that this is, in fact, not a particularly good deal for us? [Interruption.] Does he not agree that while we are in favour of expanding the EU there is no reason why we should pay for it disproportionately, and that we have effectively been taken to the cleaners and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to my hon. Friend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.995.4", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I shall now proceed to my conclusion, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.995.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.998.6", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Veto.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "What would the hon. Gentleman's party advocate to achieve a better agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is straightforwardly wrong. I have the own resources decision here. Clearly, he has not read it, but article 4 sets out the precise terms by which the UK rebate will be calculated between 2007 and 2013. That is the framework by which the EU budget will be determined in the next financial perspective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1001.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I am terribly sorry, but page 34 of the Library report shows that in 2006 Ireland received €475 million of structural fund expenditure, while Britain received €3,021 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "pe. We shall not be paying as much per capita as some other countries. France and to a lesser extent Italy will significantly increase their contributions under the new regime. Were this debate taking place in the French National Assembly, many deputies would be arguing that the Brits were again getting off scot-free and that the French were paying a massive increase in the bills for Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "bate taking place in the French National Assembly, many deputies would be arguing that the Brits were again getting off scot-free and that the French were paying a massive increase in the bills for Europe— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, speaking for the Scots nats, seems again to be joining up with the rabid anti-Europeans slightly to his right, in arguing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1013.4", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": ". He said that we would all live longer thanks to the European Union. It was a great pleasure to spend some of those extra minutes listening to him. I am sure that they did not feel wasted. The right hon. Gentleman made two important points, somewhere in his speech. One was that we should remember that it is not as if we do not get anything back at all in this country. I come from a part of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1013.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "overall cost, and not the effectiveness of the spending. I wonder whether it would be useful to draw those two matters together. Other Members have mentioned the problems with the European Union audit process. When the draft documents were debated earlier last year, the Government made it clear that it was important to have tougher audit constraints in place. We support them in their intent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "And the smallest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1026.5", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "his response was to run away from them and evade the points that I made. I must tell the hon. Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke) and the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge, who is not in his place at present, that if they are serious about wanting to come into power, being in denial about the facts is a very bad basis for statesmanship and a disastrous basis for government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1026.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1026.5", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " to a lack of information or understanding on the part of Eurosceptics, both in the Tory party and in many parts of the press, is the rubbish and systematic, libellous and defamatory nonsense talked the whole time about the Court of Auditors and corruption and waste in the European Union. It is perfectly true that the Court of Auditors has regularly put reserves on the accounts that it has signed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1026.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "servative party will not draw the logical conclusions from its own position. The Conservative party will simply go on talking contradictory nonsense—for that it is what it is: it is contradictory and it is nonsense, and it is about time that it was exposed as such. But that is extremely difficult in this country, because the Eurosceptic press will never reproduce the points that I am making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " say to those people, \"Oh no, we really believe in our membership of the European Union; we're totally signed up to it.\" I can give two reasons—indeed, I could give more—why it is clear that the Conservatives are not genuinely signed up. One is their policy on the European People's party, which was a gratuitous unprovoked insult to those who had been their best friends for generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "the EU. Many eastern European countries are very troubled about Brussels railroading them on some of their concerns and the Franco-German control of agenda setting in the EU. They want to challenge that stranglehold, and they look to the UK for leadership. I feel passionately about that and will try to help my party find the right-of-centre partners in eastern Europe that the Minister spoke about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1031.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "ernment's stance when they went to Brussels. Throughout the discussions—during the original negotiations, subsequently and again today—an entirely false dichotomy has been posed. We supposedly have either to accept anything at all that the European Union proposes, or to leave the EU, which would result in the collapse of civilisation as we know it. Those are not the alternatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1050.3", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "t north Africa and the middle east. I have some sympathy for the view that we should expand the common market to those countries in trading terms, in order to help them develop. However, I hope that the Economic Secretary will make it absolutely clear at an early stage that we do not endorse any proposal for the free movement of peoples from north Africa and the middle east, because that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1060.4", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "preceding_text": "t the Conservative party's sheer hypocrisy on European Union matters. He said that the Opposition parties' purpose was to defeat this Bill in order specifically to cause a constitutional crisis in Europe, which is what they want. We have heard a lot of facts and figures this evening, so let me start by explaining the true ones. This is a good package for Britain. The abatement is preserved —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1060.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1063.5", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I have already responded to the right hon. Gentleman's points. I listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1063.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-19", "file": "debates2007-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "d558fd655564dcfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "It is a great honour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-19b.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2ba9d6ef1156b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "vacy of people's personal information if those laws are not even enforced at the heart of Government? As the Chancellor himself said, this is the third, and by far and away the most serious breach by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs this year. In August, a laptop containing the personal details of 400 taxpayers was stolen after being left in a car overnight, and 15,000 people's details were lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fc1497c5fe3543e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I see that the Scottish National party representative is nodding his head. Every single person who has studied this issue emphasises that the situation in Kosovo is unique and results from the tragic circumstances of the 1990s —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fc1497c5fe3543e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1096.4", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "are certainly committed to improving the co-ordination of forces in Afghanistan; in fact, that idea is being developed actively at the moment and will come to fruition. However, I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that this time last week he set out in the Queen's Speech debate the new Conservative policy on the European treaty, and within one hour his own leader had rubbished his statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fc1497c5fe3543e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "vacy of people's personal information if those laws are not even enforced at the heart of Government? As the Chancellor himself said, this is the third, and by far and away the most serious breach by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs this year. In August, a laptop containing the personal details of 400 taxpayers was stolen after being left in a car overnight, and 15,000 people's details were lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fc1497c5fe3543e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "n September by HMRC that it had \"reviewed our arrangements and introduced safeguards to prevent this happening in future\"? Why should we have more confidence today that that will be implemented? Can the Chancellor also explain why, in this day and age, information is being transmitted through CDs, rather than electronically? Is that not just a reflection on the ancient IT systems employed by HMRC?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fc1497c5fe3543e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "afeguards to prevent this happening in future\"? Why should we have more confidence today that that will be implemented? Can the Chancellor also explain why, in this day and age, information is being transmitted through CDs, rather than electronically? Is that not just a reflection on the ancient IT systems employed by HMRC? [Interruption.] For example, is he aware that officials within HMRC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fc1497c5fe3543e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fc1497c5fe3543e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that very helpful intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-20", "file": "debates2007-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fc1497c5fe3543e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "revenue to Eurostar and, therefore, ultimately to Government in the restructuring that is talked about; and about sustainability and environmental improvement. For all those reasons, I maintain that capital investment at Stratford is important. I am delighted that my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) is in her place, because she chairs the Select Committee on Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-20b.1131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "9813f82bdd370440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21a.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "eform than the previous Prime Minister. The Secretary of State has not yet answered a number of important questions about the delivery unit report. In particular, can he let us know whether Lord Adonis was involved in the seminar on 1 November to establish the review? Can he tell us which academies will be reviewed by the delivery unit? I believe that five academies will be reviewed in particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21a.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "9813f82bdd370440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21a.1223.5", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Schools and Families.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "r sponsors and academies themselves. I try to keep my finger on the pulse of what is happening in academies. I do not see, and they do not seem to perceive, a radical change in the academy programme, or restrictions being put on them. The suggestion is that heavy emphasis is being put back on the dead-weight hand of local authorities. After years as Chair of the Select Committee on Children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21a.1223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "9813f82bdd370440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " Ministers in the third instance to exercise the power of performance management and, if necessary, to intervene. They have the powers under NHS legislation, but they did not use it. The Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw) is always telling me that a consequence of our policy would be a lack of accountability to Parliament. Ninety patients died—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "9813f82bdd370440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "ng arbitrary targets for MRSA, at a time when other hospital-acquired infections were increasing, had perverse consequences and was dangerous and damaging? The next issue is antibiotic prescribing. All the professionals I have talked to say that that is the central and most important issue when dealing with C. difficile. I was surprised that the motion makes no reference to antibiotic prescribing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1172.5", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Lady should shorten the questions in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I regularly speak to Welsh Assembly Government Ministers, and I recommend that the hon. Lady does so too. She might then get her questions a little straighter. The truth is that they have asked for these powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " Government Departments and agencies. In relation to the case that the right hon. Gentleman is quoting—that of Standard Life—yes, a review was done, and it proposed that there be changes in both encryption and audit. The problem was that the information that was lost was lost on October 18, and the procedures that should have been followed were not followed. Let me just tell him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1180.4", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "But this has been going on for years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1180.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1181.7", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I will not accept any advice on competence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1181.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the damage caused to the landscape of Britain by wind turbines, which are often opposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1188.4", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the main business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1191.7", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Down boy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Not at this stage, but I will give way later. Speaking of pit bull characteristics, the hon. Gentleman inevitably tries to intervene because he wants to acquire a reputation as the Rottweiler of the Back Benches. I am afraid that he must stay in his kennel for another couple of minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1191.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1196.3", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I think that I have answered the right hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Gentleman understands perfectly well that in the future people will look around them and see hundreds and hundreds of brand-new schools built by a Labour Government, which had previously been left to rot for generations by the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Lord Adonis yesterday attempted on the radio to argue that the surplus places rule did not exist under this Government, but that runs directly contrary to the evidence. The Government have said in their guidance circular that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—my hon. Friend in fact, and a very good friend, too—makes a characteristically good and well judged point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1205.2", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "\" programme on Tuesday, when asked whether he would say no to any application for a grammar school, he replied, \"Absolutely\". What is his policy? Is it his Sunday or his Tuesday policy? Would he like to clarify it now? Would the Conservatives change the law to allow Buckinghamshire to set up a new grammar school? Is the answer yes or no? I would be happy to give way to him on that question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "In these debates, we should try to get to the substance and have some discussion of policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "deal in part with the creationism point, I am making it clear that academies will follow the science curriculum. That is what the hon. Gentleman said on Channel 4 news yesterday, yet when I ask him whether he agrees with what he said yesterday, he cannot answer. If he was not referring to the national curriculum, what does he mean? He says that the national curriculum would bind all schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that there was not a Liberal Democrat council in the list of councils that sponsor an academy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1210.5", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Let me give hon. Members the details, and then I shall take interventions. The policy would involve taking £4.5 billion out of BSF from 2008-09 onwards. That is a 15 per cent. cut in all future rebuilding projects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1210.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He didn't say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "Was my right hon. Friend as surprised as I was to hear the hon. Member for Surrey Heath say earlier that the best schools have old and tatty buildings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "ond to some specific points on that issue, but I ask him to understand that, when he deliberately overturns the previous Prime Minister's policy on structural reform, he cannot be surprised that people believe that something is going on; nor can he be surprised about that when he asks the delivery unit in No. 10 Downing street to consider the programme without being able to say why it is doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "eform than the previous Prime Minister. The Secretary of State has not yet answered a number of important questions about the delivery unit report. In particular, can he let us know whether Lord Adonis was involved in the seminar on 1 November to establish the review? Can he tell us which academies will be reviewed by the delivery unit? I believe that five academies will be reviewed in particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1223.5", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Schools and Families.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "r sponsors and academies themselves. I try to keep my finger on the pulse of what is happening in academies. I do not see, and they do not seem to perceive, a radical change in the academy programme, or restrictions being put on them. The suggestion is that heavy emphasis is being put back on the dead-weight hand of local authorities. After years as Chair of the Select Committee on Children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": " be pleased if schools were able to expand up to their physical capacity and good schools were able to expand still further. That is certainly not what happens locally. The indicated admission number does not always correspond with the physical capacity of the school, and once that number is hit, the school cannot take in any more pupils, regardless of whether the school has the physical capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "e second instance, and Ministers in the third instance to exercise the power of performance management and, if necessary, to intervene. They have the powers under NHS legislation, but they did not use it. The Minister of State, the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw) is always telling me that a consequence of our policy would be a lack of accountability to Parliament. Ninety patients died—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " in the 65 and over group has fallen to 13,660, which is a reduction of 7 per cent. compared with the same quarter last year and a 13 per cent. reduction on the previous quarter. Although I welcome this debate, it is important that we try not to play party politics with an issue as vital as patient safety. For that reason, I have declined to mention the rise of HCAIs under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1270.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "ng arbitrary targets for MRSA, at a time when other hospital-acquired infections were increasing, had perverse consequences and was dangerous and damaging? The next issue is antibiotic prescribing. All the professionals I have talked to say that that is the central and most important issue when dealing with C. difficile. I was surprised that the motion makes no reference to antibiotic prescribing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-21", "file": "debates2007-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "7f6645a11410c4e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1278.2", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jim Devine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Devine", "preceding_text": "e nurse. In fact, they made a major contribution not just to the cleanliness but to the morale of the ward. For example, when they were going off on Saturday, they would take bookie lines into local bookmakers for patients. They made a significant contribution to patients' well-being and care. Sadly, the Conservatives came to power in 1979. In 1982 they introduced compulsory competitive tendering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-21b.1278.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-22", "file": "debates2007-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "478f81e607441cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "The tone of these exchanges has suddenly lowered dramatically. I pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-22", "file": "debates2007-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "478f81e607441cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "The tone of these exchanges has suddenly lowered dramatically. I pointed out— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman wants an answer and I am trying to give it to him. I pointed out to him in my answer the progress that is being made. It is important to remember that the problems that we are discussing did not arise in 1997, and it is worth reminding ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1325.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2007-11-22", "file": "debates2007-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "478f81e607441cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1331.5", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What a good question.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "ster agree that as the UK becomes steadily more reliant on imported natural gas, we will need substantially more gas storage facilities to provide a buffer against the risk of supply interruption? If he agrees, how does he think that that strategic storage will be provided? Will it be through the marketplace, through price signals, or will the UK have a stocking obligation imposed on it by the EU?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1331.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-22", "file": "debates2007-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "478f81e607441cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1332.4", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "I am asking you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-22", "file": "debates2007-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "478f81e607441cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Battle", "preceding_text": "nd other Members will agree that, since last week's business questions, we have had a hectic week. As far as I am aware, however, in the space of that week, no one has lost their home or their savings from Northern Rock, and the banks have guaranteed that anyone who has a bank account will be protected against computer fraud. In the meantime, more than 3 million people have lost their homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-22", "file": "debates2007-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "478f81e607441cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is half an hour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends are reminding me that there will be a Westminster Hall debate on Heathrow next week, which the hon. Lady could no doubt contribute to. Since she has taken the opportunity of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1341.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-22", "file": "debates2007-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "478f81e607441cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "nounce the issue for debate on Monday evening so that hon. Members notice may make plans to attend and participate in the debate. The earlier I make the announcement, the less topical it is likely to be if some intervening issue arises. We will have to keep an eye on the issue and work out whether we should sacrifice giving notice to Members, and Ministers, in order to ensure hot topicality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-22", "file": "debates2007-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "478f81e607441cc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1379.5", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "TOPICAL DEBATE", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "No; I have got another thing to say that will annoy the hon. Gentleman even more. I remember what the Liberal Democrats did on taxation on domestic fuel. They were in favour of it until there was a by-election, when they stopped being in favour of it in order to win the by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-22c.1379.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-26", "file": "debates2007-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "84403d00723189a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "egulator is being set up with the duty to improve health and social care. How is the regulator to define that? The answer, which is built into clause 2, is that it is to be defined by reference to the Secretary of State and Government policies. Clause 2(4) re-incorporates into legislation what is currently section 130 of the National Health Service Act 2006 in respect of the Healthcare Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-26", "file": "debates2007-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "84403d00723189a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "of primary schools and their related secondary school by 2010.\" There are 3,343 secondary schools in England. According to the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw) on 23 October this year, there were 815 full-time equivalent nurses with the appropriate nursing qualification working in England. So, we are nearly 2,500 short of what is required by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-26", "file": "debates2007-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "84403d00723189a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26a.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": " benchmarking and the transfer of best practice. That proposal was extremely constructive. I hope that we may have the benefit of hearing more about it if my hon. Friend is lucky enough to be considered to serve on the Committee. In his authoritative and all-encompassing speech, my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) made clear our position on the care quality commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26a.98.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-26", "file": "debates2007-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "6861cb1ee208791f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26b.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "egulator is being set up with the duty to improve health and social care. How is the regulator to define that? The answer, which is built into clause 2, is that it is to be defined by reference to the Secretary of State and Government policies. Clause 2(4) re-incorporates into legislation what is currently section 130 of the National Health Service Act 2006 in respect of the Healthcare Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26b.47.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-26", "file": "debates2007-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "6861cb1ee208791f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26b.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "t flippantly because, in particular, we need to address the problem of obesity in children. Obesity in childhood can have an impact on a person's health outcomes throughout their life and place additional costs on the NHS. Perhaps the Minister can explain matters further either here or in Committee, if I am lucky enough to serve on it—that is not a hint, because I am very busy at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26b.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-26", "file": "debates2007-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "6861cb1ee208791f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26b.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": " proposals for benchmarking and the transfer of best practice. That proposal was extremely constructive. I hope that we may have the benefit of hearing more about it if my hon. Friend is lucky enough to be considered to serve on the Committee. In his authoritative and all-encompassing speech, my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire made clear our position on the care quality commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-26b.98.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-27", "file": "debates2007-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "78762b4113e341b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27c.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "rs—we would like them to be built over the next 10 years—should be affordable. Affordability should be locked in from day one, and at every resale. We should consider schemes such as shared equity, which the Liberal Democrats in South Shropshire implemented, and community land trusts, which could certainly use the brownfield sites that Government have identified to release for housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27c.168.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-27", "file": "debates2007-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "78762b4113e341b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27c.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": " healthy housing relates to diversity of housing type. I said earlier that I worked in architecture. I do not know whether I should confess that I used to design houses; perhaps I should confess that a lot of the buildings that were knocked down because they were badly designed were ones I worked on during the '70s—probably a good job, too, in many cases. I would be the first to accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27c.204.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-27", "file": "debates2007-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "78762b4113e341b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27c.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "ely as part of the decent homes strategy. Let us be under no illusion: we are still experiencing the legacy of the Conservative Government. It is not possible to switch housing construction on and off like a tap. The skills and the materials must be there, and all the pieces must be in place. Sadly, Opposition Members do not seem to realise that, but I am pleased to be part of a Government who do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27c.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-27", "file": "debates2007-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "78762b4113e341b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27c.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": ". They have been the fig leaf which Labour Members have used today to cover their embarrassment at their failure. I know what my constituents who are looking for houses would like. They would like the houses that would be built under a Conservative Government and they would like a stamp duty policy that would help them get some of them. That is it for the discussion of targets. Under Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27c.239.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-27", "file": "debates2007-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "6b400d969138725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27d.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "ely as part of the decent homes strategy. Let us be under no illusion: we are still experiencing the legacy of the Conservative Government. It is not possible to switch housing construction on and off like a tap. The skills and the materials must be there, and all the pieces must be in place. Sadly, Opposition Members do not seem to realise that, but I am pleased to be part of a Government who do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27d.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-27", "file": "debates2007-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "6b400d969138725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27d.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": ". They have been the fig leaf which Labour Members have used today to cover their embarrassment at their failure. I know what my constituents who are looking for houses would like. They would like the houses that would be built under a Conservative Government and they would like a stamp duty policy that would help them get some of them. That is it for the discussion of targets. Under Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27d.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-27", "file": "debates2007-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "6b400d969138725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27d.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "at infrastructure problem or offering incentives; that is why the great monolith rolls on. Recent reports on how the Government have handled their policy all say the same: they are not doing very well. I could quote extensively from the two recent reports on pathfinders and the Thames Gateway, but to put it in a nutshell they are, as the Minister for Housing knows very well, highly critical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27d.242.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-27", "file": "debates2007-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "6b400d969138725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27d.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "LYMINGTON MARSHES AND HARBOUR", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to have this opportunity to raise the very important matter of the future of Lymington harbour. I share the Lymington river with my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-27d.255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bf485b410c087ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": ". As for competence, I remind the right hon. Gentleman that in 1992, he sat there when interest rates reached 15 per cent. Competence is the lowest interest rates for a generation, the lowest inflation for a generation, the highest employment for a generation, doubling investment in the health service, a minimum wage and properly financing education. We will continue to do our best by the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bf485b410c087ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks from Stalin to Mr. Bean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bf485b410c087ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " and I know that Labour Members were eagerly awaiting its arrival so that they could read it during their summer break. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury disappointed us, saying that it would arrive later in the summer, but we are now approaching December and there is still no sign of it. We have been told that plans are afoot in the Treasury—perhaps the Chancellor will confirm this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bf485b410c087ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "As I said, Kieran Poynter, the chairman and senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers has started his inquiry, and I shall return to that shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bf485b410c087ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ption. It may be of interest to the House to hear what has been done. HMRC has established a central team to handle encryption on behalf of the organisation, to ensure that the proper deployment of encryption is used at the appropriate level. All bulk transfers of sensitive data using CDs are being encrypted and password protected where necessary. Those procedures were implemented on 21 November .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bf485b410c087ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "nt in the police force and community support officers. In my constituency, Perry Barr in Birmingham, Handsworth, Lozells and Aston, which had record levels of crime, now have one of the lowest crime rates in Birmingham and across the midlands. The hon. Gentleman refused to take interventions from my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) , who has huge knowledge and understanding —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bf485b410c087ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " do little about that. Yes, the Government have increased the number of pounds that are spent on education. However, they think only of input, not output. It is no good, as a Government Back Bencher suggested in the debate, simply increasing spending on drug rehabilitation. The Government may well have increased the amount, but they have not increased the benefit to the public or to the prisoners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "bf485b410c087ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "s are kept locked in doing nothing, cannot we get them to learn to read if they have 14, 15 or 16 hours in their cells alone? Cannot toe by toe schemes be spread more widely throughout the prison estate? Cannot we do something practical rather than simply allowing the Secretary of State to make a few feeble jokes about my being on a voyage of discovery? I have indeed been on a voyage of discovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "n is right to base his question on the words of Mr. Gould. The problem, of course, is that he edited them. Not only did he select just one sentence out of Mr. Gould's report, subsequent letter, press release and evidence to a Scottish Committee, but he edited the sentence. The words that he missed out are: \"by...all the other stakeholders.\" Those stakeholders included the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.264.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.266.7", "colnum": "266", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "f Glasgow was the bidder, I contacted the leader of Glasgow city council immediately after the award and expressed my congratulations to him and my support for all those who had been involved in securing the award—those who were present when the bidding process and the voting took place, and those who had been involved in the past. Everybody who has been involved is entitled to credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.266.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.267.7", "colnum": "267", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware of the immense potential for renewable energy in the Pentland firth. He will also be aware, because I have told him about it, of the work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.267.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.273.9", "colnum": "273", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ed employment in the Labour party. He has had no involvement in the donations that have been made. Those donations were happening for four years before he took office. That is why the investigation that should take place is the one that I have set up internally in the Labour party. The inquiry will be led by Lord Harries and Lord McCluskey, a senior High Court judge and a retired Bishop of Oxford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.273.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "in the scandal, yet did not have the first idea about what was going on? We have had 155 days of this Government: disaster after disaster, a run on a bank, half the country's details lost in the post and now this. The Prime Minister's excuses go from incompetence to complacency and there are questions about his integrity. Are not people rightly asking, \"Is this man simply not cut out for the job?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.274.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": ". As for competence, I remind the right hon. Gentleman that in 1992, he sat there when interest rates reached 15 per cent. Competence is the lowest interest rates for a generation, the lowest inflation for a generation, the highest employment for a generation, doubling investment in the health service, a minimum wage and properly financing education. We will continue to do our best by the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.274.7", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hoorah!", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "ir settle, may I tell my right hon. Friend that wind farms are enormously popular in my constituency, with 80 per cent. of people responding to a survey saying that they think they are attractive, produce clean energy and tackle global warming? Will they have to continue to wait for the planning process to produce the wind farm that they want? Will we have to wait and listen to the windbags—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.274.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman that the defence budget is rising every year and will continue to rise, and that when we came into power the defence budget in Britain was the fifth largest in the world. It is now the second largest in the world. As for housing, we are spending £5 billion over the next 10 years on armed services accommodation, more than at any point in the history of the armed forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.275.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " and I know that Labour Members were eagerly awaiting its arrival so that they could read it during their summer break. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury disappointed us, saying that it would arrive later in the summer, but we are now approaching December and there is still no sign of it. We have been told that plans are afoot in the Treasury—perhaps the Chancellor will confirm this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ew of HM Revenue and Customs' data handling procedures; acknowledges the steps which have already been taken to improve the department's data transfer processes; and notes the Chancellor's assurance that he will keep the House fully informed of further developments.\" This is a very serious matter, and I am sorry that the shadow Chancellor has chosen to make it an occasion for political knockabout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "As I said, Kieran Poynter, the chairman and senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers has started his inquiry, and I shall return to that shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.310.4", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A junior manager\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor did not accurately read that letter. He read the sentence, \"The e-mail was sent out by a junior HMRC official\", which is what he told the House of Commons. The sentence actually says: \"The e-mail was sent by a junior HMRC manager\"— that is, management in the senior levels of the department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.310.4", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "r. He read the sentence, \"The e-mail was sent out by a junior HMRC official\", which is what he told the House of Commons. The sentence actually says: \"The e-mail was sent by a junior HMRC manager\"— that is, management in the senior levels of the department. [Hon. Members: \"A junior manager\"] It was indeed a junior manager, but that still makes him a senior official. He makes the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I am simply asking questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. The hon. Gentleman really does need to stay in his place, stay calm and not get so excited. Would he rather that that person were flogged and hanged by hon. Members in the street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "ng to focus on. The Opposition's suggestions about ID cards would result in our throwing the baby out with the bathwater. ID cards are a separate issue. Everyone always forgets that our biometrics stay with us continually. We would not have to carry cards; that is a separate issue. We cannot leave home without our biometrics; they are with us always. To say that, because of this one mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ption. It may be of interest to the House to hear what has been done. HMRC has established a central team to handle encryption on behalf of the organisation, to ensure that the proper deployment of encryption is used at the appropriate level. All bulk transfers of sensitive data using CDs are being encrypted and password protected where necessary. Those procedures were implemented on 21 November .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will be patient, I will come to that issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I shall be grateful if the hon. Gentleman will tell us on what basis he asserts that CNOMIS is to be scrapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "First, there are successful examples of drugs courts in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ces by 5.8 per cent.'. I express my usual appreciation to the Opposition for laying on the debate, which gives us another opportunity to compare and contrast the Government's excellent penal policy with the shambles of what passes for an Opposition policy. I have been in the House for a couple of years, and I have noticed that various devices can be used to avoid answering difficult interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "re pioneers in the field of prison reform.\" That is true, but in The Sunday Telegraph he said: \"Our mission is to break the cycle of reoffending by redeveloping the prison estate in the most radical shake-up for two centuries.\" I was hoping that the hon. Gentleman's speech would provide further and better particulars of this radical shake-up. I was not asleep during his speech, far from it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "atters, it is then necessary to have them translated down to state level. We have good relations with Vietnam, for example, as we have with those other countries, but those four countries account for a significant proportion of foreign national prisoners. We are working very hard to reduce the number, but it is no good just pressing the button, \"They're foreigners—we should get rid of them.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "arborough (Mr. Garnier) ? If what the hon. and learned Gentleman has already said is anything to go by, the review could lead to embarrassing proposals under which prisons are emptied, rather than expanded. We all enjoyed the part in a previous speech by the hon. and learned Gentleman when he said that he had been to prison, saying that it was a \"voyage of discovery\", and adding that prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "report. I have already told the House that there will be an oral statement, and of course I shall make myself available for questions on that statement, as I always do. The Select Committee on Justice has already asked to interrogate me once the report is made available and might even ask the business managers if we can have a debate on it, so there is no dubiety about that. If I may return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.372.5", "colnum": "372", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "The south-east has higher land values than the north-east. That is a fact, and I cannot get away from it. However, we have some inner-city properties on the prison estate that would be worth many millions of pounds if their value could be realised, and on the outer fringes there are a number of greenfield sites that could be used for new prison build.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.372.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "nt in the police force and community support officers. In my constituency, Perry Barr in Birmingham, Handsworth, Lozells and Aston, which had record levels of crime, now have one of the lowest crime rates in Birmingham and across the midlands. The hon. Gentleman refused to take interventions from my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) , who has huge knowledge and understanding —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " do little about that. Yes, the Government have increased the number of pounds that are spent on education. However, they think only of input, not output. It is no good, as a Government Back Bencher suggested in the debate, simply increasing spending on drug rehabilitation. The Government may well have increased the amount, but they have not increased the benefit to the public or to the prisoners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "s are kept locked in doing nothing, cannot we get them to learn to read if they have 14, 15 or 16 hours in their cells alone? Cannot toe-by-toe schemes be spread more widely throughout the prison estate? Cannot we do something practical rather than simply allowing the Secretary of State to make a few feeble jokes about my being on a voyage of discovery? I have indeed been on a voyage of discovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-28", "file": "debates2007-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "73b9876d71af5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ce that is committed to reducing reoffending. We are having this debate against a background of reducing crime, and we must never forget that. Crime is down 32 per cent. over the past 10 years, burglary is down 55 per cent., vehicle theft is down 52 per cent., household offences are down 33 per cent. and all personal offences are down by 32 per cent. overall. I am not going to duck the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-28b.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "0fed81543c8d6e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29a.478.6", "colnum": "478", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ernight, the number of apprentices increased by more than 30,000, yet only 3,000 of them actually progressed to a full apprenticeship with a work placement. That was sleight of hand, and it diverted attention from a fact that has been raised: fewer people are currently studying for traditional work-based apprenticeships at level 3 than when Labour came to power. The Government's own figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29a.478.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "0fed81543c8d6e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29a.478.6", "colnum": "478", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ion.] It appears that the Under-Secretary is looking aside for guidance from his officials. I suspect, however, that he knows very well that the Office for National Statistics figures—I am happy to give them to him before the wind-up, if he wishes—show that the number of level 3 apprenticeships has fallen by 34,000 since the turn of the decade. A graph in a House of Lords report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29a.478.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "I thank the Economic Secretary for that full answer, for which I am most appreciative. Millions of families could face additional bank charges, because data files containing their banking details are God knows where.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.415.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.420.5", "colnum": "420", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "As Lord Leitch set out in his independent report on the UK's long-term skills needs, the improving skills profile in the UK work force over time has contributed to economic growth. He also concluded that a skilled work force are increasingly critical if the UK is to continue to grow to meet global challenges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.420.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.420.6", "colnum": "420", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend agree that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.420.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.424.7", "colnum": "424", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I hear that complaint from Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.424.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "he House and giving us the future business. I am only sorry that she refused my request that she come to the House earlier this week to make a statement on the sleaze scandal that engulfs her. This afternoon's topical debate, chosen by the right hon. and learned Lady, is on the prospects for apprenticeships in England. Why are we not debating genuinely topical issues, such as party funding sleaze?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "orry that she refused my request that she come to the House earlier this week to make a statement on the sleaze scandal that engulfs her. This afternoon's topical debate, chosen by the right hon. and learned Lady, is on the prospects for apprenticeships in England. Why are we not debating genuinely topical issues, such as party funding sleaze? [Interruption.] The right hon. and learned Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is nothing to do with the business for next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is nothing to do with the business for next week. [Hon. Members: \"It is.\"] Order. Let me be the referee. I say that it is nothing to do with the business of next week, and I tell the right hon. Lady that she must move on from this subject. She has made her point. It is possible to overdo it, and she should move on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Lady may ask about communications, but let us not get into the detail of this matter. There will be other opportunities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.434.6", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " that review? May we have a debate in Government time on the proper functioning of the ministerial code so that the Leader of the House can explain why, in the middle of September, she declared a donation to her deputy leadership campaign to the permanent secretary at the Department for Constitutional Affairs? With new questions emerging today about the role of Jon Mendelsohn, such a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.434.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.435.6", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Mr. Speaker!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.435.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.435.6", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—[Hon. Members: \"Mr. Speaker!\"]—Mr. Speaker. The right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) can huff and puff but she will not blow this Leader of the House down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.435.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "o under its Standing Orders. That is what I will do. The House will be aware that the Modernisation Committee, in its report \"Revitalising the Chamber\", proposed topical debates and suggested that they should be \"announced by the Leader of the House\". The Government responded to the report by saying that they would be \"announced by the Leader of the House following discussions\". We are only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "What is going on in government at the moment is that the Government are getting on with running the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "se three authorities. The right hon. Gentleman raised the issue of the permanent secretary in the Department for Constitutional Affairs, as did the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) —I am sorry that I did not get a chance to reply to her point earlier. It is custom and practice for a Minister to make declarations to the permanent secretary in the Department in which they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.459.4", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "There is a full list—I am not sure what the factory is called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.459.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.478.6", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ernight, the number of apprentices increased by more than 30,000, yet only 3,000 of them actually progressed to a full apprenticeship with a work placement. That was sleight of hand, and it diverted attention from a fact that has been raised: fewer people are currently studying for traditional work-based apprenticeships at level 3 than when Labour came to power. The Government's own figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.478.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.478.6", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ion.] It appears that the Under-Secretary is looking aside for guidance from his officials. I suspect, however, that he knows very well that the Office for National Statistics figures—I am happy to give them to him before the wind-up, if he wishes—show that the number of level 3 apprenticeships has fallen by 34,000 since the turn of the decade. A graph in a House of Lords report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.478.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "ent. figure that he suggested. The right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) raised a number of points. It is worth saying that the total number of people awaiting a decision on asylum has decreased by more than 1,000 compared with last year's figure. We are reducing the backlog, which arose on his party's watch. We are taking measures to tackle the backlog, which we take very seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "eness raising is a serious issue and it is a responsibility of all of us—politicians, experts and victims themselves, if they can manage it—to help change public opinion. There is also the media. It was quite by accident—I do not usually have this invidious habit—that I listened to \"The Archers\" last Sunday. It is running a storyline at the moment about a young woman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-11-29", "file": "debates2007-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "2af5a8c433822b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " to be entitled to do the same thing. The Solicitor-General shakes her head, but on the basis of equality of arms and fairness of trial, it would be difficult to avoid that. The problem, as those of us in the legal profession know, is that some experts are tremendous individuals who act neutrally, and others can be hired guns who will say virtually anything in court that anybody wants them to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-29b.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-03", "file": "debates2007-12-03b.xml", "sha256": "c4797f919fdea09b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-03b.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "James Plaskitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Plaskitt", "preceding_text": "It would be a powerful point if there were any evidence of that effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-03b.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-03", "file": "debates2007-12-03b.xml", "sha256": "c4797f919fdea09b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-03b.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Clapham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Clapham", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clause 4 relates to part 4 and seeks to import into it payments for pleural plaques. On 17 October , a decision was made in the House of Lords that pleural plaques should no longer attract compensation. The judgment suggested that pleural plaques were symptomless —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-03b.605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "611eadeb53308f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.737.6", "colnum": "737", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Say sorry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Member for Wrexham (Ian Lucas) that simply saying, \"They are as bad as us,\" is not a positive message to send to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "611eadeb53308f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.737.6", "colnum": "737", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Member for Wrexham (Ian Lucas) that simply saying, \"They are as bad as us,\" is not a positive message to send to the public. [Hon. Members: \"Say sorry!\"] I expressed my regret to the Committee in question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "611eadeb53308f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "iend is referring to the fact that this Government have increased the money that is given to the Opposition parties, particularly the £4.4 million that the Conservatives now get from Short money, that is something worth reflecting on. I hope that we will get all-party consensus on the way forward, but we will not accept one-party deadlock—a breakdown that serves only to block progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "611eadeb53308f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "You may well decide, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that that has very little to do with DEFRA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "611eadeb53308f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "Department charged with leading the way on efforts to combat climate change. Tellingly, last year it quietly dropped its long-standing manifesto commitment to cut carbon emissions by 20 per cent. by 2010. In fact carbon emissions have risen since 1997, and fell last year by only 0.1 per cent. Plans to encourage microgeneration in homes and offices have been half-hearted, with reduced grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "611eadeb53308f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "r rural as well as urban people. RCCs help with education, learning and skills training for people in rural areas. They run projects for disaffected young people, and assist in drug prevention schemes and other worthy initiatives. DEFRA's funding for those organisations is being cut and, in many cases, axed. Today, I heard that a number of RCCs will not be able to continue in their entirety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04b.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.666.4", "colnum": "666", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "Victoria overground station—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.666.4", "colnum": "666", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "Victoria overground station— [ Interruption ] — is also likely to be subject to major overhaul in the years ahead. Will the Minister personally ensure that the essential maintenance programme is properly phased, because presumably a lot of London Bridge traffic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.675.5", "colnum": "675", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister care to congratulate Conservative-controlled Kettering borough council—of which I am proud to be a member—which is going to build on the Government scheme and ensure concessionary travel for pensioners at peak times too?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.675.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.675.7", "colnum": "675", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ster is big enough to deal with matters, and I am delighted that he congratulated my hon. Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Hollobone) . Will he deal with the question of rural areas and remote villages, where sadly there is little, if any, public transport? How can people in those villages, who often live on their pension or on a very low income, take advantage of this scheme, which I applaud?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.675.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.682.4", "colnum": "682", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "The Tories are so divided on Heathrow that they should call in ACAS. On the one hand, we hear total opposition, and on the other, the Front-Bench team talk about strict local environmental conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.682.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "hat the crew of Nimrod XV230 faced a series of complex and demanding emergencies. Throughout this incident they acted in an exemplary manner, calmly performing drills initiated by their captain in an attempt to save their aircraft. All are a credit to their respective services and to their families. I am sure the whole House will join me in honouring their bravery and their professionalism.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.699.7", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I can confirm unequivocally that any donations made by Lord Ashcroft or any companies associated with him are entirely permissible. I just say to the hon. Gentleman that he should be a little careful where he is going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.699.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will no doubt have seen the article in The Daily Telegraph today by Rachel Sylvester in which she says that yesterday she made a telephone call to ask whether Lord Ashcroft is resident in this country and whether he pays tax in this country. Rachel Ashcroft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.700.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.700.8", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are having a debate, but it is getting far too noisy in the Chamber, and that is unfair to the right hon. Gentleman who is speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.700.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " give way in a moment. The key to this is trade union affiliation fees. I want to set this out very clearly. It is not straightforward territory and it is important that it is properly understood. Trade union affiliation fees currently funnel £8 million to Labour. We are invited to agree that those fees should escape the cap on donations because, it is claimed, they are individual donations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "e the cap on donations because, it is claimed, they are individual donations. [ Interruption. ] I see Labour Members nodding sagely and thoughtfully, but that claim is about as far from the truth as it can be. Trade union law requires a union member to be able to opt out of paying the political levy, but in most unions it is incredibly difficult to opt out and members are not told of their rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "y shown that fewer than half of trade union members vote Labour. More than half vote for parties other than Labour. It beggars belief that those people are cheerfully making a voluntary contribution to a party that they do not even vote for. Indeed, it emerged during our discussions that a Liberal Democrat MP was surprised to find in the post a ballot paper for Labour's deputy leadership election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I said that I would come to that and I will. But I will also say to the right hon. and learned Gentleman that he understands the point, which the Conservative party leadership now does not—it had a different point of view six months ago—which is that the key driver of donations is the totality of spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.717.5", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I should be perfectly happy for people to see it, but as the hon. Gentleman knows very well, the reason is that this was a matter for Hayden Phillips and not for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.717.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "So it is all right, then, to invest in the murderers in Darfur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "If Michael Brown thought that he was going to get preferment from the Liberal Democrats, he was delusional.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but there is no time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.737.6", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Say sorry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Member for Wrexham (Ian Lucas) that simply saying, \"They are as bad as us,\" is not a positive message to send to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.737.6", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Member for Wrexham (Ian Lucas) that simply saying, \"They are as bad as us,\" is not a positive message to send to the public. [Hon. Members: \"Say sorry!\"] I expressed my regret to the Committee in question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.739.6", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "ith employment legislation have been passed. That includes the introduction of the £10 million so-called union modernisation fund, which has so far handed out £5.8 million of taxpayers' cash to fund projects such as building links between the T and G and the Polish workers association, expanding ASLEF's website and—wait for it—supporting online discussion forums at the TUC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.739.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.739.6", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "rs' cash to fund projects such as building links between the T and G and the Polish workers association, expanding ASLEF's website and—wait for it—supporting online discussion forums at the TUC. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds made a similar point. The Government constantly talk about their modernisation agenda, but when we talk about modernisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.739.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend is referring to the fact that this Government have increased the money that is given to the Opposition parties, particularly the £4.4 million that the Conservatives now get from Short money, that is worth reflecting on. I hope that we will get all-party consensus on the way forward, but we will not accept one-party deadlock—a breakdown that serves only to block progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "You may well decide, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that that has very little to do with DEFRA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "Department charged with leading the way on efforts to combat climate change. Tellingly, last year it quietly dropped its long-standing manifesto commitment to cut carbon emissions by 20 per cent. by 2010. In fact carbon emissions have risen since 1997, and fell last year by only 0.1 per cent. Plans to encourage microgeneration in homes and offices have been half-hearted, with reduced grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.760.5", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "As the hon. and learned Gentleman knows, this is an extremely difficult and complex issue, where there is no easy solution. If there were one, we would not be 10 years on from the establishment of the scientific study. A number of considerations must be taken into account, such as the effectiveness of culling as an approach. There are wider policy implications to the culling of badgers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "With respect, the Government have not cut —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "With respect, the Government have not cut —[Interruption.] If the hon. Lady would let me answer the question, I would tell her that the total funding of flood defence has risen from £300 million a decade ago to £600 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "h as DEFRA, simply on the volume of legislation—what is important is how effective it is. We must remember that 80 per cent. of our countryside is managed by British farmers. I would like to lay to rest the impression given by the Secretary of State and by the right hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) that Conservative Members are somehow attacking the ordinary individual DEFRA official.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "r rural as well as urban people. RCCs help with education, learning and skills training for people in rural areas. They run projects for disaffected young people, and assist in drug prevention schemes and other worthy initiatives. DEFRA's funding for those organisations is being cut and, in many cases, axed. Today, I heard that a number of RCCs will not be able to continue in their entirety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-04", "file": "debates2007-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "e3fe916797152c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "they assume that no farming interests are represented on the Government Benches. The picture painted by the Opposition bears no resemblance to reality. I recognise the importance of farming, but it is noticeable that no solutions to the alleged problems have been put forward. I reject the central accusation in the Opposition motion this evening—that the Department is cutting its expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-04c.794.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05d.xml", "sha256": "5ed8084dfb233481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05d.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": "parent with two or three young children who says, \"Blow that, I'll stick where I am—at least I know what I've got. I can budget for that and I can manage it.\" That is an unintended consequence of the complexities in the system. Another wonderful progressive change by the Government was to abolish the horrendous therapeutic earnings and introduce permitted working for those with disabilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05d.901.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "d the right hon. Gentleman to bring forward evidence of where he was not. Let us just look at the question of defence spending, which has been raised by the Opposition. We are spending £1 billion more on defence every year. We are now the second largest country in the world for defence spending, whereas we were fifth in 1997. Let the Opposition answer this question, because the shadow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.818.6", "colnum": "818", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "forces.\"—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 22 November 2007; Vol. 696, c. 952 .] The Prime Minister has broken his promise on trust; he has broken his promise on defence. Today, the Prime Minister is finally announcing the prison-building programme that we have requested for so long yet, since he has been Prime Minister, 11,000 prisoners—criminals—have been released early—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.818.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "Having fixed school spending per pupil for the next three years to favour Labour areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ffender Management Service and the Prison Service, to improve the focus on service delivery and offender management. We will streamline corporate service costs in headquarters and regional offices in NOMS and the Prison Service, and we will establish a programme of performance testing. Contrary to myth, there have been fewer criminal justice Bills in the last 10 years than in the preceding decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s that we are somehow letting more prisoners out. I am sorry to shoot the hon. Gentleman's fox so comprehensively, but last week, anticipating the review, he said: \"So that is what it is all about—no money for prisons\"—[ Official Report , 28 November 2007; Vol. 468, c. 361 .] I have just announced £1.2 billion extra for prisons, on top of the £1.5 billion already announced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "and pensioners will not have to worry about it, sign it or pass it on to local councils. That will not only be a saving for local councils; I hope that it will ensure that more people who are entitled to help with their council tax get it. The hon. Gentleman asked about losers in relation to the backdating. There will be no actual losers, as we are redistributing the money within the budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ious figure with a strong record. He has a world-class business record and extensive knowledge of financial services. Judged in a fair and open competition as the best man to lead PADA, his appointment has been widely welcomed by the industry, yet the hon. Gentleman has now attacked him. I ask myself whether this is yet another example of that hon. Member taking the opportunity to have a go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": " the Young review? Is it his intention, as was reported in the press at the weekend, that the assets within the unclaimed scheme should be privatised? Would it not make more sense to hand those assets over to the management of the Pension Protection Fund, which has shown considerable expertise? That matter cannot wait much longer and I hope that the Minister will give us some reassurances on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2007-08", "cue_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": "parent with two or three young children who says, \"Blow that, I'll stick where I am—at least I know what I've got. I can budget for that and I can manage it.\" That is an unintended consequence of the complexities in the system. Another wonderful progressive change by the Government was to abolish the horrendous therapeutic earnings and introduce permitted working for those with disabilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2007-08", "cue_speaker": "Joan Humble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Humble", "preceding_text": " make a point in support of the Chairman's remarks about the importance of our role in Westminster. In 1998, I spoke in a debate in the Chamber on the then Social Security Committee report on what was called the benefits integrity project. BIP was set up in the last few weeks of the Conservative Administration, and the Labour Government inherited it. If any scheme caused more chaos than BIP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-05", "file": "debates2007-12-05e.xml", "sha256": "7967f18dc19f1b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2007-08", "cue_speaker": "John Penrose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Penrose", "preceding_text": "s been done already; the Government had the courage to do it on pensions reform, and a similar sort of initiative is required in this case. We came up with such an idea. It is in annex A to the report, and I am pleased to hear that the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey has taken the trouble to read it. That probably makes three of us who have actually got through the thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-05e.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f9b159ddb27b09eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06a.974.4", "colnum": "974", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "hon. Members: \"Just say no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will remember that the Modernisation Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06a.974.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f9b159ddb27b09eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "wledge to a typically robust speech from his experience of representing a seaside town. Having lived in that seaside town for some 15 years myself and served as a fireman in the area, I can tell the House that the knowledge gained from living in a seaside town outranks any other. Southend needs day trippers, but I think it wants to keep only some of them. My hon. Friend the Member for Selby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f9b159ddb27b09eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": ". Member for Selby (Mr. Grogan) now represents the all-party parliamentary beer group. My hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) represented it for many years, but clearly the hon. Gentleman has ousted him. That event must have been a sight for sore eyes. I understand that the hon. Gentleman represents the beer group very well. Apparently I am a member of it, although no one told me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "e to draw those lines. As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, we have consulted closely with representatives of the industry, and the stakeholder group is of the view that currently we should have the boundaries where they are, rather than extend them to bring the whole of England into the bluetongue zone. Obviously, winter is arriving, and there will be less midge activity. We are working on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Right hon. Lady.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "at we are concerned to ensure the security of people in this country. That is absolutely essential. We are also concerned to ensure civil liberties and appropriate safeguards for everybody in this country. We are seeking an all-party consensus and we are having talks in order to reach agreement so that we can protect safety and ensure civil liberties. When the hon. Lady raises this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "y mentioned a number of issues about the European Parliament and European affairs. My hon. Friend the Deputy Leader of the House is having discussions on how we can do what we all agree we need to do: improve the scrutiny of European affairs. Indeed, the right hon. Lady has put forward 10 suggestions to that effect, and my hon. Friend has said that she has considered them and they are not all mad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.974.4", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Just say no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will remember that the Modernisation Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.974.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "ecause people will not like what they are not being told. Is it not the case that the Government have chosen to dismiss this recommendation out of hand, because they know the answer to the question about who is responsible for nearly doubling council tax during their time in office? It is a case of \"Best when we are putting up taxes; best when we are blaming others; best when we are Labour\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that 10 years ago Sevenoaks district council received roughly exactly the same per head as Sedgefield borough council in the north, whereas this year Sedgefield borough council is getting more than twice as much as Sevenoaks district council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.993.4", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wandsworth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "The working neighbourhoods fund will be distributed through the new area-based grant. It will be one of those grants that is totally un-ring-fenced. The hon. Lady may wish to know that her authority, Hammersmith and Fulham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.993.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ipate in debates in the Chamber and who visit our House. In recent years, and during Peter Grant Peterkin's time as Serjeant at Arms, we have also seen an enormous change in our attitude to visitors to this place, as the Deputy Leader of the House said. The way in which visitors are welcomed, and the experience that they are given and will be given when changes in the building are completed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1005.6", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "But do interventions add time to my 10 minutes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1005.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "Although I welcome this topical debate, it seems a bit bizarre that the Minister is not given the opportunity to respond. I doubt whether any hon. Member is going to stand up and say, \"Isn't it wonderful that we are all getting sloshed?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "I would like to, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "wledge to a typically robust speech from his experience of representing a seaside town. Having lived in that seaside town for some 15 years myself and served as a fireman in the area, I can tell the House that the knowledge gained from living in a seaside town outranks any other. Southend needs day trippers, but I think it wants to keep only some of them. My hon. Friend the Member for Selby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": ". Member for Selby (Mr. Grogan) now represents the all-party parliamentary beer group. My hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) represented it for many years, but clearly the hon. Gentleman has ousted him. That event must have been a sight for sore eyes. I understand that the hon. Gentleman represents the beer group very well. Apparently I am a member of it, although no one told me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of fisheries. I am pleased to open my first fisheries debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": " too long, the nation has had a limited diet when it comes to fish. As I said in Question Time this morning, red gurnard is a species that used to be discarded but is now proving very popular. It is so mainstream that it is being served on High Speed 1, so people can eat that wonderful fish while enjoying the wonderful Kent countryside on the wonderful new line that this Government have developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "at boats are often unsure how long they will be out. In his constituency, fishermen are rather reliant on the weather. However, a number of my officials have made trips on fishing vessels. I have visited a range of fisheries across the UK and it is my intention, after I have dealt with the Fisheries Council in December, to go out on a fishing vessel next year. Perhaps that will be off Scarborough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "draft form two years ago. Then we were informed by the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw) , the then Minister, that there would be a \"real\" marine Bill in the current Session. Now we know that there is only a draft Bill pencilled in for the coming spring. Can the Minister give us a commitment that that legislation will be on the statute book before the next general election? I did not think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "uld be a \"real\" marine Bill in the current Session. Now we know that there is only a draft Bill pencilled in for the coming spring. Can the Minister give us a commitment that that legislation will be on the statute book before the next general election? I did not think so. [ Interruption. ] The Minister wishes me to give way; I will gladly do so if he can tell us when the general election will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What would you have done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had his answer—if he was paying attention. There are plenty of other things that he could have done with his job that the Minister could have done or that the Minister's predecessors could have done. However, they did not. They focused on bass minimum landing sizes, and then failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1042.6", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "It is no good the Under-Secretary trying to give us lectures, because the evidence contradicts his comments. In the past 10 years, nothing has been done to heal the gap between what fishermen see and throw back and what scientists believe is there. That is a fundamental problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1042.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-06", "file": "debates2007-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "7539fcc314ac3f04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "preceding_text": "cause of those historic ills, I encourage him to take early action, as it is morally justifiable to find more of a share for the under-10 m sector. The sector needs that share because of economic factors, and because of the problem of discards. There is a dispute between scientists and fishermen, and on Hastings beach people say that there is so much cod in the English channel they can walk on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-06b.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8bd8941b3d9dcc0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10b.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Clearly, conservation areas must be protected. I thank my hon. Friend for giving me an opportunity to clear my throat. I am recovering from a very bad cold, but it is a pleasure to be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10b.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8bd8941b3d9dcc0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10b.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Clearly, conservation areas must be protected. I thank my hon. Friend for giving me an opportunity to clear my throat. I am recovering from a very bad cold, but it is a pleasure to be here. [Interruption.] Thank you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10b.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8bd8941b3d9dcc0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10b.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": " reflect that point. Having made that broad general sweeping point, I would like in my remaining time to touch on three areas. The first is the infrastructure planning commission. Although I support the need to reform how we plan our national infrastructure, I have to tell the Minister that I have yet to hear an intelligent argument for setting up another democratically unaccountable quango—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10b.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8bd8941b3d9dcc0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10b.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest, given that the regional development agencies have been mentioned: my husband is the deputy chairman of the South East England Development Agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10b.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "The evidence that we have is that most are using the powers. Indeed, I was out with Chris Allison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.6.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Lady grew up in Guildford, as I did, but there was no problem then and, as my family continue to live there, I know that it emerged before the Licensing Act 2003, which was introduced to provide people with tough powers. I take it that the hon. Lady also disagrees with her leader when he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I am going to make a little more progress, because I am conscious of the time and other hon. Members will want to get in. I want to say a little about town and country planning, because the Bill has a bit about that in it. I think that we are up to about 1970—I feel a bit like Gene Hunt in \"Life on Mars\"—but I promise that we will get there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Clearly, conservation areas must be protected. I thank my hon. Friend for giving me an opportunity to clear my throat. I am recovering from a very bad cold, but it is a pleasure to be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Clearly, conservation areas must be protected. I thank my hon. Friend for giving me an opportunity to clear my throat. I am recovering from a very bad cold, but it is a pleasure to be here. [Interruption.] Thank you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "Happily, I did not appoint it and I did fire him, so that situation does not really arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": " reflect that point. Having made that broad general sweeping point, I would like in my remaining time to touch on three areas. The first is the infrastructure planning commission. Although I support the need to reform how we plan our national infrastructure, I have to tell the Minister that I have yet to hear an intelligent argument for setting up another democratically unaccountable quango—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest, given that the regional development agencies have been mentioned: my husband is the deputy chairman of the South East England Development Agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "l development agencies can raise money through the CIL, it will give power to an unaccountable, unelected body to raise taxation—the first time, as my hon. Friend the Member for Brentwood and Ongar said earlier, that such an attempt has been made since Hampden and Pym fought against the King over ship money. Are the Labour Government seriously giving away a basic right of the British people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-10", "file": "debates2007-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "ba96a7e0ef3403a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.118.7", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman reads the Hansard record, he will see that I explained a moment ago that the levy will be for infrastructure that is set out in the development plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-10c.118.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "cad2d95bf0538b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11c.249.7", "colnum": "249", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " basically gone to one conglomerated party—the presidential party. That is worrying. On a subsidiary point, if the Russian Federation can get away with having only 450 Members of Parliament, perhaps we, as a much smaller country, should begin to consider whether 650 Members of Parliament is too many and we should reduce our numbers—certainly the number of Members in the second Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11c.249.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "ative schemes that emerged from the preceding and the current Department—work done with young offenders via HMP Kirkham near Blackpool, and the good work done in local communities. However, does my right hon. Friend agree that when offenders get out of custody and into the outside world, access to jobs and skills will be crucial in preventing reoffending? Does he also welcome, with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " offenders released on to ECL, we have been notified of only 1 per cent. having committed a further offence. That is a much lower rate of reoffending than is found among prisoners normally released. The second thing that the hon. Gentleman has to appreciate is that these are offenders, whatever crimes they have committed, who would have been released 18 days—two and a half weeks—later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Off the top of my head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Off the top of my head— [ Laughter. ] I keep many figures in my head, but I am afraid to say that the reoffending rates for Coventry and the west midlands are not among them. However, I can tell my hon. Friend that reconviction rates have improved considerably and for prisoners serving over four years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "was about to raise the issue of excessive drinking by young adults, which may have occurred on that train on 18 February 1967 , after Norwich's surprise victory as a member of division 3 south against Manchester United in the FA cup—one of the highlights of my pre-life, given that I was born seven days later. Why my father was at the game, rather than at home has always been a mystery to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Stage not age\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ed about the transition from primary to secondary school, and many teachers are concerned that some children are not making as much progress as they should in the first and second years of secondary school. We aim for parental engagement in that transition and in the early years of secondary school, and we will be able to address both those issues through these proposals, plus age not stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "e outrage in future. The meeting of the European Council this week will address some of the most pressing issues facing the European Union. It will set out a globalisation declaration and establish a reflection group on the long-term global context for European action. Leaders will also no doubt bask in the acclamation among the peoples of Europe for the benefits of the Lisbon reform treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "d to a process, and to the constitution being \"abandoned\". That is not my word; it is the word of 27 heads of Government. Today, the newly elected Conservative Prime Minister of Denmark—a country that has a more far-reaching version of the treaty than we do—said: \"The Lisbon Treaty does not transfer new powers to the EU, and is an amending treaty that is fundamentally different\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.190.5", "colnum": "190", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "at is fundamentally different\"— [Interruption.] Members can laugh at the newly elected Conservative Prime Minister of Denmark, but I would have thought that they would try to learn some lessons from him. He says that it \"is an amending treaty that is fundamentally different to the Constitutional Treaty. The Government does not, therefore, find it necessary to put the Treaty to a referendum\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.192.7", "colnum": "192", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I pointed out when we last debated the subject, every single member of the current shadow Cabinet who was a Member in the House in 1992 fought tooth and nail against a referendum on the Maastricht treaty, which transferred far more powers than this treaty. In 1998, furthermore, the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) was warning of the dangers to our democracy from referendums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.192.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.192.9", "colnum": "192", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I have been on my feet for 38 minutes, and have tried the House's patience long enough. We will have many more occasions for debating the issue in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.192.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.192.11", "colnum": "192", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The reality is that the treaty gives greater voting weight not to Denmark but to the UK. The treaty reduces the size of the Commission, it ends the rotating presidency of the European Council in favour of a chair chosen by the nation states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.192.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I reciprocate, in spades, my respect for the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "otecting British business ideas, strengthening the EU's research and innovation capability. Those are not threats to our constitutional settlement. That leaves 14 purely procedural changes: for example, the operating rules for the judicial appointments panel, how we appoint members of the European Economic and Social Committee, or how we adjust the rules for technical implementation in committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ies of the people of Europe. It is right that we shall look at these matters in detail in the new year. It is right that my hon. Friend the Minister for Europe should spend an awful lot of time answering detailed questions, and that I should do that as well, as we go through the details of the Bill. It is right to check all the finer points, but it is also right to expose the central choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I was going to cite that very passage from that report. It is marvellous of my hon. Friend to provide the service of reading out parts of my speech before I have arrived at them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman behaves, I will give him a chance to intervene towards the end of my contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "I thank the shadow Foreign Secretary for giving way. He has given 101 reasons why he is opposed to the treaty. After the treaty is passed by the House and another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I must conclude my speech. I have been speaking for more than half an hour. I want to deal with one point that the Foreign Secretary made, and then conclude my remarks. The Foreign Secretary referred to the possibility— he thought it was a dark plot of some kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "Possibly, because I am not a Eurosceptic. I voted yes in the original referendum on Europe. I had more insight than the Minister for Europe who did not vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.215.5", "colnum": "215", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.215.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "preceding_text": " been \"abandoned\" and that, rather than replacing previous treaties, the reform treaty will amend previous treaties, principally the treaties establishing the European Community and the European Union. That is the first thing that is different. The second thing that is different is that there will be no symbols of the European Union. There will be no article in the amended treaty mentioning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.219.6", "colnum": "219", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but he is not going to distract me from the issue that I am talking about, which is Kosovo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I also thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but I believe that I was talking about Bosnia when he rose to his feet. To help countries such as Bosnia along the road to greater institutional, economic, political and social stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "onship between the public and Parliament, and between the public and the Government. It is not good enough for a manifesto commitment to be just discarded like that. I was amazed that the hon. Member for Cheadle (Mark Hunter) , who speaks for the Liberal Democrats, could not answer this simple question: if an amendment calling for a referendum were passed here, what would the Liberal Democrats do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "ember for Dunfermline and West Fife (Willie Rennie) —presumably a new Liberal Democrat Front-Bench spokesman—in his place, so perhaps he can answer that question. I will not push him, though, because there is talk of a reshuffle and he might be involved in it. It does seem absolutely amazing that the day before the Prime Minister is going to sign the treaty, without a photograph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "I will not rub salt into the wounds of the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.249.7", "colnum": "249", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " basically gone to one conglomerated party—the presidential party. That is worrying. On a subsidiary point, if the Russian Federation can get away with having only 450 Members of Parliament, perhaps we, as a much smaller country, should begin to consider whether 650 Members of Parliament is too many and we should reduce our numbers—certainly the number of Members in the second Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.249.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "to its membership of the euro. There are other respects in which we can see a move towards integration. For instance, I do not believe that a single European country now believes it will go to war on its own. That is certainly true of this country—we will never go to war on our own, unless there is an exceptional occurrence. That is quite a change from anything that has happened in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "go to war on its own. That is certainly true of this country—we will never go to war on our own, unless there is an exceptional occurrence. That is quite a change from anything that has happened in the past. [ Interruption. ] I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, South-West has a bad leg and is perhaps unable to get to his feet, but if he wants to make a sedentary comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-11", "file": "debates2007-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "4e621a09fb79a144", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": ", and which must be commended for its vigilance in these matters, concluded that the two documents were \"substantially equivalent\" and that to argue otherwise would be \"misleading\". The Economist , which is not exactly known for its Euroscepticism, concluded that trying to sustain the Government's position was \"a farce\". Is it any wonder, then, that a poll in yesterday's Daily Mail reported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-11d.259.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "5731e897a036588c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ieve that we can say that the men and women serving in Helmand today are every bit the equal of those who stormed the beaches in Normandy, who held the line at Inchon in the Korean war, or who retook the Falkland Islands. Christmas approaches, with our service personnel away from their families. I am sure that this is the time that the whole House will want to send them our very strongest backing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "5731e897a036588c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4()th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "is clear that that is now a world-class service and, combined with some good medical care in the operational theatres, it means that people are now surviving who previously would not have done so. That said, they are often seriously incapacitated following the initial acute interventions. It is the quality of the care afterwards that that is so often criticised and that many believe to be lacking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "5731e897a036588c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4()th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "he lifestyle of families to ensure that children and housing became a much more stable commodity for service families, and it is wrong for anyone not to give credit for those changes. I am sure that five years from now there will be a distinct difference for service families in how education, in particular, operates. As the longest-serving member of the Defence Committee, our recent session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12a.347.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "5731e897a036588c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4()th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "hat there is a viable medium-term business plan. As my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary said earlier, the Chancellor has told the House several times that any outcome must meet European Union state aid rules. Any proposal for Northern Rock's future must meet the principles I have just set out, and it would have to be approved by the Government. I turn to the process of identifying a buyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.284.4", "colnum": "284", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "The Minister is trying to hustle the Charity Commission into allowing the establishment of charities whose main activity is political campaigning. The Smith Institute, a registered charity, recently issued a publication that stated \"Britain is a better country because of the choices that voters made in 1997, 2001 and 2005\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.284.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ieve that we can say that the men and women serving in Helmand today are every bit the equal of those who stormed the beaches in Normandy, who held the line at Inchon in the Korean war, or who retook the Falkland Islands. Christmas approaches, with our service personnel away from their families. I am sure that this is the time that the whole House will want to send them our very strongest backing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "February. Thank you, but why was it not in the Prime Minister's statement? The whole point is to announce things to the House of Commons! I know that the Foreign Secretary's speeches are normally corrected after they have gone out, but he might want to advise the Prime Minister rather more about how to get the content right in the first place. On aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.308.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "pursuing for some time. Clearly, he has read the policy report that we published in July—and, judging by his document, much of which is eerily familiar, a lot more besides. Given that spirit of happy consensus, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me for saying how much I enjoyed something that I imagine will become a standard caveat on all Liberal Democrat spending commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.339.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "preceding_text": " but I think that some former Chiefs of the Defence Staff are on half pay, rather than being retired officers in the other House. I want later to address a few aspects of the behaviour of the former Chiefs of the Defence Staff. The hon. Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey) said at the beginning of his speech that the military covenant should be codified. We all know that, in a way, it is codified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "when I walked along Hadrian's Wall last summer, an enormous number of local charities rely on the foundation for obtaining charitable money quickly and effectively. They receive the money from the foundation much more effectively than they do from the national lottery. Before Ministers stand up and pose as angels of the north, it would be worth while for them and their Back-Bench colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "I am not taking sides regarding which bidder is best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "NORTHERN ROCK", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "s are providing this money, they have a right to know that information. Of course, it has been a tough time for shareholders, too. Many small shareholders benefited by becoming shareholders when Northern Rock demutualised in 1997, as has been mentioned, and they own about 25 per cent. of Northern Rock's shares. As always, there is a risk in trading stocks and shares. Financially, it is more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-12", "file": "debates2007-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "d84221363ddecc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "NORTHERN ROCK", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "hat there is a viable medium-term business plan. As my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary said earlier, the Chancellor has told the House several times that any outcome must meet European Union state aid rules. Any proposal for Northern Rock's future must meet the principles I have just set out, and it would have to be approved by the Government. I turn to the process of identifying a buyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-12b.416.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-13", "file": "debates2007-12-13e.xml", "sha256": "b9d6796b66d56c62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13e.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "s a huge cry. That does not happen now; people do it themselves. So they are not only in poverty but not keeping warm and not keeping fed, and therefore in danger of becoming ill. Approaches have been made to the Energy Retail Association—the trade association of energy suppliers—which has said that it would not want an equalisation of rates between prepayment meters and direct debits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13e.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-13", "file": "debates2007-12-13f.xml", "sha256": "c7cde2caece3b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's first point, that was, as he says, an innovation made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice only at the beginning of this year. I think that if the hon. Gentleman looks at the facts he will find that under this Government there has not been a large number of pre-announcements to the media.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-13", "file": "debates2007-12-13f.xml", "sha256": "c7cde2caece3b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. With an urgent question, I have to hear what the appropriate Minister has to say. The Chancellor's answer leads me to conclude that I will not open up the subject to prolonged questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-13", "file": "debates2007-12-13f.xml", "sha256": "c7cde2caece3b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.497.5", "colnum": "497", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "Apparently they do not. The small sum that I have with Portsmouth Savers Credit Union is clearly not earning any interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.497.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-13", "file": "debates2007-12-13f.xml", "sha256": "c7cde2caece3b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": " huge outcry. That does not happen now; people do it themselves. So they are not only in poverty but not keeping warm and not keeping fed, and therefore in danger of becoming ill. Approaches have been made to the Energy Retail Association—the trade association of energy suppliers—which has said that it would not want an equalisation of rates between prepayment meters and direct debits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.509.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-13", "file": "debates2007-12-13f.xml", "sha256": "c7cde2caece3b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "part of its lengthy procession through the House. It was first introduced in 2005 and received its Second Reading in July of that year. It was subject to the hybrid Bill procedures, with two Committee stages in both Houses, the Select Committee to hear petitions and then, more routinely, the Public Bill Committee. The Select Committee first sat in January 2006 and had more than 100 sittings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-13", "file": "debates2007-12-13f.xml", "sha256": "c7cde2caece3b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "y so. My final point is on the costing of Crossrail. I have made the point about the rise in the cost of the Olympics from £1.8 billion to about £9.3 billion. In 2002, it was estimated that Crossrail would cost about £10 billion. That rose last year to some £16 billion. It is estimated that the cost of Crossrail will increase by £1.5 billion a year for the next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-13f.563.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-17", "file": "debates2007-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "397595c0653113ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "es, and do so stealthily. This story demonstrates incompetence and a failure of internal communications. It demonstrates that those saving for pensions will not be rewarded, and it weakens Parliament. Given that it is nearly Christmas, perhaps I may summarise the Bill as follows, as we hear the same old things: more stalling words, a squeeze on pensions, tax double charge and a partial cut in S2P.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-17", "file": "debates2007-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "1ffb65b029c0425e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.579.4", "colnum": "579", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "r cent. literacy in villages in Kerala, in one of the most deprived parts of India, but here the Government are going backwards. New targets published under our new Prime Minister show that the Government have actually dropped their more ambitious literacy plans and are now happy to accept that one in six children will leave primary school without being able to read ploperly—I mean properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.579.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-17", "file": "debates2007-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "1ffb65b029c0425e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "Certainly the hon. Gentleman should listen more carefully. I was not rubbishing the OECD; that was the OECD rubbishing him. Researchers from the OECD itself said that \"the results do not show any evidence of a real decline in standards.\" In terms of the other stuff that the hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-17", "file": "debates2007-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "1ffb65b029c0425e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.623.5", "colnum": "623", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "As I said a few moments ago, I can confirm that various materials have gone missing from a warehouse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-17", "file": "debates2007-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "1ffb65b029c0425e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "We will be able to discuss the detail in Committee. Members from Opposition parties, and perhaps some on the Government Benches, will want to probe a number of points in detail. Although we are simplifying things in carrying out this change, there are complexities around it and interplaying factors in respect of how individuals are affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-17", "file": "debates2007-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "1ffb65b029c0425e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "s, and do so stealthily. This story demonstrates incompetence and a failure of internal communications. It demonstrates that those saving for pensions will not be rewarded, and it weakens Parliament. Given that it is nearly Christmas, perhaps I may summarise the Bill as follows, as we hear: the same old things, more stalling words, a squeeze on pensions, tax double charge and a partial cut in S2P.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-17", "file": "debates2007-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "1ffb65b029c0425e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Paul Rowen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Rowen", "preceding_text": "nt. of all eligible pensioners do not claim pension credit, and it is costly to administer, costing far more than child tax credit. The pension consensus should therefore be to give all pensioners, regardless of who they are, what they have earned in the past or what contributions they have made—thereby including many women who take time out to have a family—a decent citizen's pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-17b.651.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-18", "file": "debates2007-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "a5a088bd1b125f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friend demonstrates a certain prejudice against PFI hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-18", "file": "debates2007-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "a5a088bd1b125f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.734.4", "colnum": "734", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I missed that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.734.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-18", "file": "debates2007-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "a5a088bd1b125f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "yers in my area will not only have to pay many thousands of pounds, but will face the loss of many of the advantages that they have at present. I have been in the House long enough to see the coming and going of many inadequate personalities. I have seen those on both sides of the House who have been promoted for various reasons. I have seen the crawlers. I have seen those who have used sex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-18", "file": "debates2007-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "a5a088bd1b125f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "preceding_text": "I agree with the last point made by the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Robathan) and disagree with almost everything else he said, although I do not have time to go into it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.776.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2007-12-18", "file": "debates2007-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "a5a088bd1b125f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "hose comments. If one were to ask members of a minority religion—to ask, say, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs or the Jewish community—to change the name of their religious festival because it was felt that it offended those who are not from that faith, there would rightly be outrage from those communities. Yet there are people in this country who are quite happy to rename Christmas \"Winterval\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-12-18b.811.0"}