{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-12", "file": "debates2009-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "80817ea57e1714a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12a.91.2", "colnum": "91", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "he Mrs. Merton question. Why do the Conservatives support and want to help transport infrastructure in a city with a Tory Mayor and not in the rest of the country? The answer, of course, is obvious. I thought, in a non-patronising way, that the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson) , who speaks on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, made a grown-up and sensible speech. It was very good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12a.91.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-12", "file": "debates2009-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f7b874c7aa937704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "We are not cutting defence spending. I invite the hon. Gentleman to take a closer look at the examination outcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.16.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-12", "file": "debates2009-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f7b874c7aa937704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "We do not believe that economic sanctions on Israel are the way to engage or to influence Israel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-12", "file": "debates2009-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f7b874c7aa937704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "In congratulating my right hon. Friend on steering resolution 1860 through the United Nations Security Council, may I ask him what the international reaction would be if Hamas had slaughtered nearly 900 Israelis and subjected nearly 1.5 million Israelis to degradation and deprivation? Is it not an incontrovertible fact that Olmert, Livni and Barak are mass-murderers and war criminals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.32.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-12", "file": "debates2009-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f7b874c7aa937704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.91.2", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Business Rate Supplements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "he Mrs. Merton question. Why do the Conservatives support and want to help transport infrastructure in a city with a Tory Mayor and not in the rest of the country? The answer, of course, is obvious. I thought, in a non-patronising way, that the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson) , who speaks on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, made a grown-up and sensible speech. It was very good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.91.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-12", "file": "debates2009-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f7b874c7aa937704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Business Rate Supplements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "It is only fair to point out that the business rate element for Crossrail plays only a very small part in the entire funding of the scheme. It would be wrong to suggest that having concerns about the legislation is somehow entirely at odds with supporting Crossrail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-12", "file": "debates2009-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f7b874c7aa937704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Business Rate Supplements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "d be wrong to suggest that having concerns about the legislation is somehow entirely at odds with supporting Crossrail— [ Interruption. ] It is pretty disingenuous of the Government to suggest that. A very small proportion of the overall funding for Crossrail as a whole will come from this legislation. Much of it will come from a number of other sources and not least from central Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-12b.93.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-14", "file": "debates2009-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "e45808cbb9c1a852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend—who is the Member of Parliament for South Swindon—is absolutely right. Two issues face the car industry at the moment. One is a shortage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-14", "file": "debates2009-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "0996e6d2644cea90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14b.197.6", "colnum": "197", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I do not have to tell my hon. Friend how important nationally social networking sites are, but I wonder whether he has pondered how important they are locally, especially for MPs? May I persuade him to think about creating a FTSE 100 of social networking sites that do brilliant things locally?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14b.197.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-14", "file": "debates2009-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "0996e6d2644cea90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14b.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "r from the comments made by my former right hon. Friend Tony Blair in this House on many occasions, and by others since. We should not forget the past in Iraq. It is appropriate to remind ourselves in debates such as this about the legacy of Saddam and the brutal, murderous regime that he presided over. Iraq, in case there was any doubt about this in any part of the House, is a better place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14b.234.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-14", "file": "debates2009-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "0996e6d2644cea90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14b.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14b.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-14", "file": "debates2009-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "0996e6d2644cea90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14b.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "hey no longer represented an imperative security threat.\"—[ Official Report , 26 November 2008; Vol. 483, c. 1551W .] So much for a nest of vipers—those people were actually the police. I want to turn to Operation Charge of the Knights, because it has been claimed, including by the hon. Member for Gravesham (Mr. Holloway) , who spoke before me, that it was a case of UK cowardice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-14b.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15d.xml", "sha256": "854a2574d82535cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15d.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "The country will not understand how we, in the mother of Parliaments, representing our constituents, cannot have a vote on such a crucial issue. Perhaps the Secretary of State will be honest and explain to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15d.371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15d.xml", "sha256": "854a2574d82535cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15d.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ntleman raised the matter, I must point out that it was this Government who introduced substantial reform of the regulatory process, which took account of many of the failings by Equitable Life and was based on the Penrose report. Indeed, that report welcomed many of the reforms that were under way as a sensible response to the failings of the regulatory regime as it affected Equitable Life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15d.381.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Ordered, That the debate be resumed on Thursday 22 January .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "oposed, That the promoters of the Manchester City Council Bill [Lords] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [Lords], which were originally introduced in the House of Lords in Session 2006-07 on 21 January 2007 , may have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).— (The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.323.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.323.6", "colnum": "323", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Ordered, That the debate be resumed on Thursday 22 January .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of the Canterbury City Council Bill, Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and Reading Borough Council Bill, which were originally introduced in this House in Session 2007-08 on 22 January 2008 , may have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills ).—(The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman could not be wronger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.341.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "itors to expand at our expense, doing nothing would damage the country economically and save not a single gram of carbon. That is why British business has roundly condemned the Conservative party's position. It may surprise the House to learn that there is a Conservative position on aviation, which, unlike that of Conservative Front Benchers, has the benefit of being intellectually coherent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "l or planning matters. Nevertheless, I entirely understand that my hon. Friend puts his case with his customary passion on behalf of his constituents, but this is an issue for the country. Heathrow is a national airport serving the whole of the country. Necessarily, when judgments have to be made about the interests of the country, those decisions have to be made, however difficult they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.367.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) must—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "ling on this matter is very great, but many hon. Members are not only wishing to question the Secretary of State on the matter, but waiting for the other important business. I am sure that there will be other occasions when Members' voices will be heard on a matter of this importance. We should proceed. The hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington must now withdraw from the service of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": " in the mid-1970s to a quarter of a million and falling today. The impact of noise has dramatically changed over that period. The hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs. Villiers) talked about devastation. The last time I looked at property prices in places such as Maidenhead and west London, there was no shortage of people willing to move to those areas, and apparently no impact on property prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "r for Chipping Barnet (Mrs. Villiers) talked about devastation. The last time I looked at property prices in places such as Maidenhead and west London, there was no shortage of people willing to move to those areas, and apparently no impact on property prices. [ Interruption. ] Property prices are far higher there than they are in my constituency simply because people want to live in those places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "apparently no impact on property prices. [ Interruption. ] Property prices are far higher there than they are in my constituency simply because people want to live in those places. [ Interruption. ] They want to live in those places knowing full well that they will be living in the proximity of Heathrow airport, so there is something seriously inconsistent about what Opposition Members are saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.368.5", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady makes a fair point. Once I assumed this position, the consultation having been completed, I regretted that on legal advice I was unable to meet communities. I visited the area, and went carefully around the perimeter of Heathrow, visiting the various places affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.368.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I will send the hon. Gentleman a briefing on Crossrail, as he has misunderstood. The funding for Crossrail is in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "The country will not understand how we, in the mother of Parliaments, representing our constituents, cannot have a vote on such a crucial issue. Perhaps the Secretary of State will be honest and explain to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ntleman raised the matter, I must point out that it was this Government who introduced substantial reform of the regulatory process, which took account of many of the failings by Equitable Life and was based on the Penrose report. Indeed, that report welcomed many of the reforms that were under way as a sensible response to the failings of the regulatory regime as it affected Equitable Life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-15", "file": "debates2009-01-15e.xml", "sha256": "bc913dcb3aaccbbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the Chancellor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "dissimulation have angered up to 1 million of them, many of whom have lost up to half their pension to the extraordinary extent that a period of maladministration that occurred largely under the previous Government has become a massive own goal for this Government. That makes it all the more surprising that the Conservative shadow Chancellor did not think it worth his while to turn up today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-15e.383.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a3fc32d2bc01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman may know, local funding for the police has been steadily increasing as the amount of central Government grant is cut. There has to be an adequate amount of central Government grant to ensure that different needs are met across the country. That is a key matter and he is right to draw attention to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "preceding_text": "I assure my hon. Friend that we have already taken the opportunity of putting the Bill in for the fifth section of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.464.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "With respect, the hon. Gentleman again misunderstands our policy. We have said that more money will be channelled through the national governing bodies of sport because they are the experts and should be able to decide which clubs to build up and which deserve more support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " to the clubs through national governing bodies—I wish he would understand that. On the hon. Gentleman's second point, let us be clear about the event. It was the launch of an international forum to promote Britain as the natural home of the creative industries. As part of that, we have recruited 25 of the biggest names—the biggest players—in the world in the creative industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "May I also pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (Robert Key) , who has spent an awful lot of time on Salisbury plain campaigning on the important issue of the Stonehenge visitor centre?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "t of celebrating that. I invite the hon. Gentleman to endorse the announcement that we made last Friday of an increase in the number of apprenticeships in the Olympic park from 100 to 350, making the Olympics work for the people of this country, getting the country out of the downturn and, as I said, providing a shot in the arm to the UK economy, not only in London, but in the rest of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.479.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.480.8", "colnum": "480", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.480.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.494.4", "colnum": "494", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the recapitalisation in October was mainly to ensure that the banking system was able to function.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right that President-elect Obama has made it very clear that he wants a substantial stimulus to the American economy, and that that is one of the first things he will do when he is sworn in as President tomorrow. In addition, he has made it clear that the American Government need to take action on credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I agree that all customers ought to be treated fairly. I think I am right in saying that Northern Rock announced recently that it would reduce its rates following the reduction of the Bank of England's rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Before I start, may I welcome the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) to his new position on the Front Bench? He has very thoughtful and decent shoes to fill—those of the hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) — but I am sure that he will do a very good job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"66!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "the Government's manifold success in tackling crime has been built rather more on the efforts of a well-funded police force than on successive pieces of criminal justice legislation, which wend their way endlessly through this Chamber. Could she say a little more to the House about why we need another police and justice Bill? It will be about the 46th Bill in the lifetime of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I do not believe that focusing and turning the legal spotlight on to men who choose to pay to have sex with women who have been exploited and have made no free choice will drive prostitution underground. In fact, I think that policy will protect women and put an onus on those whose demand actually creates the exploitation in the first place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "n is to prosecute in the proposed way men who go into situations where they wish to buy sex from prostitutes; such men are going to be expected to ask whether the woman concerned has been trafficked, and even if they get an incorrect answer, as is highly likely, given the situation that these poor women are in, they will then be prosecuted. The police's own evidence to the Select Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.536.5", "colnum": "536", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "May I thank the Chairman of the Select Committee on Home Affairs for his generous comments? I want to let him know that on a police raid in which I have been involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.536.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.536.5", "colnum": "536", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "May I thank the Chairman of the Select Committee on Home Affairs for his generous comments? I want to let him know that on a police raid in which I have been involved— [ Interruption. ] He is not losing any minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.536.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman may know, local funding for the police has been steadily increasing as the amount of central Government grant is cut. There has to be an adequate amount of central Government grant to ensure that different needs are met across the country. That is a key matter and he is right to draw attention to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "ility, which, as those on the Conservative Front Bench no doubt know, would involve abolishing police authorities. That is a move that is extremely unpopular with local Conservative party members throughout the country. We have introduced these measures because we were concerned about politicisation and about single-issue candidates being elected to those positions, but what is the response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "PORT OF LIVERPOOL (BUSINESS RATES)", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend wants to seek an Adjournment debate, I shall be happy to turn up to the House and answer him as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-19", "file": "debates2009-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "9a7c7f86bbd5ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.601.6", "colnum": "601", "heading": "PORT OF LIVERPOOL (BUSINESS RATES)", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "l, interest-free instalments over eight years. I have already written to bidding authorities in England confirming that, and I will write to them again shortly with precise details of the way in which the scheme will operate and what the qualifying criteria will be. That will enable council officials to begin the process of negotiating and putting in place payment options with affected ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-19b.601.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-20", "file": "debates2009-01-20b.xml", "sha256": "49b4fdfe5f0b1fb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20b.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "and it is in the documents contained with the report before us today. It would merit everyone studying it in detail. I wish to discuss what is said about the UK in the annual report, because we are never completely free of blame. For example, we regularly get reports that more cases have been brought against the UK over the illegal taking of fish in the EU than against most other countries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20b.666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-20", "file": "debates2009-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "33908c4c00d0b92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.605.3", "colnum": "605", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "Question No. 2—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-20", "file": "debates2009-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "33908c4c00d0b92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "y is that there is no evidence that this is a growing problem, and yes, of course we keep the matter under review; it would be unwise not to. However, while a house remains on the market, the same HIP can continue to be valid. Even if a house is taken off the market, the pack can be used again if the house is put back on the market within 12 months of the first day of marketing. So, in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-20", "file": "debates2009-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "33908c4c00d0b92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Financial Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ng power,\" equivalent to 1.5 per cent. of GDP. Of course, as the Minister said, that is overwhelmingly a commitment to exhort the member states, not direct Community spend. The Government have seized on that part of the EU proposal to seek to justify their fiscal stimulus package, and the VAT cut in particular, which is now widely perceived to have failed. There is a legitimate debate about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-20", "file": "debates2009-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "33908c4c00d0b92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Financial Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "and it is in the documents contained with the report before us today. It would merit everyone studying it in detail. I wish to discuss what is said about the UK in the annual report, because we are never completely free of blame. For example, we regularly get reports that more cases have been brought against the UK over the illegal taking of fish in the EU than against most other countries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-20", "file": "debates2009-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "33908c4c00d0b92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Financial Crisis", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. Browne) , in whose words I found nothing whatever to agree with. His conclusion that his party is constructive towards Europe and somewhat concerned about the problem that we are discussing seems wholly unrealistic. We need only look at the two Liberal Members who are in their places—they have two very different opinions on Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-20", "file": "debates2009-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "33908c4c00d0b92a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "I have a petition from the Northern Rock shareholders of my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-20c.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I should explain to the right hon. Gentleman—and he has the benefit now of a new shadow shadow Chancellor to help him on his way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Outcomes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is wrong. America spends 16 per cent. of its wealth on the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "cy in addressing concerns about trauma care. There are a couple of neutral issues. We believe that the public should be given a more meaningful voice about the provision of local emergency services. We may disagree about the way in which that is done, and we do not agree that there has been delay in the urgent care strategy. I can understand, given the report that was produced two years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "The social chapter—the hon. Gentleman is right to correct me, as the social contract is something completely different, which I well remember from the early '70s. Let us be clear: the Tories got confused about the social chapter and the British taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": ";[ Official Report , 17 December 2007; Vol. 469, c. 1195W .] I am sure that they can, but I do not see why there cannot still be a dual-man team in the solo response vehicles. Why cannot there be two paramedics? Is the Minister referring to the fact that ambulances are larger or that they go more slowly? I am not sure why he is saying that solo response vehicles will get to the scene more quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "ked at the report that the College of Emergency Medicine published just before Christmas. The College of Emergency Medicine issued a list of myths, and the right hon. Lady managed to hit the first one. \"Myth 1,\" the College of Emergency Medicine says, is that \"60 per cent. of patients attending an A&E department could be seen, to the same clinical standards, at less cost, in other settings\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": " emergency department, including minor injury units, was 4.6 per cent., and that for walk-in centres was 15.7 per cent. Hon. Members can see that the biggest single proportion of the increase in accident and emergency attendances arose because of walk-in centres, which did not even exist under the previous Government, and that the smallest increase was for major accident and emergency departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady obviously thinks that that is a very clever intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ng as a share of GDP, taking on the prudent approach that we have been advocating and which they have singularly failed to adopt in the last few years. The Government will quote in their defence sources that are generally supportive of fiscal measures—that is to say, people who tend to be on the fiscal side of the academic debate or who recommend a balance of fiscal and monetary initiatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c19ba8c9d3b4014b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "have been calling for a very long time for the Government to publish their response on Equitable Life. We were surprised by the reference to the possibility of means-testing, but we will await the outcome of the deliberations that have been set in train to see exactly what is proposed for Equitable Life members. The Government need to ensure that that outcome is published sooner rather than later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "May I join the Secretary of State in paying tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.741.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister talks about being isolated, but does he not realise that he is the only person in the country who thinks he is doing a good job?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The point of the recapitalisation of the banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The point of the recapitalisation of the banks— [ Interruption. ] I am sorry that the Conservatives do not want to understand economics. The purpose of the recapitalisation of the banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.747.3", "colnum": "747", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "If you want to ask us questions, have an election! The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister tell us what action will be taken again those bankers who have run their banks into the ground? Those Tory fat cats cannot blame—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Outcomes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is wrong. America spends 16 per cent. of its wealth on the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "cy in addressing concerns about trauma care. There are a couple of neutral issues. We believe that the public should be given a more meaningful voice about the provision of local emergency services. We may disagree about the way in which that is done, and we do not agree that there has been delay in the urgent care strategy. I can understand, given the report that was produced two years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Absolutely—I did not say that it was, but that is what the Leader of the Opposition was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Absolutely—I did not say that it was, but that is what the Leader of the Opposition was saying. [ Interruption. ] We will get to the bottom of this before the next general election. As well as improving pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "The social chapter—the hon. Gentleman is right to correct me, as the social contract is something completely different, which I well remember from the early 1970s. Let us be clear: the Tories got confused about the social chapter and the British taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am raising this because I was asked about the opt-out in an earlier intervention, but the opt-out is not the issue. What the hon. Gentleman mentions is, of course, an issue. It is a crucial issue in order to ensure that the agreement we struck with the Commission, after a long period of virtually hand-to-hand fighting, was maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " excellent progress in meeting its terms and the majority of NHS services—the vast majority of them—already meet the 48-hour requirement, which will come into force in August 2009. There will always be parts of the service where this is particularly challenging, and we will work with the British Medical Association and the Royal Colleges to address those areas over the next few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "hour requirement, which will come into force in August 2009. There will always be parts of the service where this is particularly challenging, and we will work with the British Medical Association and the Royal Colleges to address those areas over the next few months. [Interruption.] Incidentally, the BMA is fierce in protecting the safeguard of the 48-hour week and would not appreciate any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "orce in August 2009. There will always be parts of the service where this is particularly challenging, and we will work with the British Medical Association and the Royal Colleges to address those areas over the next few months. [Interruption.] Incidentally, the BMA is fierce in protecting the safeguard of the 48-hour week and would not appreciate any— [Interruption.] That is a relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "That point is worth looking into, and I will do so. We currently have the best performance ever from our NHS ambulance service, and we should include it in our congratulations. The hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire asked us to publish the urgent care strategy, and I dealt with that in mentioning the strategic health authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": ";[ Official Report , 17 December 2007; Vol. 469, c. 1195W .] I am sure that they can, but I do not see why there cannot still be a dual-man team in the solo response vehicles. Why cannot there be two paramedics? Is the Minister referring to the fact that ambulances are larger or that they go more slowly? I am not sure why he is saying that solo response vehicles will get to the scene more quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "ked at the report that the College of Emergency Medicine published just before Christmas. The College of Emergency Medicine issued a list of myths, and the right hon. Lady managed to hit the first one. \"Myth 1,\" the College of Emergency Medicine says, is that \"60 per cent. of patients attending an A&E department could be seen, to the same clinical standards, at less cost, in other settings\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "I said no to the Government side, so I am saying no to this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": " emergency department, including minor injury units, was 4.6 per cent., and that for walk-in centres was 15.7 per cent. Hon. Members can see that the biggest single proportion of the increase in accident and emergency attendances arose because of walk-in centres, which did not even exist under the previous Government, and that the smallest increase was for major accident and emergency departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The matter raised by the hon. Gentlemen is, of course, strictly for the Government and not for the Chair. However, I am aware of media reports that there has been a change in the business previously announced for tomorrow. Perhaps the Government will seek to acquaint the House formally of that change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "n as to the right balance between fiscal and monetary responses, no doubt informed by its own historical experience. I am thinking particularly of the agonising that has gone on in Germany. In the UK, however, we do not have to spend our time carrying out that analysis, because we do not have the room for a fiscal stimulus. We did not fix our roof while the sun was shining. There is a clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady obviously thinks that that is a very clever intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ing as a share of GDP, taking on the prudent approach that we have been advocating and that they have singularly failed to adopt in the last few years. The Government will quote in their defence sources that are generally supportive of fiscal measures—that is to say, people who tend to be on the fiscal side of the academic debate or who recommend a balance of fiscal and monetary initiatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.819.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will tell me which Departments are going to take the hit of his £5 billion reduction in 2010-11—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-21", "file": "debates2009-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "86d8567d20f8e391", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "mployers; they have adopted our recommendations for changing the terms of the preference shares; and they have adopted our proposals on the inter-bank guarantees. All that is not bad for a do-nothing party. The truth is that we are the do something effective party. Most, if not all, of the Government's effective interventions have been based on previously announced Conservative policy initiatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-21b.824.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "2674dadcefff9e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member's staff after the officer had explained the nature of the inquiry. At a point in their discussion, the hon. Member was contacted by his staff because it was thought necessary to seek his permission for the police to obtain a single-sheet document from his office. The purpose of the investigation was explained to the hon. Member, and after discussion, he agreed to supply the document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22a.897.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "2674dadcefff9e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "s. My view is that we should still be subject to the freedom of information legislation. I shall come in a minute to what that might now mean. There is a lot of good sense in the motions—they are a good advance. There are 26 categories, and I have to say that one of them puts me in a slightly awkward position given what the Leader of the House said following the statement a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22a.929.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman; he obviously practised that in the mirror this morning. The answer to his question is no. The Energy Act is facilitating progress on a whole range of fronts, including feed-in tariffs, gas storage and nuclear power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.892.7", "colnum": "892", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right that we need to make sure we do our scrutiny job properly, and that means devoting enough time to every element that needs to be debated. However, he is wrong in the sense that some Government amendments introduced at Report stage are in direct response to requests from the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.892.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.894.2", "colnum": "894", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Opaque.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Leader of the House is being unusually intransparent—if that is a word; I like to make things up—untransparent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member's staff after the officer had explained the nature of the inquiry. At a point in their discussion, the hon. Member was contacted by his staff because it was thought necessary to seek his permission for the police to obtain a single-sheet document from his office. The purpose of the investigation was explained to the hon. Member, and after discussion, he agreed to supply the document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.925.3", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " of great interest. Many of us believe that if the scheme and the audit proposals had been in place three years ago, the matter would not have gone to the tribunal and the High Court, and we would not have the unholy mess that we now have. However, the fact is that she is proposing a scheme of publication that falls short of that full disclosure that the High Court has determined is correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "de. The origin of the allowances and the changing nature of our job have led to a complete and utter mess. It is only by degrees that we have addressed that mess in sufficient detail—and we have not done so quickly enough. It may well be that one day it will be sensible to abolish the second housing allowance and bolt it on to our salaries so that we will have to pay for our own homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ortant. The other side of the equation, which affects us uniquely, is the fact that when it comes to the need to reveal information we are at the top of the scrutiny pyramid. We are elected. We choose that, and through election we become permanently in the public gaze. Even High Court judges are not quite in the same category, nor even permanent secretaries, and certainly not middle-ranking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "s. My view is that we should still be subject to the freedom of information legislation. I shall come in a minute to what that might now mean. There is a lot of good sense in the motions—they are a good advance. There are 26 categories, and I have to say that one of them puts me in a slightly awkward position given what the Leader of the House said following the statement a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made his point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "I fully expected to be on the losing side today. My understanding was that the dark forces on both sides of the House had conspired—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "s. I have not submitted them yet, but do we really want to have to get receipts for so many papers on a certain day? It so happens that I cannot get newspapers delivered to my house, so I cannot get a weekly receipt. I just buy them when I need to. I suppose that this is a small point, although I am not sure whether it is over a period of years, but what is the answer to the problem of newspapers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How much?", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "It is funny that the hon. Gentleman should mention that. Not only did I get every penny of my costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "It is funny that the hon. Gentleman should mention that. Not only did I get every penny of my costs—[Hon. Members: \"How much?] A very substantial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "preceding_text": "ould ask our constituents what they want to know about their MP's expenditure. One of my constituents took me up on my offer to let him look at my books. He went through all the receipts for 2005-06 and 2004-05, after which he said that he was wholly satisfied and did not want to do any more. However, I said, \"No, you've come here to see the last five years so you're going to sit there and do it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " the Rhondda up to London that the area ever had representation at all. The issue that that raises needs to be at the forefront of our minds. I will deal first with issues to do with the publication scheme. It is a delight to have back the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) . He is a more substantial figure, at least physically, than his predecessor, and he can match him word for word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-22", "file": "debates2009-01-22b.xml", "sha256": "8aa758d814b94639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"City of York\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "portant, as several hon. Members have said, that we have a robust audit. Everyone has said that the new system of audit we introduce will be substantially more robust than that of the past. It will be risk-based and it will ensure that wherever there is an element of risk, a proper audit is done so that the public can be assured of value for money. My hon. Friend the Member for Vale of York—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-22b.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-26", "file": "debates2009-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "2ed0968e78c10742", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-26c.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "nds 56 different Acts of Parliament can have any single principle at all, apart from being a sort of Christmas tree Bill, on to which the Government can hang any topic they think useful to debate from the point of view of the all-important media grid, the device by which future announcements are planned out for the year in advance and by which this country has been governed for the past 12 years .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-26c.60.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-26", "file": "debates2009-01-26e.xml", "sha256": "c4d590b815fa80dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-26e.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ot comment on that particular case, but I hope that we can persuade the hon. Gentleman's constituent to stay in the state system. I want to make sure that we do everything that we can to bring in all the people who want to do so, and who have the qualifications, to teach in our schools system. I hope that the hon. Gentleman was pleased with his meeting this morning with the Schools Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-26e.18.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-26", "file": "debates2009-01-26e.xml", "sha256": "c4d590b815fa80dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-26e.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Coroners and Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "nds 56 different Acts of Parliament can have any single principle at all, apart from being a sort of Christmas tree Bill, on to which the Government can hang any topic they think useful to debate from the point of view of the all-important media grid, the device by which future announcements are planned out for the year in advance and by which this country has been governed for the past 12 years .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-26e.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a45eee8ba9153628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruptio n", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "0 million to support consumers switching to ultra-low-carbon cars, but we want the car industry in Britain to meet that demand for low-carbon cars. So alongside our loan guarantees for the greening of the industry, the next element of today's announcement is that I am inviting the regional development agencies to work with the Technology Strategy Board to bring forward a further step change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.165.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a45eee8ba9153628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "as raised by one of the Secretary of State's Labour colleagues a little earlier—is the Government's planned changes for lone parents. Our green paper published last year proposed that lone parents should be transferred to jobseeker's allowance and required to seek work actively once their youngest child turns seven. The Government initially agreed with us, but their proposals now go further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.200.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a45eee8ba9153628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "a constituency MP, the hon. Gentleman knows, as do I, that the CSA makes mistakes. What if the CSA wanted to take his driving licence away, because the person that he just mentioned was using his national insurance number, but he did not get his day in court, because somebody in the CSA, whom he could not speak to, was able to take his driving licence away? What would he do in those circumstances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.214.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a45eee8ba9153628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Royal Bank of Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": "am concerned about the pressure that may be put on them if they are subjected to a very rigorous regime. In conclusion, I promised my constituents that I would judge issues at Westminster by how they affected the gap between the rich and the poor in society. Now we are entering a recession, yet we see top bankers, who have virtually destroyed their banks and half the economy of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.228.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a45eee8ba9153628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.234.4", "colnum": "234", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " of what the Government are doing and the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Miss Begg) made that point very well. I appreciate that there are others who want to speak, but I shall finish with this point. I know that the devil is in the detail and I may be getting this totally wrong, but it would be fundamentally wrong if lone parents with a child as young as one were forced back into the workplace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a45eee8ba9153628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "struck between the care of young children and the work of parents. We will examine that matter in Committee, which is the right place to do that. We will also examine the strange question of the social fund, about which there seems to be a mystery. The Secretary of State seemed to be unaware of the Government's proposals in their consultation document to charge interest on social fund loans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "tly on the west coast main line, accessing what is generally a fast and reasonable service at Tamworth and Nuneaton. But when they arrive in Euston, they get off the train to find a tired and tatty shopping centre that masquerades as a rail hub. When are we going to do something about that? Surely a more impressive Euston might be able to help with the other problems occurring further up the line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.153.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruptio n", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "0 million to support consumers switching to ultra-low-carbon cars, but we want the car industry in Britain to meet that demand for low-carbon cars. So alongside our loan guarantees for the greening of the industry, the next element of today's announcement is that I am inviting the regional development agencies to work with the Technology Strategy Board to bring forward a further step change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.165.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ealise that this package is part of the Government being behind the curve and too late, and not responding to events that are deteriorating by the week before they produce any package at all? Does he recall that back on 16 October , he stated that the Government \"stands ready to assist\" the car industry? By November, we were advocating a loan guarantee scheme for the finance arms of car companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "ey can go to their local banks and discuss the position with them. From 1 March , we hope that the working capital scheme will be available, too, providing credit that is needed for new and existing credit lines. Perhaps the right hon. and learned Gentleman misread the statement, but we said that we had tasked Mervyn Davies to work to find a solution; we did not say that we had set up a taskforce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "mpanies with a turnover of more than £25 million; below that level, they can go through the enterprise finance guarantee scheme. We will also be looking at companies that are investing in green R and D, plant and capital equipment. We believe that those are the right sort of policy responses. Again, I characterise our position, which is taking measured and appropriate policy responses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "I can absolutely give my hon. Friend that assurance. He describes the Opposition's policy when they were in government; they massaged the figures and shuffled millions of people on to incapacity benefit. The real crime is that those people were then trapped there, without help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "It is not my intention to slur accountants in any way. However, where fathers in particular are using accountants to avoid their responsibilities, they should be ashamed. We intend to stop that. Last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.184.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " a constituency MP, the hon. Gentleman knows, as do I, that the CSA makes mistakes. What if the CSA wanted to take his driving licence away, because the person that he just mentioned was using his national insurance number, but he did not get his day in court because somebody in the CSA, whom he could not speak to, was able to take his driving licence away? What would he do in those circumstances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-27", "file": "debates2009-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "e27ff3e349f07bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "ey are highlighted in today's Scotsman by Professor Neil McKeganey, the director of the Centre for Drug Misuse. He discusses the claims that the SNP is not participating in this piece of work. In his column, the professor writes: \"I do think it is questionable whether we should be giving addicts cash benefits in the same way that we do to other vulnerable people.\" He goes on: \"I think that\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-27b.216.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "cession. I suppose that with this Prime Minister, that is progress. He talks about the global recession, and I want to ask him about that. In the same evidence to the Treasury Committee, he actually gave a definition of boom and bust. Let me read out what he said. [Interruption.] It will end when he admits that he did not abolish it; that is when it will end. What he said was: \"what I mean\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.290.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Members will not shout anyone down in the Chamber. It is wrong to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.291.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I have just cited the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I have just cited the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which said— [Interruption.] They do not like hearing a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.293.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": " Minister the most: powerful criticism of the south-west regional spatial strategy by hon. Members of all parties; the fantasy economic growth rate of 3.2 per cent. per annum that it is using; the green light that it has given developers to neglect the social urban and village housing that we actually need and head straight for treasured local countryside and green belt, damaging everything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.295.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "It was right to diversify our portfolio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.303.5", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "We all recognise that noise plays a part in these decisions; that is why, necessarily, they are difficult. Will she set out for the benefit of the House and the country what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.303.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "environmental planning concerns, should be an important part of any strategy to relieve overcrowding problems at Heathrow. In proposing a new high-speed rail line connecting Heathrow terminals directly with Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and the channel tunnel link to Paris and Brussels, we have found a further means of relieving Heathrow's overcrowding problems and one that does not inflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.309.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "comments that the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet made, but I still do not understand how her party's policy addresses the difficult questions that have been raised by the hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) and others on her own Conservative Benches. I simply do not know how she answers those questions about noise and the impact on local communities, and neither does the House nor the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.313.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Keen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Keen", "preceding_text": "red mixed mode. I shall tell hon. Members what mixed mode is; obviously, many people do not understand it, although some do because we have sat on a committee and talked about it. We know how serious it is. Aircraft bound for both runways come over my constituency. Because of the prevailing winds, the aeroplanes get on to the two flight paths 70 to 75 per cent. of the time, which in the end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.333.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "I believe that I am right in saying that so far this afternoon, no Member of any party, apart from the Secretary of State, has spoken in favour of the expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"She did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "tement from the Secretary of State that there would be no mixed mode at Heathrow, but when pressed about whether she would approve mixed mode across London, she refused to give a commitment that a future Conservative Government would not introduce mixed mode. If her position is that she would not introduce mixed mode given the chance, why did she not take the opportunity to refuse to introduce it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-28", "file": "debates2009-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "d9ac220ec343d5c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "ecause a future Conservative Government would stop it in its tracks. There was no mention of Stansted today. The motion says no to a third runway at Heathrow, but let us look at all the other options. Right across the south-east now, anyone who lives near an airport might have the Tories coming down their way to expand that airport. That is what the motion says. In the absence of any policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-28b.383.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "When I went to Oxford university some 39 years ago in 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I need to make it clear that no funding has been withdrawn from any college that has been given final approval to go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You can't say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "rnment took office. We have to recognise, however, that where there have been failures of regulation, there must be an apology and there must be compensation. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury gave an oral statement to the House, setting out how she was planning to take this forward and to ensure that the compensation process could get under way. Today, the financial services ombudsperson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.446.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.452.4", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "Can the Leader of the House tell us when she expects to convene the next meeting of the Modernisation Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": ". We are looking at options up to 2 megabits per second, so I hope they recognise that that represents greater ambition. The hon. Member for Bath said that decisions were promised on public service broadcasting. Let me tell him the decisions that the report makes clear. There will be public service broadcasting beyond the BBC. Have the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives made such a commitment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "They can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. Keen as I am to empire-build and to take over Departments and the responsibilities of other Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "on. He will know that, following the Falklands campaign, the average length of time for people coming forward with combat stress was 13 years, so we will not yet have the examples to which he has referred. However, the burden of proof will remain as it is. I ask him to look at the overarching arrangements again, so that we can perhaps avoid certain unintended consequences. I will leave it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "nt to be a non-adversarial setting. Families want to feel that they are operating on a level playing field. I should like to finish on a positive note. The Royal British Legion poppy appeal in 2007 broke all records. I do not yet know the figures for 2008, but my own takings from rattling a tin outside Morrisons in Warminster as a member of the Warminster branch of the RBL were double last year's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "preceding_text": "on, because the previous contribution was less balanced than is normal in a speech from a Front-Bench spokesperson, which is a pity. I say that not least because if the hon. Gentleman had done his sums at the appropriate time, he would have found that he was supported by the same number of Members on the Conservative Back Benches as our Front-Bench team are supported by Labour Back Benchers today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-01-29", "file": "debates2009-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "81cf3dd517a4af20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "Absolutely; I entirely endorse that. The Aldershot News does not exactly the same job, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-01-29c.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "67efdf81a8feaddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02b.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "ntrol of the council.\" On page 6, it says that \"you can secure support from votes from voters who normally vote Tory by being effectively anti-Labour and similarly in a Tory area secure Labour votes by being anti-Tory.\" It goes on to say: \"Oppose all service cuts...No cut is going to be popular and why court the unpopularity that goes with the responsibility of power\". Finally, the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02b.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "67efdf81a8feaddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02b.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nigel Barton!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "nd Discs\". He said that being a politician should be like going into the Church; it should be one of the highest callings. That was against a background of local government corruption and of a popular belief that MPs were in it only for themselves and that they would say anything to win an election. That view was reflected in a play that I think was called \"Vote, vote, vote for Joey Barton\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02b.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.569.5", "colnum": "569", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kitty Ussher", "preceding_text": "whether that point was directed to the hon. Gentleman's Front Benchers or to ours, but we have already announced that companies can simply ring the Inland Revenue if they need help with rescheduling their payments to the Government. We are providing the flexibility. The problem with the Conservative party is that it will not agree to increase spending at this time to make such flexibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.569.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "de women. We are making sure that Jobcentre Plus is doing all it can not just for women who present, but especially for those from the retail sector. Our colleagues will know and understand that, as I said in my previous answer, we need to link up much more directly the vacancies out there in the retail sector with those recently made unemployed in the retail sector. It is a fair point that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "mproving considerably the situation regarding work permits. Broadly speaking, the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues agree that there should be a focus on the economy and the skills shortage in the migration process, but he must be careful when using the other figures that he bandies about. Either he is conflating the International Labour Organisation and incapacity benefit figures, or he is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that a resolution of this House says that, while criminal charges are proceeding, the matter should not be discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman reads my article tomorrow morning in his favourite newspaper, he will discover that we deal with tax havens —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.602.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.617.7", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "Our position on quantitative easing is that it is the last resort. We have consistently said that it cannot be ruled out. However, for months, we have called for an effective national loan guarantee scheme. This country needs that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": " of schemes that they proposed, the various lines that would be improved or doubled, and the destinations and areas that those serve. The list is interesting. Can the House spot a link? It includes Oxford, the Lake district, Lewes, quite a few destinations in the west country, Southport, Chesterfield, Hazel Grove, Cheltenham, Colchester, and a double whammy—the line from Eastleigh to Romsey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "ion, and then, when they did, by recapitalising the banks in a way that encouraged them to strengthen their balance sheets at almost any cost, thereby negating part of the purpose of the recapitalisation in the first place. Given that so little time is available and given the fact that we are going to hear a couple of Front-Bench speeches in a moment, let me quickly make one or two further points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.623.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, they do pay taxes in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.634.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "ntrol of the council.\" On page 6, it says that \"you can secure support from votes from voters who normally vote Tory by being effectively anti-Labour and similarly in a Tory area secure Labour votes by being anti-Tory.\" It goes on to say: \"Oppose all service cuts...No cut is going to be popular and why court the unpopularity that goes with the responsibility of power\". Finally, the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-02", "file": "debates2009-02-02c.xml", "sha256": "22f3c22f6f1dbf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nigel Barton!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "nd Discs\". He said that being a politician should be like going into the Church; it should be one of the highest callings. That was against a background of local government corruption and of a popular belief that MPs were in it only for themselves and that they would say anything to win an election. That view was reflected in a play that I think was called \"Vote, vote, vote for Joey Barton\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-02c.658.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "eabc5232012caba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03b.707.2", "colnum": "707", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "r common-sense English. I shall take careful account of the point he makes, and we shall try to do better. One of the reasons why we face the problems that I am discussing is the policy mistakes made by this Government. One of those mistakes is, of course, the endless reorganisation of the world of skills. I am not going to give the House another potted history of the Government's measures —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03b.707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "eabc5232012caba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03b.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "Many people have spoken this afternoon and several contributors have said that they found the debate rather disappointing. I think that, with the exception of that from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, the contributions from the Front Benchers have been very disappointing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03b.756.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.682.5", "colnum": "682", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I ask the distinguished Minister, for whom I have a very high regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.682.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.694.5", "colnum": "694", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Chairs of benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I commend the hon. Lady for her work on this matter and the way in which she has drawn it to the attention of the House and me. I recently met the Magistrates Association and the association of chairs of benches of magistrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.707.2", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "e for common-sense English. I shall take careful account of the point he makes, and we shall try to do better. One of the reasons we face the problems that I am discussing is the policy mistakes made by this Government. One of those mistakes is, of course, the endless reorganisation of the world of skills. I am not going to give the House another potted history of the Government's measures —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "rsity vice-chancellors to urge them to use the extra funds they will receive as a result of recent changes to VAT rates to spend on the 'hard to reach' group.\" I was in the House debating with the Secretary of State on 8 December , and I read that day's Hansard . There was no such announcement by the Secretary of State. He did not announce any use of VAT. He had briefed The Daily Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "tion. As I observed at the outset, undergraduates who will leave university in June and July this year will face an uncertain period. It is important to remember that they will be the first university graduates to exit from the brave new world of top-up fees and £3,000-a-year tuition fees. They will be the most heavily debt-burdened generation of graduates that the country has ever produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "Many people have spoken this afternoon and several contributors have said that they found the debate rather disappointing. I think that, with the exception of that from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, the contributions from Front Benchers have been very disappointing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "tments; and calls on the Government to free up social workers and other professionals to maximise the time available to spend with vulnerable families by scrapping the highly prescriptive template for the Integrated Children's System and other cumbersome data systems which have engendered a 'tick box' assessment approach which is undermining child protection. I am pleased to move the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.765.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.771.9", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "itiative to safeguard the integrity of the important local safeguarding children boards, another important product of Lord Laming's inquiry. LSCBs are there to bring together all the local agencies, co-ordinating safeguarding action and, where necessary, commissioning reviews. The independence of the boards is essential, and that independence was called into question in the case of Haringey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.771.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-03", "file": "debates2009-02-03c.xml", "sha256": "3a6c37b5b0937767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.777.4", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "tactPoint and focus instead on a streamlined signposting central database, which would include genuinely vulnerable children—a view wholeheartedly endorsed by the commission on social workers. [Interruption.] We are talking about a database of genuinely vulnerable children, not all the 11 million children in this country. That is the difference. Ours would concentrate on vulnerable children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-03c.777.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04b.xml", "sha256": "03e4c6427b5b1e71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04b.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " I have written not only to all local authorities, but to business organisations. I have encouraged them to ensure that they do all that they can through their networks, local groups and membership to promote the scheme and its availability, and I hope that that will also help with take-up in future. I noticed that I whetted the appetite of some hon. Members by mentioning concessionary bus travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04b.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04b.xml", "sha256": "03e4c6427b5b1e71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04b.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "ery year since 1997, to the Government grant to local government, and the threat of council tax capping produced this year the second lowest ever increase in council tax. At this time of economic downturn, councils should do everything in their power to keep council tax bills down and leave more money in people's pockets. When I came to the job of Minister for Local Government 20 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04b.904.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "66f450f0d3c4f149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.829.7", "colnum": "829", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mohammad Sarwar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mohammad Sarwar", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for her reply. The credit crunch continues to affect the lives of many people, in Scotland and all over the world. My constituents welcome the decisions that the British Government have taken to help home owners in Scotland, but unfortunately the Scottish Administration have not given the same guarantees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.829.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "66f450f0d3c4f149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point is that if we do not get a conclusion to the Doha round, the existing policy space allows countries to double the level of tariffs. Everyone can hear that the Prime Minister says that it is important to avoid protectionism, but is he not himself guilty of encouraging protectionist sentiment? Does he agree that use of the slogan \"British jobs for British workers\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.837.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "66f450f0d3c4f149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "He says that he ended boom and bust when we are in the deepest recession for a generation. He says that our economy is well prepared when the IMF says that we are going to have the deepest recession of all. I have to tell him that he should just look behind him—they are so ashamed of what he has said about British jobs for British workers. [Interruption.] Let me ask him one final time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.839.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "66f450f0d3c4f149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.841.6", "colnum": "841", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that the threat to British workers does not come from other European workers, but from the workings of the unregulated capitalism that is enshrined— [ Interruption. ] On this, Mr. Speaker, there can be no cross-party consensus. What I am asking the Prime Minister is this: will he support calls to reform the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.841.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "66f450f0d3c4f149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " I have written not only to all local authorities, but to business organisations. I have encouraged them to ensure that they do all that they can through their networks, local groups and membership to promote the scheme and its availability, and I hope that that will also help with take-up in future. I noticed that I whetted the appetite of some hon. Members by mentioning concessionary bus travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "66f450f0d3c4f149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "ery year since 1997, in the Government grant to local government, and the threat of council tax capping produced this year the second lowest ever increase in council tax. At this time of economic downturn, councils should do everything in their power to keep council tax bills down and leave more money in people's pockets. When I came to the job of Minister for Local Government 20 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "66f450f0d3c4f149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "at means that after tonight, Gloucestershire county council will have to ration the salting of its roads severely. I understand that a number of other local authorities are in an even more parlous position. I am sure that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and the House will understand that that raises serious road safety concerns. I ask your guidance on what we can do to get a Minister here tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-04", "file": "debates2009-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "66f450f0d3c4f149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " and grit are where we expect the greatest pressure to be, or where the priorities seem most pressing. I hope that helps the House. I turn now to the substance of the debate, beginning with the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst. He said that things had changed since the start of the three-year settlement, and it is certainly true that his party's promises about local government have changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-04c.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-05", "file": "debates2009-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "a1081c6febfd7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Well, I give the hon. Gentleman 10 out of 10 for frothy presentation and about zero for substance, but I shall try to glean some substantive points from his comments. On Equitable Life, whatever the terminology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-05", "file": "debates2009-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "a1081c6febfd7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " that United Kingdom should be prepared to make an additional small contribution. I note the word \"small\". In that respect, the Liberal Democrats seem rather more decisive than Conservative Members, who do not express themselves so clearly on the matter. One sometimes suspects that—to use the term that was used yesterday rather memorably—there is a little bit of opportunism in the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-05", "file": "debates2009-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "71d95f6cc19b8387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Well, I give the hon. Gentleman 10 out of 10 for frothy presentation and about zero for substance, but I shall try to glean some substantive points from his comments. On Equitable Life, whatever the terminology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-05", "file": "debates2009-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "71d95f6cc19b8387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"From Bournemouth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, like you, I hope, on Monday, when Britain came to a halt, I decided to run to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-05", "file": "debates2009-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "71d95f6cc19b8387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I drove in on Monday, and I drove straight into the car park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-05", "file": "debates2009-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "71d95f6cc19b8387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "aid that he has taken it up with some surprise, not having expected it to be so close to the centre of his work, and I have genuine respect for him on that basis. However, I refer him to the answer that I just gave to my right hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) in respect of the paragraph that he has cited. Also, as I said earlier, I am not going to join a lobbying campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.1000.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-05", "file": "debates2009-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "71d95f6cc19b8387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Sri Lanka", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " that United Kingdom should be prepared to make an additional small contribution. I note the word \"small\". In that respect, the Liberal Democrats seem rather more decisive than Conservative Members, who do not express themselves so clearly on the matter. One sometimes suspects that—to use the term that was used yesterday rather memorably—there is a little bit of opportunism in the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-05b.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "I am more than happy to engage in correspondence with the hon. Gentleman on the specific figures. However, I note from The Sunday Times that the hon. Gentleman, whom I welcome to his post, is now against our border controls that involve counting people in and counting them out. He has described that as being evidence of a \"Big Brother\" state. I ask him whether he is still in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "to be a rather knotty problem. I believe, as he touched on this, that he would also want to thank the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) and his officials, who have worked very hard. My right hon. Friend has a first-class degree in history from Cambridge, and that is clearly what one needs to be able to deliver reform in this area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No problem!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " the phrase \"linked to\" and the operation of our local constituency associations. I do things, as I am sure do the Minister and others in this House, to raise money for the Conservative party—in the Minister's case, of course, it is not for the Conservative party—and I would like to think that if I am speaking at a fundraising dinner I can raise more than a thousand quid for the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": " amending provisions connected with restricting the donations that can be made to political parties. That is welcome and necessary because it goes back to something entirely reprehensible that happened in Committee—the fact that the Committee never reached the new clauses and amendments that the Liberal Democrats tabled on the important matter of capping donations to political parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The House will recall that we discussed the purpose of the new clause at some length in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1186.3", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "st place. However, as I said in Committee, we recognise that some will wish to make such appointment. The clause as drafted is permissive and allows a holder of elective office to notify the Electoral Commission that they have appointed a compliance officer. We have set out the details of what is required in proposed paragraph 18. It is self-explanatory, so I will not deal with it in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "have been dogged by the problem of trying to achieve two different things with one suggested mechanism. The mechanism now being proposed in place of triggering is certainly better than triggering, which never really worked. It simply resulted in a lot of angry letters being exchanged between agents, with one accusing another of having started election expenses and then getting a letter back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who would do that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) says that it did work. It worked in one sense, in that it represented a kind of background threat, but people who were brazen just got away with it anyway. The triggering mechanism also led to a number of straightforward evasions, such as calling oneself a prospective parliamentary candidate, a parliamentary spokesperson or the editor of the newsletter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "82a7720f7d6a907a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "icient in an important way, and would not achieve what he wants them to, because he has not changed the start date. Unfortunately, they would keep the start date of 1 January in the Bill. Although there is a lot of merit in what his amendments say about spreading out the period, and about making things smoother in regard to the number of months, they would not work as a practical suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "I am more than happy to engage in correspondence with the hon. Gentleman on the specific figures. However, I note from The Sunday Times that the hon. Gentleman, whom I welcome to his post, is now against our border controls that involve counting people in and counting them out. He has described that as evidence of a \"Big Brother\" state. I ask him whether he is still in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ard about the matter this weekend, but the programme referred to in the weekend press has been known about and debated in this House for four years. It is part of the shake-up of border controls. The introduction of e-Borders allows the Border and Immigration Agency to track movement in and out of the country, which is necessary to control our borders. It is, of course, done proportionately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1114.2", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "ts that a Member has breached the rules. Many of the changes, however, and most of the red print in the revised guide are there to end dual reporting. The requirement to report donations to both the Registrar of Members' Interests and the Electoral Commission was, as my Committee's report points out, an unintended consequence of the legislation passed in 2000. Problems came to light in 2005—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "to be a rather knotty problem. I believe, as he touched on this, that he would also want to thank the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) and his officials, who have worked very hard. My right hon. Friend has a first-class degree in history from Cambridge, and that is clearly what one needs to be able to deliver reform in this area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "I interrupt only because the body language signifying confusion among hon. Members is considerable. The right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) clearly disagrees with what the Deputy Leader of the House is saying. Hon. Members deserve some clarity and precision on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No problem!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " the phrase \"linked to\" and the operation of our local constituency associations. I do things, as I am sure do the Minister and others in this House, to raise money for the Conservative party—in the Minister's case, of course, it is not for the Conservative party—and I would like to think that if I am speaking at a fundraising dinner I can raise more than a thousand quid for the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": " amending provisions connected with restricting the donations that can be made to political parties. That is welcome and necessary because it goes back to something entirely reprehensible that happened in Committee—the fact that the Committee never reached the new clauses and amendments that the Liberal Democrats tabled on the important matter of capping donations to political parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1186.2", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "The House will recall that we discussed the purpose of the new clause at some length in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "place. However, as I said in Committee, we recognise that some will wish to make such an appointment. The clause as drafted is permissive and allows a holder of elective office to notify the Electoral Commission that they have appointed a compliance officer. We have set out the details of what is required in proposed paragraph 18. It is self-explanatory, so I will not deal with it in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Some of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that the key issue is how the matter will be perceived by the public? We know that the public hold Parliament and parliamentarians in contempt at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "d are actually in there either advising or as part of the Electoral Commission. They will have the experience, knowledge and wisdom that comes from fighting elections, which people who have not fought them simply will not have. The hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) said that he would consider nominating himself to become a commissioner, and I would support such a nomination 100 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "t fought them simply will not have. The hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) said that he would consider nominating himself to become a commissioner, and I would support such a nomination 100 per cent. [Interruption.] The Minister might not, but I would. The hon. Member for Thurrock is, of course, independent-minded, fair and very experienced, having been in this place for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "nded, trustworthy and experienced member of the Electoral Commission. Being a member of the Labour party does not necessarily make someone a partisan person who is unable to take decisions in a cross-party or reasonable way. I am beginning to think, however, from evidence over the last half an hour, that being a member of the Scottish National party does make one partisan and narrow-minded —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1206.3", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "That is the whole point of the spectrum of experience. It is likely that one of these four people will have more experience of government than of opposition and another will have more experience of opposition than of government and that one will be from one part of the country and one from another part. It is very possible that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "n about what is rubbish, and I am very pleased that he disagrees with me. The point about the amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire is that it is elegant, it is arithmetically clever, and it would make the commission far too big. It would make it unwieldy and unworkable. Furthermore, as I have said, it is wrong to consider this whole matter along party political lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "have been dogged by the problem of trying to achieve two different things with one suggested mechanism. The mechanism now being proposed in place of triggering is certainly better than triggering, which never really worked. It simply resulted in a lot of angry letters being exchanged between agents, with one accusing another of having started election expenses and then getting a letter back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who would do that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) says that it did work. It worked in one sense, in that it represented a kind of background threat, but people who were brazen just got away with it anyway. The triggering mechanism also led to a number of straightforward evasions, such as calling oneself a prospective parliamentary candidate, a parliamentary spokesperson or the editor of the newsletter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-09", "file": "debates2009-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "356686bbacd15921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "ally deficient in an important way, and would not achieve what he wants, because he has not changed the start date. Unfortunately, they would keep the start date of 1 January in the Bill. Although there is a lot of merit in what his amendments say about spreading out the period, and about making things smoother in regard to the number of months, they would not work as a practical suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-09b.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-10", "file": "debates2009-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "0ef76de50a7e64cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10a.1295.0", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": " Departments; the second is the parliamentary accountability mechanisms ordinarily in place; and the third is the Government motion to disagree with Lords amendment 83, which has been much debated. In passing, however, I would first like to deal with the accusation that the Government delayed taking action to support Northern Rock. I completely refute that: the Government took timely action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10a.1295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-10", "file": "debates2009-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "0ef76de50a7e64cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10a.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friends would be reluctant for me to do that, since I could speak for another 32 minutes on this group of amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10a.1342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-10", "file": "debates2009-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "a1d8ae30a7b80384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " amount of time, money and effort going into school sports is in a different dimension from when we came into government in 1997; we are not just getting to four hours a week of sport and physical activity in every school, but moving towards getting six hours by 2010-12. Another myth that arises concerns school playing fields. Ten thousand school playing fields were sold off between 1979 and 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-10", "file": "debates2009-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "a1d8ae30a7b80384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "From memory, the proportion of young children getting two hours of exercise in schools was about 24 per cent. when we came into government, so a drop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-10", "file": "debates2009-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "a1d8ae30a7b80384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that herbal medicines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-10", "file": "debates2009-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "a1d8ae30a7b80384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "ng to be seen, and it has reduced waiting times. Nevertheless, there is clearly more to be done. That is why we instigated the review, that is why are setting up a new national advisory council, that is why we are setting up a national support programme, and that is why we are driving forward changes up and down the country to ensure that children and adolescents with mental health problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-10", "file": "debates2009-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "a1d8ae30a7b80384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "David Crausby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Crausby", "preceding_text": "per, The Bolton News , recently reported that a 29-year-old woman in the Royal Bolton hospital was so terrified in a mixed-sex ward with three men that she was forced to sleep in the examination room overnight. Is it not bad enough being ill in hospital without having to deal with the added stress that mixed-sex wards cause men and women? When can we expect to see the end of these wards in Bolton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1255.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-10", "file": "debates2009-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "a1d8ae30a7b80384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Employment Opportunities", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. Friends would be reluctant for me to do that, since I could speak for another 32 minutes on this group of amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-10b.1342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "5de2da1aed816b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": "I start by welcoming the hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening) to her Front-Bench team and the Communities and Local Government brief. It is the first time that we have debated, and I wish her well. I disagreed with about 98 per cent. of what she said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "5de2da1aed816b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11a.1441.3", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "t there is a most remarkable outcome of the amendment that appeared on the Order Paper this morning. Instead of having a comparatively low-key debate, as I thought we would, in which we would ask questions and Ministers would give details and some indication of when the legislation would come forward and what form it would take, we find that we are trying to ask what on earth the policy is at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11a.1441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Sir James Crosby did two reports: one for the Chancellor on mortgages, and one for me, when I was Chancellor, on security issues. He has completed these reports. He is no longer an economic adviser to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must tell the Leader of the Opposition that the term \"you\" is not permissible. He should not use it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1362.2", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let us have a little look at who backs the Prime Minister's judgment on VAT. The Dutch say that it was \"not a very wise thing to do\". The Germans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1362.2", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let us have a little look at who backs the Prime Minister's judgment on VAT. The Dutch say that it was \"not a very wise thing to do\". The Germans— [ Interruption. ] These are his friends, by the way; I am not even talking about his enemies. The Germans say that the debt will take a generation to pay off, and the French President says that the Prime Minister is \"ruining\" the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members should not shout down the Leader of the Opposition. It is not allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1369.2", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "I have been here for the last five weeks, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": " of all affordable housing will deliver. In the boom years when so many building applications were made, it did not deliver the required amount of affordable housing, so it will not deliver in the future. I will come on to the figures. I understood the hon. Lady's question to be about whether a change in the system is needed. Of course there must be a change in the system. I will come on to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1389.4", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister, who has been very generous in giving way in this important debate. May I ask her, on behalf of many of my constituents who are council tenants, to say a little more about the comprehensive review of the housing revenue account, and particularly about negative subsidy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1392.2", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. Last week, we debated proposals for community land trusts, which Liberal Democrat Members have championed for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "nd in constituencies across the country is to tackle the policy problems that prevent councils from building new homes. They should give councils back the receipts from the right to buy, as I have said many times—perhaps I had better say it again to ensure that Conservative Front Benchers understand me—and they should give them certainty about their rental income so that they can plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "k the receipts from the right to buy, as I have said many times—perhaps I had better say it again to ensure that Conservative Front Benchers understand me—and they should give them certainty about their rental income so that they can plan. [Interruption.] Maintaining social homes in Brent and many other parts of London costs more than can be raised through Brent's council tenant rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "preceding_text": "council leader claimed he wanted 'very rich people' to live in North Fulham. Stephen Greenhalgh confirmed his redevelopment proposals for West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates as part of a wider revamp including Earl's Court and Kensington Olympia. Addressing a crowd of seething residents this week he declared: 'We want to attract people who are very rich if we want to boost the local economy.'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1405.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": "I start by welcoming the hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening) to her Front-Bench team and the Communities and Local Government brief. It is the first time that we have debated, and I wish her well. I disagreed with about 98 per cent. of what she said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, who is an experienced Member of the House, knows that that is not a point of order for the Chair; but his comments are on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1437.4", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, and I do not want to paint him into a corner, but the only artist he is in danger of becoming is a political con artist, and let me say this to him in all sincerity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1437.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1437.6", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "I certainly withdraw the remark; I am sure the right hon. and learned Gentleman understands what I am driving at. In his comments so far, he has already made it clear that his strategy is to drive a wedge between Lord Mandelson and the rest of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1437.6", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "I certainly withdraw the remark; I am sure the right hon. and learned Gentleman understands what I am driving at. In his comments so far, he has already made it clear that his strategy is to drive a wedge between Lord Mandelson and the rest of the Government. [Interruption.] Does he accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1437.6", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "I certainly withdraw the remark; I am sure the right hon. and learned Gentleman understands what I am driving at. In his comments so far, he has already made it clear that his strategy is to drive a wedge between Lord Mandelson and the rest of the Government. [Interruption.] Does he accept— [Interruption.] Will he not accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1439.2", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "This is good, knockabout, Oxbridge stuff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1441.3", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "t there is a most remarkable outcome of the amendment that appeared on the Order Paper this morning. Instead of having a comparatively low-key debate, as I thought we would, in which we would ask questions and Ministers would give details and some indication of when the legislation would come forward and what form it would take, we find that we are trying to ask what on earth the policy is at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1441.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-02-11", "file": "debates2009-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "5afd5382e803694c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1488.8", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "USE OF THE COMMONS CHAMBER (UNITED KINGDOM YOUTH PARLIAMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "iding young people with an opportunity to engage with the political process and bring about social change; notes that many hon. Members from all parts of the House are actively involved in the work of the UK Youth Parliament; and accordingly resolves that the UK Youth Parliament should be allowed for this year alone to hold its 2009 annual meeting in the Chamber of this House .— (Ms Butler.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-11b.1488.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-02-12", "file": "debates2009-02-12b.xml", "sha256": "93295f2b487cd62e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12b.1523.7", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the general issue?", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": " success of free pensioner travel and whether we could extend it to cover trains? Furthermore, could we extend it to the young people of this country, so that schoolchildren and students travelled free, as pensioners do? There have been great benefits and the scheme has been a great success. The Government should be proud of it, and if it can be extended to other people, that would be even better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12b.1522.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-02-12", "file": "debates2009-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "4b02a7ff2a43270d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. The debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Thursday 26 February .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "again proposed, That the promoters of the Manchester City Council Bill [ Lords ] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [ Lords ], which were originally introduced in the House of Lords in Session 2006-07 on 21 January 2007 , may have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).—( The Chairman of Ways and Means ).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1493.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-02-12", "file": "debates2009-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "4b02a7ff2a43270d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1493.6", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. The debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Thursday 26 February .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e promoters of the Canterbury City Council Bill, Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and Reading Borough Council Bill, which were originally introduced in this House in Session 2007-08 on 22 January 2008 , may have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).—( The Chairman of Ways and Means ).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-12", "file": "debates2009-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "4b02a7ff2a43270d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, Mr. Moreno is taking that job on an acting basis until we can appoint someone on a permanent basis, but the right hon. Gentleman's protestations about tax dodging and people not paying taxes in this country when they should would have far more credibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-12", "file": "debates2009-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "4b02a7ff2a43270d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jim Devine", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Devine", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate in Government time about telephone charges in hospitals? Last week, I had the great honour of becoming a granddad for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-12", "file": "debates2009-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "4b02a7ff2a43270d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1525.6", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "Just.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1525.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-12", "file": "debates2009-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "4b02a7ff2a43270d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that he will not get anywhere with the Freedom of Information Act on that one. That is not a matter for the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-12", "file": "debates2009-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "4b02a7ff2a43270d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1541.3", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am always grateful for help from the hon. Lady, who has always been an enthusiastic supporter of the European Union and has argued that case from her days as a Member of the European Parliament. She seems to have been rather quieter on the subject of Europe in recent times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-12c.1541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "t can we expect to hear from the shadow Education spokesman? Will he tell us where the £4.5 billion of cuts to the school building programme will fall? I doubt it. Will he tell us more about half-backed gimmicks like his plan to force 11-year-olds who do not make the grade to stay on for another year in primary school? Probably not. Are we likely to hear more details about his Swedish model?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Steady!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "o note that the Under-Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Simon) , agrees with me. We are back to the Swedish model. I should point out, incidentally, that the Swedish model was first introduced to the House by the former Prime Minister, the former Member of Parliament for Sedgefield. May I say that I hope he is enjoying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " It is also the case that in GCSE science papers people are told some answers in the questions. In one question, for example, they are told that it takes Jupiter 11.9 years to orbit the sun and then they are asked whether the time taken for Jupiter to orbit the sun is 1.9 years, 29.5 years, 65.4 years or 11.9 years. The answer is there in the examination paper. It seems to me that any of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on her application for a ministerial post. I trust that one will be forthcoming. One of the interesting points about this debate is that while Front Benchers from all three parties spent a great deal of time talking about the provisions in the Bill dealing with schools, which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on her application for a ministerial post. I trust that one will be forthcoming. One of the interesting points about this debate is that while Front Benchers from all three parties spent a great deal of time talking about the provisions in the Bill dealing with schools, which— [ Interruption. ] Shh!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ber for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on her application for a ministerial post. I trust that one will be forthcoming. One of the interesting points about this debate is that while Front Benchers from all three parties spent a great deal of time talking about the provisions in the Bill dealing with schools, which— [ Interruption. ] Shh! [Interruption.] Sorry, I thought that I was the head teacher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite right. It flies in the face of what the Bill is trying to achieve within schools. The hon. Member for Daventry made a fine point about complexity—an issue that my Committee looked into in our inquiry, \"Re-skilling for recovery: After Leitch, implementing skills and training policies\". In fact, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": " of quangos that they will now have to face—17 regulatory bodies, as identified by Andrew Foster in his inquiry, set up by the Government themselves to look into the amount of hassle and bureaucracy encountered by FE colleges—is the best way of helping them. I was about to tell the Secretary of State how badly my speech at the North of England Education Conference went this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "—people from local authorities and children's services, for example—were completely different. They were concerned about the baby P case; they were concerned about the future of social services for children; they were worried about the primary school curriculum and testing. The agenda I was talking about was clearly of very little interest to the representatives of children's services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3387c453f4f3ff56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": " target of 500,000 apprenticeships. Well, that is a bit challenging, because the target is for 2020. The hon. Gentleman knew that when he quoted the figure, but why let a decent fact spoil a good misuse of statistics? The truth is that the Government have rescued apprenticeships and they are now well on their way to their rightful place in the mainstream of our education and training system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "I am always delighted to meet the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It's true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the UK forces would welcome that assessment of progress, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "and resolve these matters themselves. Every constituency has a Member of Parliament. The boundary changes that the boundary commission has brought in are nothing to do with the House or the individual Members. Hon. Members should be busy looking after their existing constituents without interfering. I make no criticism of the hon. Gentleman's constituency neighbour. I say to the whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.22.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "at can we expect to hear from the shadow Education spokesman? Will he tell us where the £4.5 billion of cuts to the school building programme will fall? I doubt it. Will he tell us more about half-baked gimmicks like his plan to force 11-year-olds who do not make the grade to stay on for another year in primary school? Probably not. Are we likely to hear more details about his Swedish model?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Steady!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "o note that the Under-Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Simon) , agrees with me. We are back to the Swedish model. I should point out, incidentally, that the Swedish model was first introduced to the House by the former Prime Minister, the former Member of Parliament for Sedgefield. May I say that I hope he is enjoying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " It is also the case that in GCSE science papers people are told some answers in the questions. In one question, for example, they are told that it takes Jupiter 11.9 years to orbit the sun and then they are asked whether the time taken for Jupiter to orbit the sun is 1.9 years, 29.5 years, 65.4 years or 11.9 years. The answer is there in the examination paper. It seems to me that any of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You've got it wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State to ask me that when he could have rung me at any time in the past month or so to find out the truth. For quite some time now the Labour party has argued that we would cut the non-schools part of the Department for Children, Schools and Families budget, but we made it clear that the DCSF budget is ring-fenced; the Opposition will match the budget that the Government have set.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am given to understand by an hon. Friend that the Minister did write to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "It is indeed shameful that we are moving back, but we are delighted that the Government, whenever they want to work with us, continue to work with us. At present one of the problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman is a friend of educational excellence and I know that he appreciates the role that grammar schools play in his constituency. He has not been campaigning for their closure or for any change to their position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on her application for a ministerial post. I trust that one will be forthcoming. One of the interesting points about this debate is that while Front Benchers from all three parties spent a great deal of time talking about the provisions in the Bill dealing with schools, which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on her application for a ministerial post. I trust that one will be forthcoming. One of the interesting points about this debate is that while Front Benchers from all three parties spent a great deal of time talking about the provisions in the Bill dealing with schools, which— [ Interruption. ] Shh!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ber for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on her application for a ministerial post. I trust that one will be forthcoming. One of the interesting points about this debate is that while Front Benchers from all three parties spent a great deal of time talking about the provisions in the Bill dealing with schools, which— [ Interruption. ] Shh! [Interruption.] Sorry, I thought that I was the head teacher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite right. It flies in the face of what the Bill is trying to achieve within schools. The hon. Member for Daventry made a fine point about complexity—an issue that my Committee looked into in our inquiry, \"Re-skilling for recovery: After Leitch, implementing skills and training policies\". In fact, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-23", "file": "debates2009-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "a64df7e82f0d9340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": " of quangos that they will now have to face—17 regulatory bodies, as identified by Andrew Foster in his inquiry, set up by the Government themselves to look into the amount of hassle and bureaucracy encountered by FE colleges—is the best way of helping them. I was about to tell the Secretary of State how badly my speech at the North of England Education Conference went this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-23b.117.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "c34cf246c7533106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "uce the level of bureaucracy in the requests for information between police forces, and from the Home Office, but it is essential that the new technology works and is compatible. I do not suggest that everyone should buy a BlackBerry, although I know that several hon. Members have one, as does the President of the United States, but it is estimated that such devices cost only £1 a day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.196.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "c34cf246c7533106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "lice officers spent 46 per cent. more time out of their stations. So there is every reason to support the introduction of better equipment and to give all officers access to it. It is not sufficient to allow some officers to have such equipment. If it is decided that it will be useful, everyone should have it. Finally, because I know that other hon. Members wish to participate in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "c34cf246c7533106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "t bear immediate political fruit.\" We have heard in this debate the sorry catalogue of the Government's failure to deliver on law and order after nearly 12 years in office. Sixteen years after a young and ambitious shadow Home Secretary set out his analysis of the need to tackle crime and its causes, we see a society in which youth disorder is rife and violent crime up by a staggering 88 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "c34cf246c7533106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "d the Home Secretary of populist punitiveness. I can assure the House, having worked closely alongside the Home Secretary, that she does not go in for populist punitiveness. She has yet to tell me what it means, but I am sure that it was well intended. The right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) , the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, made a thoughtful speech on the analysis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "c34cf246c7533106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.235.5", "colnum": "235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "nservatives' famously robust view of Europe, how do they propose to get their new law through such scrutiny? They are completely isolated in Europe, and already lack support for their key policies, such as renegotiating a ratified treaty of Lisbon. On that key policy, they are supported by the Dutch animals party, the French hunting, fishing, nature, tradition party, Sinn Fein and some communists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.235.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "c34cf246c7533106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.235.5", "colnum": "235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ls party, the French hunting, fishing, nature, tradition party, Sinn Fein and some communists. [Interruption.] On renegotiating the treaty of Amsterdam regarding the social chapter, they have no support from any quarter— [Interruption.]— and they do not like it when they are reminded of it. In both such instances, there is no support for their position from any of the 26 member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.235.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "c34cf246c7533106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "not had the \"protection\". He instantly corrected himself, saying that that was not the right word, and he was right. I hope that the House agrees that the last thing that would be in the interests of our farmers, producers, retailers and consumers would be to withdraw into some sort of protectionist mentality. The hon. Gentleman insisted that we will not argue the case with the Commissioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24b.258.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "lice officers spent 46 per cent. more time out of their stations. So there is every reason to support the introduction of better equipment and to give all officers access to it. It is not sufficient to allow some officers to have such equipment. If it is decided that it will be useful, everyone should have it. Finally, because I know that other hon. Members wish to participate in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "ries are being forced to cut the number of officers, and that is simply to do with money. The budget that has been set for 2009-10 is causing these cuts, with forces having to agree settlements of 2.8 per cent. Twenty of the police forces throughout the country have received only a 2.5 per cent. increase. One of those forces is Dorset's. If we get only a 2.5 per cent. increase in our budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.205.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "d the Home Secretary of populist punitiveness. I can assure the House, having worked closely alongside the Home Secretary, that she does not go in for populist punitiveness. She has yet to tell me what it means, but I am sure that it was well intended. The right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) , the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, made a thoughtful speech on the analysis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " Friend pointed out the end result of the Opposition's policy. Opposition Members should look in the mirror in the morning and ask themselves a question. If they talk about reining in the horns of the public sector and reducing public expenditure, they cannot in all credibility come to this House and call for measures that would involve more resources, or criticise us for not providing them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "think, be argued that when such a claim is made and the marketing is carried out in such a way—the advertising is another issue—the country of origin should appear in the same field of view. Otherwise, there is a potential for consumers to be misled. I want to establish whether there are options allowing us to encourage clarity of that kind. When such encouragement does not work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "It is certainly something that I will be looking into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.235.5", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "nservatives' famously robust view of Europe, how do they propose to get their new law through such scrutiny? They are completely isolated in Europe, and already lack support for their key policies, such as renegotiating a ratified treaty of Lisbon. On that key policy, they are supported by the Dutch animals party, the French hunting, fishing, nature, tradition party, Sinn Fein and some communists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.235.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.235.5", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "lated in Europe, and already lack support for their key policies, such as renegotiating a ratified treaty of Lisbon. On that key policy, they are supported by the Dutch animals party, the French hunting, fishing, nature, tradition party, Sinn Fein and some communists. [Interruption.] On renegotiating the treaty of Amsterdam regarding the social chapter, they have no support from any quarter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.235.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.235.5", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ls party, the French hunting, fishing, nature, tradition party, Sinn Fein and some communists. [Interruption.] On renegotiating the treaty of Amsterdam regarding the social chapter, they have no support from any quarter— [Interruption.]— and they do not like it when they are reminded of it. In both such instances, there is no support for their position from any of the 26 member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.235.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "many years and using the same approach in the pig industry, following on from the Select Committee's recommendations, will allow us to understand the pressures within the whole food supply chain, so that we can bring about a more sustainable and secure sector, within which confidence grows. The farmers, in particular, tell me that they fear that confidence levels are not as good as they should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ell me that they fear that confidence levels are not as good as they should be. [Interruption.] The representatives of the British pig industry also tell me that it is a very vibrant industry where a lot of good work is going on and that we should be careful not to talk the industry down to the point where new blood is reluctant to come into it because people do not have confidence about security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention, because it strengthens the point that I am trying to make. There should be a mandatory framework, mandatory definitions, mandatory penalties and a mandatory time frame. The last thing that any of us have is the luxury of another 42 years of meandering around, systematically going nowhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-24", "file": "debates2009-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "7839269c2b51196d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "not had the \"protection\". He instantly corrected himself, saying that that was not the right word, and he was right. I hope that the House agrees that the last thing that would be in the interests of our farmers, producers, retailers and consumers would be to withdraw into some sort of protectionist mentality. The hon. Gentleman insisted that we will not argue the case with the Commissioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-24c.258.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-25", "file": "debates2009-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "2f7de3eb1fe0a339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-25c.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ork if interest rates for savers are 0.5 per cent. or 1 per cent.? Do they believe that it will work if all they do is borrow more and more, thus conveying the message that the way to get ahead and have a decent job is to borrow and borrow, not save and be prudent? The Government are by far the most imprudent with which the country has ever been cursed. They add trillions to the public debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-25c.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-25", "file": "debates2009-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "5aff49f106ac20ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-25d.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "work if interest rates for savers are 0.5 per cent. or 1 per cent.? Do they believe that it will work if all they do is borrow more and more, thus conveying the message that the way to get ahead and have a decent job is to borrow and borrow, not save and be prudent? The Government are by far the most imprudent with whom the country has ever been cursed. They add trillions to the public debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-25d.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-25", "file": "debates2009-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "5aff49f106ac20ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-25d.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "eland of the justice functions to ensure proper devolution. The issue is not the final objective, but the detail. The Bill is not that long; it contains only five clauses. It would not take long to give any amendments proper consideration in Committee in the normal way. So we are talking about a week—or perhaps two, at a maximum—in Committee. That would not disturb the timetable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-25d.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-25", "file": "debates2009-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "5aff49f106ac20ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-25d.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "take long to give any amendments proper consideration in Committee in the normal way. So we are talking about a week—or perhaps two, at a maximum—in Committee. That would not disturb the timetable— [ Interruption. ] The Minister says that it would, but he cannot deny that we have a window of opportunity between now and the end of March for the Bill to be given Royal Assent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-25d.330.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. The debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Thursday 5 February .", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Object. The debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Thursday 5 February .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "reck—so far, unscathed. The Prime Minister who presided over the fiasco is off trotting on the world stage while the man he knighted, Fred Goodwin, is walking off with a £650,000 a year pension. That is why the Government have lost the confidence of the British people in their ability to deal with the recession that they helped create and the banking crisis that they failed to prevent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ut so that we do, too. The hon. Gentleman mentioned the remuneration of Fred Goodwin. It is beyond doubt that most people find it hard to understand, given what has happened to RBS, that such an enormous pension can be paid from the age of 50. Let me explain the position. First, the agreement was not negotiated by the Government; nor was it approved by the Government. Nor would it have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "eviously understood that his pension arrangements were an unavoidable commitment, but we did not know—we became aware of it only very recently—that the decision of the previous board of RBS to allow Sir Fred to take early retirement had the effect of increasing his pension entitlement, and that that might have been a discretionary choice. We did not know that and, on finding out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shadow Chancellor!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "m is that we have not only zombie banks, but a zombie Government: the walking dead, controlled by people who have a strong vested interest in protecting their bonus arrangements and covering up large-scale tax avoidance scams. The Government claim credit for being tough and stamping on the generous bonus arrangements of RBS and NatWest. I totally agree with the Conservative shadow spokesman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.376.7", "colnum": "376", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "First, I will happily pass on the hon. Gentleman's name to the new chief executive of the bank and see whether he can re-employ him. Secondly, and rather more seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.376.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ma Harding. We have all seen press reports. I remind the hon. Gentleman that although we set the law in this House, our constitution requires the law to be applied by the courts and prosecutions to be undertaken independently by the Crown Prosecution Service. I am sure that neither the hon. Gentleman nor the Opposition as a whole would want us, as elected Members, to substitute our judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Outrageous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Williams", "preceding_text": "lion less has been lent to enterprises across the country. My hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) has made our approach quite clear: we favour the acquisition of ordinary shares so that the Government can have a steer on lending and remuneration. The offensive news that we have heard last night about the £650,000 pension awarded to Fred the Shred, as I think he is called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "of having our own Government on the soil of our country for the first time in centuries, and we should acknowledge what a success that has been, particularly the One Wales agreement, through which two parties are working together to give us stable government in Wales that can plan for the future. I am looking forward to that anniversary being suitably marked. Unfortunately, it is up against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9fb996899c7dd406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": " service, which operates from Wrexham to London. The other point that I want to make briefly is this. I have great concerns about the grants that the Welsh Assembly gives to businesses, which are much greater than those that we can afford in England. Those grants are uncompetitive and unfair. They lead to many Shropshire firms going just across the border to set up business and thus causing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26a.459.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.363.4", "colnum": "363", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman lashes out like a man trying to get a fly out of his beard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.363.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "reck—so far, unscathed. The Prime Minister who presided over the fiasco is off trotting on the world stage while the man he knighted, Fred Goodwin, is walking off with a £650,000 a year pension. That is why the Government have lost the confidence of the British people in their ability to deal with the recession that they helped create and the banking crisis that they failed to prevent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ut so that we do, too. The hon. Gentleman mentioned the remuneration of Fred Goodwin. It is beyond doubt that most people find it hard to understand, given what has happened to RBS, that such an enormous pension can be paid from the age of 50. Let me explain the position. First, the agreement was not negotiated by the Government; nor was it approved by the Government. Nor would it have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "eviously understood that his pension arrangements were an unavoidable commitment, but we did not know—we became aware of it only very recently—that the decision of the previous board of RBS to allow Sir Fred to take early retirement had the effect of increasing his pension entitlement, and that that might have been a discretionary choice. We did not know that and, on finding out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.376.6", "colnum": "376", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "If the amount that the Chancellor has said that RBS must lose before his guarantee kicks in is correct, then, if I were still doing the job that I was doing 12 years ago in group risk management in RBS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.376.7", "colnum": "376", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "First, I will happily pass on the hon. Gentleman's name to the new chief executive of the bank and see whether he can re-employ him. Secondly, and rather more seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.376.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ma Harding. We have all seen press reports. I remind the hon. Gentleman that although we set the law in this House, our constitution requires the law to be applied by the courts and prosecutions to be undertaken independently by the Crown Prosecution Service. I am sure that neither the hon. Gentleman nor the Opposition as a whole would want us, as elected Members, to substitute our judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Outrageous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Williams", "preceding_text": "lion less has been lent to enterprises across the country. My hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) has made our approach quite clear: we favour the acquisition of ordinary shares so that the Government can have a steer on lending and remuneration. The offensive news that we have heard last night about the £650,000 pension awarded to Fred the Shred, as I think he is called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "of having our own Government on the soil of our country for the first time in centuries, and we should acknowledge what a success that has been, particularly the One Wales agreement, through which two parties are working together to give us stable government in Wales that can plan for the future. I am looking forward to that anniversary being suitably marked. Unfortunately, it is up against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "ll do everything possible to safeguard that important service, which operates from Wrexham to London. I have great concerns about the grants that the Welsh Assembly gives to businesses, which are much greater than those that we can afford in England. Those grants are uncompetitive and unfair. They lead to many Shropshire firms going just across the border to set up business and thus causing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-26", "file": "debates2009-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "7ee33df494a10cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "all times. However, I did take some exception to the implication in his remarks about the future of Welsh representation. He pointed out how many electors he represents and how many the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire represents. My concern is that some people in the Conservative party might therefore conclude that we need fewer Welsh MPs, and it would be a huge mistake to go down that road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-26b.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-02-27", "file": "debates2009-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "ab5ce927bc37cdb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-27b.484.2", "colnum": "484", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "ed in persuading the Government to address all the issues raised by the...Bill.\" It goes on to say that today's debate can be used to secure those commitments and explore the details. I agree that the debate is important for that purpose. Given that the National Autistic Society says that the Bill has already achieved its purpose, why does the hon. Lady persist in wanting to get it into Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-02-27b.484.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8af4dc4c105511e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "emes, stating: \"Two new schemes for public funding of political parties will be introduced\". It did not say \"could\" be introduced; it is explicit on the point, which is repeated in the annex to the White Paper on party funding that I published last June as a precursor to this Bill. The truth is that unless one is willing to accept gratuitously a major shortfall in party funding, one cannot —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "8af4dc4c105511e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "ee absolutely no sign of that. We have to be cautious, but in doing so we must keep thinking about what measures are required that will command public confidence. Most of us agree—I sometimes wondered during the Lord Chancellor's speech, however—that we do not have that confidence now. The Conservatives set out three principles that should govern how to establish such confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend on the fantastic job that he is doing on this matter. It is a far cry from what we inherited in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "Let me take a moment in which to contemplate that enticing image.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.619.5", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"She might have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": " them from my early childhood—know that some unions are more open and their political fund is easier to opt out of than others. As I mentioned at Second Reading, when my wife tried to join the union Unite she found it very difficult to opt out of the political levy, even though in the circumstances she did not feel like donating money to a party that was trying to oust me from my seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.619.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "ee absolutely no sign of that. We have to be cautious, but in doing so we must keep thinking about what measures are required that will command public confidence. Most of us agree—I sometimes wondered during the Lord Chancellor's speech, however—that we do not have that confidence now. The Conservatives set out three principles that should govern how to establish such confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "With all respect to the hon. Gentleman, the House will have an opportunity to look at each scheme on its merits in each case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.660.6", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "I am giving the hon. Gentleman the assurance in the House that that is what will happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.660.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and of course you are right, as always.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.662.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.666.4", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) said that different areas do different things, which is true. I shall illustrate that point graphically. When the former leader of the Liberal Democrats in Islington was challenged to go on an electoral registration drive prior to an election, he refused. He said that not having registration drives was how Liberal Democrats won elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "I assume that the chorus of noises from the Liberal Democrats means that they agree with my hon. Friend that that comment by the Liberal Democrat leader in Islington was disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "As ever, my right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely correct. Indeed, the method of dealing with the Bill, with the timetables introduced over several months now, has been a disgrace to democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.670.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "l want to achieve. Whether he will succeed in getting the usual channels and the Leader of the House to give the amount of time that we—I think I speak for everyone on the Opposition Benches—consider to be realistic and necessary is another matter. For a moment even the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) and I agree. However, I believe that the Minister will try.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.674.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.691.7", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I wonder whether it is possible to say whether the Speaker could be a little more open about decisions when they are surprising and unusual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.691.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. On the matter of the new clause that was moved earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.692.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-02", "file": "debates2009-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "f3d9f9677a2b4862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.693.4", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Political Parties and Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that is a matter on which the hon. Gentleman—or, indeed, the House—should want me to rule. I think it is absolutely clear that there was a vote on Dr. Lewis's new clause, which the Chair accepted. It was a single vote, and I do not think anyone could have been in any doubt about what was happening at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-02b.693.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " development: in the meantime the Government have made available some £8 billion of resources for investment in housing. That is twice as much as the amount that was available in the previous period, which was itself substantial. I think that he was probably referring to the proposals, in so far as one can call them that, in the Conservative party's latest publication of its policies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.716.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his supplementary question. The basic principle is that it is for local authorities to decide the needs of the local community. They identify where there is a need and make plans and provision to meet it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "tem that has not been reached by the time the guillotine falls will be called? How will they know that there will be a vote? How can they express any view about whether there should be a vote? Above all, how can we have a transparent system, whereby we know whether we can vote on business that is coming down the track, and—more importantly—whether we can debate it? My last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.729.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Comrade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I say to the right hon. Gentleman—[Hon. Members: \"Friend!\"] I should say \"my right hon. Friend\"—a close, personal friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ow much money is spent on keeping them where they are. We need explanations, perhaps not on the detail of each case, but of why the figure is so high. On the figures that I have, of the 15 people held, seven have absconded. If I am wrong, perhaps the Minister can correct me; anyway, it is a high proportion. The former shadow Home Secretary said that it was a fifth, but I was told that it was half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.749.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "novations in the House in the past 20 years. One has only to consider the work of the Treasury Committee in the past few weeks. It was able to do a job of scrutiny that could not be done in the Chamber. That is because Select Committees proceed with independence of mind. Individual members serve in their own right, can pursue the evidence to its logical conclusion and produce a report based on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "bout parliamentary scrutiny of the regions. We should follow the convention that the House has adopted heretofore in relation to Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland, and have Committees in proportion to the whole House. That means that it would be enormously helpful—and a good idea for the people of Cornwall—if the Liberal Democrats were prepared to propose a member of that Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ple of Cornwall—if the Liberal Democrats were prepared to propose a member of that Committee. [ Interruption. ] I can assure the hon. Gentleman that two Liberal Democrats will never provide more interest and excitement than one. The Select Committee system has been an immense success. We have seen the fruits of the system in recent weeks, through the work of the Select Committee on Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-03", "file": "debates2009-03-03b.xml", "sha256": "9b6a0862212f765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "e the debate in November, that a majority of the evidence was against the establishment of regional Select Committees. I have mentioned the difficulty of getting sufficient Members to serve on Committees or to turn up at Select Committee meetings. I must also point out, briefly, that the House is going to have to incur expenditure of more than £2 million at this time of financial difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-03b.798.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "roud history and I see no reason why school pupils should not be told about it. I imagine most of them are. However, other aspects of our history should also, in my view, be told. School children should be told, for example, about what happened in 1381, but the hon. Gentleman did not mention that. This was the first revolt by ordinary people in this country and it took place over a poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "gine most of them are. However, other aspects of our history should also, in my view, be told. School children should be told, for example, about what happened in 1381, but the hon. Gentleman did not mention that. This was the first revolt by ordinary people in this country and it took place over a poll tax— [Interruption.] It was the peasants' uprising, led by John Ball and Wat Tyler—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": ";a very important aspect of British history. For that matter, I would also like to see some recognition in the House of Commons of those who fought in those days for elementary rights. What about the Great Reform Act? Not a single mention was made by the hon. Gentleman of the agitation of the people of this country that they should have the right to vote. Before the Great Reform Act of 1831—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am not taking this Bill through, and I was talking about what I had had to do—I had had to test the patience of the House. Obviously, all of us like plenty —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The House will have plenty of time to scrutinise this legislation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They need to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "No, I did not say that. Fellow Chelsea supporters should be more charitable to each other on these occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "se their power by limiting scrutiny? It is disgraceful that MPs are not allowed the time to scrutinise and debate such an important Bill. It is high time that the Executive stopped their abuse of power and their attempts to dilute parliamentary procedure. I believe that I have now shown that every possible reason the Government might have for pushing through the Bill in one day is not valid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Northern Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ould be helpful if you start to wind up. You've had 20 minutes, eating into debate time.\" I cannot imagine which Government Whip could have gone as far as to suggest that an hon. Member may not make his case. But that case was not used by the Secretary of State. All the arguments have been presented—in my speech, in those of Labour Members and in those of Members who represent Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Higher!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not be surprised to hear that I do not accept those figures. Northern Ireland had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I put that question back to the hon. Gentleman. I have spoken to number of Members of the Legislative Assembly concerning the position of the hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) and his comments on climate change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": " do not believe something that somebody else believes. If a motion of no confidence does not have to be tested, people stick them down rather frivolously; provided one keeps the support of the nominating officer, such frivolous behaviour can go on. I see that my hon. Friend the Member for Upper Bann (David Simpson) is looking at me; I do not know whether that is because I have lost his confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeffrey M Donaldson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeffrey M Donaldson", "preceding_text": "remind the Secretary of State that, on many occasions in many debates in this House, when right hon. and hon. Members and I were opposed to proposals that we were unhappy about arising from the Belfast agreement and other initiatives, we were told time and again by the Liberal Democrats that we had to accept them because a majority had voted for them? Are there not double standards operating here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-04", "file": "debates2009-03-04b.xml", "sha256": "42b900069f6299bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I want to be helpful. I understand my hon. Friend's concern, and I admire his assiduous work for Northern Ireland considerably, but we are in a very unsatisfactory situation. The timetable is ridiculous. Would it not be sensible to confer with our friends in the other place, and then perhaps table an amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-04b.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "78eb0af819487921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Waste of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I cannot comment on the individual case, because I obviously do not know the details. However, let me say more generally to the hon. Gentleman that I think that all of us in this House who believe in renewable energy and who believe in the part that renewable energy can play have a responsibility to do all we can to encourage wind farms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "78eb0af819487921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05a.996.4", "colnum": "996", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) is one of the most honourable, straightforward and honest Members of this House. A grave disservice was done to him on Monday night when his proposal was put to the vote without a proper debate. Since the Ballot Act 1872, which was one of the great achievements of the Victorians, there has been a requirement that one must put one's home address on the ballot paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05a.996.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "78eb0af819487921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "k. Then, it was \"supporting women and families through the downturn and building a strong and fair economy for the future\". Mention of families has been expunged from the motion in the Order Paper today, as has mention of a \"strong and fair economy\". It is fairly clear from the economic record that the Government are clearly not doing very well in building a strong economy—quite the reverse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "78eb0af819487921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05a.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "ve done a great deal on flexible working for women who are in work, but returners face a wall of nine-to-five jobs with no right to ask for anything different. We have done a great deal to try to solve those problems and moved the agenda far forward. It is none the less clear that there is a lot still to do. I wish that I had not been reduced to political adversity in this argument, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05a.1088.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Th e debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Thursday 12 March .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ed, That the promoters of the Manchester City Council Bill [ Lords ] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [ Lords ], which were originally introduced in the House of Lords in Session 2006-07 on 21 January 2007 , may have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).— (The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.969.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.969.6", "colnum": "969", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. T he debate stood adjourned; be resumed on Thursday 12 March .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of the Canterbury City Council Bill, Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and Reading Borough Council Bill, which were originally introduced in this House in Session 2007-08 on 22 January 2008 , may have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).— (The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Waste of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I cannot comment on the individual case, because I do not know the details. However, let me say more generally to the hon. Gentleman that I think that all of us in this House who believe in renewable energy and who believe in the part that renewable energy can play have a responsibility to do all we can to encourage wind farms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has lost this debate on three occasions and he is going to lose it again. I understood his question to be a bid for him to sit on the regional Select Committee for the south-west—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.986.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " not the case that, in reality, no progress on proper modernisation of the House's procedures has been made? Indeed, the Government have been retrogressive in their increasing use of bullying programme motions, reductions in time so that Bills are not properly scrutinised and their inability to organise our business to the satisfaction of all Members of the House rather than that of the Executive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.987.4", "colnum": "987", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "r-star generals. It was only four-star generals who previously were referred to as \"gallant\". I know that many hon. Members find this very complicated and in this House it is sometimes difficult for members of the public to understand whom we are referring to when we refer to the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe or to the right hon. Member for this, that and the other. It is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.987.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.996.4", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis) is one of the most honourable, straightforward and honest Members of this House. A grave disservice was done to him on Monday night when his proposal was put to the vote without a proper debate. Since the Ballot Act 1872, which was one of the great achievements of the Victorians, there has been a requirement that one must put one's home address on the ballot paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.996.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1003.8", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that I will grant an urgent question, because it would be wrong of me to do so at this stage. Matters have been put on the record and the deep concern of hon. Members has been conveyed, and it will percolate through to Treasury Ministers. An application for an urgent question can be made in the usual way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1003.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Support for Women (Economic Downturn)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is, of course, absolutely right, and I will certainly not miss that opportunity. We must not forget that Baroness Thatcher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Support for Women (Economic Downturn)", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "He is a troglodyte!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Support for Women (Economic Downturn)", "cue_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "mber for Cardiff, North (Julie Morgan) , who always speaks eloquently on behalf of her beautiful part of the world and country. It is good to hear her. Thank you for calling me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I congratulate my hon. Friends because, unlike the other parties, we have on our Benches three men who have come to the debate on international women's day and what is happening to women in the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Support for Women (Economic Downturn)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "k. Then, it was \"supporting women and families through the downturn and building a strong and fair economy for the future\". Mention of families has been expunged from the motion on the Order Paper today, as has mention of a \"strong and fair economy\". It is fairly clear from the economic record that the Government are clearly not doing very well in building a strong economy—quite the reverse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Support for Women (Economic Downturn)", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Lady could have confined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1086.4", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Support for Women (Economic Downturn)", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "ntion whatsoever of resiling from our commitment to them. Working women in my constituency will goggle at the hon. Lady's notion that she cannot manage to pay for her child on her parliamentary pay. She gets £62,000—the national average wage is £24,000. That foolish utterance, and her adoration for the Prime Minister who showed her womanly qualities by taking milk off kids—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1086.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Support for Women (Economic Downturn)", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": " We have done a great deal on flexible working for women who are in work, but returners face a wall of 9-to-5 jobs with no right to ask for anything different. We have done a great deal to try to solve those problems and moved the agenda far forward. It is none the less clear that there is a lot still to do. I wish that I had not been reduced to political adversity in this argument, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1088.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-05", "file": "debates2009-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "9631074a0369b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1089.7", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Support for Women (Economic Downturn)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "viding young people with an opportunity to engage with the political process and bring about social change; notes that many hon. Members from all parts of the House are actively involved in the work of the UK Youth Parliament; and accordingly resolves that the UK Youth Parliament should be allowed for this year alone to hold its 2009 annual meeting in the Chamber of this House.— (Mark Tami.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-05b.1089.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b013f7346387f316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06a.1101.14", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "ey is being used to secure a future for these businesses as well as to sustain them through the recession. Cris Ramis of Phoenix Health and Fitness says: \"I save £55 per month as a result of small business rate relief. The money I save contributes to extra staff, staff training, and new equipment.\" There we are, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I think I have made an overwhelming case for the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06a.1101.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b013f7346387f316", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06a.1156.3", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "ented with a note that they do not recognise. There is something deeper to the problem than the immediate embarrassment and inconvenience caused. As the Leader of the Opposition has said, Scots are proud of their banknotes. It is hard to think of a clearer demonstration of disrespect than treating such notes as if they had come out of a Monopoly box. Despite what the Scottish national party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06a.1156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1101.14", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "ey is being used to secure a future for these businesses as well as to sustain them through the recession. Cris Ramis of Phoenix Health and Fitness says: \"I save £55 per month as a result of small business rate relief. The money I save contributes to extra staff, staff training, and new equipment.\" There we are, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I think I have made an overwhelming case for the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1101.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "First, I should declare an interest. As the owner of a small retail business in Wales, I clearly will not benefit if this Bill is enacted, because, as has been stated, its provisions already apply in Wales. That proves yet again that where Wales leads, others will follow. In rugby, apart from last Friday, and in various other areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "First, I should declare an interest. As the owner of a small retail business in Wales, I clearly will not benefit if this Bill is enacted, because, as has been stated, its provisions already apply in Wales. That proves yet again that where Wales leads, others will follow. In rugby, apart from last Friday, and in various other areas— [Interruption.] — Wales has led the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "rly will not benefit if this Bill is enacted, because, as has been stated, its provisions already apply in Wales. That proves yet again that where Wales leads, others will follow. In rugby, apart from last Friday, and in various other areas— [Interruption.] — Wales has led the way. [Interruption.] There are a lot of sedentary interventions, Mr. Deputy Speaker, which are putting me off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) . Indeed, I have had the pleasure of following him through the pub door on a couple of occasions, and I welcomed his remarks about saving the pubs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "s are applying for and receiving the small business rate relief, it is impossible to know how many eligible businesses are not receiving it. I have heard figures such as 50 per cent., but it is not beyond the realms of possibility that all eligible properties are in receipt of the relief. I accept, however, that any Member who has spoken to local businesses in their constituencies will know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1143.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1143.3", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, there are a variety of possible reasons why the number of businesses today is different from the number predicted three years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1156.3", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "ented with a note that they do not recognise. There is something deeper to the problem than the immediate embarrassment and inconvenience caused. As the Leader of the Opposition has said, Scots are proud of their banknotes. It is hard to think of a clearer demonstration of disrespect than treating such notes as if they had come out of a Monopoly box. Despite what the Scottish National party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1156.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-06", "file": "debates2009-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "bf5eab2cdde41b0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1176.14", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "USE OF THE CHAMBER (UNITED KINGDOM YOUTH PARLIAMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ding young people with an opportunity to engage with the political process and bring about social change; notes that many hon. Members from all parts of the House are actively involved in the work of the UK Youth Parliament; and accordingly resolves that the UK Youth Parliament should be allowed for this year alone to hold its 2009 annual meeting in the Chamber of this House.— (Helen Jones.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-06b.1176.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-09", "file": "debates2009-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "1c09e1ba3dd9dc45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-09a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Clark", "preceding_text": "transport. Times change—thanks to the substantial investment that we have made, Britain's railways have enjoyed a spectacular renaissance. Some hon. Members claimed that the railways had improved because of privatisation. I well remember in 1997 that the railway lines in my neck of the woods suffered from gross under-investment, were unreliable and had rolling stock from the 1960s and 1970s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-09a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-09", "file": "debates2009-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "1c09e1ba3dd9dc45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-09a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Clark", "preceding_text": "grown around 40 per cent in the past 10 years. That is why we are going to such lengths to upgrade existing track. We want to tackle the major problems that we identified for the control period to 2014: overcrowding and capacity. That is our main focus between now and 2014, and that is why we have upgraded the existing track, such as on the west coast main line, as well as investing in new trains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-09a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-09", "file": "debates2009-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "7f18659403c356c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-09b.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "EMA and adult learning grants are there to provide incentives and support to those on low incomes who wish to pursue their studies. Will the Minister therefore please explain why there is no equivalent support for young people with learning disabilities who wish to continue their studies? My 19-year-old constituent Emma Frost is studying for a level 1 qualification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-09b.6.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-09", "file": "debates2009-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "7f18659403c356c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-09b.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2008-09 — DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the work that the hon. Gentleman does in the Select Committee. I do not want to trivialise what he is saying, but what he is suggesting has been done before: the Duke of Wellington was here in 1815.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-09b.63.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-10", "file": "debates2009-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "62aaa6584fd446d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-10a.174.6", "colnum": "174", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "en suddenly say that he was talking nonsense when he said that we were proceeding at the right pace. I am glad that she agrees with our policy on introducing that system. The Opposition's motion is a do-nothing motion. They are not prepared to spend the money, so it is a motion full of fantasy policies. This is not just a theoretical debate, it is about real people. Every time someone loses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-10a.174.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-10", "file": "debates2009-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "62aaa6584fd446d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-10a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": " yesterday was an extra £40 million to ensure that we can widen the service and ensure that everybody gets a service that is personalised to them, so that, for instance, professionals and blue-collar workers get the right service for them. That is exactly the right thing to do and, since the right hon. Lady asked, the programme will start in April, along with the rest of the six-month offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-10a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-10", "file": "debates2009-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "62aaa6584fd446d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-10a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who does?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": " income from their savings to supplement any other income that they may have. I want to say a few words about my constituency, but I also want to highlight the skills and training situation, as well as the shortages of skilled people and the lack of training opportunities for certain people who are unemployed, including the long-term unemployed. My constituents do not believe the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-10a.198.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "0cddc60a258bfdf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12b.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "e wishes to. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, South-West commented on the number of senior Treasury civil servants who have Oxbridge and public school backgrounds. I have to admit that I do not know the answer. I was interested in what my hon. Friend had to say about it and I will look further into the responses he received to his letter and see whether we can get him a more forthcoming one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12b.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "0cddc60a258bfdf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12b.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": " it should not be assumed that just because my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, South-West has a particular view of people with public school or indeed Oxbridge backgrounds, there must be something wrong with those people. Speaking as an ex-member of St. John's college, Oxford—actually, I am sure that one is a member of St. John's for life—I certainly have many happy memories of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12b.521.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "c65fd5a4560871a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.431.5", "colnum": "431", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who over the years has shared a few stories with me of his days as an apprentice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "c65fd5a4560871a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "The soundbite at the end was okay, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "c65fd5a4560871a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "This is national science and engineering week, featuring events involving around 1.5 million people. As I am sure the House will know, the website for the Save Our Bees campaign has been overwhelmed by public interest and support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "c65fd5a4560871a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"An apology?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the future business. First, I have been asked by the noble Lord Myners, the Minister responsible for the City, to state that contrary to what I said last week in this House he receives no pension from NatWest bank and no entitlement from the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. I am happy to offer that correction today. Yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "c65fd5a4560871a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " covered by the Daily Mirror, in the course of this week the Leader of the House has been. May I congratulate her on being the centrefold of that newspaper on Monday? In the past, she has said that she thinks that Prime Ministers' wives ought to buy their clothes at Primark; now, she says that she \"loves stilettos\" and that she shops in Primark herself. I am more Savile Row, I have to admit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.443.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "c65fd5a4560871a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ates on satnavs before, and for debates on local authority spending. Could we bring the two together, and have a debate on council priorities in Leicestershire? I notice that Conservative-controlled Leicestershire county council is fitting satnavs to 14 lawnmowers because it claims that there has been an \"unprecedented amount of growth\", and that gardeners \"kept getting lost in long grass\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.447.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-12", "file": "debates2009-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "c65fd5a4560871a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "aid, if the proposal goes ahead, it is essential that the House retains all editorial control. If anyone misbehaves, that should be expunged from the record. We are not going to allow anyone to carry out a little stunt, and then somehow parade it in their literature, or give it publicity in the years ahead by, say, putting it on YouTube. Nothing like that must be allowed to emanate from the event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-12c.537.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.662.5", "colnum": "662", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "As I have said before, that decision was taken by the shareholders of both Lloyds and HBOS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.662.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the story of the Shrewsbury pickets. It was something that I was involved in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "iament to be given a special privilege under my amendment, so that it could sit in Committee Room 14 when the House is in recess. We do not even know—perhaps some people do—the date on which the annual sitting is expected to take place. Last year, the annual sitting lasted three or four days at Exeter university. This year, the Government propose that the sitting last for only one day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Leader of the House said that he did not regard this as a party political issue, and there was going to be a free vote for Government Members, including Ministers. I hope that is the case, too, for Conservative spokesmen, although earlier indications suggested that that might not be the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "these green Benches enhances democracy. Allowing young people to participate in party political activity, conferences and young people's political organisations is very helpful for democracy, and I regret very much the reduced activity in all our political parties, including—I am not sure which political party my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Pelling) belongs to now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.715.7", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": " and parliaments; in my county in west Sussex there were record turnouts. In one school in my constituency there was a 96.5 per cent. turnout to vote in the west Sussex youth cabinet, which went on to elect UKYP members as well. In June, I shall host an event in which schools with the highest such turnouts will receive an award. Pupils from them are coming to this place to get recognition of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.715.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "s a special case because its members are not allowed to stand for election. Both my hon. Friends the Members for Christchurch and for Aldershot picked up on that point. I thought that the hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. Browne) made the point very well that there are many people who cannot stand for Parliament for particular reasons—prisoners and people with mental health problems, for example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": " say, \"Oh no, you can't, because the UK Youth Parliament is more special than you are. It is far more deserving than you are\"? Which of us is going to stand up and say that to their constituents when they ask to use the House of Commons Chamber? Who will say that to their women's institute, Mothers Union or parish council? Nobody is going to say it. The logic of the argument is unanswerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-16", "file": "debates2009-03-16c.xml", "sha256": "43b2059f4bf8508f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "o use the Chamber? What promises can he give? What does he advise me to tell the members of other organisations in my constituency, who will see this and want to use the House of Commons Chamber? What arguments should I advance to tell them that it is not suitable for them, but it is for the UK Youth Parliament? I want to hear all these answers from him, because all those questions need answering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-16c.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "56c5bd39489767cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.763.5", "colnum": "763", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " second inquest was resumed on 6 February , which is a non-trivial fact because it is after I made my Second Reading speech rather than before. This is what the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, East (Bridget Prentice) , has just told me, and if she is wrong she will be given career advice at the end of Question Time and I will make a grovelling apology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.763.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "56c5bd39489767cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "dments that would make the work-related activity that clause 2 requires of certain benefit claimants voluntary, and others that would make the \"work for your benefit\" schemes, which apply to people after two years of unemployment, pilot schemes so that they do not immediately take effect. Some of her hon. Friends would do away with the provisions for contracting out welfare-to-work services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "56c5bd39489767cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": "! The Department is extremely good at commissioning research, which often turns around and bites it or kicks it in the teeth, unlike in America, where an extreme paucity of research into the impact of policies lets Washington get away with murder, but I must move on. Amendment 46 seeks to delete—it really hurts to say it—clause 4. I am not sure what is the policy intention of clause 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "56c5bd39489767cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "r Stirling (Mrs. McGuire) has pointed out, over a significant period, so it really deserves our congratulations. Finally, no one should be cavalier about spending an extra £45 million a year, but given the level of public spending and given that the official Opposition are happy to make a commitment that would help millionaires pay substantially less inheritance tax than they do today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "56c5bd39489767cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": " and the difference it would make to their lives. He also talked about the active campaign that has been run in Northern Ireland, and we are grateful to him for his contribution. The House recognises that my hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry) has been a champion for disabled people for a long time, not just when it becomes a fashionable cause and many people seek to latch on to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "56c5bd39489767cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": " By all means, we can use England as a guinea pig for this, but we will watch and we will learn, and we will see what we want to do in our country. I do not think there is any need to get all hot and bothered because Scotland will not do things exactly the same as England. Let us have a constructive relationship between our countries. Let us not start fights with each other when we do not need to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17c.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.759.4", "colnum": "759", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "hed and many voters, who are eligible to vote, will fall off the register because of the problems. Let us consider, for example, people who are functionally illiterate—an estimate suggests that one in five of the population are functionally illiterate. I very much hope that Conservative Members are not proposing a deliberate policy of disfranchising such marginal and vulnerable voters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.759.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Secretary of State for the mini-announcement that he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.762.4", "colnum": "762", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I in turn am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his response. I might be old-fashioned, but I take the view that the place to make announcements is in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.762.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Robotic!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman really ought to have a look at his questions again before he asks them. He keeps returning to the same points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "dments that would make the work-related activity that clause 2 requires of certain benefit claimants voluntary, and others that would make the \"work for your benefit\" schemes, which apply to people after two years of unemployment, pilot schemes so that they do not immediately take effect. Some of her hon. Friends would do away with the provisions for contracting out welfare-to-work services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "mments suggest that they might do so, which would add that to the already-long list of Liberal Democrat spending commitments. We look forward to more forthrightness, because we have not had much so far. We are clear where we stand. We will vote against the amendments standing in the name of the hon. Lady and her colleagues—I thought that I had already made that clear, but I will do so again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": "! The Department is extremely good at commissioning research, which often turns around and bites it or kicks it in the teeth, unlike in America, where an extreme paucity of research into the impact of policies lets Washington get away with murder, but I must move on. Amendment 46 seeks to delete—it really hurts to say it—clause 4. I am not sure what the policy intention is of clause 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "r Stirling (Mrs. McGuire) has pointed out, over a significant period, so it really deserves our congratulations. Finally, no one should be cavalier about spending an extra £45 million a year, but given the level of public spending and given that the official Opposition are happy to make a commitment that would help millionaires pay substantially less inheritance tax than they do today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": " and the difference it would make to their lives. He also talked about the active campaign that has been run in Northern Ireland, and we are grateful to him for his contribution. The House recognises that my hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry) has been a champion for disabled people for a long time, not just when it becomes a fashionable cause and many people seek to latch on to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "as a consequence of that scrutiny. I thank the members of the Select Committee, who did such a good job of scrutinising the Bill, as well as the Chairman of the Select Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, North (Mr. Rooney) . It is important that I thank in particular my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson) , who has done exactly what a Labour MP should do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.868.5", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " for reform and that the recession makes that more, not less urgent. I said that to the Secretary of State on Second Reading. I also said that he was right to press ahead and that we would support the Government, as we have done. I told the Secretary of State that we would help drive welfare reform because it is right for the country. I assured him that Conservative Members would support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.868.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-17", "file": "debates2009-03-17d.xml", "sha256": "077f20fa6ab2f1f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": " By all means, we can use England as a guinea pig for this, but we will watch and we will learn, and we will see what we want to do in our country. I do not think there is any need to get all hot and bothered because Scotland will not do things exactly the same as England. Let us have a constructive relationship between our countries. Let us not start fights with each other when we do not need to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-17d.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1c21345661921a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.896.4", "colnum": "896", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "ticularly on small and medium-sized enterprises, many of which are based in her constituency. It is important to note that the United Kingdom still has the second lowest unemployment levels in the G7 area, but we are not complacent. That is why, from April, we will be providing additional help for those who are unemployed for more than six months, in the form of a £1,000 recruitment subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.896.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1c21345661921a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " zone. We can go back only about as far as 2001 to get any real indication of what happened. What we know is that in the three years 2005-06 to 2008-09, there were 43 complaints by patients at the hospital. That is not unusual, incidentally. What is unusual is that 32 of those complaints were upheld at the level of the Healthcare Commission, which is where complaints now go beyond the local trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1c21345661921a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "appened at Stafford, although no one knew it when we were debating the matter, there is no better argument for why those registration and other powers are so important. The hon. Gentleman asked when the information was passed to Ministers, and he made a point about how the Healthcare Commission could have tackled the problem much earlier. This was approved in the Department before I arrived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.913.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1c21345661921a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will give way after I have got through this section of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1c21345661921a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I get the point. The scheme would be of the same nature as the guarantees we offer for interbank lending, and would be scored in the same way. Of course there would be a contingent liability, but it would not add to public borrowing. The scheme would be administered by the banks, because they have the commercial judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1c21345661921a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ility, but it would not add to public borrowing. The scheme would be administered by the banks, because they have the commercial judgment— [ Interruption. ] I do not suggest that the Government should engage directly in making loans to small and medium businesses, or even large ones. The banks can do that with the support of the Government and the guarantees provided by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1c21345661921a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "I am explaining that I know that my college—Central Sussex in Crawley—is going ahead with such work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1c21345661921a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "I agree with the final comments of the hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is characteristically correct on that matter. I should declare an interest, because I think that Aspen Solutions provides the photocopier for my parliamentary office in East Renfrewshire. For the avoidance of doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.896.4", "colnum": "896", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "sed particularly on small and medium-sized enterprises, many of which are based in her constituency. It is important to note that the United Kingdom still has the second lowest unemployment in the G7 area, but we are not complacent. That is why, from April, we will be providing additional help for those who are unemployed for more than six months, in the form of a £1,000 recruitment subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.896.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.897.4", "colnum": "897", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that it is useful for Governments to be able to borrow at a time of recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.897.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me correct—[Hon. Members: \"More.\"] Yes, there is plenty more. Let me correct the Prime Minister on the figures that he has just given to the House of Commons. He says that the recession started in July, but the economy stopped growing in April last year; we have been in recession for almost a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " morning and say that \"there is a frustration about these schemes and the money and the credit getting through.\" If the Prime Minister had listened to us, he would have introduced a national loan guarantee scheme back in November, and it would have been operating for five months. Should not he also listen to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who stood with him in Downing street and said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " national loan guarantee scheme back in November, and it would have been operating for five months. Should not he also listen to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who stood with him in Downing street and said— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) should be quiet. I know that he wanted miners to join the Government: well, now he has got one—Lord Myners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Prime Minister is back to reading out quotations, because we now know how long a pledge from him lasts. Yesterday, he said in The Guardian : \"I personally have always said that modern politics, with its focus on who said what, when, how and why, is far too divisive for the problems that a country's got to meet\". What a complete phoney!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me chair the proceedings. That remark should be withdrawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.902.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.905.7", "colnum": "905", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"This is a statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "In order to ensure that our systems are robust, we will ask the Intelligence and Security Committee to consider any developments and relevant information since its last report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.905.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " zone. We can go back only about as far as 2001 to get any real indication of what happened. What we know is that in the three years 2005-06 to 2008-09, there were 43 complaints by patients at the hospital. That is not unusual, incidentally. What is unusual is that 32 of those complaints were upheld at the level of the Healthcare Commission, which is where complaints now go beyond the local trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "appened at Stafford, although no one knew it when we were debating the matter, there is no better argument for why those registration and other powers are so important. The hon. Gentleman asked when the information was passed to Ministers, and he made a point about how the Healthcare Commission could have tackled the problem much earlier. This was approved in the Department before I arrived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "They would not, in the sense that the primary duty is to concentrate on patient care. That is the primary duty of all clinicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.921.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.929.3", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " be in recession for longer than any other major economic area. Indeed, the IMF predicts that the British economy will be the only major economy to contract next year, 2010, when the economies of America, the eurozone and Japan are all forecast to be growing again. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) has just said, Lord Turner has published his report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.929.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "oday. I will give the hon. Gentleman some time to think about that. We might also hear about what the Member sitting next to him, the hon. Member for Dagenham (Jon Cruddas) , has written in The Guardian today about how new Labour has lost its spirit of generosity and lost touch with the people of this country. While the hon. Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) reflects on that, let me say this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.932.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will give way after I have got through this section of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ht of the fact that thousands of people are losing their jobs. He is making light of the fact that someone who has lost their job went to the jobcentre clutching an article that they had read in The Times about a Government scheme that had been launched only to find that the jobcentre knows absolutely nothing about it. That is why in a year's time the hon. Gentleman will be the one losing his job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I get the point. The scheme would be of the same nature as the guarantees we offer for interbank lending, and would be scored in the same way. Of course there would be a contingent liability, but it would not add to public borrowing. The scheme would be administered by the banks, because they have the commercial judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ility, but it would not add to public borrowing. The scheme would be administered by the banks, because they have the commercial judgment— [ Interruption. ] I do not suggest that the Government should engage directly in making loans to small and medium businesses, or even large ones. The banks can do that with the support of the Government and the guarantees provided by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ult times. For instance, 12 million pensioners have received £60 each since Christmas, but that was opposed by the Conservatives. Moreover, 7.5 million families have received an increase in child benefit, another move opposed by the Conservatives. We have increased the investment in the Warm Front scheme so that more homes can be insulated, but that has been opposed by the Conservatives too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "It might help my right hon. Friend if I read from the report largely authored by the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) . He wrote—this is with the full authority of the final report of the Conservative party economic competitiveness policy group: \"We see no need to continue to regulate the provision of mortgage finance\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.953.2", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members seem to be laughing at my hon. Friend. Do they realise that he is quoting from the Conservatives' report, which called for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.953.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "m the standpoint of curiosity rather than criticism. I will try to mix that with comments on Government policy. The Conservatives got off to a very good start this weekend when the Leader of the Opposition announced his proposal for Maoist self-criticism circles as a way of approaching past failures of ideology and judgment. We can probably all benefit from the therapy of confessing past mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "y—he was talking about 60 or 70 per cent. of GDP—higher than ever in British history. I have a chart that covers the past 200 years, and it shows that only in the past 30 years have we gone anywhere near 50 per cent. of GDP. National debt has been way in excess of current levels for much of our history. I was brought up during the era of Harold Macmillan; those were my formative years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That was because of the war!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "y. I was brought up during the era of Harold Macmillan; those were my formative years. [Interruption.] Actually, it was quite a good era for Britain; living standards rose. There is a lot to be said for that period of government. Supermac pointed out at the time that we had never had it so good. When he said that, public debt as a share of GDP was more than 100 per cent., twice the current levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Just!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "May I remind the hon. Gentleman what he said just 10 years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "That rather illustrated the fact that those independent investment banks, like the investment banks that were part of RBS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "I was making comparative judgments about other countries. If we treat their debt on the same basis as the Office for National Statistics treats ours, theirs rises pretty much in line with ours. I think that the hon. Gentleman was referring to the private finance initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "hey will rely entirely on the banks' commercial judgment to administer it. Who in their right mind would go to the country at this time and say, \"We're taking £50 billion off you taxpayers, on top of everything else you had to put into the banks, and we're going to trust the banks unconditionally to administer it\"? It would not carry any element of credibility. The Opposition must do better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "I am explaining that I know that my college—Central Sussex in Crawley—is going ahead with such work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ssets into the asset protection scheme; and Lloyds is now thinking of transferring £250 billion, while Barclays is waiting on the edge. As long as it does not get into public control, it wants to put all its toxic assets, running to a few hundred billion pounds, into that scheme. Even if one leaves that aside—I do not think that we can quite leave it aside, it has been estimated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.977.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "Far from demanding more regulation during the passage of the Financial Services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "Far from demanding more regulation during the passage of the Financial Services— [ Interruption. ] The Conservatives spent their entire time in government and in opposition calling for less regulation, for markets to be free, and for markets to make the decisions. The right hon. Gentleman is one of the major causes and supporters of deregulation in the financial markets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ulation during the passage of the Financial Services— [ Interruption. ] The Conservatives spent their entire time in government and in opposition calling for less regulation, for markets to be free, and for markets to make the decisions. The right hon. Gentleman is one of the major causes and supporters of deregulation in the financial markets— [ Interruption. ] They do not like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-18", "file": "debates2009-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "ac7923d5af2c177c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ries, however, are opposed to it. In April, all 22 million basic rate taxpayers will get a £145 tax cut. That is real help now, but the Tories are opposed to it. They make the completely unfounded assertion in the motion that the temporary cut in VAT has not worked. Evidence from the independent ONS shows that the tax cut has been reflected in price reductions in 70 per cent. of cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-18b.1015.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-19", "file": "debates2009-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "52fb4fcb301d8358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-19a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "he things that we are doing to try to protect the unemployed and prevent even more people from becoming unemployed? Of course, one thing that the Opposition simply refuse to acknowledge is that there is an unemployment problem across the country as a whole—[Hon. Members: \"Too long!\"] I have not taken as long answering as the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton took asking his questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-19a.1055.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-19", "file": "debates2009-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "a85973878cf44bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-19b.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "age of GDP. Hon. Members complain about that, but if they are concerned about unemployment, why do they argue that we should not do all the things that we are doing to try to protect the unemployed and prevent even more people from becoming unemployed? Of course, one thing that the Opposition simply refuse to acknowledge is that there is an unemployment problem across the country as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-19b.1055.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-19", "file": "debates2009-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "a85973878cf44bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-19b.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ere is an unemployment problem across the country as a whole—[Hon. Members: \"Too long!\"] I have not taken as long answering as the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton took asking his questions— [Interruption.] All right, I apologise. I shall therefore finish by mentioning FE colleges. I remind the House that when we came into government in 1997, the capital budget for FE colleges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-19b.1055.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "36f0d3d146c89592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23a.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "I think that the case study that I cited a minute ago identified some of the important benefits of DNA retention. There are real-life cases in which people have been made safer by the retention of DNA post-arrest. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman's constituent can apply to the police force, in exceptional circumstances. That is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23a.8.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ponsible for representing businesses large and small, said— [Interruption.] Labour Members should perhaps spend a bit less time filling out their expenses and listen to the CBI. The CBI said that \"a further significant fiscal stimulus is unaffordable and would lead to businesses and households retrenching\". Instead, the CBI says, the Chancellor needs to \"deliver a clear and credible\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " benefit from an inheritance tax cut. Is it not time for the Conservatives to face up to the fact that their policy is a 6p a week cut in the licence fee for the many and a £200,000 cut in inheritance tax for the few? Usually in times of difficulty, the few who have money help the many; only the Conservative party says that, in times of difficulty, the many should come to the aid of the few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " inheritance tax cut, which will help 3,000 people and give them £200,000 each. At least the shadow shadow Chancellor spotted that that was a difficulty, but he is not here because he is so out of synch with the Conservative party. He disagrees on VAT, the married couple's allowance, Europe, and now the inheritance tax cut. The Conservative party is out of touch with the rest of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ot here because he is so out of synch with the Conservative party. He disagrees on VAT, the married couple's allowance, Europe, and now the inheritance tax cut. The Conservative party is out of touch with the rest of the country. [Interruption.] They will have to face up to that one day—their priority is an inheritance tax cut for the few, whereas ours is to help the many. As to trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "e Conservative party. As for the right hon. Gentleman's quotations of Chancellor Merkel, President Sarkozy and other European leaders, is it not remarkable that he is trying to quote them in evidence the week after he walked away from the European People's party and linked up with the Czech forum, which says that there is no problem with climate change, and the Polish party of law and order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "n of funds that would otherwise have been lost in tax avoidance. We know that we have to get a global agreement, however, and that is why we are pressing other countries to sign up to the international standards that are necessary. That means that Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong and Singapore—areas that have been regarded as tax havens in the past—have got to come within the net.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " tax havens in the past—have got to come within the net. [ Interruption. ] And, yes, other parts of the world have got to come in, and I hope that the Opposition will join us in demanding that. As far as the low-carbon recovery is concerned, the right hon. Gentleman should know that we are investing, and ready to invest, as I announced today, in major projects of energy infrastructure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "All tax havens are now under pressure. People will not see their money as safe in these havens after the experience that people have had over these past few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "xcuse me. I will just say that there is greater concern in Norway and in the Czech Republic about the state of their democracy than there is here, notwithstanding their proportional representation systems. The whole House will have noted that I did not mention, among the major constitutional changes that this House has agreed in the past 12 years, the list system for European Parliament elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "our. The hon. Gentleman is right to ask what the Conservatives want. I think that they want different things. In February this year, the shadow Home Secretary said that what we want is \"fewer rights, more wrongs\". That was an extraordinary statement—so extraordinary that the hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) had to say that he was not completely clear about what it meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.71.5", "colnum": "71", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "The trouble with that is that in many cases the protected material seems to be implicated in everything that happens in the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.71.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "case. We did not have that problem in the de Menezes case to start with. The problem is that certification can be challenged only by way of judicial review of whether the Secretary of State was right in his decision to certify something as being against relations with another country. The judicial review test is, of course, an awful lot higher than a simple appeal, which would have been an option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.102.7", "colnum": "102", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "I am surrounded by Queen's counsel and learned—I am probably the only non-learned gentleman in the House this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.102.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-23", "file": "debates2009-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0a406c0c71773a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "agreed without Division tonight. The amendments are the only part of the Bill to have effect in Scotland. All the other provisions relate to England and Wales, and in part to Northern Ireland, and to the legal systems there. It is no surprise that I did not take part in the Public Bill Committee, which debated only those provisions of the Bill that affect England, Wales and Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-23b.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-24", "file": "debates2009-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f900fcf7c65da1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "e clinical pathways and put in place individual care plans. That addresses precisely the point that the hon. Lady made about health visitors, for instance, and the complex needs of these young people. Finally, we must address the question of managing medicines in schools. Those three sets of priorities have been identified by parents, people in the voluntary sector and the young people themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-24", "file": "debates2009-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f900fcf7c65da1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Pension Credit and Personal Expense Allowance (Duty of Consultation and Review)", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " of damage has been done in many cases to the individuals concerned in terms of stress, their reputation and the anxiety they are placed under—all quite needlessly. It thus seems to me that it would be sensible for the House to consider whether having a saving clause would help. Now, Lord Waddington, as well as having been a past Home Secretary, and, I believe, a man of moderate views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-24", "file": "debates2009-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f900fcf7c65da1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Pension Credit and Personal Expense Allowance (Duty of Consultation and Review)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "(David Howarth) . Let me deal briefly with the other amendments and then come back to my own. Just before doing so, however, I declare an interest in that as a recorder, I will have to be guided by the Sentencing Council, just as I am already guided by the Sentencing Guidelines Council at the moment. I have some understanding in a practical sense of the effect of these types of arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-24", "file": "debates2009-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f900fcf7c65da1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Pension Credit and Personal Expense Allowance (Duty of Consultation and Review)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " our plans for the reform of the prison system and of the non-custodial sentencing system. At the heart of our paper was a section dealing with what we called \"the rehabilitation revolution\". We wanted to see far greater emphasis placed in the prison and non-custodial sentencing system on the rehabilitation of offenders—so that they do not reoffend. This is now largely uncontroversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-24", "file": "debates2009-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f900fcf7c65da1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Pension Credit and Personal Expense Allowance (Duty of Consultation and Review)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "ver the weekend. I am happy to say that a good deal of what is in the document coincides with or is drawn from my own evidence to the investigation and from our document \"Prisons with a Purpose\". The document produced by the Centre for Social Justice is a very big document, but it is worth reading. I am sure that both the Secretary of State and the Ministers of State have it on their reading list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-24", "file": "debates2009-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f900fcf7c65da1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Pension Credit and Personal Expense Allowance (Duty of Consultation and Review)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ed Gentleman knows Lord Gage and many of the other distinguished members of the working group, so he will know that they would not have made the recommendations if they thought that they would fetter the proper discretion and independence of the judiciary. We have tabled amendments 143 to 146 to clause 104 and amendment 148 to clause 108 because those provisions were criticised in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.237.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-24", "file": "debates2009-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f900fcf7c65da1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Pension Credit and Personal Expense Allowance (Duty of Consultation and Review)", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "In the three minutes remaining for scrutiny of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-24", "file": "debates2009-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f900fcf7c65da1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Pension Credit and Personal Expense Allowance (Duty of Consultation and Review)", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "hey should recognise what has happened. The Joint Committee on Human Rights spent a lot of time scrutinising the Bill. We were pleased by the speed with which the Minister replied to our letters. It must also be noted that the Government were willing to provide extra days in Committee, and that they provided two days on Report, when the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill got only one day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-24b.271.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We all do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "This Government support better further education and more investment in colleges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "is predecessor, the suggestion that they will hold an inquiry has been made not to Parliament, but to the News of the World on Sunday. It was reported on Sunday: \"Gordon Brown is set to order an inquiry into the war in Iraq, the News of the World can reveal. Senior sources\"— this is the end of the culture of spin— \"at the Ministry of Defence suspect the review will be announced\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " water down what an inquiry would look at, and indeed whether it would be an inquiry at all. If Ministers think that they will get away with a \"review\", which looks at the decisions made before the war and the performance of the Army, they have another think coming. When somebody as senior as Sir Hilary Synnott, the diplomat who was put in charge of governing southern Iraq, says in his book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I must finish my argument, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The former Foreign Secretary should know better; the idea that we decided on a troop withdrawal plan and chose 31 July as the date for its conclusion because Parliament will not be sitting at that time is, frankly, risible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The former Foreign Secretary should know better; the idea that we decided on a troop withdrawal plan and chose 31 July as the date for its conclusion because Parliament will not be sitting at that time is, frankly, risible. [Interruption.] We will do this after British combat troops have been withdrawn, and that is the right thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "days in 2002 and 2003, I am afraid that the people in this place who were the great cheerleaders for war were not interested in exploring the kind of questions being asked from the Labour Benches about the legality of the war, and whether there were in fact weapons of mass destruction or whether a false prospectus was at work. None of those questions was at all interesting to the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": " of questions being asked from the Labour Benches about the legality of the war, and whether there were in fact weapons of mass destruction or whether a false prospectus was at work. None of those questions was at all interesting to the Opposition— [ Interruption. ] — to the official Opposition, who simply wanted to go further, faster. The courage was shown on the Labour Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "g imposed with no business say, and retrospective increases in rates on business by ports; and asserts that the Government's policies on business rates are harming local firms during the recession. I sometimes think that opening a second half-day debate is a bit like being in the second house in repertory, but I hope that we have a better audience than is sometimes the case in those circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "at my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (Robert Key) made, the Government have made no suggestions about the methodology, which could be changed and improved. Indeed, we hear the contrary from the Secretary of State, who has not graced us with her presence today. I am sorry that she is not here, because it is always a pleasure to see her and look her straight in the eye, as perhaps I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.384.7", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has had two bites at the cherry, which is more than generous. I do not think I am usually difficult about giving way to hon. Members, but I am not going to have a two-way conversation with him, as that might get boring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.384.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "ssion, even if—I have to say this—the shadow Chancellor and his party's leader do not appreciate that. As the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have made clear—this is where the real difference between the two sides of this House lies—we will take whatever action is needed to see us through the credit crunch. We will do what it takes, as we have done, to prevent the —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-25", "file": "debates2009-03-25d.xml", "sha256": "0540fa6d288f5ae7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "The LABGI scheme—to use a rather ugly and awkward acronym—was a three-year scheme from the outset. The hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst misleads the House when he says that the amount for the scheme has been slashed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-25d.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "c535c41e5bb7032a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26b.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "r are suffering pay freezes, is that good sense? Is it sustainable that council tax bills are taking almost £120 from the pockets of families? Is it acceptable that council tax has gone up by an inflation-busting 105 per cent. on this Government's watch? Is not the reality that the Government inherited a local government finance system that worked and that has at least been consistent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26b.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "c535c41e5bb7032a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26b.540.5", "colnum": "540", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am glad the hon. Gentleman sees that. Perhaps that was why he described the intervention as \"interesting\" rather than giving it more positive support. My time is all but up but I should like to say a word or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26b.540.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. The debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Tuesday 21 April at Sev en o'clock.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "mption of adjourned debate on Question ( 15 January ), That the promoters of the Manchester City Council Bill [ Lords ] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [ Lords ], which were originally introduced in the House of Lords in Session 2007-08 on 22 January 2007 , should have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.429.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. The debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Tuesday 21 April at Seven o'clock.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "te on Question ( 15 January ), That the promoters of the Canterbury City Council Bill , Leeds City Council Bill, Nottingham City Council Bill and Reading Borough Council Bill, which were originally introduced in this House in Session 2007-08 on 22 January 2008 , should have leave to proceed with the Bills in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.429.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Lady has made mention of what the Conservatives are doing in every one of her replies. I do not want that; what I am looking for is a ministerial reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.436.5", "colnum": "436", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "I am very disappointed that the Public Administration Committee should choose to obscure the real help that it accepts the Government's payments scheme will deliver under extreme headlines, seemingly driven by an uncritical acceptance of the findings of the ombudsman's report and by its unjustifiable and irresponsible characterisation of the manner of the Government's response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.436.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.436.5", "colnum": "436", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "the real help that it accepts the Government's payments scheme will deliver under extreme headlines, seemingly driven by an uncritical acceptance of the findings of the ombudsman's report and by its unjustifiable and irresponsible characterisation of the manner of the Government's response. [ Interruption. ] As a Government, we do not depart lightly from any of the ombudsman's findings, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.436.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I have indeed seen Professor \"Danny\" Blanchflower's suggestions, and I have spoken to him as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " to make damaging cuts at exactly the wrong time. May we have an urgent debate on the Government's decision to tender legal services in that way, so that the House can put a stop to the callous destruction of CABs? May we have a debate on the work ethic of Members of Parliament? Last week, we heard complaints from the Labour Chief Whip that at least 5 per cent. of his own MPs were completely idle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ed, to the extent that The Independent has today called the Prime Minister, \"A haunted Prime Minister, marooned on his fantasy island\". In a further fantasy, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families has told the New Statesman that he wants to be Chancellor and Labour leader. May we at least hope that the Prime Minister and Lord Mandelson can make the most of their visit to Brazil?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.449.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Behind you! Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "), and because of the work of the Prime Minister, he had decided to join the Labour party. We welcome him. The hon. Gentleman raised the subject of the work ethic. I think that his point about value for money was very important. It is the case that 60 per cent. of Conservative Members have second jobs. That is why I think that the public will greatly welcome the fact that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I have looked, in some detail, into how we could have ordered things differently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "r are suffering pay freezes, is that good sense? Is it sustainable that council tax bills are taking almost £120 from the pockets of families? Is it acceptable that council tax has gone up by an inflation-busting 105 per cent. on this Government's watch? Is not the reality that the Government inherited a local government finance system that worked and that has at least been consistent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be patient. We are almost ready to make known our response to the review body, and we shall do so as soon as we are able to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "I respect what the hon. Gentleman says and I understand his argument, but the point that was made at the time was that one could not have such a thing as a timetable for withdrawal, and the fact of the matter is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Minister. In fact, most of my information comes from the people who have performed all those tasks in Afghanistan. That is what I have been told by them, and sometimes I prefer to rely on what they say. Commanders do not have a choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-26", "file": "debates2009-03-26c.xml", "sha256": "fbc48f5f8c6e2796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.540.5", "colnum": "540", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am glad the hon. Gentleman sees that. Perhaps that was why he described the intervention as \"interesting\" rather than giving it more positive support. My time is all but up but I should like to say a word or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-26c.540.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-27", "file": "debates2009-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c037d14b539e8be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "issue. I do not think that is likely. I accept that we need to resolve this, but we can do so steadily, given who is actually in the line of succession and the fact that, at most, we might face the very distant eventuality of a crisis. I apologise to the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) for having heard only the opening part of his speech, but I have been given a good note of what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-27", "file": "debates2009-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c037d14b539e8be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ote of what he said. [Interruption.] I am sure it was a very good speech—the note is certainly very good, and I shall read the speech in Hansard tomorrow. I understand that he said that the Roman Catholic Church requirement for families to be brought up as Catholic in marriages between someone of the Catholic faith and someone not of that denomination had been much relaxed in recent decades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-27", "file": "debates2009-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "c037d14b539e8be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "be thought about very carefully. The monarch is the supreme governor of the Church of England, and Catholics, under the laws of their Church—this is the point—cannot enter into communion with the Church of England. Thus, there would be the anomalous position where if there were a supreme governor, a monarch succeeding to the throne, who was a member of the Roman Catholic Church —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-27", "file": "debates2009-03-27b.xml", "sha256": "7e0d8c2c4857c605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27b.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "inatory and a breach of the human rights of members of the royal family...it should be repealed.\" The hon. Gentleman also pointed out that \"Prince William would be barred from the succession if he were to marry a Roman Catholic, but if his bride became a Roman Catholic after the marriage ceremony, he could go on to become the monarch.\" The hon. Gentleman went on to say, \"That is ridiculous\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27b.561.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-27", "file": "debates2009-03-27b.xml", "sha256": "7e0d8c2c4857c605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27b.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "spective. It should also be in the context of a much wider consultation process, into which the monarch is properly drawn. I am pleased that the Bill in no way impacts on the establishment of the Anglican Church. Call me an old-fashioned Anglican or a traditionalist, but I feel strongly that the established Church is one of the foundations of our constitution. It is one of the key building blocks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27b.591.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-27", "file": "debates2009-03-27b.xml", "sha256": "7e0d8c2c4857c605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27b.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "issue. I do not think that is likely. I accept that we need to resolve this, but we can do so steadily, given who is actually in the line of succession and the fact that, at most, we might face the very distant eventuality of a crisis. I apologise to the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) for having heard only the opening part of his speech, but I have been given a good note of what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27b.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-27", "file": "debates2009-03-27b.xml", "sha256": "7e0d8c2c4857c605", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27b.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ote of what he said. [Interruption.] I am sure it was a very good speech—the note is certainly very good, and I shall read the speech in Hansard tomorrow. I understand that he said that the Roman Catholic Church requirement for families to be brought up as Catholic in marriages between someone of the Catholic faith and someone not of that denomination had been much relaxed in recent decades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-27b.625.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Merron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Merron", "preceding_text": "May I first wish the hon. Gentleman a very happy birthday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.782.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.783.4", "colnum": "783", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "y. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Foreign Office should never use the ugly acronym \"AfPak\", which is patronising and condescending to the nation of Pakistan? Secondly, will he take the shadow Foreign Secretary behind Mr. Speaker's Chair and agree with him that we have to talk about India if we are to get a solution on Pakistan. Finally, can we get more free trade going on Pakistan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.783.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.783.4", "colnum": "783", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not three!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "use the ugly acronym \"AfPak\", which is patronising and condescending to the nation of Pakistan? Secondly, will he take the shadow Foreign Secretary behind Mr. Speaker's Chair and agree with him that we have to talk about India if we are to get a solution on Pakistan. Finally, can we get more free trade going on Pakistan— [ Interruption. ] Well, I was invited to ask a question by the Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.783.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "if it is for the purpose of supporting the economy at a time such as this, when we are encountering substantial difficulties. That is very important, and I am not alone in believing that. Indeed, I saw on last night's \"Newsnight\" that the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who sat at the Cabinet table in the last Conservative Government with the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.794.5", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disappoint the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.794.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "d such support as a percentage of what we produce. We have provided about the same level of support as the United States, Germany and China—indeed, most countries in the G20 have been prepared to take action because they recognise that it is necessary to support their economies and families and businesses. We can afford to take that action because we were prepared as we came into this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Is the hon. Gentleman referring to a Member of the other place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " of the Bank of America are all saying that we should look at dividing narrow banking from investment banking, the only person in the world who wants to shut down that debate is the Prime Minister, who has already made up his mind and does not want to listen to any other argument. It would be useful to have that debate in the G20. Those are all tests for the Prime Minister as he chairs the summit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.805.10", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "That is rich coming from the Liberal Democrats, who are proposing to spend even more than the Government. We would be in an even bigger hole if they had, by some miracle, won the general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.805.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.806.7", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Admit it!", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The shadow Chancellor has given a long answer to a question that was not asked. Will he confirm that despite what he has said, twice, about the German Government agreeing with his position of not having a fiscal stimulus, their fiscal stimulus is the equivalent of 4 per cent. of GDP, which is 1 per cent. more than ours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.806.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.806.8", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Let me just say this to the right hon. Gentleman: the question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.806.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " Does he want to go down as the Chancellor who stood by and let his Prime Minister lead the country down the road to fiscal insanity, or as the one who did something to stop that Prime Minister? That is the choice that he has to confront in the next three weeks—does he do the right thing and face down his neighbour, in which case he will earn the gratitude of the country, or does he cave in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.809.4", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " to weather the storm. Yet, when he looks around the table of G20 leaders, he will see no one else with a budget deficit as large as Britain's, according to the IMF, and no one else who will have a longer and deeper recession than the United States, according to the OECD. He continues to argue that the recession is caused by a banking crisis that blew in from America on an otherwise sound economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the depression in the 1930s arose, at least primarily, from the deflationist policies operated after 1929 by certain Governments, notably the Government of Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read the rest of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "of the system reverberates around the globe. Indeed the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Paul Tucker, put it like this in answer to the Treasury Select Committee about the Government's new toxic asset scheme: \"We cannot cut ourselves off from the international nature of this crisis.\" To go back to the Turner report, Adair Turner says: \"The origins of the crash lay in the US housing market\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Mark Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Todd", "preceding_text": "igns that the scale of future deficits, unbacked as yet by clear strategies on how they may be corrected, are having an impact on the effectiveness of our short-term measures. Dissonance between the Bank of England and Government messages is one obvious example, but bond market reactions—the willingness to purchase Government bonds—may be another indication of exactly the same concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ely 3 million unemployed next year, where we can ensure that the people who would otherwise be severely disadvantaged are given a genuine opportunity not only to survive but to prosper. I should like to get one thing off my chest—it will not surprise anybody. Many of the problems we are experiencing in the current economic crisis are partly attributable to the failures of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "t is not a pretty sight. We are one of those countries. I wish to focus on a specific part of the economy. Many hon. Members have spoken in general terms about what needs to be done or who is to blame. I want to look at part of the economy that is actually doing well—the British tourism industry. People may ask why I should bring that up as a subject in a general debate on the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Council Tax Rebate", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for City of Durham (Dr. Blackman-Woods) ; it is a pleasure to follow her. In the few minutes available to me, I have a couple of quick points to make. As for the contributions from Opposition Members, it is interesting that fantastic hindsight seems to have flooded the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.882.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-03-31", "file": "debates2009-03-31b.xml", "sha256": "8236dab5b7c093c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, at the sitting on Tuesday 21 April , notwithstanding Standing Order No. 20 (Time for taking private business) the Private Business set down by the Chairman of Ways and Means shall be entered upon (whether before, at or after 7.00 pm), and may then be proceeded with, though opposed, for three hours, after which the Speaker shall interrupt the business.— (Helen Jones.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-03-31b.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.910.4", "colnum": "910", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "On behalf of all Conservative Members, I join the Prime Minister in welcoming President Obama and the First Lady, and all the other Presidents and Prime Ministers, to our country this week. Before turning to the G20, may I ask the Prime Minister about the issue of MPs' expenses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.910.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nor did you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Frankly, the problem is that we do not need another review. Let us be clear: this is exactly what happened last time. The Prime Minister supported a review, he sent it a letter and when it came up with conclusions, he did not vote for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "tion, we have to understand that they will want to look at their position, but I am hopeful about that. I am pressing them on this matter, as I did when I talked to President Obama on the phone yesterday before I met him today. The World Trade Organisation needs an answer, and we need to move forward. What we will achieve at the summit is this: first of all, we will name and shame countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "want to look at their position, but I am hopeful about that. I am pressing them on this matter, as I did when I talked to President Obama on the phone yesterday before I met him today. The World Trade Organisation needs an answer, and we need to move forward. What we will achieve at the summit is this: first of all, we will name and shame countries— [ Interruption. ] Well, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.912.0", "colnum": "912", "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/2009-04-01e.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "If we do not take action, things will get a great deal worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hunter", "preceding_text": "The Metropolitan police in London now have dedicated community policing teams consisting of six officers in every local government ward. They have a sergeant, two police constables and three police community support officers. Could the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.920.3", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Written answers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I should make it clear that I was referring to written parliamentary questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.920.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language)", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "r doing something that is lawful today, that will be lawful tomorrow, but that will not be lawful from the day when she decides to invoke this Bill into law, if we pass it, as use of the words \"Red Crystal\" will be unauthorised. I have also discovered that there is apparently a group of musicians—I do not know whether it is a rock group or a pop group—who call themselves \"Red Crystal\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language)", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": " I think it is worth pausing—with your indulgence, Madam Deputy Speaker, as I do not want to depart too much from the meat of the Bill—to recognise the role that men and women under the umbrella organisations of the UN are playing in countries around the world. It is rather sobering to read what the noble Lord Malloch-Brown, a shadow Foreign Office Minister in the House of Lords, said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language)", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "DA and the Palestinian Red Crescent were optimistic. One issue might get in the way, however, and that is the fact that many Arab countries already see the third element as an unnecessary accommodation of Israel. Some people are suggesting that, now that the MDA has agreed to work with the Palestinian Red Crescent in the occupied territories, a similar agreement is necessary for the Golan heights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " I was rather depressed to read the summing up by Lord Malloch-Brown in the other place on 27 January , in which he explained what he expects to happen as a result of what a number of colleagues have called a dilution of the symbolism of the red cross. He asserted that it was not the Government's intention to destroy the Red Cross, stating that \"the British Red Cross is safe with this Government\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language)", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"None!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be unfair to point out not only that few Labour Members have spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "consultation, no impact assessment, no assessment of the likely revenue to be raised and no assessment of the impact on the wider economy. There was no quantifying of the revenue or the economic impact, which was a clear breach of the Treasury's guidelines on the imposition of retrospective taxation. This is not just a complete foul-up in practical terms; it is thoroughly wrong in principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.988.5", "colnum": "988", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How are you going to vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "We will try terribly hard to put the hon. Gentleman out of his misery. He is right—I left out the decimal point. I thought that it was £2.4 million, but it has gone up; now it is even more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": " accept will increase some liability for them, to be done with proper consultation and assessments so that they could plan their cash flow and future business plans. That would be the sensible, rational, joined-up way to do it, and we as a party have urged the Government to do that. The debate gives them an opportunity to do so, even though we do not oppose the eight-year payment period of itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "d—legally established—as a tax liability. Let me tackle that proposal directly. Despite the delays and problems in the ports review, I do not accept the principle that once it has been properly established that a business is legally liable to pay tax, it should simply be waived and the company let off. We do not do that in other circumstances; we do not do it with other business taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-01", "file": "debates2009-04-01e.xml", "sha256": "185e69e51cb5d803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "e bears with me, he will get it. Once facts and a tax liability are known, they simply cannot be disregarded. The Government do not do that with any business tax. If the Government accepted the principle of removing a backdated rates liability, it would require primary legislation. In other words, Ministers would have to ask Parliament to give selective advantage to a specific group of businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-01e.996.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea957bf71377bec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "I should declare an interest as the former president of the West Glamorgan Scout Association. We are not out of the woods yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1040.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea957bf71377bec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked about the child poverty Bill and the equality Bill. Both will be coming forward. Not only I, as Minister for Women and Equality, but the whole Government are committed to fairness and equality. That is why we put the equality Bill in our manifesto. That is why it was in the draft legislative programme and why it will be brought forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea957bf71377bec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": "gether, we can get this right and transform the centre of Telford. The final issue I want to address is the review of health services in Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. I have to say that I am sick and tired of continual reviews of our local health services. We seem to have the same discussions year in, year out—and it must be costing a fortune. In the seven years I have been an MP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1079.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea957bf71377bec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "n leaves a lot to be desired, even when I am writing on behalf of pensioners. For example, I once wrote to a Minister about illiteracy and adult literacy, and all I got was a very short reply to the effect that the information that I needed could be found by clicking on a website. I am sorry, but that is not good enough. It is not the sort of response that we should be sending out to constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea957bf71377bec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": "uld be available to both parties. I am convinced that the defendant, as it were, does not have the same access to that evidence. That is not acceptable. We would not have the prosecution not disclosing evidence to the defence in a court of law. My second point is: who oversees the investigation? We seem to have a flurry of governors being created—some because of the contamination, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea957bf71377bec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " two and that when he got back home he was probably going to execute one of them. It has been great not to hear from too many lawyers today and excellent to hear from 15 former councillors. Those involved have represented Islington, Leicester, Reading, Redbridge, Wandsworth, Powys, Wrekin, Oakengates, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hackney, Stevenage, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Stonehouse and Warwickshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02a.1133.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02b.xml", "sha256": "60b7afef133005c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02b.1061.4", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "We acknowledge that there has been mismanagement, and it is disappointing for all those who have been affected by it—indeed, the chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council has resigned. However, if the policy of the hon. Gentleman's party was pursued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02b.1061.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02b.xml", "sha256": "60b7afef133005c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02b.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": "gether, we can get this right and transform the centre of Telford. The final issue I want to address is the review of health services in Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. I have to say that I am sick and tired of continual reviews of our local health services. We seem to have the same discussions year in, year out—and it must be costing a fortune. In the seven years I have been an MP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02b.1079.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-02", "file": "debates2009-04-02b.xml", "sha256": "60b7afef133005c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02b.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "John Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Randall", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend mentions the name of a leading store in a certain part of my constituency, but I am not thinking only of that. It behoves us all to go out and spend money. I disagree with the Government about the VAT cut, but I shall ignore that and say that I am sure that throughout the country there will be bargains aplenty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-02b.1122.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "09c3cab78925f29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20a.98.2", "colnum": "98", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "articular interest is the fact that we are only a few short years away from commercial space flight operating from the UK. There are the beginnings of a significant satellite sector in the UK, and I greatly encourage the MOD to look as closely as possible at this. I must declare an interest: the leading, preferred site for the launch of commercial space flight in the United Kingdom is Lossiemouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20a.98.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "09c3cab78925f29c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "It was claimed that I did not say the same when I was a Tory myself—sadly and mistakenly. I am proud to have changed my coat now, by the way, and if the hon. Member for Aldershot calls me a turncoat every day, I shall be delighted. I am wearing the right coat. I am wearing the coat of the party that now represents all the things that I have believed in for as long as I have been in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "Designated door supervisors have been a force for good in the sense of working with establishments, the police and local authorities. I made an enjoyable visit in my Bradford constituency to police on the licensing route late one Friday night, to see at first hand how door supervisors were working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.5.2", "colnum": "5", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "Next week we mark the 30th anniversary of black Thursday, when Mrs. Thatcher came to power. In the period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.5.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.19.4", "colnum": "19", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "The question of an anchor tenant is a bit of an obsession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.19.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "ponsibility to safeguard information about which there might be concerns if it got out. Thirdly, as I have said, the DPP himself pointed out that given the systematic nature of the leaks that had been identified, the damage should not have been underestimated. Once that pattern of leaks was established, it was inevitable that police investigation would follow. Once that police investigation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "I try desperately to avoid falling into MOD jargon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.49.6", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "peaker, but I am happy nevertheless to accept the hon. Gentleman's withdrawal. The hon. Gentleman was simply confused in his comments about defence spending. My right hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces was talking about the core defence budget, which is rising at 1.5 per cent. in real terms, beyond inflation, in contrast to the disgraceful record of the last Conservative Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.49.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "country, and the Conservative party will not be held accountable for the carnage that they are going to leave behind for us to pick up and put right in 2010. I can tell him about our own financial proposals. We have made it absolutely clear that if we had a Conservative Chancellor proposing the Budget on Wednesday, any cuts in public expenditure this year would exclude defence as an area for cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": " ] Well, that is the case for this year. Unfortunately, as each month unfolds the state of the British economy is exposed as being worse and worse and the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, now the Prime Minister, who is responsible for this catastrophe, continues to preside over a failing Government. Bring on the general election, and then we will tell the Minister exactly what we propose to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "money earlier than required when it could be more usefully spent on other things for national defence capability in the meantime. That is the judgment that I made and to which I stick. The exact amount of money depends on contractual negotiations, which are currently proceeding. It is simply not in the national interest for me to answer that question or be drawn into precise figures at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.54.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "Do you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker? I am wholly aware of that fact. I am also aware that the hon. Gentleman's newly adopted party has been in government for 12 years now, and it is about time that it took responsibility for sorting things out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.55.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "Is it not important to place on record that there are 5,000 fewer shipbuilding jobs on the Clyde than in 1997?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "Nothing arouses passions more than SNP Members raising the subject of the Clyde during a debate, because their record is not particularly glowing. In this instance, however, we have lost thousands of jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "nd to the rest of the world if we are already going back on a commitment that was so recently made in this House? It is important for us to know whether the intention is to have three or four submarines. Allowing the House to make decisions at a later stage would have significant advantages. It would send a message to the rest of the world that we were seriously contemplating a nuclear-free world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Effects.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "cally to maintain and repair. I visited in my constituency recently one of the military schools that is training mechanics to repair those vehicles, and they are finding it extremely difficult because they have to learn how to repair so many vehicles. The UOR system produces casualties and, frankly, I think that the FRES programme is one such casualty. It concerns the future rapid equipment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Expectations change faster than the time that lags between placing an initial order and delivery. There are great merits in a common European platform for standard core kit. One benefit of a standard core kit is supporting common European deployments. A good example of that is the humanitarian role that we played in Chad, where 26 countries were represented, all with their own pieces of kit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.88.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-20", "file": "debates2009-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "59121486910f892f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " that I did not say the same when I was a Tory myself—sadly and mistakenly. I am proud to have changed my coat now, by the way, and if the hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) calls me a turncoat every day, I shall be delighted. I am wearing the right coat. I am wearing the coat of the party that now represents all the things that I have believed in for as long as I have been in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-20b.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-21", "file": "debates2009-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7cbd3fcecbaaa8e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "en published. I do not know whether you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, have had the chance to look at the report, but I should say that it extends to 97 pages and, in my submission, represents an important and timely contribution to the debate on these Bills. The report was published by the Government earlier this year and because of its findings I had expected the hon. Member for Manchester, Central—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21a.172.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-21", "file": "debates2009-04-21b.xml", "sha256": "a6415319fc153295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": "I reiterate many of the comments that I made to the hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) . Retrospective planning applications are a fundamental part of our planning process and apply equally—I stress the word \"equally\"—to Gypsies and Travellers and to members of the settled community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-21", "file": "debates2009-04-21b.xml", "sha256": "a6415319fc153295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": "sh;I stress the word \"equally\"—to Gypsies and Travellers and to members of the settled community. [Interruption.] As with the hon. Gentleman's point, the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) knows that I cannot comment on specific matters, but he mentions green belt, and there is an automatic presumption against inappropriate development on green belt land. Gypsies and Travellers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-21", "file": "debates2009-04-21b.xml", "sha256": "a6415319fc153295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.135.4", "colnum": "135", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "us to continue with the scheme, and then we had to put in place the detailed arrangements that underpin it. As for apologising, I am, of course, sorry as always when people lose their homes, but the right hon. Gentleman should know that the scheme is not the only thing that the Government have done. The court protocol has been in place for some time; the legal desk advice that we have given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.135.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-21", "file": "debates2009-04-21b.xml", "sha256": "a6415319fc153295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.136.5", "colnum": "136", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " and, in particular, to the fact that there are already four or five other means of help available, but only to quite a narrowly defined group of people. That is why we thought it necessary to introduce the scheme, but of course it takes time to work up such details. I am not familiar with the figures that the hon. Gentleman quotes, but they must, I think, be wrong. My understanding is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-21", "file": "debates2009-04-21b.xml", "sha256": "a6415319fc153295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "en published. I do not know whether you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, have had the chance to look at the report, but I should say that it extends to 97 pages and, in my submission, represents an important and timely contribution to the debate on these Bills. The report was published by the Government earlier this year and because of its findings I had expected the hon. Member for Manchester, Central—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-21", "file": "debates2009-04-21b.xml", "sha256": "a6415319fc153295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an important point. Obviously, I have not been able to do my own direct research on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-21b.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcd13160531e6b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "and was first founded more than 300 years ago. This Prime Minister has certainly got himself in the history books. He has written a whole chapter in red ink: Labour's decade of debt. The Chancellor rattled through those figures for borrowing, so let me read them slowly. The Government are set to borrow £175 billion this year, followed by £173 billion, and then £140 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcd13160531e6b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "and that is why they forecast the debt coming down so quickly. That would not be a U-shaped recovery; it would be a trampoline recovery. What is the Chancellor's excuse for those dreadful borrowing figures? He just told us that this is a world recession. Of course other countries are suffering, but there is not one single other major country in the world in a position as bad as the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcd13160531e6b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "at the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have had to do a spectacular U-turn. For years they have lectured us about how departing from the Government spending programmes means swingeing cuts. Minister after Minister has stood at that Dispatch Box and said that any attempt to depart from the Government's rate of growth of spending means being savage or inhuman, and now they are doing it themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcd13160531e6b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "e, the Government claim that it is just the rich who will pay—and by the way, he has just broken a manifesto promise not to put up the top rate of tax, but people expect that from this lot anyway—but look at the other taxes. Look at the tax on beer. That is going to hit every drinker in every pub. Look at the tax on petrol. The Government are reintroducing the fuel duty exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcd13160531e6b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "e sales director, and they came along and said, \"I'm sorry, boss, I've got the sales figures over 60 or 70 per cent. out,\" they would be going out of the door rather rapidly. It is no wonder people are sceptical about some of forecasting that goes on when that degree of difference is presented on a year-on-year basis. That is why quarterly reporting is needed, so that we do not have to deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.278.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "dcd13160531e6b87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ney in expenses and showing no restraint whatever. The head of Network Rail earns £1.25 million a year. Adam Crozier of Royal Mail earns almost £1.25 million. Andy Duncan at Channel 4 earns £1,211,000. Where is the pay restraint in the public sector? One lady has just taken over as chairman of Ofcom; she works less than five days a week, and earns more than £200,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.223.8", "colnum": "223", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "I acknowledge the good work that was done yesterday on apprehending fuel launderers along the border, but would the Minister agree that there is a lot of frustration in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.223.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.228.4", "colnum": "228", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "That is exactly why we are taking all the action that we are taking. Unemployment is rising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.228.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Every crisis that has happened since the second world war has been the result of high inflation pushing interest rates up, causing businesses to go bust and forcing people to get unemployed. That has been the traditional economic crisis we have faced, but this current crisis is happening even when inflation is low and interest rates are low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that we are dealing with a banking crisis that has infected the rest of the economy, and if the Conservative party does not face up to that, it will never be able to solve the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that we are dealing with a banking crisis that has infected the rest of the economy, and if the Conservative party does not face up to that, it will never be able to solve the problem. [Interruption.] I am not going to go back to the days of the 1990s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.234.2", "colnum": "234", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to congratulate Luton Town football club on its magnificent victory at Wembley recently?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.236.4", "colnum": "236", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Our duty to people in these difficult times is to invest in the future, and not to cut. Our duty is to be fair to other people, and not to be unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.236.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "d was first founded more than 300 years ago. This Prime Minister has certainly got himself into the history books. He has written a whole chapter in red ink: Labour's decade of debt. The Chancellor rattled through those figures for borrowing, so let me read them slowly. The Government are set to borrow £175 billion this year, followed by £173 billion, and then £140 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "and that is why they forecast the debt coming down so quickly. That would not be a U-shaped recovery; it would be a trampoline recovery. What is the Chancellor's excuse for those dreadful borrowing figures? He just told us that this is a world recession. Of course other countries are suffering, but there is not one single other major country in the world in a position as bad as the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "at the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have had to do a spectacular U-turn. For years they have lectured us about how departing from the Government spending programmes means swingeing cuts. Minister after Minister has stood at that Dispatch Box and said that any attempt to depart from the Government's rate of growth of spending means being savage or inhuman, and now they are doing it themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "e, the Government claim that it is just the rich who will pay—and by the way, he has just broken a manifesto promise not to put up the top rate of tax, but people expect that from this lot anyway—but look at the other taxes. Look at the tax on beer. That is going to hit every drinker in every pub. Look at the tax on petrol. The Government are reintroducing the fuel duty exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.251.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-22", "file": "debates2009-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2110d49f2afbb39f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ney in expenses and showing no restraint whatever. The head of Network Rail earns £1.25 million a year. Adam Crozier of Royal Mail earns almost £1.25 million. Andy Duncan at Channel 4 earns £1,211,000. Where is the pay restraint in the public sector? One lady has just taken over as chairman of Ofcom; she works less than five days a week, and earns more than £200,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-22b.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "b3f27333c3299795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "rtunity to represent a constituency in the House. We could celebrate many more events. For instance, next week is the 80th anniversary of the first woman Cabinet member taking her post; Margaret Bonfield was, appropriately enough, the Minister for Labour; of course, she was a Labour Minister. We are also delighted that it is our side of the House that has produced the first elected black woman MP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "b3f27333c3299795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "stituencies and is tied to business being conducted in Westminster—if one were in one's constituency all the time, there would be no additional expenses. That proposal includes a reasonable rate. I admit that we will not reach a perfect solution, but it would be good if we were to try to find as much agreement as possible. The hon. Gentleman did not mention that it is Shakespeare's birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "b3f27333c3299795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ok at it should be able to do so.\" As there is so much complaint about the issue, I will look at the matter again. This is not about being obstructive. The idea that the House first responds to a request from the Speaker to set up a Speaker's Committee and, shortly afterwards, before the Speaker's Committee has even started its work, asks the Standards and Privileges Committee to look at it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "b3f27333c3299795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.396.5", "colnum": "396", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "lt of the Budget? Almost no one. That is why yesterday was not a route map to recovery but the death rattle of a tired and discredited Government who are limping on until the law of the land actually forces them to hold a general election. Let us look at the components of what a credible and rigorous path for restoring the public finances might look like, and then we can see why the Budget failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.396.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "b3f27333c3299795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but it is there on page 200 of the Red Book. He can read it out if he likes, or I will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "b3f27333c3299795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " he said: \"Any organisation can always be more efficient...We\"— the Government— \"need to be more efficient.\" Anyone listening to that might have been under the impression that the Government were actually taking some of those tough decisions to make things more efficient, but the Chancellor will start to constrain public expenditure only in 2011. I wonder why he picked that date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.399.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "b3f27333c3299795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "n the Finance Bill, so that we can carry on our jousts there. Naturally, I do not agree that the Labour Government have destroyed the economy. He needs to take into account what is going on outside the country. We have had a massive unexpected global banking shock, which has created the first synchronised global downturn and decrease in world gross domestic product since the first world war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, you do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Surprisingly enough, I do not see it that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am all for unconventional thinking, but I say to the hon. Lady that on these sorts of questions, it is best to trust the science.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "tunity to represent a constituency in the House. We could celebrate many more events. For instance, next week is the 80th anniversary of the first woman Cabinet member taking her post; Margaret Bondfield was, appropriately enough, the Minister for Labour; of course, she was a Labour Minister. We are also delighted that it is our side of the House that has produced the first elected black woman MP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "stituencies and is tied to business being conducted in Westminster—if one were in one's constituency all the time, there would be no additional expenses. That proposal includes a reasonable rate. I admit that we will not reach a perfect solution, but it would be good if we were to try to find as much agreement as possible. The hon. Gentleman did not mention that it is Shakespeare's birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ok at it should be able to do so.\" As there is so much complaint about the issue, I will look at the matter again. This is not about being obstructive. The idea that the House first responds to a request from the Speaker to set up a Speaker's Committee and, shortly afterwards, before the Speaker's Committee has even started its work, asks the Standards and Privileges Committee to look at it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.396.6", "colnum": "396", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "lt of the Budget? Almost no one. That is why yesterday was not a route map to recovery but the death rattle of a tired and discredited Government who are limping on until the law of the land actually forces them to hold a general election. Let us look at the components of what a credible and rigorous path for restoring the public finances might look like, and then we can see why the Budget failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.396.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.396.6", "colnum": "396", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "f one yesterday. First, it would involve understanding why the public finances are in such a disastrous state. The Prime Minister is still stuck in the rut of claiming that this is the recession that came from America and hit an otherwise sound British economy. I see the hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Hamilton) nodding his head. He must be about the only person in the world who believes that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.396.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but it is there on page 200 of the Red Book. He can read it out if he likes, or I will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " he said: \"Any organisation can always be more efficient...We\"— the Government— \"need to be more efficient.\" Anyone listening to that might have been under the impression that the Government were actually taking some of those tough decisions to make things more efficient, but the Chancellor will start to constrain public expenditure only in 2011. I wonder why he picked that date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman noticed, but one of the key changes in the Budget is that the tax will be implemented by a Labour Government before the general election. I make it very clear that I cannot make a pledge to reverse that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "rowth is a purely British problem, but the International Monetary Fund has forecast negative world growth for the first time since world war two. That shows the gravity of the situation that we are dealing with. He says that we are worse placed than others, but the IMF showed yesterday that we are faring better this year than Germany, Japan, Italy and the euro area. He says that our deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "this country, is that the limits of fiscal policy—this is a very important point—are to let the automatic stabilisers work. On that point, however, he is pretty much alone: 19 of the 20 G20 countries have put more money into their economies; the Institute of Directors and the CBI support putting extra money into the economy; the managing director of the IMF supports it, too; and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman overdoes it. A more balanced view would be welcome not just from the shadow Chancellor, but from him. We have made significant inroads into child poverty on the most testing definition of relative poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.406.4", "colnum": "406", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "I have a lot of time for the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.408.4", "colnum": "408", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How?", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ernment in supporting these industries of the future; I do not believe that the Conservatives do. Let me turn to the third question, on which, again, the shadow Chancellor did not want to focus—how we face the challenges, including on the public finances, in a way that is fair. We have set out some pretty clear objectives on efficiency savings and plans of how we can get those savings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.408.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " learned Gentleman to issue a statement saying that actually he got it completely wrong and that that was the priority at this stage of the recession. The shadow Chancellor rolls his eyes from a sedentary position, but it is a fair question to ask: does he really think that spending some £600 million on the richest estates in the country, on millionaires, is the right priority at the moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-23", "file": "debates2009-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "dda100d22777339e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "n the Finance Bill, so that we can carry on our jousts there. Naturally, I do not agree that the Labour Government have destroyed the economy. He needs to take into account what is going on outside the country. We have had a massive unexpected global banking shock, which has created the first synchronised global downturn and decrease in world gross domestic product since the first world war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-23b.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-24", "file": "debates2009-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "5fe83112ce6e3fe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " English men, as they watched the doings of the stupendous revolution in industry and commerce which engrossed the energies, stimulated and governed the activity of the middle- and working-class from 1770 onwards.\" Robert Owen is, of course, a key figure, but many have traced the origins of co-operation or mutuality to a much earlier history. Indeed, there is even a reference that in 203 AD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-24", "file": "debates2009-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "5fe83112ce6e3fe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "aing) has said, several specialists have confirmed that. The hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Linda Gilroy) pointed out that some people might have concerns that this might develop into a condition, and I understand that, but there comes a point at which one has to say that an unreasonable fear cannot be compensated for—and, indeed, at which it would be unreasonable to ask for compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-24", "file": "debates2009-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "b9345d5ae0c589ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24b.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " English men, as they watched the doings of the stupendous revolution in industry and commerce which engrossed the energies, stimulated and governed the activity of the middle- and working-class from 1770 onwards.\" Robert Owen is, of course, a key figure, but many have traced the origins of co-operation or mutuality to a much earlier history. Indeed, there is even a reference that in 203 AD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24b.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-24", "file": "debates2009-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "b9345d5ae0c589ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24b.494.0", "colnum": "494", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": " are too many societies in the register, including dormant societies, people will be able to be reassured that a society is a valid organisation that is not being used for wrongful purposes. As I said earlier, the Bill also gives the Treasury powers to make provisions for credit unions correspond to any provisions applying to building societies. I have yet to find a word of criticism for the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24b.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-24", "file": "debates2009-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "b9345d5ae0c589ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24b.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "aing) has said, several specialists have confirmed that. The hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Linda Gilroy) pointed out that some people might have concerns that this might develop into a condition, and I understand that, but there comes a point at which one has to say that an unreasonable fear cannot be compensated for—and, indeed, at which it would be unreasonable to ask for compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24b.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-24", "file": "debates2009-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "b9345d5ae0c589ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24b.537.4", "colnum": "537", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I hear what my hon. Friend says, but earlier the hon. Member for Hendon did raise that point by saying that it is a question of cause and effect, and without recognition that pleural plaques are a cause for concern, there would be no basis for any legal action. I wonder whether that is the case. I would have thought that the link could be established anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-24b.537.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8682dadc0d8fc707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "is would have been visible and palpable to him—that I did not appreciate the leaks that took place. But the last party and the last individuals in the country to complain about leaks should be the Opposition and their Front Benchers. They actively encourage leaking, and they need to bear that in mind. They want a culture of leaking, in which people are not loyal to the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8682dadc0d8fc707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27a.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "e shadow spokesman for Innovation, Universities and Skills has already warned the colleges not to rely on the Conservatives to match even our previous spending plans for 2010-11. It is because they have made such a fundamental misjudgment about the nature of the challenge that they cannot match the measures that I have outlined. That is why the choice is so important. The Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27a.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8682dadc0d8fc707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27a.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "his country through the downturn. I believe that it is right for that money to come from those who are now in a position to be able to pay—those who have benefited most from the good times of the past 10 years. I recently surveyed my constituents through my annual report, and 80 per cent. of respondents agreed that a higher rate of tax on those earning more than £150,000 was justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27a.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.562.4", "colnum": "562", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "re a whole list of a series of meetings that I, officials and the Secretary of State had with officials from the QCA, including Ken Boston. There was one problem when I recollected his presence wrongly as regards two meetings a fortnight apart. At the second meeting, on 2 July , I met Ken Boston and David Gee. I previously met David Gee and I previously met Ken Boston on all those occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "is would have been visible and palpable to him—that I did not appreciate the leaks that took place. But the last party and the last individuals in the country to complain about leaks should be the Opposition and their Front Benchers. They actively encourage leaking, and they need to bear that in mind. They want a culture of leaking, in which people are not loyal to the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.573.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I can give my right hon. Friend that assurance. Two of the three cases under examination involve people from Scotland. I spoke to Nicola Sturgeon yesterday and again today. She has acted with admirable promptness and has been extremely co-operative. We will work together on this, because it is otherwise no good talking about international co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "e shadow spokesman for Innovation, Universities and Skills has already warned the colleges not to rely on the Conservatives to match even our previous spending plans for 2010-11. It is because they have made such a fundamental misjudgment about the nature of the challenge that they cannot match the measures that I have outlined. That is why the choice is so important. The Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "y whose public finances were deteriorating and becoming unsustainable even in the boom years before the credit crunch. We were the only country that sailed into the whole crisis with a serious public debt problem, which is why we cannot afford even the modest fiscal stimulus that has been applied by the Government. It is countries in surplus that should apply a fiscal stimulus, not this one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "es in surplus that should apply a fiscal stimulus, not this one— [ Interruption. ] I am asked to name a country that has not applied a fiscal stimulus—Ireland and Iceland, which are suitable comparisons for a country that has been governed by new Labour for the past 12 years and had an acute fiscal crisis before the dip even started. That is what the Budget should have addressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "to state clearly whether he supports the Chancellor's VAT cut. He went on BBC television and said that he did support it, and there was some confusion afterwards, even among some of his fellow Front Benchers. I would welcome it if he took the opportunity to clear that up. While he is putting that straight, will he at least accept some part of his party's responsibility for what has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.614.4", "colnum": "614", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "talk about in the Budget, but in the 12 minutes that I have, I want to address specifically the 50p income tax rate which, rightly, has been the subject of a lot of comment and debate since its announcement by the Chancellor last Wednesday. I am told that when the proposal was put to the various focus groups that political parties use nowadays, it received broad support as a popular measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.614.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "an others. The countries that are particularly affected are those with trade surpluses, because they are starting to lose export orders. We are the other way round and we do not have that problem; we have others. Let me come to taxation and public expenditure. The bleatings of a handful of the mega-rich and their media friends about the 50 per cent. top rate are, quite frankly, pathetic and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "his country through the downturn. I believe that it is right for that money to come from those who are now in a position to be able to pay—those who have benefited most from the good times of the past 10 years. I recently surveyed my constituents through my annual report, and 80 per cent. of respondents agreed that a higher rate of tax on those earning more than £150,000 was justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it was not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "lf of that charge, inasmuch as there has been massive capital and social investment by the Government in the past 12 years, but I recognise the first half of it. In spite of the \"golden legacy\" rhetoric that we got from the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe today, those on the Conservative Benches, by using that phrase repeatedly, accept the fact that the roof was leaking in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-27", "file": "debates2009-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "32e194243a4f2d8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "PEDESTRIAN CROSSING INSTALLATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Paul Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Clark", "preceding_text": "I understand the right hon. Gentleman's point, but almost no two crossings will involve exactly the same costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-27b.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what has happened in my Department—we have reduced back office jobs by 30,000 to 100,000. The right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) opposed that because she wants to present easy arguments about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "cause of the tax deferral policy that we have put in place, £2 billion has been deferred. That is helping 100,000 companies and more than 600,000 people. Because of the policies that we are putting in place overall, we think that 500,000 people are having their jobs protected. Because the hon. Gentleman's party is against that extra help, the consequences under his policy would be far worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "ower than that of the United States. The amount of people on disability benefits and unemployment benefits in this country is lower than international levels. Of course we want to do more to reduce it, and we have a policy precisely to do that—a policy that the right hon. Lady's new colleague, David Freud, said was remarkable. I am sure that she shares the view that our record is remarkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": " support in terms of giving people help to set up a company or providing the golden hello of up to £2,500. The extra guarantee is that we will say to everybody that within a year they will be offered a job or a training place. Already, more than 80 per cent. of people get back into work within a year, but this is a new guarantee that everybody will be offered a job or a training place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "than 80 per cent. of people get back into work within a year, but this is a new guarantee that everybody will be offered a job or a training place— [ Interruption. ] We are not wasting a year: we offer people help and training from day one. We have access to the advisory discretionary fund from day one, and we help them with CVs from day one. We refer them to jobs clubs early in their—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "en so complacent earlier about rising unemployment, perhaps we would have seen that help coming through earlier. If he had been honest with himself about the level of worklessness, perhaps he would not have had to make plans last November to cut the new deal across half the country this summer. Indeed, if the Government had taken action when unemployment started to rise more than a year ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "come into government, we shall ensure that there is extra money available to help the unemployed, because we shall put through the welfare reform proposals that the Secretary of State has tried to copy but has been extremely timid about. They would mean that money can be used to pay for programmes to get people into work at a rather quicker rate than he would do under his welfare reform proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "world economy remains widely unacknowledged, despite the evidence of world trade falling faster than it did at the onset of the 1930s great depression, and despite industrial production plunging all over the world, including in the UK. There is reluctance on the Conservative Benches to admit that this recession is different from every other post-war recession, both in its origins and in its scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.794.4", "colnum": "794", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ut early enough. He clearly thought, as he left No. 11 in the summer of 2007, that he was safely in the latter category, but, as his legacy crumbles around him, the British public can now see that he is not only firmly in the former category, but in a sub-class of spectacular and cataclysmic failure all of his own. This Government inherited the best economic legacy of any Government since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.794.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "an, who rejected his request for an investigation and said Dr. Lewis had acted 'in good faith' on the advice of the District Council officer in charge of electoral registration. Mr. Kernaghan wrote to the MP: 'I sincerely hope that [Mr. Scriven] will decide to move on, as it is my personal view that this \"complaint\" does not enhance our collective respect for democracy and the electoral process.'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More! More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " the heels of an even shorter dalliance as a trustee of an educational charity—the Vocational Training Charitable Trust—to whose board he had been formally elected at an annual general meeting on 4 October 2005 . Such was his disruptive behaviour that, after attending only two meetings, he was twice asked to resign by the other trustees. He did so on 6 December , only two months later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "r such bodies have a lifelong obligation of confidentiality towards them, the reverse is also true. I can only apologise to them, to the chief constable of Hampshire, to Sir Neil Thorne, and to everyone else whose valuable time is being wasted by intrusive and inappropriate correspondence from this person, who likes to describe himself as the \"prospective Member of Parliament\" for my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28b.xml", "sha256": "581bbbd8e745560e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "bout Terry Scriven's antics in a special section of my website so people can read them and make up their own minds. Despite the co-operation of a certain sort of journalist, I do not think that Mr. Scriven will succeed in the end, but as he has to some extent poisoned the politics of New Forest, East, I thank the House for this opportunity to expose his behaviour and to set it on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28b.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.688.7", "colnum": "688", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "That must be a matter for the management and shareholders of those organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.688.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.689.8", "colnum": "689", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This time!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Kelvin Hopkins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.689.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.689.9", "colnum": "689", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has wisely relaxed the rule on public borrowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.689.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman asked about the establishment. There are no plans to take any further cuts in the establishment. Indeed, the report proposes increases in the establishment of the other services—the naval and air reserves. However, the figures for the deletions that are being made in the Signals Regiments amount to around 2,000 individuals. Of course, that would come off the establishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "There is someone else who wants to run away from the consequences of his party's policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "Clearly, we want to help people get back into work as quickly as possible, and the tax credits policy is intended precisely to help women in that situation so that they can have extra work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "The problem with the right hon. Lady's argument is that she opposes even the efficiency savings that we have made in the past few years. We have saved £2 billion a year through extra efficiency savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "our three-year plan in the next couple of weeks exactly how we will continue to do that. We will continue to save on IT, telephony and estates. We have reduced jobs in back offices and put them in the front line, where they are most needed. The right hon. Lady opposed all those changes, which shows that the Conservatives want to talk generally about saving but have no idea about how to achieve it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what has happened in my Department—we have reduced back-office jobs by 30,000 to 100,000. The right hon. Member for Maidenhead opposed that because she wants to present easy arguments about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "against the fiscal stimulus in the Budget. More than 6,000 people have already been referred to that help. She criticises us for not doing that quickly enough; under her it would not happen at all. The right hon. Lady goes around talking about the flexible new deal. The Budget means that we can invest hundreds of millions of pounds extra to secure the flexible new deal. We will deliver that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "undreds of millions of pounds extra to secure the flexible new deal. We will deliver that— [ Interruption. ] It has gone up because, owing to the world recession, we predict that there will be an increase in numbers. She, I am sure, agrees with that. We are putting more money in; she would not do that. If she were now Secretary of State, which would be a terrible thing, she would have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "cause of the tax deferral policy that we have put in place, £2 billion has been deferred. That is helping 100,000 companies and more than 600,000 people. Because of the policies that we are putting in place overall, we think that the jobs of 500,000 people are being protected. Because the hon. Gentleman's party is against that extra help, the consequences under his policy would be far worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady knows perfectly well that the number of people overall has increased and the rate is actually down. She knows perfectly well that there has been an increase in the number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady knows perfectly well that the number of people overall has increased and the rate is actually down. She knows perfectly well that there has been an increase in the number— [ Interruption. ] Will she confirm that she knows that there has been an increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady knows perfectly well that the number of people overall has increased and the rate is actually down. She knows perfectly well that there has been an increase in the number— [ Interruption. ] Will she confirm that she knows that there has been an increase— [ Interruption. ] No, this is a debate that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.728.3", "colnum": "728", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "on the Conservative Front Bench do not want to welcome this policy, because to do so would be to recognise that their policy would involve doing less than the Government are doing. But perhaps they would like to take advice from the Conservative chair of the Local Government Association, who said that that fund was \"excellent news\". She continued, and I could not have put this better myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman does not want to hear the consequences of his policy, and that is not surprising. He wants to pretend that it is possible to cut spending now and not have less to spend on helping unemployed people now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman does not want to hear the consequences of his policy, and that is not surprising. He wants to pretend that it is possible to cut spending now and not have less to spend on helping unemployed people now. [Interruption.] It is not rubbish; it is exactly what happened in the 1980s and in the 1990s, and it would happen again if his party ever got back into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "an that of the United States. The level of people on disability benefits and unemployment benefits in this country is lower than international levels. Of course we want to do more to reduce that level, and we have a policy precisely to do that—a policy that the right hon. Lady's new colleague, David Freud, said was remarkable. I am sure that she shares the view that our record is remarkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "the extra support by giving people help to set up a company or providing the golden hello of up to £2,500. The extra guarantee is that we will say to everybody that within a year they will be offered a job or a training place. Already, more than 80 per cent. of people get back into work within a year, but this is a new guarantee that everybody will be offered a job or a training place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "than 80 per cent. of people get back into work within a year, but this is a new guarantee that everybody will be offered a job or a training place— [ Interruption. ] We are not wasting a year: we offer people help and training from day one. We have access to the advisory discretionary fund from day one, and we help them with CVs from day one. We refer them to jobs clubs early in their—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "en so complacent earlier about rising unemployment, perhaps we would have seen that help coming through earlier. If he had been honest with himself about the level of worklessness, perhaps he would not have had to make plans last November to cut the new deal across half the country this summer. Indeed, if the Government had taken action when unemployment started to rise more than a year ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "me into government, we shall ensure that there is extra money available to help the unemployed, because we shall put through the welfare reform proposals that the Secretary of State has tried to copy but has been extremely timid about. They would mean that money could be used to pay for programmes to get people into work at a rather quicker rate than he would do under his welfare reform proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "well that those were Government proposals that the Conservatives decided to try to copy. She cannot say that she will spend more on welfare reform and more on unemployment and that, magically, the money will somehow come from the City. She may have noticed that it is quite hard to raise money from the City at the moment. It is absolutely impossible for her to say that she will raise welfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Once again the Government seem to have a fantasy idea of the official Opposition's position on borrowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "I must correct the right hon. Lady. She is completely wrong. We will guarantee the help no matter how much unemployment increases. She fails to understand our policy and is trying to use figures to create a smokescreen to hide the fact that she simply has no policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. The way in which the Government have failed to accept the problems that young people are facing as a result of their policies is a betrayal of young people. The issue is not just about further education colleges and university places; between August 2008 and this January, there were 4,000 fewer apprenticeship starts for 18 to 24-year-olds than in the same period in the previous year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "world economy remains widely unacknowledged, despite the evidence of world trade falling faster than it did at the onset of the 1930s great depression, and despite industrial production plunging all over the world, including in the UK. There is reluctance on the Conservative Benches to admit that this recession is different from every other post-war recession, both in its origins and in its scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "e banks. It pains me to criticise the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) because she presented her case with some charm, if little conviction. There was a time when we had 3 million unemployed under the Conservative Government. We were told then that \"the lady's not for turning.\" Today, it was a case of the lady's not for telling. We did not hear much more about the Opposition's policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.756.2", "colnum": "756", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "will tell you what we did, Madam Deputy Speaker. In my constituency alone, there has been one new school for every year of this Government—a record of which I am immensely proud. We demolished the schools: we razed them to the ground and built brand new ones. This week I visited Coatbridge college in my constituency. When Opposition Members have time to go and see how real people live—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "ons. They would document all the communities in our land—that does not get done in better times—while battling the scourge of unemployment in current times. The article was so inspiring—I tell everyone to google \"A New Deal of the Mind\"—that it received much cross-party support. There was another bit of a do at No. 11 Downing street to launch the new deal of the mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.794.4", "colnum": "794", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ut early enough. He clearly thought, as he left No. 11 in the summer of 2007, that he was safely in the latter category, but, as his legacy crumbles around him, the British public can now see that he is not only firmly in the former category, but in a sub-class of spectacular and cataclysmic failure all of his own. This Government inherited the best economic legacy of any Government since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.794.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": " Front Benchers the opportunity to intervene—Back Benchers may also want to do so—to tell us whether they support the £5 billion of additional investment to help the unemployed. The right hon. Lady said that she did, yet the shadow Chancellor has said that he does not. Do they support extra investment to support the unemployed, or not? Do they support the fiscal stimulus, or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "a investment to support the unemployed, or not? Do they support the fiscal stimulus, or not? [ Interruption. ] They are saying that it is not £5 billion. We have set out £5 billion of additional spending over this year and next as part of the pre-Budget report, and yet Conservative Members refuse to support it. Let us turn to business, where the same question applies. The shadow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Chief Secretary should be allowed to address the House properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "MEMBERS' HOME ADDRESSES", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "an, who rejected his request for an investigation and said Dr. Lewis had acted 'in good faith' on the advice of the District Council officer in charge of electoral registration. Mr. Kernaghan wrote to the MP: 'I sincerely hope that [Mr. Scriven] will decide to move on, as it is my personal view that this 'complaint' does not enhance our collective respect for democracy and the electoral process.'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "MEMBERS' HOME ADDRESSES", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More! More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " the heels of an even shorter dalliance as a trustee of an educational charity—the Vocational Training Charitable Trust—to whose board he had been formally elected at an annual general meeting on 4 October 2005 . Such was his disruptive behaviour that, after attending only two meetings, he was twice asked to resign by the other trustees. He did so on 6 December , only two months later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "MEMBERS' HOME ADDRESSES", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "r such bodies have a lifelong obligation of confidentiality towards them, the reverse is also true. I can only apologise to them, to the chief constable of Hampshire, to Sir Neil Thorne, and to everyone else whose valuable time is being wasted by intrusive and inappropriate correspondence from this person, who likes to describe himself as the \"prospective Member of Parliament\" for my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "MEMBERS' HOME ADDRESSES", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "bout Terry Scriven's antics in a special section of my website so people can read them and make up their own minds. Despite the co-operation of a certain sort of journalist, I do not think that Mr. Scriven will succeed in the end, but as he has to some extent poisoned the politics of New Forest, East, I thank the House for this opportunity to expose his behaviour and to set it on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-28", "file": "debates2009-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "0cc40de87d77d170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "MEMBERS' HOME ADDRESSES", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " never known anyone be quite so public about being private about their address. I can be dispassionate on this issue as mine is the only constituency in the country in which both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have lost their deposits on the same occasion. I, too, increased my majority at the last election, and I am sure that that had nothing to do with anything on the internet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-28c.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "058556bdfca12685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "tion helmet. If he fulfils his pledge to the Commonwealth servicemen that they will have the rights that he wishes the Gurkhas to have, his policy for a cap on immigration would have severe implications for tiers 1 and 2 of the new points-based system. In fact, we calculate that the numbers would wipe out tier 1 all together. I look forward to the hon. Gentleman trying to square that circle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "058556bdfca12685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "for tiers 1 and 2 of the new points-based system. In fact, we calculate that the numbers would wipe out tier 1 all together. I look forward to the hon. Gentleman trying to square that circle— [ Interruption. ] It is characteristic of him that he chunters rather than answers the question. The Conservatives' policy would involve a cap as well as a separate tier. The hon. Gentleman asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29a.990.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "There is also the value of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.865.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.865.7", "colnum": "865", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I think that Members should remember that the whole country is looking at our proceedings, and I think also that the whole country wants us to take the action that is necessary to clean up any problems and any abuses that exist in our system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.865.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Statement, the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Obama.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "efore, is possible. Six co-ordination centres exist at the moment, and we need to do more to expand co-operation between the Afghan army and the Pakistan army—police numbers are limited, but we must ensure that they co-operate in future as well. Next week, President Karzai of Afghanistan and President Zardari of Pakistan will go together to Washington for a meeting with President Bush—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman's party has been consistent on the Gurkhas—I have recognised that—in contrast with the Conservative party, which I shall come on to with great relish. I am setting out the position to tackle the accusation that, somehow or other, the Government have not treated the Gurkhas fairly or properly, although I accept that he has not made that accusation, and I am grateful to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.899.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "dge, Justice Blake, said: \"The identification of July 1997 . . . was not an arbitrary or irrational consideration.\" He went on to say that \"it cannot have been irrational or unjustifiable to distinguish July 1997 as the date after which rights as opposed to discretion to settle in the United Kingdom accrued.\" So we have a judgment from the judge that the 1997 cut-off date is fair and lawful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "sion in the past because of a disability or an injury, reflect the quantity and quality of service. I put those criteria before the House in the belief and expectation that more Gurkhas and their families will be granted settlement rights in our country, and with the review that my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley, North and Sefton, East (Mr. Howarth) asked for and has just pressed me on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "shaky U-turn. If a large number of people leave Nepal, and there is the impact that my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) mentioned, it could flip the Nepalese Government back into stopping the recruitment of Gurkhas to the British Army. Will the hon. Gentleman tell me clearly what discussions he has had with the Government of Nepal, or their representatives, about whether changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "Can I finish my sentence first?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.909.5", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "As I said, as the hon. Lady would have heard had she been listening, there would be a presumption in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.909.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I would do exactly what my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) outlined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.914.3", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "o any great detail about them, but I want to say a word about one, perhaps the most objectionable—the 20 years' service requirement and the extent to which, as my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford pointed out, it favours the officer class. The Under-Secretary now shakes his head. His rebuttal of the point was that more other ranks than officers had served for more than 20 years before 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now move on to a debate on Sri Lanka, and I must advise the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": " to have committed war crimes in this conflict will be in danger of arrest, prosecution and punishment wherever they go for the rest of their lives. For once, it is welcome that the Foreign Secretary is not joining us for a Liberal Democrat Opposition day debate. Although we hope to hear from him in the House tomorrow on the subject of Sri Lanka, I am sure the whole House will wish him well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.983.2", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I understand the hon. Gentleman's anxiety, and I called him to speak right away because of the case in his constituency, but he must understand that this is a statement, and that there are other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.983.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.985.6", "colnum": "985", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "If there is any doubt, the upper school is, I believe, in the constituency of the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen) and the lower school in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Mr. Sanders) , and the child concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.985.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " we have collectively recognised that debt. It is also good that Ministers recognised so quickly that they needed a new policy, and I can see that the Minister could give us only a holding statement today. The test that we will now apply is whether that policy meets the needs of the Gurkhas and their supporters. Will Ministers be able to look Gurkhas in the eye and say, \"We are being fair to you\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ration helmet. If he fulfils his pledge to the Commonwealth servicemen that they will have the rights that he wishes the Gurkhas to have, his policy for a cap on immigration would have severe implications for tiers 1 and 2 of the new points-based system. In fact, we calculate that the numbers would wipe out tier 1 altogether. I look forward to the hon. Gentleman trying to square that circle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "s for tiers 1 and 2 of the new points-based system. In fact, we calculate that the numbers would wipe out tier 1 altogether. I look forward to the hon. Gentleman trying to square that circle— [ Interruption. ] It is characteristic of him that he chunters rather than answers the question. The Conservatives' policy would involve a cap as well as a separate tier. The hon. Gentleman asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am going to gently interrupt the hon. Gentleman. I have made a ruling that Front-Bench Members should not monopolise the questioning session in statements. The Liberals get three minutes, but we are now into four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "se issues closely, but I have to disagree with his interpretation. Our view is that we have accepted the spirit of the judgment that related to the guidelines. The debate and the dispute have been about the 1997 cut-off. I respect the debate and his point of view which, again, has been consistent, but for the record it is unfair to say that the Government did not accept the spirit of the judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-29", "file": "debates2009-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "7acf7e4f7381b620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Thank you. I pay tribute to the role of my hon. Friend and his colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) . I am aware of the importance of the issue in Blackpool—Britain's finest tourist destination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-29b.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "7a557858c91d2de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "preceding_text": "Can the Leader of the House assist those Members who wish to come to work by public transport? The pavements and roads around Parliament square have been dug up, fenced off and left abandoned, resulting in significant traffic congestion and danger to pedestrians. Will she therefore make representations to the appropriate authorities to find out how long this will last?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "7a557858c91d2de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30a.1068.6", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. In light of the clarification in your ruling, it would be open to the House, having agreed to amendment (j), to realise that it could give effect to an equivalent amendment for all the other motions by simply defeating the remaining motions, would it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "7a557858c91d2de0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way any more. Members might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker—almost overlooked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1022.4", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "n. and hon. Member can clearly argue for the priority that would most fit their case, but my comment is that we should have, so far as possible, a set of criteria that people would think fair. As Sir Andrew Foster set out, we are in a position where expectations were raised in a much larger number of colleges than could be met, albeit with the record expenditure of £2.3 billion that we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1022.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "The £300 million is about one twentieth of the amount required to meet the expectations of those colleges that have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "eed to do is set the framework within which universities operate. Most important, from our point of view, has been the massive increase in real funding of the higher education sector, both for teaching and research, over the past 10 years. I am afraid that that is in sharp contrast to the period when his party was last in power, when funding per student fell by 30 per cent. in a very short period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1027.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go on!", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": " make the largest possible number of opportunities available to young people, whatever their aspirations. We have expanded higher education, we are funding more places this September, we are investing hugely in ensuring that young people who are long-term unemployed are guaranteed training or a job, and we are investing extra money in apprenticeships. I do not wish to be partisan about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1039.4", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point. Whether it is mostly women—and some men—who get melanoma skin cancer from sun beds, hazardous chemicals having a terrible effect on women's fingernails, breast enlargement surgery or facelifts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1039.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his point of order. I do not regard motions 2 to 6 as directly contingent on motion 1, or in direct contradiction to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1068.5", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Let me just press on with my argument, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1068.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1068.7", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's Committee has tabled amendments saying that we should not go ahead now to deal with the question of outer-London Members' eligibility for the additional costs allowance—to take action now on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1068.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1068.7", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's Committee has tabled amendments saying that we should not go ahead now to deal with the question of outer-London Members' eligibility for the additional costs allowance—to take action now on them. [Hon. Members: \"No!\"] Look, let me just get on with my argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1068.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way any more. Members might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1071.7", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " would need to be receipts for all claims. I really do think that that is something sensible which we could decide for ourselves now. Finally, motion 6 would allow the Members Estimate Committee, which already has the power to amend resolutions of the House, to amend the Green Book. It has been a great concern for us to see the reputation of the House suffer over the issue of our allowances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1071.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"But—\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "hat committee is that it should set itself above the fever and anger of the day-to-day world and embrace the highest possible principles that should govern our proceedings. It is the Committee on Standards in Public Life, not the committee for public opinion on public life. We have seen a lot of political goings-on over the past few days, and I do not want to score political points and make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1075.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-04-30", "file": "debates2009-04-30b.xml", "sha256": "1ed5b25703021d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In order to help the hon. Gentleman, it was explained earlier that the following motions can be voted against. The House can negate them if it so wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-04-30b.1126.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-05", "file": "debates2009-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e8805c1d4a13815b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-05a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "g the Committee through the night, finishing the Bill despite there being a full day left in the programme. What about the learning? Well, perhaps Labour Back Benchers on the Committee need to learn that Thursday Committee sittings start at 9 am and that they should get out of bed a little earlier. I want to thank my hon. Friends the Members for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) and for Beverly Hills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-05a.131.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-05", "file": "debates2009-05-05b.xml", "sha256": "7a57faa80ede5ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-05b.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Sale of Mobile Homes (Interviews)", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": " to undo the errors of wayward Ministers—and we will have to do that again later this evening as the Government try to reverse three defeats incurred in Committee on three technical Government amendments. Those defeats were caused by the fact that a number of Labour Members failed to turn up in time for a 9 am start. On the substance of the new clauses, these are important provisions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-05b.34.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-05", "file": "debates2009-05-05b.xml", "sha256": "7a57faa80ede5ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-05b.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Sale of Mobile Homes (Interviews)", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "o show how they will make those apprenticeships a reality. They have made the promise, but they have not put forward the mechanisms with which to deliver it. I appeal to the Secretary of State to give schools more freedom and to get apprenticeships going, because politics is not about winning or about power; it is about trying to make a positive difference and trying to make people's lives better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-05b.137.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "9dc997913a5f7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "traction of up to 5 per cent. That is absolutely devastating for people who are losing their jobs, for businesses that are closing and for some people's standards of living, but it does mean that 95 per cent. of those in the work force are carrying on working. In terms of where we are as an advanced western industrial capitalist country, we need to bear in mind how deep the trough of this bust is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "9dc997913a5f7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "May I begin with an apology, Madam Deputy Speaker? I missed some of the speeches that followed the opening of the debate, but I am afraid that I was receiving the award of an Industry and Parliament Trust fellowship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "9dc997913a5f7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "t was a sustainable level of public borrowing and public debt. In this year's Budget, public net debt was expected to be 39 per cent. of GDP this year but it is now put at 59 per cent., increasing to 79 per cent. by 2013-14. I know that that outcome puts Britain only in the middle of the advanced economies in terms of the percentage debt to GDP ratio—an argument often used by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "9dc997913a5f7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "ange rate and understand that he is talking out of his backside. Tourism is called the hidden giant of the economy—it is the fifth biggest industry, and it seems to be hidden from Parliament as well. For every £1 that we spend abroad, £25 is brought into our economy. I understand that the Minister hosted an event at the Treasury not too long ago, and if I can catch his eye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "9dc997913a5f7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "d many communities within it. The bid would place particular emphasis on more extra care and bungalow accommodation for the elderly. It is essential that, if the Minister does just one thing tonight, it is to give me an indication that when he comes to sign off these bids—I understand that there could be double the number of applications—he will approve that one bid for Stoke-on-Trent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06a.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.154.5", "colnum": "154", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an important point. An international financial crisis is sweeping across the globe, but, despite that, the Scottish Government will continue to receive increased funding—an extra £700 million next year. That is a very important statement of intent of continued support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.154.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "Of course people will have different views about the right date on which to change the rate. We have specified a date to give businesses certainty, so that they can plan. The most important thing that businesses need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " the Budget until after the G20, because the Prime Minister had intended to announce a major fiscal stimulus, which he could present as part of a wider plan delivered by him on his saving the world agenda. That plan was dashed by the Governor of the Bank of England on 24 March when he gave evidence to the Treasury Committee and told the Prime Minister what we had been telling him for months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "tor investment. The right hon. Lady did not take the opportunity to confirm in her intervention that public sector investment as a percentage of GDP will halve. It will halve over the coming years—I do not think that the Government have been shouting that from the rooftops. We believe that Crossrail is a good project. It fits very well with our agenda of improving rail infrastructure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "has added a 30 per cent. premium on top of that—and on a bottle of spirits by 47p. During the Bill's Committee stage, we shall attempt to force the Government again at least to consider and evaluate a smart alcohol taxation regime, focusing on the greatest burden associated with problem drinking, such as alcopops, high-strength beers and ciders, and using the proceeds to reduce duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "look at what has happened in Australia and Germany, where that approach has been used to good effect. The Government should seriously consider introducing such a system here, instead of using health concerns as a cover for a blanket tax rise on responsible drinkers. Clauses 15 and 16, which the Chief Secretary did not mention, set the fuel duty rates for this year, with a two-stage increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " the Government have missed an opportunity not just to impose an extra tax on motorists, but to consider a fair fuel stabiliser, as proposed by my hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor. The Government are proposing to increase taxes now, when oil prices are somewhat lower. They have presented no mechanism for protecting the motorist against the effects of pump price increases if oil prices rise again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " finds this so amusing. Instead of a flat increase, as the Government propose, it is a perfectly sensible proposal to introduce an increase now that is linked to a set baseline price of oil, so that as the price of oil increases the Government moderate the level of tax and mitigate the increase in price at the pump that the motorist and the business user pay—changed perhaps every six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "The Scottish Nationalist Member tells me to keep it short when coming up with ways to try to balance the Budget. I am afraid that that will not do. It is all very saying that, but one day the taps will have to be turned down a little bit in Scotland. We cannot go on spending so far above our means. When the hon. Gentleman says, \"Keep it short,\" he is showing a complete lack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": " afraid that that will not do. It is all very saying that, but one day the taps will have to be turned down a little bit in Scotland. We cannot go on spending so far above our means. When the hon. Gentleman says, \"Keep it short,\" he is showing a complete lack— [ Interruption. ] Perhaps I need to go through this again: we are borrowing £480 million every day, so just a few little—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "On that precise point, I have been reading the Conservatives' \"Quality of Life\" report, commissioned by the Leader of the Opposition and written by a Conservative candidate. It was designed to tell us what the Conservative party would do in government, and its message on the macro-economy was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.214.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.215.8", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "mptions. However, it is up to her to decide whether she is able to carry on in her post. As Scottish National party Members and others noted, Britain needs some serious measures to weather the storm. The Conservative party is so hamstrung that it is unable to make the necessary suggestions. Indeed, if Conservative Members had had their way, the deficit would have been even bigger than it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.215.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "Of course there would be costs attached to that measure, but my party has identified how it would pay for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "ning proposals that should be in the Chancellor's Budget on Wednesday. I was delighted that you proposed a doubling of the annual tax threshold to £10,000. I have been advocating a similar proposal...Until now I have felt a very lonely voice...I am glad that at least one Party is now in agreement!\" That letter was from Norman Tebbit. The point that I am trying to make is that the idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.218.5", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "No, I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman several times as well. Shall we all move on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "traction of up to 5 per cent. That is absolutely devastating for people who are losing their jobs, for businesses that are closing and for some people's standards of living, but it does mean that 95 per cent. of those in the work force are carrying on working. In terms of where we are as an advanced western industrial capitalist country, we need to bear in mind how deep the trough of this bust is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, a Parliamentary Private Secretary from the Labour Benches, is chuntering. Perhaps he does not care enough about the direct loss of 9,000 jobs because of cuts made by a UK Labour Government to the Scottish Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "May I begin with an apology, Madam Deputy Speaker? I missed some of the speeches that followed the opening of the debate, but I am afraid that I was receiving the award of an Industry and Parliament Trust fellowship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "t was a sustainable level of public borrowing and public debt. In this year's Budget, public net debt was expected to be 39 per cent. of GDP this year but it is now put at 59 per cent., increasing to 79 per cent. by 2013-14. I know that that outcome puts Britain only in the middle of the advanced economies in terms of the percentage debt to GDP ratio—an argument often used by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery)", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": " to yesteryear to talk about the time of Margaret Thatcher, rather than focusing on the difficult issues of today. I clicked on to YouTube to see the Prime Minister's latest performance; this time it was a party political broadcast about the European elections. I do not think that the word \"Europe\" was mentioned once in the broadcast—it was an attack on the Conservatives through and through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.255.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-06", "file": "debates2009-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "e1ca4a20fb9bbab6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "HOUSING (STOKE-ON-TRENT)", "cue_speaker": "Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "d many communities within it. The bid would place particular emphasis on more extra care and bungalow accommodation for the elderly. It is essential that, if the Minister does just one thing tonight, it is to give me an indication that when he comes to sign off these bids—I understand that there could be double the number of applications—he will approve that one bid for Stoke-on-Trent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-06b.318.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-07", "file": "debates2009-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "67bc041f56edcc90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-07a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "y this, but I had not realised that he was Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee's counter-terrorism sub-Committee. That is significant for me, because in that context I deem him to be not a Back Bencher but the Chairman of a significant parliamentary Committee, meaning in turn that I have the distinction, whether I like it or not, of being the only Back Bencher to speak in this important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-07a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-07", "file": "debates2009-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "7965cca733576254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-07b.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e House as expressed in our debate last week. I will look for an opportunity to debate child protection. As a number of issues come together in this important matter, we might need to have a topical debate on it, and one is available next week. The hon. Gentleman has also raised the issue of the DNA database, and he has said that \"innocent means innocent\". Well, let me tell him about another case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-07b.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-07", "file": "debates2009-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "7965cca733576254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-07b.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The people of Greater Manchester are not being asked to be guinea pigs. The pilot project is entirely voluntary and if nobody wants to avail themselves of the opportunity to prove their identity on a biometric basis, they do not have to do so. As far as compulsion is concerned, there is a requirement that foreign nationals should give biometric details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-07b.358.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-11", "file": "debates2009-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "6356c4b6507d7752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-11b.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Judy Mallaber", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Maidenhead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Judy Mallaber", "preceding_text": " Tory Opposition say. The Bill will make it easier, not more difficult, for individuals and businesses to understand and to use the legislation. I was very sorry to miss the opening speeches, because an accident closed the motorway and I got caught by the Tamils, delaying me by three hours. I was particularly disappointed, because I wanted to intervene on the right hon. Member for Maidstone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-11b.612.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-11", "file": "debates2009-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "6356c4b6507d7752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-11b.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "all the things that she thought were wrong with it. I suggest that she join us in voting for our reasoned amendment, which stacks up much better with what she said. The hon. Member for Cardiff, North (Julie Morgan) told us about the position in Wales, and she talked about some problems with local authorities. Of course, as I have said, the Bill excludes the public sector from mandatory pay audits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-11b.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-11", "file": "debates2009-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "6356c4b6507d7752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-11b.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "fairness and I hope that he can come to agree with the more complex equality provisions in due course. Indeed, as he suggested might be possible, I hope that he might come to vote for the Bill when it has gone through the process of refinement that is still to come. As for the right hon. Member for Maidenhead and her three-clause equality Bill, introduced, in my view, as a political gimmick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-11b.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-11", "file": "debates2009-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "6356c4b6507d7752", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-11b.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You couldn't make it up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": " is a great lever to change culture. This Bill is undoubtedly for us. The Bill has been supported by practically all the stakeholder groups in all the sectors that it addresses. When those who would oppose it were pressed to name the groups that support voting it down at this stage, the best the Tories could come up with was—what is it called?—the society against political correctness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-11b.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "2d4e2117a77c076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.682.10", "colnum": "682", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": " have been called in over the alleged stealing of a disc, which was probably sold to The Telegraph . I have absolutely no disagreement with all the reasons that you gave, but, on reflection, I wonder whether it would be right for you to apologise to my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) . When she raised a point of order, you referred to her \"public utterances\" and \"pearls of wisdom\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.682.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "2d4e2117a77c076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.714.2", "colnum": "714", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Howell", "preceding_text": "s that interact with each other, are extremely complex and set a very confusing picture for foreign investors who come to this country. It is a shame that the opportunity was not taken to make more of simplifying the corporation tax system as part of the way out of the current crisis. There is huge scope for simplifying the system even further. For several years, I was an inspector of taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.714.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "2d4e2117a77c076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.717.4", "colnum": "717", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": " interesting aspect of this debate. As I understand the current position in Canada, the rate is 33.5 per cent.—at least for most companies—compared with 28 per cent. in the UK. However, as we have heard, the Canadian Government have announced an aspiration to reduce that rate and, in due course, for Canada to have the lowest rate in the G7. Clearly, there cannot be two countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.717.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "2d4e2117a77c076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "ain interest is to know whether the Minister and his family rushed out and started to buy more as a result of the VAT cut. What goods did he end up buying? My next question concerns the date on which VAT will return to its original rate. In our previous debate on these matters, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) said that the 31 December date was very inconvenient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "2d4e2117a77c076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "he Member for Ludlow will explain in more detail when he gets the opportunity. The 2.5 per cent. cut has not really worked. I have been persuaded by the argument from my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire that it has not been a big success and that we should cut our losses and go back to the 1 December date. That would be better than extending the misery for another 31 days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12a.763.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for writing to me, following the last Health questions. I wrote to him earlier today about this. The local health trust says that giving this contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.682.10", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "been called in over the alleged stealing of a disc, which was probably sold to The Daily Telegraph . I have absolutely no disagreement with all the reasons that you gave, but, on reflection, I wonder whether it would be right for you to apologise to my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) . When she raised a point of order, you referred to her \"public utterances\" and \"pearls of wisdom\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.682.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "It is very clear who the Mayor of London is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "It is very clear who the Mayor of London is. [ Interruption. ] If I meant the lord mayor, I would refer to the lord mayor of the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "ng this year is £175 billion and next year's forecast is for £173 billion, there is not much money left in the kitty to cut the burden of taxes. That is why the package we propose today is cost-neutral. We have long made it clear that our reforms to the headline rate of corporation tax, reducing it from 28 per cent. to 25 per cent., will be funded by simplifying reliefs and allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.698.5", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "Indeed. I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman, who is a fellow veteran of previous Finance Bill Committee proceedings, has reminded me of that. We have had debates in Committee about reformed capital allowances before. The Financial Secretary and I had a debate about the abolition of the industrial buildings and agricultural buildings allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "n I will ever know, and probably to his own benefit—comparatively speaking, the City has not been so badly hit. Not yet, at any rate, so the losses are occurring where they always occur—in my own area, that of my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) and that of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "or the lost revenues in corporation tax, were that cut to be enacted—are precisely the sort of measures that would hit manufacturing. Parenthetically, I would say to the hon. Member for Fareham that my understanding of the procedure of the House is that he could have tabled his amendments, so that we could have seen them, but the Chairman of Ways and Means would not have selected them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "eeks to redistribute but not reduce the tax burden on British businesses.\" Given that our budget deficit will be £175 billion this year and £173 billion next year, and that we do not have huge amounts of surplus revenue sloshing around to use to reduce taxes, I and my party are minded to support the amendment precisely because of its modesty. Three principles are worth observing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.708.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes an entirely legitimate point, which I have heard him make in other debates. The Minister needs to engage with it. New year's eve may well be the worst possible date of the year to pick—365 options, and the Government pick the worst one of the lot. Clearly, there are cost implications in pushing the date backwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "ain interest is to know whether the Minister and his family rushed out and started to buy more as a result of the VAT cut. What goods did he end up buying? My next question concerns the date on which VAT will return to its original rate. In our previous debate on these matters, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) said that the 31 December date was very inconvenient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "he Member for Ludlow will explain in more detail when he gets the opportunity. The 2.5 per cent. cut has not really worked. I have been persuaded by the argument from my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Hertfordshire that it has not been a big success and that we should cut our losses and go back to the 1 December date. That would be better than extending the misery for another 31 days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.763.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.803.7", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly try my best, Sir Alan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.803.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "ment could learn a little more from those who know more about EU directives, to try to find a way through the maze. We believe that the structure of taxation needs to be changed. That will not solve every problem, but taxing problem drinks and giving a price advantage to low-strength alternatives will stop the penalising of responsible drinkers. It will also provide a nudge in the right direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "My own father took the pledge when he was 15—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I have been here for two and a half hours, and the hon. Gentleman has not been here for the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-12", "file": "debates2009-05-12b.xml", "sha256": "4d746cb545b9f6f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Reid", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks about beer, but I was concentrating on whisky. He has made his point so I will continue my speech. Putting the duty up without a proper assessment of the impact on demand is risky. It could cost the Treasury money. Constant increases are unacceptable without any assessment of the impact on demand or on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-12b.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13b.xml", "sha256": "5c03a57a15c72693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13b.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": " the measure that we propose is accentuated by the current economic situation. We have seen a 75 per cent. increase in unemployment in the Highland council area, and many costs are increasing. For example, on price differentials, the latest rural Scotland price survey showed that food was 11 per cent. more expensive in rural areas covered by Highlands and Islands Enterprise than in urban Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13b.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13b.xml", "sha256": "5c03a57a15c72693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13b.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ives have come to see me. I can tell Members that the only thing one can be sure about is that the Office of Fair Trading is an office. It understands nothing about trading, and it certainly has no concept of fairness. That, however, is a debate for another day, although I could cheerfully hold forth on it for another 20 minutes without drawing breath. I promise that I will not do that, Mrs. Heal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13b.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the Prime Minister's answer but I still think that there is going to be a problem with just saying, \"Let's go back and look at the claims people made under the rules\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says that it is open to the House. That is so often his answer. What we want is some leadership to cut some of these costs. He seems to have such a tin ear to these issues. In an age where we are going to have to ask the public sector to do more for less, should we not start with ourselves? We have in the House of Commons 646—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am just making the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.849.7", "colnum": "849", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ntral Parliaments but federal Parliaments. I do not know whether he is proposing that we make an instant judgment now to reduce the number of MPs by 50, 100 or 150. Those are matters that have to go before an independent commission and people have to look at the boundaries. On all these issues, I am trying to build a political consensus on change. I am trying to build a consensus across all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.849.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I must say to the Prime Minister that Spain and France are not federal systems, and they have much smaller Parliaments than we do. The Prime Minister says again that he wants to have an independent commission. I sometimes wonder whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.850.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "uck on the property market. That is why I have always thought that we should do what they do in Scotland: simply end—stop—any taxpayer-funded mortgages altogether. Until the new rules are in place, we Liberal Democrat Members have committed ourselves to handing back to the taxpayer every pound of any gain made from the sale of second homes funded by the taxpayer. Will he commit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "retary. I do not know what his experience was after the VAT cut in the pre-Budget report. I remember doing a bit of Christmas shopping and being surprised at the number of shops which, rather than calculating the impact of the VAT cut at the till, relied upon the assistant at the till to do a manual calculation on his or her calculator. I hope that in most cases that calculation was correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "In a way, that goes back to risk and materiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "We will turn to the issue of remote areas in the next debate, and I see that the Liberal Democrat Benches are filling up, as they traditionally do at this point in deliberations on the Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "es elsewhere for the Government. Lower GDP growth and higher energy costs reduce the yield from income and corporation taxes, while higher fuel prices lead to lower fuel consumption and lower revenues from fuel duty. For example, in 2008-09, when oil prices reached record highs in the summer, fuel duty receipts were £300 million below their 2007-08 level. In that sense, there is no windfall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.919.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I can fully understand the hon. Gentleman's concern, and he is right to press this particular case. I anticipate that the Minister will make the following point, but I shall bring it into the debate a little earlier than I intended. Other products have regional variations in price —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "he Minister will make the following point, but I shall bring it into the debate a little earlier than I intended. Other products have regional variations in price —[Interruption.] Well, the VAT applies at the same rate, but may I briefly discuss the example of alcohol? The price of a pint of beer is considerably higher in London than in some other places. The argument that can be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.932.5", "colnum": "932", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I would be surprised if the good people of Inverness were quite so easily offended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.932.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-13", "file": "debates2009-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "0d4be80e95b19942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "abled the amendment by saying that they are trying to iron out some of the spikes. That is a perfectly understandable objective. Let me turn to the technical points. When this issue is raised every year, it is striking that very little detail is set out as to what constitutes a remote rural area. I know that that matter would be decided under regulations, but further detail would be helpful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-13c.933.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-18", "file": "debates2009-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "84648d0e86870591", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18a.1308.7", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Keen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Keen", "preceding_text": "orce. Every patient journey must start by having quality and being safe. We cannot have safety if we do not operate in an environment of an open culture and a management who show real leadership. That encouragement of leadership at all times throughout the review has raised the quality of leadership within the Mid Staffordshire trust. It was this Government who brought in a whistleblowing charter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18a.1308.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-18", "file": "debates2009-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "aa96d86a14c247e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman has taken— [ Interruption. ] I will answer. I know that the hon. Gentleman has taken advice, but it is not a substantive motion. It is an early-day motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1206.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-18", "file": "debates2009-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "aa96d86a14c247e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1208.4", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "All I say to the hon. Gentleman is that the House of Commons Commission, which this House created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1208.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-18", "file": "debates2009-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "aa96d86a14c247e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1208.7", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I welcome, as I am sure the House must do, your statement today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-18", "file": "debates2009-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "aa96d86a14c247e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The right hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) and the hon. Member for Bury, North (Mr. Chaytor) have confessed to claiming fraudulently tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money for phantom mortgage claims.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1210.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-18", "file": "debates2009-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "aa96d86a14c247e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "lso come to the House to apologise to those who have been affected. It was me who asked Sir Andrew Foster to carry out the review, and I, like the hon. Member for Havant, think that his report has set out fairly the mismanagement that led to the problem. But let us be clear about the background to this debate. Twelve years ago, when the Opposition were in power, there was no budget for FE capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-18", "file": "debates2009-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "aa96d86a14c247e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": " this debate. Twelve years ago, when the Opposition were in power, there was no budget for FE capital. [Interruption.] This is rather important, because when hon. Members talk movingly about their dilapidated 1960s buildings, as happened today, we must ask how long buildings—sometimes those much older than that—were left to be dilapidated. It is relevant that the starting point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1229.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-18", "file": "debates2009-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "aa96d86a14c247e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1257.2", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Havant has already answered that by saying that we are looking at things very sympathetically. We must move on, because the time available to us is very short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-18b.1257.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-19", "file": "debates2009-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "d96d276f66b154d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Commission for the Compact", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "Terrorism, Crime and Policing on Home Office issues, I have always been pleased with how he has taken on board the concerns of parliamentarians and the wish to reach a consensus. However, my concern is that we are dealing with more than 100 new clauses and amendments on some very important issues. If the Home Secretary had come to the House and made a statement about her policy on databases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1351.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-19", "file": "debates2009-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "d96d276f66b154d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1353.3", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Commission for the Compact", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "ions on 26 March , in another Bill debate on 23 March , in business questions on 19 March and 5 March , in a written question to the Leader of the House on 5 March , in questions to the Leader of the House on 22 January , in business questions on 30 October , on 22 October and in business questions on 16 October . I am getting sick of me, so I am sure the Leader of the House is getting sick of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-19", "file": "debates2009-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "d96d276f66b154d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Commission for the Compact", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": " currently holding debates about whether the Executive are treating the House fairly; I believe that they are not. Let us consider what will not be covered because of the insertion of knives: six Government amendments on police reform and accountability; eight Government amendments on extradition; 51 Government amendments on the proceeds of crime, and seven Government amendments in the last group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-19", "file": "debates2009-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "d96d276f66b154d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Commission for the Compact", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "nybody who employs a cleaning lady, for example, who might be an illegal immigrant. It is no defence to say, \"I didn't know that she was an illegal immigrant.\" It is a crime under our law, decided by this House, to employ someone who is an illegal immigrant. Therefore, if someone has sex with someone who has been trafficked, it should be no defence to say, \"I did not know that she was trafficked.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1402.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-19", "file": "debates2009-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "d96d276f66b154d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Commission for the Compact", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": " point of concern. We recommend\"— as I do now— \"that the Government reconsider its opposition to decriminalising children involved in prostitution and suggest an amendment to the Bill.\" In the minute that I have left, I should like to turn to new clause 25; I imagine that I will have to come back to it after the Speaker's statement. The new clause is one of the key parts of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1419.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-19", "file": "debates2009-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "d96d276f66b154d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Commission for the Compact", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady's comments would be evidence for the Government's proposals if a causative association could be shown between the further criminalisation of prostitution and what she describes as an improved success rate for rape convictions. However, even she does not make the direct association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-19c.1426.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1494.7", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We have put before the House—and our proposals are now in the other place—the problems that Royal Mail has to face up to. It is losing 5 million letters a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1494.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1494.7", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "use—and our proposals are now in the other place—the problems that Royal Mail has to face up to. It is losing 5 million letters a year— [Laughter.] I mean it is losing 5 million letters in comparison with the number that were delivered in previous years. There is an £8 billion pensions deficit. I want to reassert to the House the need for new investment in Royal Mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1494.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I would like to add my own expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of Marine Jason Mackie, who, tragically, died in Helmand province last week serving us, our country and the people of Afghanistan. Mr. Speaker, despite our differences in recent days, I would like to thank you for the immensely dignified way in which you made your statement yesterday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " in recent days, I would like to thank you for the immensely dignified way in which you made your statement yesterday —[Interruption.] We can now move forward to reform this place from top to toe. I am also pleased to hear from the Prime Minister that there will be a statement tomorrow on the Gurkhas, and I hope that they will receive the unqualified and full justice that they deserve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1498.5", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1498.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1498.9", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Have an election!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Touché, Mr. Speaker. I am grateful to the Prime Minister for his reply, but is it not now time to get to the heart of the matter, which is that his Government are in power even though less than a quarter of the people voted for them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1498.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1502.2", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "One of the reasons why convictions for rape have gone up in many places is the use of DNA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "That was one of the things that was agreed last time—that there should be publication month by month of claims that have been made and allowed—but obviously we are looking all the time at how we can improve transparency. These things will not be set in stone, and any other suggestions that hon. Members have will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General", "cue_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "preceding_text": "d Sport, we examine the BBC all the time. I am sure that no member of the Committee would like to pre-empt the conclusions of a possible future inquiry. Nevertheless, we have considered top-slicing and recommended it in relation to Channel 4, and encouraged the BBC not to draw down the whole of the licence fee, and no member of the Committee has endorsed any such proposals as the hon. Gentleman's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-20", "file": "debates2009-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "dc66ecd741a34eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1596.0", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "orcement of the BBC's obligations in relation to impartiality and inaccuracy. That is important for the BBC, as Sarah Montague made clear this morning. It is essential for the BBC as a whole, from the director-general downwards. There has been a severe lack of impartiality on a very big issue that is before the electorate—the European question. There has been a failure to address that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-20b.1596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "d61e45aa7b6920c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21a.1676.6", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "orist attack, one is entitled to compensation, and our argument is that if it happens to someone somewhere else in the world, they are still our responsibility and we have a moral obligation to ensure that they come home and are looked after. I have asked for a meeting with the Prime Minister, but I have not had a reply yet. If I do not get one soon, I am going to contact Joanna Lumley to help me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21a.1676.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "d61e45aa7b6920c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but I think that the Most Reverend Vincent Gerard Nichols will become the cardinal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1624.3", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a very good point, and I shall be more than happy to meet him to discuss this matter further and to see whether we can do anything. Perhaps we can share a cup of coffee in the Tea Room—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1636.2", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The business for next week will be as follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "n given, their lives for its protection. We have always been clear that those who risk their lives for this country should have the right to come and live in our country. It is just a shame that the Government had to be dragged kicking and screaming through the courts, at great cost to the taxpayer, then through the crowds of Gurkhas outside this place, before they finally accepted the inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": " then through the crowds of Gurkhas outside this place, before they finally accepted the inevitable. [Interruption.] The statement is also a tribute to the determined and effective campaign by Joanna Lumley to persuade Ministers to change their minds. Does the Home Secretary now finally accept that it was a massive mistake not to listen when we told her to accept the court ruling and not fight it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "r minds. Does the Home Secretary now finally accept that it was a massive mistake not to listen when we told her to accept the court ruling and not fight it? [Interruption.] Can she provide the House with more detail about costs? A few weeks ago, the Prime Minister was putting forward almost doomsday financial forecasts about the cost to the British taxpayer of allowing the Gurkhas to settle here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1676.6", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "orist attack, one is entitled to compensation, and our argument is that if it happens to someone somewhere else in the world, they are still our responsibility and we have a moral obligation to ensure that they come home and are looked after. I have asked for a meeting with the Prime Minister, but I have not had a reply yet. If I do not get one soon, I am going to contact Joanna Lumley to help me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1676.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but I think that the Most Reverend Vincent Gerard Nichols will become the cardinal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1699.0", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "sbury's or wherever, or to go to a big, multi-screen cinema, because they want that degree of choice, it is important to ensure that, with local regeneration, we have strong town-centre policies. The hon. Gentleman said that a new town is to be built in his constituency, but I think that he exaggerated matters a little. I know that it is in the nature of Liberal Democrats to exaggerate, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1699.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-05-21", "file": "debates2009-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e86200d9b3f2508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "s in my area. Historically, my constituency has had a high level of incapacity benefit claimants, so it is important that jobs are available to people, and that is why I am very supportive of one of the major projects that the Ministry of Defence still wants to advance—namely, the defence training academy at St. Athan, which I know would make a dramatic difference to my patch. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-05-21b.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "3dd58657a1bf33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "rds—we now do not have the lengthy specification of what a valid petition is—there are clearly proposals that should not be before us at all. What strikes me is that this shows the Labour central-controlling tendency that we saw with the whole Damian McBride affair, when No. 10 Downing street attempted to control the left-wing blogosphere. In the same way, Whitehall is trying to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "3dd58657a1bf33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "ents in their day-to-day lives in relation to democracy and control of their lives is planning policy. Planning affects people most directly, and the sense of outrage in my constituency about the South Worcestershire joint core strategy is palpable. We have three councils coming together. Worcester city faces the same problem as Luton, and does not have space within its boundaries to expand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "3dd58657a1bf33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "n the South Worcestershire joint core strategy, knowing that the regional spatial strategy plan revision that has been imposed on the region by the Government is likely to increase the housing demands still further. When we have the joint core strategy in place, we will almost certainly have to revisit it immediately and increase the numbers. There is no local democracy in this process whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "3dd58657a1bf33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.97.5", "colnum": "97", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"SERPLAN.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": ", is deeply offensive. The regional strategies have, at present, tenuous democratic accountability. I never was a fan of regional assemblies, but they achieved something. If we were to abolish them, the right thing to do would be to create a forum of local authorities, which would have responsibility for planning policy. There used to be the south-east forum; what was it called? I cannot remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.97.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "3dd58657a1bf33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": " as no statement preceded it. I have been in the Chamber since then, so I have heard all the speeches and I intend to comment on them all in some detail, as they deserve. I must flesh out the context in which the Bill is set, but before I do even that, I shall make one simple point. The Secretary of State, as ever, gave a bouncy, feisty and energetic speech enthusiastically backing the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "3dd58657a1bf33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "ly. On the provision for petitions, he said, \"Probably the less said about that the better,\" and that was almost as enthusiastic as Labour Members got. The hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) said rather hesitantly that the Bill should get further consideration, which was very generous of him. He then referred to Enver Hoxha-ist appellations in relation to regional authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "3dd58657a1bf33a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "when people sign a local petition, they will have a right to a public response. We know that petitions are popular; 90 per cent. of people think that councils should take petitions into account and 84 per cent. say that they would be more likely to sign a petition if a response was guaranteed. When the Local Government Association says that only a third of councils will guarantee a response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the hon. Lady's characterisation of the situation as one of overstretch. Of course, our forces have been under considerable stretch recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.23.3", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will table amendments at the appropriate time. I do not accept that simply having a committee system will ensure better local democracy. I have seen many committee systems in which people's service on committees has prevented them from being out and about in the community as front-line champions and local representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.23.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's concerns and those of other hon. Members to ensure that we maximise community involvement. Hon. Members know that that cause is close to my heart and that I have campaigned on it for many years. I am trying to ensure in the Bill that the elected authorities, which are members of the leaders' boards, take responsibility for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "Now, I was —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.35.9", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "n order to be able to provide the response for that young person in an integrated way—that is the way of the world these days. Hon. Members might wish to go back to the mythical halcyon days when everything was done separately in silos, but they are looking back through rose-tinted glasses. That is not the world of today, and the hon. and learned Gentleman is out of touch with reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.35.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.44.4", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State. The point is, however, that the artificial regions created by her Government are fixed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "preceding_text": "Learning and Skills Council, a more recent quango set up by my Government that we are part way through investigating in the Select Committee on Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills, has let a capital programme get out of hand in a way that I have never witnessed in a local authority. The Learning and Skills Council has not only let a capital programme get completely out of hand, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "rds—we now do not have the lengthy specification of what a valid petition is—there are clearly proposals that should not be before us at all. What strikes me is that this shows the Labour central-controlling tendency that we saw with the whole Damian McBride affair, when No. 10 Downing street attempted to control the left-wing blogosphere. In the same way, Whitehall is trying to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "ents in their day-to-day lives in relation to democracy and control of their lives is planning policy. Planning affects people most directly, and the sense of outrage in my constituency about the South Worcestershire joint core strategy is palpable. We have three councils coming together. Worcester city faces the same problem as Luton, and does not have space within its boundaries to expand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "n the South Worcestershire joint core strategy, knowing that the regional spatial strategy plan revision that has been imposed on the region by the Government is likely to increase the housing demands still further. When we have the joint core strategy in place, we will almost certainly have to revisit it immediately and increase the numbers. There is no local democracy in this process whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.97.5", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"SERPLAN.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": ", is deeply offensive. The regional strategies have, at present, tenuous democratic accountability. I never was a fan of regional assemblies, but they achieved something. If we were to abolish them, the right thing to do would be to create a forum of local authorities, which would have responsibility for planning policy. There used to be the south-east forum; what was it called? I cannot remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.97.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "e logical urban extensions in terms of easy transport access. Other parts of the Green Belt are more rural in character and remote from existing development.\" Apart from being staggeringly patronising, that is fundamentally wrong. The importance of green belts and other treasured spaces that have been repeatedly rejected for development was not that they were chocolate box Cotswold villages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": " as no statement preceded it. I have been in the Chamber since then, so I have heard all the speeches and I intend to comment on them all in some detail, as they deserve. I must flesh out the context in which the Bill is set, but before I do even that, I shall make one simple point. The Secretary of State, as ever, gave a bouncy, feisty and energetic speech enthusiastically backing the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "ly. On the provision for petitions, he said, \"Probably the less said about that the better,\" and that was almost as enthusiastic as Labour Members got. The hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) said rather hesitantly that the Bill should get further consideration, which was very generous of him. He then referred to Enver Hoxha-ist appellations in relation to regional authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-01", "file": "debates2009-06-01b.xml", "sha256": "a682d416173ca2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "when people sign a local petition, they will have a right to a public response. We know that petitions are popular; 90 per cent. of people think that councils should take petitions into account and 84 per cent. say that they would be more likely to sign a petition if a response was guaranteed. When the Local Government Association says that only a third of councils will guarantee a response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-01b.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff11488a71b3f6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "As I remember, the last time the hon. Gentleman raised the issue he had a particular fanciable pigeon in mind; I have forgotten its name. I can say to him that I did personally take up the issue and find out why pigeon racing was not defined as a sport. Apparently it is because the owners do not take part in any physical activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff11488a71b3f6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "In this country, we have a piecemeal approach to policing our borders, with a pocket of policing here and another there. In too many places we have inadequate policing that is divided between different responsibilities. The Conservatives remain convinced that we need a dedicated border police force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff11488a71b3f6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ng debate and, particularly given the revelations of my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) , a moving and in some ways horrifying one. That causes some difficulties, in that I can either respond to the debate or address the Bill, which is what this debate is supposed to be about, because, to be honest, the two bear a slightly tangential relationship with each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff11488a71b3f6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "tish. That seems to be the message behind the Bill, and I am genuinely not sure that it is one that the Minister really wants to send out. It might suit some short-term, dog-whistle politics, but it is certainly not the most thoughtful long-term strategy. The problem is that the Home Secretary complicated matters even more in her speech this afternoon, which I found completely extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff11488a71b3f6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "er really wants to send out. It might suit some short-term, dog-whistle politics, but it is certainly not the most thoughtful long-term strategy. The problem is that the Home Secretary complicated matters even more in her speech this afternoon, which I found completely extraordinary— [ Interruption. ] If the Whip would like to contribute to the debate, he is more than welcome to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff11488a71b3f6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Through ignorance rather than deliberately I suspect, the hon. Gentleman is confusing the two issues of the passenger transport data and the e-borders system. I invite him—I make this invitation public—to come to the control centre at Heathrow and see for himself the benefits of that system. I am not a betting man, but my bet would be that when he has seen it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "As I have just pointed out, thousands of households have approached the relevant authorities to seek advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "As I have just pointed out, thousands of households have approached the relevant authorities to seek advice. [Hon. Members: \"Two.\"] Only two have completed the full process. I also pointed out that more than 70 households—77 to be precise—are now well on the way to receiving a formal offer, and I can also tell the House that a further 10, making 87 in all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "As I remember, the last time the hon. Gentleman raised the issue he had a particular fanciable pigeon in mind; I have forgotten its name. I can say to him that I did personally take up the issue and found out why pigeon racing was not defined as a sport. Apparently it is because the owners do not take part in any physical activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.176.2", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "n arbitrary cap is the best way to control immigration. I believe that what we have seen through the points-based system—with levels of points that can be raised or lowered to suit the concerns and interests of this country—is the appropriate model to build on for a system to control the route to citizenship. It is a more flexible way of controlling those who go forward to citizenship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "In this country, we have a piecemeal approach to policing our borders, with a pocket of policing here and another there. In too many places we have inadequate policing that is divided between different responsibilities. The Conservatives remain convinced that we need a dedicated border police force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "tries apply their visa arrangements is up to them. I am merely making a common-sense point, which seems to have eluded Conservative and Labour Members for more than 10 years: if short-term visas are issued to students or those who have temporary rights to work, we need to know when they leave. If we do not know when they leave, we do not know whether the visas have been respected. That is crucial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ng debate and, particularly given the revelations of my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) , a moving and in some ways horrifying one. That causes some difficulties, in that I can either respond to the debate or address the Bill, which is what this debate is supposed to be about, because, to be honest, the two bear a slightly tangential relationship with each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "tish. That seems to be the message behind the Bill, and I am genuinely not sure that it is one that the Minister really wants to send out. It might suit some short-term, dog-whistle politics, but it is certainly not the most thoughtful long-term strategy. The problem is that the Home Secretary complicated matters even more in her speech this afternoon, which I found completely extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "er really wants to send out. It might suit some short-term, dog-whistle politics, but it is certainly not the most thoughtful long-term strategy. The problem is that the Home Secretary complicated matters even more in her speech this afternoon, which I found completely extraordinary— [ Interruption. ] If the Whip would like to contribute to the debate, he is more than welcome to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Immigration Act 1971 gives the Secretary of State powers that are mainly delegated to me, and I take that responsibility extremely seriously. I am grateful to the hon. Member for North-East Bedfordshire for his kind comments and I undertake to look further into the issue he raised. A number of specific comments have been made and I shall try to answer them in the short time I have available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "them in the short time I have available— [Interruption. ] — and I also want to deal with the bigger picture. Yes, I can assure the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green) and the House that I do not intend to speak until 10 o'clock. If I did, I suspect it would be last time I would ever speak from this Dispatch Box—and some might well think that that would be a good thing, anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Of course I understand that point, but a person on ILR does not get dual citizenship and cannot get a visa on a British passport because they are not British citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-02", "file": "debates2009-06-02b.xml", "sha256": "2be520d2674c0dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Bailiffs (Repeals and Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Through ignorance rather than deliberately I suspect, the hon. Gentleman is confusing the two issues of the passenger transport data and the e-Borders system. I invite him—I make this invitation public—to come to the control centre at Heathrow and see for himself the benefits of that system. I am not a betting man, but my bet would be that when he has seen it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-02b.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "c6a1e81b50225d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "e delivered in no more than eight sites across London\"— this is on page 20. It continues: \"This would optimise the number of patients being treated at each site, ensure expert teams are available 24 hours a day—improving survival and reducing disability\". The hon. Gentleman will be aware that if the aim is to provide high quality very specialised services, it becomes an argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "Let me associate myself and my party with the Secretary of State's comments about the murder of Kevin McDaid. It was a truly brutal and, indeed, evil act. Does the Secretary of State not accept, however, that its true significance lies in its demonstration that in the minds of those would style themselves loyalist paramilitaries, there has been no movement away from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have to say to the Prime Minister that if this was about expenses, the Communities Secretary would have resigned weeks ago. The fact is that she has chosen to resign today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.267.5", "colnum": "267", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Yes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.267.6", "colnum": "267", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Remember that there is a danger of the House being suspended if people continue to shout. That is the danger, and there will be no Prime Minister's Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.267.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "s that face this country. Let me say what this Chancellor is achieving. This Chancellor is leading the rest of the world in taking us out of recession. This Chancellor has taken action that the Conservative party has refused to support. What happened when we had to deal with the banks? What would the Conservatives have done? Nothing. What would they have done when we were helping mortgage holders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "the rest of the world in taking us out of recession. This Chancellor has taken action that the Conservative party has refused to support. What happened when we had to deal with the banks? What would the Conservatives have done? Nothing. What would they have done when we were helping mortgage holders? [Hon. Members: \"Nothing.\"] Nothing. What would they have done when we were helping the unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "All Members want to show that they are undertaking public service, and that they are in it not for what they can get but for what they can give. But one of the issues that repeatedly comes up is Members' second jobs, and it is right that Sir Christopher Kelly looks at the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will also know that EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, has said that the Conservative European policy \"is bound to reduce our influence in Europe\". When the Conservative leader cannot talk to the German Chancellor, the French President or people in Spain and Portugal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "ute to the actors who took part in it—I genuinely hope they are actors—as I think they did an extraordinary job in taking viewers through the process of understanding what a stroke can look like. Their work has had a tremendous effect. Our ambulances will have all that advertising on their sides. One of our stroke leads in SECAmb is David Davis. He is an amazing gentleman from Crawley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "e delivered in no more than eight sites across London\"— this is on page 20. It continues: \"This would optimise the number of patients being treated at each site, ensure expert teams are available 24 hours a day—improving survival and reducing disability\". The hon. Gentleman will be aware that if the aim is to provide very specialised high-quality services, it becomes an argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-03", "file": "debates2009-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "292e626102d78aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "John Heppell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Heppell", "preceding_text": "hey cause a fair amount of disruption in a pedestrianised area for shoppers passing through. Also, they are, in effect, competition—I consider it illegal competition—for those people who go through the proper procedures and get themselves licensed as street traders. The legislation is needed and it is needed now. We are not in search of a problem; the problem exists. I recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-03b.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "28edb53af89c4e96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04a.458.2", "colnum": "458", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "ed over decades by war and by underfunding. At the end of the cold war, we saw two changes. First, nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction stopped being as effective as they had previously been, so we should then have spent more, not less, on conventional arms. Secondly, the world became less stable, rather than more stable. Again, we should therefore have spent more, rather than less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04a.458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "The key to the extra generation of electricity is renewables—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.382.6", "colnum": "382", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. By the time the Minister has finished, the questions will not be topical any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.382.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "It is right that we have the opportunity to debate again our democracy and all the processes that underpin it. My hon. Friend talks about changing the dates to shorten the summer recess, but I think that it is very important that any changes we make in the House do nothing to undermine the constituency link—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": " The decision was rightly made by the commander on the ground, operating within the rules that he had been set. We have an agreement with the Kenyan Government for transferring pirates whom we detain on the high seas to the criminal authorities in Kenya. That agreement works well and several pirates have been moved into the Kenyan criminal system, but we continue to consider ways to improve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.434.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": "e no background in defence, although my father served in the Merchant Navy and for many years was active in the Sea Cadet Corps. As a child of the '60s, I marched against war and joined CND. Before I entered the House, my background was in health and social care, child and adult protection, women's rights and the environment, so what am I doing on the Defence Committee and, indeed, in this debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.458.2", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "ed over decades by war and by underfunding. At the end of the cold war, we saw two changes. First, nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction stopped being as effective as they had previously been, so we should then have spent more, not less, on conventional arms. Secondly, the world became less stable, rather than more stable. Again, we should therefore have spent more, rather than less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "however, that no matter what the difficulties in future, I would far rather take the decisions myself than have him or his colleagues taking them; he should be under no illusions whatever about that. What he appears to be saying—I think with a degree of honesty—is that despite the fact that he deprecates the situation we are in, his own party, too, would have to cut defence capability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.463.2", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "Well, both are equally bad; I would much prefer that he was cheerful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "cause I have made my point and we have had our disagreement. Blast absorption vehicles are not cheaper, and when they encounter an explosion not only are the occupants killed or maimed, but the vehicle is a write-off. Compare that with the record of the Mastiff: only one early version was lost due to a fire, and although there have been injuries sustained in explosions, nobody has yet been killed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-04", "file": "debates2009-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "8b235bc2b2ba43e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "xtent, but even he is dealing at a sub-strategic level. That leads me to my next point about the importance of Pakistan. I commend the Government for including Afghanistan and Pakistan in the same document, although we were slightly playing catch-up with the Americans, who were already on that track. However, Pakistan is crucial. There are 800,000 citizens of our country who have Pakistani origin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-04b.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "3f9122ef11658534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "time that a sensible measure has been proposed to tackle smoking, especially under-age smoking, we have heard those voices. If we had listened to them, we would not have reduced the proportion of people who smoke from 28 per cent. in 1997 to 21 per cent. in 2007. On this issue, the calls from the Opposition do not have credibility. Without those measures, we would not have had that progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "3f9122ef11658534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I think Labour Members are more concerned with the health of their party than they are with the health of the population. That is a matter of regret. Let us recall that the Bill was meant to be a flagship piece of legislation, but they decided some time ago that it was not a flagship, but a rather small tender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "3f9122ef11658534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " I have been very clear about the matter: I would remove a central, top-down, four-hour process target. Commissioners and providers of service in the national health service need to arrive at a contract that makes clear the standards that they will meet. In emergency care and other aspects of care, however, the Government's objective should be to move from targets to outcomes. He might like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "3f9122ef11658534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "nd control; it is still all about command and control at the Department of Health. Health Ministers' response to what I was saying about targets illustrated even more the fact that they cannot get their heads around the thought that their job is not to decide precisely what should happen to every patient who arrives at an emergency department. The issue is about those who are responsible for care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "3f9122ef11658534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "chines are the source of cigarettes for around 46,000 children in England and Wales. We could fill up my right hon. Friend's Everton ground with children who regularly use vending machines and still have 11,000 outside. Think about it, Madam Deputy Speaker: the whole of Goodison Park filled with children smoking their heads off who will not see Everton win the European cup 20 years from now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "3f9122ef11658534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "If we needed any more evidence that this Government are a tad short of support, we only have to recall the notable absence of Labour Members from the debate on this so-called flagship Bill. There was a notable absence of almost every Labour Member between 6 pm and 7 pm, for some reason or another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08a.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Member for Bolton, North-East (Mr. Crausby) , I have grandchildren—eight, actually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.515.5", "colnum": "515", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "Any day. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, North (Stephen Pound) for his question. All the major venues on the Olympic park are either on schedule or ahead of schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.515.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Terrible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "No, I am not in a position either to publish the figures today, or to say when we will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises a reasonable point, but as I said a moment ago, authorisation for direct payments will be given only for services that NHS money is normally used for, and they will form part of a care plan that will have been signed off by a clinician or a health service manager. Actually, there must be a role for the GP in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "time that a sensible measure has been proposed to tackle smoking, especially under-age smoking, we have heard those voices. If we had listened to them, we would not have reduced the proportion of people who smoke from 28 per cent. in 1997 to 21 per cent. in 2007. On this issue, the calls from the Opposition do not have credibility. Without those measures, we would not have had that progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.550.3", "colnum": "550", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's first point, I do not wish to make a party political point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.550.3", "colnum": "550", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ng children and young people by as much as 50 per cent., even when other factors, such as parental smoking, are taken into account. Point-of-sale displays in the US are much more prominent than they are in the UK, but even if this legislation had only a 10th of the impact that it is estimated to have had in the US, it would still mean that 3,000 fewer children would become smokers each year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I think Labour Members are more concerned with the health of their party than they are with the health of the population. That is a matter of regret. Let us recall that the Bill was meant to be a flagship piece of legislation, but they decided some time ago that it was not a flagship, but a rather small tender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " I have been very clear about the matter: I would remove a central, top-down, four-hour process target. Commissioners and providers of service in the national health service need to arrive at a contract that makes clear the standards that they will meet. In emergency care and other aspects of care, however, the Government's objective should be to move from targets to outcomes. He might like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "nd control; it is still all about command and control at the Department of Health. Health Ministers' response to what I was saying about targets illustrated even more the fact that they cannot get their heads around the thought that their job is not to decide precisely what should happen to every patient who arrives at an emergency department. The issue is about those who are responsible for care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "Could I first say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "oducts, but I shall make the case that there is evidence about the effect of such point-of-sale displays. Hon. Members can look through the many representations that we have received on the subject and they will see that the great majority that suggest that there is no evidence that the provisions will be effective come from those who make their living by manufacturing or selling tobacco products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs to hear the rest of my speech. I will comment on that particular approach—I am not so sure that it is a Conservative party approach, although I welcome that party's late conversion. It used to be a mouthpiece for the tobacco industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "chines are the source of cigarettes for around 46,000 children in England and Wales. We could fill up my right hon. Friend's Everton ground with children who regularly use vending machines and still have 11,000 outside. Think about it, Madam Deputy Speaker: the whole of Goodison Park filled with children smoking their heads off who will not see Everton win the European cup 20 years from now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Lee Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Scott", "preceding_text": "losses to the businesses involved. It is slightly hypocritical for some Labour Members to say that Conservative Members are addicted to smoking. Unless I am very much mistaken—it may be a selective memory loss—I rather think that the former Prime Minister might have had an addiction to Formula 1 and the advertising of smoking. Perhaps there is some addiction on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "If we needed any more evidence that this Government are a tad short of support, we only have to recall the notable absence of Labour Members from the debate on this so-called flagship Bill. There was a notable absence of almost every Labour Member between 6 pm and 7 pm, for some reason or another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-08", "file": "debates2009-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "ce5a6a090ff8c879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "e is complex, because we had that debate this afternoon. We should not rush through a quick fix; we need to get it right. I am pleased to say that all parts of the House broadly welcomed the pharmacy provisions in the Bill and the measures, which the hon. Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne) mentioned, meaning that an individual service-user and anybody acting on their behalf will be able to raise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-08b.614.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-09", "file": "debates2009-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "be07f97f28c51b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-09a.758.7", "colnum": "758", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "he low take-up of the mortgage rescue scheme. It is targeted at vulnerable households—those made up of the elderly or the disabled and those with children—who would be eligible for help under homelessness legislation if their homes were repossessed. The scheme involves households getting thorough advice on their financial circumstances, and selling part of their home, which takes time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-09a.758.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-09", "file": "debates2009-06-09b.xml", "sha256": "3a33f42351ff7ced", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-09b.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "Frankly, when repossessions are running at an all-time high, with the only exception being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-09b.712.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-09", "file": "debates2009-06-09b.xml", "sha256": "3a33f42351ff7ced", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-09b.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phyllis Starkey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phyllis Starkey", "preceding_text": "and having to get the council or a housing association to buy a property. Simply to cite the figures for how many people reach the end of the process, as the hon. Gentleman did, is to make a debating point. It shows that he does not give two hoots about the individuals involved and does not want to have a constructive debate—and the same goes for his comments about the other mortgage scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-09b.742.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-09", "file": "debates2009-06-09b.xml", "sha256": "3a33f42351ff7ced", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-09b.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "I welcome my hon. Friend to his position, and congratulate him on a great start on his first day in his new role. I look forward to hearing him make many more speeches at the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-09b.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ed reforms will be underpinned by cross-party discussions. Our proposals will also be informed by leading external figures, including academics and others who command public respect and have a recognised interest or expertise in the different elements of democratic reform. I expect this to conclude in time to shape the Government's forward legislative programme and to feed into the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ding academics and others who command public respect and have a recognised interest or expertise in the different elements of democratic reform. I expect this to conclude in time to shape the Government's forward legislative programme and to feed into the Queen's Speech. [Interruption.] In the midst of all the recriminations, let us seize the moment to lift our politics to a higher standard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.846.2", "colnum": "846", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "More to the point, the Minister cannot remember the question, so whether he would be able to remember the answer is quite another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " not curious? The Scottish Government have never had more money than they have now. Their budget, like that of the Welsh Assembly Government, has more than doubled since we came to power in 1997. What is the real nationalist agenda? Why would the nationalists dissolve this Parliament today? It would not just be for the purpose of an immediate election; they would dissolve this Parliament for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "There are many cases in history when Governments have called general elections because they wish to seek a mandate for whatever policies they were putting to the country long before the expiry of a Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " whole Departments to add to his name. His title now adds up to, \"The right hon. the Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Privy Council and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills\". It would be no surprise to wake up in the morning and find that he had become an archbishop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": ", and I do not want to go there again, because I think and hope we have moved on. What I am trying to say—hon. Members may disagree with me, but it is pretty evident from what has happened in recent weeks and what happened last week—is that we have a house that is burning down. It therefore seems a bizarre moment to say, \"Shall we have a competition to decide which colour to paint it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "ink and hope we have moved on. What I am trying to say—hon. Members may disagree with me, but it is pretty evident from what has happened in recent weeks and what happened last week—is that we have a house that is burning down. It therefore seems a bizarre moment to say, \"Shall we have a competition to decide which colour to paint it?\" [Interruption.] We have to put the fire out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "To talk about whether we would have wanted an independent Scotland is such a hoary old chestnut. As the hon. Gentleman well knows, we do not accept that an independent Scotland is the way forward in the 21st century. We believe that we are stronger together than we are apart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " fundamental difference of opinion with us on that, and I have no objection to his taking an opposite view, but to be frank, the question he asked is spurious, to use that word again. Let me deal with the hon. Member for Glasgow, East (John Mason) , who I heard saying on the radio the other night that he would bring down any UK Government because he was a nationalist—or words to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) . He speaks with great sincerity, but he and I are coming from opposite sides of the argument. I come from a background where, if something has gone wrong, the duty lies with the individual or individuals who have got it wrong to start to put things right and to mend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the House for the fact that it is me replying to the debate, but I had been asked to do so before I was moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, so this is my sort of final appearance as the Deputy Leader of the House. We had some interesting speeches this afternoon, and some that were fundamentally misleading. It is a shame that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "sh;we—need to do urgently. I believe that there are two very important things that we need to do urgently. I realise, however, that I have forgotten the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) and his highly illuminating speech. He did, however, mislead us—inadvertently, I am sure—on one fact. He said that he thought that, one day, the Business Secretary, my Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "he truth in this case? They do not expect to form a Government if there is a general election. They are not intending to put up candidates across every seat in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. They have no intention of forming a Government of their own—they want to get rid of this Government to put in that lot, the Conservatives, and they should be honest to the House about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "2ab46aaa84fe365e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "y—the leader in Scotland—could perfectly well have been in Scotland today voting on reform of the rape law; instead, he has decided to sit in here and smirk like a Cheshire cat so that he gets on television behind the leader of Plaid Cymru. Where were they when it came to minimum wage? None of them even bothered to turn up, and yet they try to pretend that they believe in things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10b.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Finally, after many, many weeks, a question on policy. Is it not remarkable that it has taken that amount of time for the Conservatives to come up with a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.785.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "There are no plans for that, and let me just say that when the right hon. Gentleman hears the statement later, he will hear that there is an interest throughout the country in what happens on electoral reform. We published a review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "happens on electoral reform. We published a review— [ Interruption. ] I am sorry, but we published a review on electoral reform only a few months ago. That has led to a serious debate in the country, but we are not putting proposals forward today. If I may say so, I said that he had moved on to policy, but there seems to be an element of self-interest in the way that he is approaching—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " review— [ Interruption. ] I am sorry, but we published a review on electoral reform only a few months ago. That has led to a serious debate in the country, but we are not putting proposals forward today. If I may say so, I said that he had moved on to policy, but there seems to be an element of self-interest in the way that he is approaching— [ Interruption. ] Is it not strange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ished a review on electoral reform only a few months ago. That has led to a serious debate in the country, but we are not putting proposals forward today. If I may say so, I said that he had moved on to policy, but there seems to be an element of self-interest in the way that he is approaching— [ Interruption. ] Is it not strange— [ Interruption. ] Is it not strange, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is getting too noisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ng every year\". His Chancellor said: \"I have cut overall public spending\". The figures that the Prime Minister is hawking around are his own figures. He is planning to cut public spending by 7 per cent. in every Department over the next three years. The next election—when he has the guts to call it—will not be about Labour investment versus Tory cuts, but about the mismanagement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " then to £738 billion and then to £758 billion. Those are public spending rises. The only party proposing a cut in public spending is the Conservative party. The right hon. Gentleman is right. At the next election, there will be a choice: a choice between a Government who helped people and actively intervened to take us through a downturn and a Conservative party that would do nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.788.2", "colnum": "788", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Robathan, you cannot behave like that. You run the risk of being put out of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Parmjit Dhanda", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is Mr. Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Parmjit Dhanda", "preceding_text": "Does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ed reforms will be underpinned by cross-party discussions. Our proposals will also be informed by leading external figures, including academics and others who command public respect and have a recognised interest or expertise in the different elements of democratic reform. I expect this to conclude in time to shape the Government's forward legislative programme and to feed into the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ding academics and others who command public respect and have a recognised interest or expertise in the different elements of democratic reform. I expect this to conclude in time to shape the Government's forward legislative programme and to feed into the Queen's Speech. [Interruption.] In the midst of all the recriminations, let us seize the moment to lift our politics to a higher standard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "of Commons, which is something that has not been faced up to before. The precondition of any debate about the future of our democracy must be our determination to recognise, with humility, that this House has got to clean up its affairs as a matter of urgency, and every Member of Parliament shares a responsibility for doing that. Before we get into the different issues that divide our party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " our democracy must be our determination to recognise, with humility, that this House has got to clean up its affairs as a matter of urgency, and every Member of Parliament shares a responsibility for doing that. Before we get into the different issues that divide our party— [Interruption.] Before we get into the different issues that divide the parties, I think the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister must be allowed to answer properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "en Phillips recommendations in the party funding Bill that is already being debated in another place? The way forward has been agreed; why does he refuse to act? On electoral reform, I welcome any movement away from our discredited system: a system that gives the Prime Minister's Government untrammelled power when only one in five people voted for them; a system that gives MPs safe seats for life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "eed; why does he refuse to act? On electoral reform, I welcome any movement away from our discredited system: a system that gives the Prime Minister's Government untrammelled power when only one in five people voted for them; a system that gives MPs safe seats for life. [Interruption.] That's why they like it. As Robin Cook recognised, and as the Prime Minister's new Home Secretary realises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. You must be quiet Mr. Kawczynski; that is something you have got to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We have always got to get the balance right between a manifesto commitment that has been made by a party that is in government and the legislation that is necessary to get it through. If we are truly accountable to the people, a manifesto commitment that involves legislation is something that we have a responsibility to enact. Of course, time permitting, there must be the maximum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I have to say that any MP coming back from these elections knows that many people in the country were giving their verdict, not just on the Government but on how we had conducted ourselves over our expenses. If we ignore that, and do not take the action that is essential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "held in very high esteem by many hon. Members across the House in respect of the way that she conducts her business and the acuity with which she has approached many issues on which there is a wide divergence of views. I think of her as a close personal friend as well, so it is a great honour to be able to follow in her—I about to say shoes, but I do not know that I can quite wear her shoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ucts her business and the acuity with which she has approached many issues on which there is a wide divergence of views. I think of her as a close personal friend as well, so it is a great honour to be able to follow in her—I about to say shoes, but I do not know that I can quite wear her shoes. [Interruption.] The Conservative Deputy Chief Whip (paid) is trying to entice me into high heels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " emblems because they afford protection. If they no longer afforded protection, people would not use them. If there were so many emblems as to cause confusion, that would undermine the structure and point of the Red Cross movement. That is why the provision is tied up with so much determination by all the states that are signatories to the convention to deal robustly with any abuse of the emblems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "let bearing a red cross was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva convention. It represents a reversal of the Swiss national flag, and it was adopted to honour the Swiss founder of the movement, Henry Dunant, and his home country. That is interesting in itself, because few would argue that the Swiss flag is specifically identified by most reasonable people as a Christian flag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ade a highly informative and fascinating—if also slightly sceptical—speech. At the end of it, he invited me to speak about semiotics and the difference between signs and symbols. Most of my university English degree seemed to be obsessed with Saussurian analysis of semiotics, and then when I arrived at theological college I had to discuss the hermeneutical circle for about three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.846.2", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "More to the point, the Minister cannot remember the question, so whether he would be able to remember the answer is quite another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "very successful and popular SNP Government in Scotland, but rather than get involved in a party political partisan ding-dong on these issues, I ask him and his hon. Friends to listen to the argument that I shall make, which is about the credibility of this House as a whole. It is not about the Government, in my view. The case that I shall make does not involve the Government or the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.854.5", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's history lesson; I was of course in primary 8 at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.854.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.854.5", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's history lesson; I was of course in primary 8 at that time. [ Interruption. ] It is true. I have already made the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.854.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was 2007.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman, and I want to allow other Members to take part in this important debate. I return to the current economic challenges. It is of immense concern that under Labour, we now have a debt of more than £60,000 for every household in the UK. I remember election leaflets being put around stating, \"Don't vote SNP, it'll cost every family £5,000.\" Was it in the 1999 election campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "t is vital. While the Prime Minister talks the talk of fiscal stimulus, he has failed to walk the walk. While President Obama is delivering a real fiscal stimulus—a state such as Maryland, which is the same size as Scotland and larger than Wales, will have £2 billion of extra resources to spend in 2010—this Government are planning to cut £1 billion from the Scottish budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "Obama is delivering a real fiscal stimulus—a state such as Maryland, which is the same size as Scotland and larger than Wales, will have £2 billion of extra resources to spend in 2010—this Government are planning to cut £1 billion from the Scottish budget. [Interruption.] They are cutting £1 billion from public spending in Scotland and directly threatening 9,000 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman saying, then, that he prefers a Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "What about the minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.866.5", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that people listening to this debate will be appalled by the petty discussions about which party's votes have increased by what percentage? What concerns the people of this country, and certainly the people of Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.866.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "There are many cases in history when Governments have called general elections because they wish to seek a mandate for whatever policies they were putting to the country long before the expiry of a Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " whole Departments to add to his name. His title now adds up to, \"The right hon. the Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Privy Council and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills\". It would be no surprise to wake up in the morning and find that he had become an archbishop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.873.5", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way any more, because I am nearly at the end of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "I want to finish this point, if I may, because it is the point that I really want to make. If we were in the opposite position, we would be saying exactly the same kind of things, because that is what Oppositions do. That is the game that we play. I want to suggest to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": " that; all Opposition parties will get some reward from riding that tidal wave—or whether we try to turn the wave around. If we do not together turn that wave around, we are in deep trouble. Irrespective of the usual games that we play, we have a particular responsibility in the House now seriously, together, across party to put aside the game and to try and rebuild some faith in the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": ", and I do not want to go there again, because I think and hope we have moved on. What I am trying to say—hon. Members may disagree with me, but it is pretty evident from what has happened in recent weeks and what happened last week—is that we have a house that is burning down. It therefore seems a bizarre moment to say, \"Shall we have a competition to decide which colour to paint it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "ink and hope we have moved on. What I am trying to say—hon. Members may disagree with me, but it is pretty evident from what has happened in recent weeks and what happened last week—is that we have a house that is burning down. It therefore seems a bizarre moment to say, \"Shall we have a competition to decide which colour to paint it?\" [Interruption.] We have to put the fire out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.875.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "To talk about whether we would have wanted an independent Scotland is such a hoary old chestnut. As the hon. Gentleman well knows, we do not accept that an independent Scotland is the way forward in the 21st century. We believe that we are stronger together than we are apart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " fundamental difference of opinion with us on that, and I have no objection to his taking an opposite view, but to be frank, the question he asked is spurious, to use that word again. Let me deal with the hon. Member for Glasgow, East (John Mason) , who I heard saying on the radio the other night that he would bring down any UK Government because he was a nationalist—or words to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) . He speaks with great sincerity, but he and I are coming from opposite sides of the argument. I come from a background where, if something has gone wrong, the duty lies with the individual or individuals who have got it wrong to start to put things right and to mend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "Let me say to the hon. Gentleman, above the guffawing that is going on, that I expected a honeymoon period, but it has gone beyond that and what the Scottish National party has had is more than a fair wind; it has been a love-in that John Lennon and Yoko Ono would have thought brilliant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "ankly not worthy of him. He did not write that speech, because it was drivel. He would not have written it; I say that because I know that he is an intelligent man. However, as the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) said, we are all playing the game. The Secretary of State played the game but, with respect, not very well. That was not his fault; it was the fault of the speech-writer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I have no time; I am sorry. If the hon. Gentleman had remained in the Chamber throughout the debate, I probably would have given way to him. The right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks, referred in a very humorous manner to Cardinal Wolsey and to Lord Mandelson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the House for the fact that it is me replying to the debate, but I had been asked to do so before I was moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, so this is my sort of final appearance as the Deputy Leader of the House. We had some interesting speeches this afternoon, and some that were fundamentally misleading. It is a shame that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "sh;we—need to do urgently. I believe that there are two very important things that we need to do urgently. I realise, however, that I have forgotten the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) and his highly illuminating speech. He did, however, mislead us—inadvertently, I am sure—on one fact. He said that he thought that, one day, the Business Secretary, my Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "he truth in this case? They do not expect to form a Government if there is a general election. They are not intending to put up candidates across every seat in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. They have no intention of forming a Government of their own—they want to get rid of this Government to put in that lot, the Conservatives, and they should be honest to the House about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ash;the leader in Scotland—could perfectly well have been in Scotland today voting on reform of the rape law; instead, he has decided to sit in here and smirk like a Cheshire cat so that he gets on television behind the leader of Plaid Cymru. Where were they when it came to the minimum wage? None of them even bothered to turn up, and yet they try to pretend that they believe in things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-10", "file": "debates2009-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "2e84a6a26be6631b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "d of Trident in Faslane. They do not support St. Athan and the new defence training academy in Wales, which would mean thousands of jobs in south Wales, including for people in my constituency. What are the nationalists in my constituency doing about armed forces day? They are saying that it is just a gimmick and they are not prepared to defend our armed forces. On the economy, we know what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-10c.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-11", "file": "debates2009-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "52efdb8b08823b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman must know that no date for a Second Reading was announced. The Government are committed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-11", "file": "debates2009-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "52efdb8b08823b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And French.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " of Opposition Members for the manner in which her predecessor, the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) , who is now an Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, conducted himself in that position. His grasp of detail and his approach to the House was respected and appreciated—and his mastery of Spanish, I understand, makes him well suited to his new job as Minister for Latin America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.933.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-06-11", "file": "debates2009-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "52efdb8b08823b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It has all gone on computers.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e top rate taxpayers to 50 per cent., rather than to give huge inheritance tax cuts for a few thousand millionaires. The hon. Gentleman raised the issue of the probation service, and he will doubtless be able to seek to put his questions directly to Justice Ministers at Justice questions next week. There has been a 70 per cent. real-terms increase in probation funding over the past 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-11", "file": "debates2009-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "52efdb8b08823b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have made a ruling on this matter. The hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Linda Gilroy) is making an argument at the side of the Chair, but let us not take that matter any further. It is not helpful when hon. Members come to the Chair to put the case to me that the Leader of House had something to reply on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-11", "file": "debates2009-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "52efdb8b08823b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. For those people—I shall not stereotype them—who find it less easy to access websites, there is also a telephone helpline. Anyone can ring that and get direct, face-to-face—or mouth-to-mouth—contact, so that they can discuss their needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-11", "file": "debates2009-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "52efdb8b08823b67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": " much to say about whether the opportunities he had then exist to the same extent today. I am obviously not part of the 1958 generation; I am part of the 1970 generation. I experienced my secondary schooling in the 1980s and university in the early '90s. In that sense, I suspect I share much with the hon. Member for Cardiff, Central (Jenny Willott) , who is younger than me and who certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-11a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-12", "file": "debates2009-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "436b2327aaa74825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1033.13", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "tion with Islington. I know that he has a long-standing connection with Islington, so he will appreciate how much of the history of the labour and socialist movement began there. The only historical information I could find on Islington that is comparable to Rochdale in this respect, however, was that Thomas Paine wrote the \"Rights of Man\" at the site of the current Co-operative bank at the Angel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1033.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-06-12", "file": "debates2009-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "436b2327aaa74825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Bournemouth, West.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to have to interrupt the hon. Lady again, but when she mentions Members of the House she should refer to their constituencies rather than their names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-12", "file": "debates2009-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "436b2327aaa74825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1041.4", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "nton (Ed Balls) on Thursday 21 June 2007 . It was fitting that the task was performed by the first Co-operative party Member of Parliament to fill the post of Economic Secretary to the Treasury, as it represented the culmination of 10 years of work by the party to level the playing field for the co-operative sector. The following June, my hon. Friend the Member for—another hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1041.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-12", "file": "debates2009-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "436b2327aaa74825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1062.7", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "My family love me, but there is a limit to what I can do, four days into the job. I am doing my best, as is everybody else, to ensure that the country is prepared. It makes sense to contain the condition as much as possible to give us time to put the necessary systems in place on the ground to take the country through this particular moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1062.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-12", "file": "debates2009-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "436b2327aaa74825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1093.2", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "So I am right in saying that all the major sporting occasions, which many people look forward to seeing on the BBC, would not meet the hon. Gentleman's test and would not be able to be televised by the BBC under his proposals. People who could not afford to pay a subscription charge would not be able to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-12", "file": "debates2009-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "436b2327aaa74825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ton, where some of the best jumping in the country takes place; I also love watching horse racing on television. I have to say, however, that the hon. Gentleman should not support his hon. Friend's Bill because it would prevent that happening. Not only would it prevent that from happening, but it would prevent the grand national from being shown, and many people would be very disappointed at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-12", "file": "debates2009-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "436b2327aaa74825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1102.5", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "That is, of course, a matter for the Prime Minister and the Government. I actually think that the Minister for Sport should be in the Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-12a.1102.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5455099ee84180a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "that each business contributes, based on up-to-date information. As my right hon. Friend the Minister said, all rateable values will be published at the end of September. At the same time, we will provide the business rates calculator to help ratepayers estimate their rates bill for 2010. By October, ratepayers will be able to estimate their 2010 rates bill, using their actual 2010 rateable value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I attended the Twenty20 match at Lords last night and saw England win.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "fidence that is absolutely necessary? Finally, are not the limitations of this inquiry reflected in the way the House of Commons is being treated by the Government over this issue? Before the Franks inquiry—we are told that this is a Franks-style inquiry—there was a proper debate on the terms of reference of the inquiry on a substantive motion in the House of Commons. This time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.24.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "The delay in the announcement by the Prime Minister and the details of the scope of the inquiry have plainly been designed so that it reports the other side of a general election. Given that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misunderstands what this debate is about. If he looked at the monitor, he would see that it is about rural communities in recession—a recession caused by the lack of attention by this Government to the infrastructure that communities such as Norfolk, and South-West Norfolk in particular, need. As such, it is the responsibility of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "preceding_text": "I am not taking another intervention from the hon. Gentleman, but I will allow him to write to me, as I first suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dan Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Norris", "preceding_text": "at party was previously in government, when some 8,000 post offices went to the wall. The Lib Dems take the line that they would not let any loss-making post offices close and would write a blank cheque. The sensible thing to do, I think, is to take the middle way and to recognise the importance of the taxpayer while also recognising the importance of rural post offices in their communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dan Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Norris", "preceding_text": "some 8,000 post offices went to the wall. The Lib Dems take the line that they would not let any loss-making post offices close and would write a blank cheque. The sensible thing to do, I think, is to take the middle way and to recognise the importance of the taxpayer while also recognising the importance of rural post offices in their communities— [ Interruption. ] Thirdly, Jobcentre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that the right hon. Gentleman is giving me the opportunity to make sure that the House is aware of our policy of letting councils that can raise business rate take over the next few years keep that increase. That is how we can incentivise local communities and local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": " House is aware of our policy of letting councils that can raise business rate take over the next few years keep that increase. That is how we can incentivise local communities and local authorities. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman says that that is not the question. He asked me what we can do to make sure there is more local impact on business rates and more incentive for local councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "Let me briefly address the issue of levying local—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "I fully intend to do so. However, we must debate the Conservative motion and the alternative presented by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.112.2", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "oach is that the system is broken and unaffordable, but the way to solve that is, apparently, not by revaluing, and we will therefore end up having a system of local taxation based on property values that are decades out of date. They should either say that the system of council tax is bust and that they will replace it with something else, or defend the council tax system and offer a revaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "e many hundreds of thousands of very small businesses up and down the country if that could be given automatically. Why is not given automatically? Simply, it depends on how the local authority treats the issue. Businesses benefit when they are in local authorities that take an interest in the matter and advertise the availability of rate relief, but those elsewhere do not get the chance to claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-15", "file": "debates2009-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "14765b1244518da5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "that each business contributes, based on up-to-date information. As my right hon. Friend the Minister said, all rateable values will be published at the end of September. At the same time, we will provide the business rates calculator to help ratepayers estimate their rates bill for 2010. By October, ratepayers will be able to estimate their 2010 rates bill, using their actual 2010 rateable value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-15b.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c1428d8e63afcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "lation. As he will appreciate, I am not going to comment on the next Session in Parliament: suffice it to say that this Government have made it clear that the digital revolution is one of our main priorities. As I said in my statement, it is a major part of our industrial strategy. He was wrong to say that not one urban area in the country has so far enjoyed digital switchover, because Exeter has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c1428d8e63afcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ew American Administration—at which questions concerning developed country financing towards mitigation, adaptation, technology support and capacity building will be a top priority. At their dinner on Thursday night, Heads of Government are expected to discuss the nomination of the next Commission President, which I hope is a matter of interest to the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c1428d8e63afcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am sure I do not need to remind the hon. Gentleman that general elections are the way in which we decide the government of this country. He will not have that long to wait—a maximum of 11 months, according to any timetable—and I suggest that he contain his enthusiasm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c1428d8e63afcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "just about reached on it, the final dodge is to delay its implementation for a further five or 10 years. That means that no one who made the decisions is ever accountable for them. The third problem is one that really grieves me. I know that the recent reshuffle was not the Foreign Secretary's responsibility, although some of us might quite like him to be the person who does the reshuffling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.211.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c1428d8e63afcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.255.6", "colnum": "255", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We all did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "led out of the Chamber 10 seconds after he had finished his speech. He talked about the European Union as a volunteer club, and many hon. Members would agree that that is exactly what it should be. We are volunteers in the club, and we have some general interests on which we come together, but there are ways in which we differ greatly from each other. Like the hon. Lady, I grew up in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.255.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c1428d8e63afcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "e reasons why they are happy to have that party alongside them is their own voting record on these matters. That applies especially to the hon. Member for Rayleigh, who has never in his life voted for a positive measure on homosexual equality in this country. There was another party that the Conservatives wanted to get on board: Alternativa Española, the new, far-right party in Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c1428d8e63afcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": " regulator's investigation in a particular case, or specific details relating to the regulator's decisions. However, it is relevant to note that once the trustees had had further discussions with the regulator, they decided not to pursue the matter further. That is, they were satisfied that the regulator had properly considered whether to issue a contribution notice or financial support direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "lation. As he will appreciate, I am not going to comment on the next Session in Parliament: suffice it to say that this Government have made it clear that the digital revolution is one of our main priorities. As I said in my statement, it is a major part of our industrial strategy. He was wrong to say that not one urban area in the country has so far enjoyed digital switchover, because Exeter has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.169.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am sure I do not need to remind the hon. Gentleman that general elections are the way in which we decide the Government of this country. He will not have that long to wait—a maximum of 11 months, according to any timetable—and I suggest that he contain his enthusiasm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree with that. As I shall make clear later, I think it incumbent on those of us who did lose the elections not only to try to understand why, but to stick to what we believe and try to advocate it with full passion and drive. I think that that is what my hon. Friend meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.187.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.199.4", "colnum": "199", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ore the common fisheries policy, as the hon. Gentleman knows, and we have long argued that far greater control over fisheries should pass back to national and regional bodies. We will continue to make that argument, and I am sure that he will continue to make it—even though I think he has left the UK Independence party, which may be something to do with its success in the European elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " have made their position clear on the timing, but I am not sure that the Foreign Secretary has. He endorsed President Barroso and his work, and I welcomed that, but I hope that the Foreign Secretary will also make it clear that there is every reason for the Council to make the formal recommendation on the President of the Commission now, rather than letting the recommendation drift until October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will recall that we were being asked that question a year ago, on the grounds that that situation was, apparently, about to come about because the opinion polls in Ireland showed that the Irish people would approve the treaty. If what the hon. Gentleman has mentioned comes to pass, we will set out in our general election manifesto how we will proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": " hypothetical discussions about what will happen if it isn't ratified,\" while the Opposition say, \"Well, you know, don't trust what the Irish are going to say.\" The only thing that the public out there really know is that there is a political agenda that is defined by people whom they neither elect nor can remove, but who relentlessly pursue a direction over which they feel they have no influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "just about reached on it, the final dodge is to delay its implementation for a further five or 10 years. That means that no one who made the decisions is ever accountable for them. The third problem is one that really grieves me. I know that the recent reshuffle was not the Foreign Secretary's responsibility, although some of us might quite like him to be the person who does the reshuffling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point, but I would point out that the noble Baroness Thatcher, in her first Administration, appointed a Foreign Secretary who was in the other place. The Conservatives therefore need to be slightly careful on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama. President Obama would say \"I really need your help: we need to get these Europeans to help us with this issue and that issue. You must have some influence. Oh—you have left the European People's party, so you have no influence whatsoever.\" A party that may become a Conservative Government is forming a foreign policy which will do this country down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Seven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "n the world, but they will have some very odd bedfellows. We do not know the details, because the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks was rather frit today. That is unusual for him: he normally takes things on the chin and is not afraid of debate. However, he was not able to say with whom the Conservatives will form a group. He knows that they will have to find MEPs from six other member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "eferendum on the European constitution. The SNP also had the great advantage of not being us in those elections, and that was undoubtedly helpful to it. In my constituency, it was noticeable that, such was the support for European integration, the Liberals were beaten not only by ourselves, and the nationalists, and the Conservatives, and UKIP, and the Greens, and the British National party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.255.6", "colnum": "255", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We all did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "led out of the Chamber 10 seconds after he had finished his speech. He talked about the European Union as a volunteer club, and many hon. Members would agree that that is exactly what it should be. We are volunteers in the club, and we have some general interests on which we come together, but there are ways in which we differ greatly from each other. Like the hon. Lady, I grew up in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.255.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "We are not rejecting them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "e reasons why they are happy to have that party alongside them is their own voting record on these matters. That applies especially to the hon. Member for Rayleigh, who has never in his life voted for a positive measure on homosexual equality in this country. There was another party that the Conservatives wanted to get on board: Alternativa Española, the new, far-right party in Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": "Because I am in the middle of a speech, and I choose not to give way. I think that we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-16", "file": "debates2009-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "981373abf2e4b10d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "ARMSTRONG GROUP PENSION FUND", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": " regulator's investigation in a particular case, or specific details relating to the regulator's decisions. However, it is relevant to note that once the trustees had had further discussions with the regulator, they decided not to pursue the matter further. That is, they were satisfied that the regulator had properly considered whether to issue a contribution notice or financial support direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-16b.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7339fa86e02aba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.294.7", "colnum": "294", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Welcome to Prime Minister's planted questions!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.294.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7339fa86e02aba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " a parliamentary democracy that they can regard as the best in the world. In the work ahead, you will be criticised strongly, particularly for this sad period. When scorned, take as comfort the words that Robert Burns wrote to those whom he described as \"The Rigidly Righteous\": \"Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may go a little wrong, To step aside is human.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7339fa86e02aba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "our life story is inspiring not just to people in the House or in Glasgow, but to people throughout our country. I know you will be missed hugely in Glasgow, North-East when you stand down as a Member of Parliament. I am sure that those on both sides of the House are very much looking forward to the by-election. I can only hope that all your constituents will be as friendly to me as you have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7339fa86e02aba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " relax and calm down and not to get psyched up. That is a piece of advice that I will perhaps one day try to take. You said also that the best way to approach colleagues in the House was to give them just enough rope before pulling them in, and that you liked to smile at Members just before you told them off. As I can see that you are smiling now, I think it is time to bring my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.317.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7339fa86e02aba61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have secured the debate, but I am sorry that the Minister whom I understood to be responding is not yet in his place—doubtless that will be put right shortly. The subject of the debate is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17a.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "Yes, absolutely. Were it not for the strength of the United Kingdom, Scottish finance by itself would not have been able to provide the £50 billion that was essential to maintain the Scottish banks. As I said, that amounts to £10,000 for every man, woman and child in Scotland, and it shows the benefit of working together in partnership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.292.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.294.10", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let the Prime Minister speak. That is the best way—we hear what the Prime Minister has to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.294.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "h, employment, interest rates or inflation, he is dogmatically set on a 10 per cent. cut in most departmental expenditures. Let me read out the real-terms current expenditure: 603 to 629 to 633 to 638 to 642. What is that but a rise in real-terms current expenditure? I have already explained about capital expenditure and what is happening after the Olympics, but gross investment, real terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.295.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must allow the Leader of the Opposition to be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must allow the Leader of the Opposition to be heard. [ Interruption. ] Order. Allow the right hon. Gentleman to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.297.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.300.5", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "It could involve the loss of about 15,000 police. Those who advocate 10 per cent. cuts in the Home Office have to face up to the consequences, as it will mean fewer policemen on the beat, less neighbourhood policing and less protection against crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "our life story is inspiring not just to people in the House or in Glasgow, but to people throughout our country. I know you will be missed hugely in Glasgow, North-East when you stand down as a Member of Parliament. I am sure that those on both sides of the House are very much looking forward to the by-election. I can only hope that all your constituents will be as friendly to me as you have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " relax and calm down and not to get psyched up. That is a piece of advice that I will perhaps one day try to take. You said also that the best way to approach colleagues in the House was to give them just enough rope before pulling them in, and that you liked to smile at Members just before you told them off. As I can see that you are smiling now, I think it is time to bring my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "ier by the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) , almost from day one, when you took the Chair, you were subjected to relentless snobbery and distain from a section of the tabloid press that seemed to think that the election of the son of a merchant seaman represented some kind of constitutional outrage. Sir, that was always far more of a reflection on the tabloid press that it ever was on you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I put the motion, I am reminded of an incident involving a councillor who had served a long time in the Cowlairs ward, which the Prime Minister mentioned. We decided to give him a farewell dinner, at which so many good things were said about him that he stood up and said, \"I didn't realise how much you liked me; and I think I will stay on.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "rise— (1) the payment out of money provided by Parliament of any expenditure incurred by virtue of the Act by the Secretary of State, and (2) the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable under any other Act out of that Fund. The motion concerns the private Member's Bill promoted by the hon. Member for East Surrey (Mr. Ainsworth) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.382.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-17", "file": "debates2009-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1c4b37c0be066c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have secured the debate, but I am sorry that the Minister whom I understood to be responding is not yet in his place—doubtless that will be put right shortly. The subject of the debate is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-17b.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-18", "file": "debates2009-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1e3574a76a214a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "f State at the Royal Bath and West of England Society agricultural show. One always used to, but in the past few years, we have not seen a Minister attend the Royal Bath and West, or the annual dairy industry dinner in my constituency. I think that the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) snuck into my constituency and visited the Royal Bath and West; I am always happy to see him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-18", "file": "debates2009-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "e54310301c4fca82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18b.419.5", "colnum": "419", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": " which the hon. Gentleman refers—it is from February 2009, so it is quite up to date—which indicates exactly what he said. The FSB is working with the National Fraud Authority, and there are a number of agencies involved in the issue of fraud. Indeed, the National Fraud Authority, which used to be called the National Fraud Strategic Authority, is intended to have exactly that overview.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18b.419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-18", "file": "debates2009-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "e54310301c4fca82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18b.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "Antarctic, we can go back 400,000 years and look at what has happened in the cycle of warming. It has gone up and down, but what has changed in the past 100 years is the rise in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. The fact that nine of the hottest years on record here in the UK occurred in the past 15 years shows that this change is happening. There may be some who want to deny this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18b.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-18", "file": "debates2009-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "e54310301c4fca82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18b.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ry of State at the Royal Bath and West of England Society agricultural show. One always used to, but in the past few years, we have not seen a Minister at the Royal Bath and West, or the annual dairy industry dinner in my constituency. I think that the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) snuck into my constituency and visited the Royal Bath and West; I am always happy to see him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18b.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-18", "file": "debates2009-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "e54310301c4fca82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18b.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": " write to him in due course. My hon. Friend also mentioned the issue of housing, which, as the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire said, was covered extensively in our debate on Monday afternoon, in which there were statistical exchanges. The Government have a commitment to build 10,000 homes over three years, in communities of fewer than 3,000. We were given some credit from comrades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-18b.527.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Margaret Beckett) . Mr. Williams, it is good to see you presiding over this new procedure for electing a Speaker—a procedure introduced because the last one took too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "dards and Privileges Committee for eight years, a job that Robin Cook asked me to do, may not be the platform of choice from which to launch a bid for the support of one's colleagues, but perhaps more than almost any other job in the House, it calls for total impartiality and an imperative to be fair. On impartiality, I have always been in the Conservative party, not run by the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Mr. Williams, I think I am unique in this contest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ublic know, whom the public by and large trust, and whom the public recognise and are willing to listen to. I believe that, perhaps by rather vulgar means, I have come to fit that bill. That is why, among these very trusty old serving senators this afternoon, I put myself before you as the rather vulgar tribune—I have been longing to say that to those on the Benches opposite for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " rebalance power from the Executive to Back Benchers. Whenever there is a speakership election, all the candidates put forward that notion. Not always is there a successful implementation. But I have not come late to that view; I have stood by it throughout my 22 years in this House. Under the Conservative Administration, I actually teamed up with the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "All the candidates have now addressed the House, and may I thank them on behalf of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.633.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "y-four ballots were cast. The numbers of votes cast for each candidate were as follows: Margaret Beckett, 74 votes; Sir Alan Beith, 55 votes; John Bercow, 179 votes; Sir Patrick Cormack, 13 votes; Mr. Parmjit Dhanda, 26 votes; Sir Alan Haselhurst, 66 votes; Sir Michael Lord, 9 votes; Mr. Richard Shepherd, 15 votes; Miss Ann Widdecombe, 44 votes; Sir George Young, 112 votes. One ballot was spoiled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": " were cast. The numbers of votes cast for each candidate were as follows: Margaret Beckett, 74 votes; Sir Alan Beith, 55 votes; John Bercow, 179 votes; Sir Patrick Cormack, 13 votes; Mr. Parmjit Dhanda, 26 votes; Sir Alan Haselhurst, 66 votes; Sir Michael Lord, 9 votes; Mr. Richard Shepherd, 15 votes; Miss Ann Widdecombe, 44 votes; Sir George Young, 112 votes. One ballot was spoiled. [ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "Order. This is the result of the second ballot. Five hundred and ninety-nine ballots were cast. The numbers of votes cast for each candidate were as follows: Margaret Beckett, 70 votes; Sir Alan Beith, 46 votes; John Bercow, 221 votes; Sir Alan Haselhurst, 57 votes; Miss Ann Widdecombe, 30 votes; Sir George Young, 174 votes. One ballot was spoiled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "ohn Bercow, 221 votes; Sir Alan Haselhurst, 57 votes; Miss Ann Widdecombe, 30 votes; Sir George Young, 174 votes. One ballot was spoiled. [Laughter.] Well, at least one of you is being consistent. No Member received more than 50 per cent. of the ballots cast. Miss Ann Widdecombe received the fewest votes. Before I confirm the list of candidates for the next ballot, I invite—almost beg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "lot will be opened as soon as the ballot papers have been printed, checked and put in place, which is likely to be about 30 minutes from now. I will have the bells rung as soon as the Lobbies are ready, and the ballot will then start. I have made a change to the voting time: under the powers given to me under the Standing Order, the time for voting in the next ballot will be reduced to 20 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-22", "file": "debates2009-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "5b67a48431f3a3ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "This is the result of the third ballot. Five hundred and ninety-three ballots were cast. The number of votes cast for each candidate was as follows: John Bercow 322; Sir George Young 271.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-22b.635.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ab9a8e4adedcc4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "Bill that we have waited \"five million years for a Marine Bill\". Of course we have not, but it certainly feels like it. Throughout this time, while the Government delayed, we on this side have pushed for a marine Bill. Indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) proposed a Bill some eight years ago that would have greatly increased the protection offered to the marine environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ab9a8e4adedcc4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "ir and proper, will the objectors have the right to appeal? Will the Minister spell out how that would work? The role of Natural England is extremely troubling. As the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee warned last year, \"the Bill places so much emphasis on simply trusting Natural England to 'get it right.'\" Determining the make-up of the route is going to be an onerous and complex task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ain to ensure that the British people knew what the application of the treaty was. I repeat: more than a year ago, the constitutional concept was abandoned. That was the statement of the Brussels European Council. The Leader of the Opposition failed to tell us about his party's having joined a new European grouping only yesterday. It makes his party even more isolated and on the fringes of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.669.6", "colnum": "669", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We have a tripartite system, where the Bank of England, the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority work together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Prosperity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman used to talk about an arc of security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I know that, whatever was decided at the European Council, the hon. Gentleman would be calling for exactly that. Let me just read to him what was said: \"The protocol will in no way alter the relationship between the EU and its Member States\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I know that some parties are happy to be in concert with the Polish Law and Justice party, the Czech forum, the Motherland party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I know that some parties are happy to be in concert with the Polish Law and Justice party, the Czech forum, the Motherland party— [ Interruption. ] The Leader of the Opposition is saying that we are meeting the President of Poland; that is absolutely right, but we are not going into a grouping that takes extreme right-wing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Legg to carry out the inquiry. This work is being done on behalf of the House authorities, and the Legg inquiry will report to the House authorities. When the House is advised that money has been over-claimed, steps will be taken to get that back. The hon. Gentleman asked where the law stood in respect of someone who was unfairly reported by Sir Thomas Legg as having received an overpayment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "Bill that we have waited \"five million years for a Marine Bill\". Of course we have not, but it certainly feels like it. Throughout this time, while the Government delayed, we on this side have pushed for a marine Bill. Indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) proposed a Bill some eight years ago that would have greatly increased the protection offered to the marine environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-23", "file": "debates2009-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "e6c15cf557c71c54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "r and proper, will the objectors have the right to appeal? Will the Minister spell out how that would work? The role of Natural England is extremely troubling. As the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee warned last year, \"the Bill places so much emphasis on simply trusting Natural England to 'get it right.'\" Determining the make-up of the route is going to be an onerous and complex task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-23b.733.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "f33c76faf67224c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24b.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "cking, so he wrote to Chilcot and asked him to see what he could do about having some sessions in public, using what is said in their phrase to be some \"equivalent to the oath\". There is no equivalent to the oath; there would be more value in the wolf cub's promise than what they are proposing. That is the fact of the matter. There is no such equivalent to the oath and the Prime Minister knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24b.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "f33c76faf67224c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24b.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "The debate provides me with an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24b.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.783.5", "colnum": "783", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Foster", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to point out that Pakistan's education spending of just 2.4 per cent. of GDP is among the lowest in the world. He is also right to point out that if we are serious about tackling poverty and social exclusion and dealing with the grievances that lead to insecurity, education must play a central role.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.783.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.786.10", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Hall", "preceding_text": " our troops, the hostages and their families. One of the key issues raised with me by my constituents is that of housing, and specifically access to affordable housing and the need for mortgage finance. My constituents are aware that despite the urgent need for more house building, Conservatives generally campaign against it, as well as oppose the measures needed to fix the financial system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.786.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.788.4", "colnum": "788", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let us first of all be clear about the Prime Minister's claims about Conservative policy. Even his own colleagues do not believe him. This is the report that we had from last week's Cabinet: \"Darling pointed out that Brown's Tory cut figures did not represent the\"— Conservative— \"party's policy but were merely extrapolations\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.788.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I read out the figures to the House. We are spending £38 billion in that year 2008-09—more than the Tories would ever do. We are spending £44 billion in the coming year—more than the Tories would ever do. We are spending more money on capital investment than at any time in our history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.789.4", "colnum": "789", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " of 10 per cent. cuts in public expenditure, and the party that would cut the vital public services at a time of recession. We have brought forward public expenditure to help people stay in their homes and get into jobs and to help build schools and hospitals. Those are exactly the public services that the Conservatives would cut savagely, by 10 per cent. That is not going to be allowed to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.789.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not wrong on public spending. We want to increase public spending. I am not wrong on wanting to help people in difficulty in the recession by helping the unemployed and home owners. It is the Liberal party that wants to cut public expenditure, not the Cons—not the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "This morning, Superintendent Simon Corkill from Wembley police station telephoned me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Is it not remarkable that the Conservatives have formed an alliance in Europe that excludes the German Christian Democrats, excludes the French party of President Sarkozy, excludes the Italian party of Prime Minister Berlusconi—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Is it not remarkable that the Conservatives have formed an alliance in Europe that excludes the German Christian Democrats, excludes the French party of President Sarkozy, excludes the Italian party of Prime Minister Berlusconi— [Interruption. ] —excludes all reputable political parties in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Full stop!\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "cies and clearly inaccurate statements produced by Ministers during the process of establishing the inquiry, combined with a continuing refusal to put the terms of reference of the inquiry to the House on a substantive motion, it is clearly necessary for the House to have a more detailed debate for the will of Parliament to be clear, and this motion provides the vehicle for those things to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.812.4", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "We all know that hundreds of thousands have died, murdered, in the main, and certainly not by the British or the Americans, but by outright terrorists; so why will the opponents of the war, while maintaining their position—they say that they were absolutely right, and all the rest of it—not condemn the terrorist action, which they refuse to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.812.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.816.5", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I would like to intervene now, whether it is or is not still relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "Sir John has made it clear that there are ways in which he can invite the witnesses to make some kind of representation. This will not be a judicial inquiry. Sir John is not there to establish criminal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry but I will not give way. My hon. Friend can speak later in the debate and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "nd elsewhere that are relevant to the conduct of the war and the expectation that this House would support it. It has been made clear that Government papers will be provided, and the Foreign Secretary was explicit about Cabinet papers today. Can he be explicit about whether that will include legal advice to Cabinet, because that has so far been officially withheld? Will it be made available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "eive, and examine evidence, is hereby empowered to administer an oath to all such witnesses as are legally called before them respectively.\" That confers a power not just on court officials but on any person and if both parties are agreed, they can give evidence under oath. That is important because once they have sworn an oath, they are subject to the laws of perjury. That is the key point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way, because I shall lose the time—I have no extra time. I am sorry. The House must forgive me; I am one of those who is worth more than 10 minutes. I cannot give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "n, the armed forces and the public, they will have to be held accountable. There will have to be a trial, which will have to be held under oath, and that will lead to punishment if there are convictions at the end—nothing less will do. We can faff about here in our parliamentary way, with fey exchanges between those on the two Front Benches, but that will not cut any mustard out there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "cking, so he wrote to Chilcot and asked him to see what he could do about having some sessions in public, using what is said in their phrase to be some \"equivalent to the oath\". There is no equivalent to the oath; there would be more value in the wolf cub's promise than what they are proposing. That is the fact of the matter. There is no such equivalent to the oath and the Prime Minister knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "The House has the opportunity and the right to decide this evening. Having started on the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-24", "file": "debates2009-06-24c.xml", "sha256": "ae37b762c3d3eda6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "TAXI DRIVERS (ASSAULT)", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "The debate provides me with an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-24c.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "bf5b9acafb10844b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25b.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "t the amendment, I could not see his name. I could see the names of my hon. Friends the Members for Northavon and for Twickenham, the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) and my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) , but not the name of the right hon. Member for Witney, so I wondered how he could have been responsible for the Government's change of heart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25b.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25c.xml", "sha256": "68aeaca71b1750dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.929.7", "colnum": "929", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not have heard my answer: none have been granted. Local authorities recognise the additional powers that they have and we hope to make a decision on Kent next month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.929.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25c.xml", "sha256": "68aeaca71b1750dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "on. Friends the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary that we have acted entirely properly in bringing this matter before the House. You, Mr. Speaker, will know that this morning the Prime Minister issued a written ministerial statement that publishes the documents. There has been press speculation about the issue, but I guarantee that we did not brief the press beforehand. If I can explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25c.xml", "sha256": "68aeaca71b1750dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": " the House. You, Mr. Speaker, will know that this morning the Prime Minister issued a written ministerial statement that publishes the documents. There has been press speculation about the issue, but I guarantee that we did not brief the press beforehand. If I can explain—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] If I can explain to hon. Members the circumstances that have given rise to press speculation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25c.xml", "sha256": "68aeaca71b1750dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.953.5", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "There is a de minimis rule for donations, which is 1 per cent.—£650. Unless the bunch of flowers given to the right hon. Lady is worth more than £650—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.953.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25c.xml", "sha256": "68aeaca71b1750dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "The point is to set a limit so that people in that situation will not be able to accrue further benefits. The vast bulk of members of the scheme are those who have entered the House newly or in the past couple of Parliaments. The average service of an MP is just over 12 years, so as I have said, only a small number of members of the scheme are in that situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.990.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25c.xml", "sha256": "68aeaca71b1750dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.997.2", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend reads my mind perfectly. Longevity is something we have to live with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25c.xml", "sha256": "68aeaca71b1750dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "Well, he was when he became a member of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-25", "file": "debates2009-06-25c.xml", "sha256": "68aeaca71b1750dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.1018.5", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. There is growing anger concerning motion 9, which we will shortly reach, because it seeks to require the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Grand Committee to meet in Barnsley. Many Opposition Members feel that it should meet in Bridlington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-25c.1018.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "787385a9ba9206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29b.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are doing that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "lls his draft legislative programme with them. Much of the rest of the programme has been rehashed from previous years. The simplification of our immigration rules, for example, was announced in last year's programme. The floods Bill was recommended in 2007, announced in 2008 and re-announced again this morning, in 2009. One-to-one tuition and the NHS check-ups were both announced last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29b.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "787385a9ba9206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29b.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "amme. I cannot believe that Lord Mandelson of upgrade has ever been jostled out of anything, but there we are. Let me make the Prime Minister an offer. If he has not got time in his packed parliamentary schedule to get his Royal Mail reforms through, would he like to use the time allocated for our Opposition day debate next week for the Bill's Second Reading? Would he welcome that? Just nod—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29b.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "787385a9ba9206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29b.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": ", in fact, they are not necessarily a salary. To make the debate a bit more exciting, I should say that £400, if translated into current-day average earnings, amounts to somewhere between—we can argue the figure—£140,000 and £250,000. That is the context in which the issue ought to be considered. I am not arguing for that amount, so please let nobody assume that I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29b.106.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "oday? At 7.50 am, Lord Mandelson took to the airwaves and promptly sank the whole thing by cancelling the Government's spending review. So, is not what we have today a package without a price tag? It is just a combination of rehashed initiatives, ideas taken from the Opposition and some timid, bureaucratic, top-down tinkering. I have to admit that there are some good things in the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.24.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "amme. I cannot believe that Lord Mandelson of upgrade has ever been jostled out of anything, but there we are. Let me make the Prime Minister an offer. If he has not got time in his packed parliamentary schedule to get his Royal Mail reforms through, would he like to use the time allocated for our Opposition day debate next week for the Bill's Second Reading? Would he welcome that? Just nod—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.25.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not think so, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "itted in principle to a speedy passage. Clause 6 is not essential to the Bill, so in the interests of consensus I will accept the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire and my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough, and I will not move clause 6 when we reach that part of the Bill. There will be some consequential amendments to clause 5 and elsewhere in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that excellent concession. On the registration of interests, given that the Members who have the most time-consuming second jobs are Ministers, why are they exempted from the registration requirement? Will he tell the House how many hours he spent last week on his second job?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am Lord High Chancellor as well, which function I was undertaking this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.54.8", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Let me make some more progress. Clause 7 sets out the investigatory powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.54.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "kground to these offences. The simple fact of the matter is this. In regulating elected bodies such as local authorities, the Welsh Assembly and the Scottish Parliament, this House has been happy to lay down, without argument, some stringent penalties for offences of misconduct by the members of those bodies. I thus have to say that what is sauce for the goose has to be sauce for the gander—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "No, I am going to make some more progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.56.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "Picking up on the point made by the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) , does the shadow Leader of the House agree that that Committee made particular recommendations in relation to the provisions of article 6 and natural justice to ensure that Members had the right to fair procedure when such cases were dealt with?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": ", in fact, they are not necessarily a salary. To make the debate a bit more exciting, I should say that £400, if translated into current-day average earnings, amounts to somewhere between—we can argue the figure—£140,000 and £250,000. That is the context in which the issue ought to be considered. I am not arguing for that amount, so please let nobody assume that I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.125.2", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "No, there is not time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.128.4", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way at the moment. The key—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-29", "file": "debates2009-06-29e.xml", "sha256": "d62f8b5c717b6006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Parliamentary Standards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Gray, it is very clear that the Minister is not giving way. Stay in your seat and listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-29e.128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "144921fd73b0b97f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30a.192.3", "colnum": "192", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Not me. The issue particularly exercising the Clerk and Members was clause 6, which I have dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30a.192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "144921fd73b0b97f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They've conceded that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "hen one sees, for example, references to the Speaker in paragraphs 1(2), (3) and (4) of schedule 2, references to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which is made up of Members of Parliament, or references in paragraph 4 of schedule 2 to the removal of the Commissioner for Parliamentary Investigations being brought about only on a motion put down by the Leader of the Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.148.4", "colnum": "148", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "r the record I should point out that the sanctions imposed by the EU as a result of Iran's flouting of the United Nations Security Council go beyond, and well beyond in a number of respects, the requirements of the Security Council. To portray the situation as one where there is a lonely voice on the Opposition Benches calling for tough sanctions in respect of the Iranian nuclear programme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman—or am I allowed to call him my hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.192.3", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Not me. The issue particularly exercising the Clerk and Members was clause 6, which I have dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.192.7", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "As I explained yesterday, the Kelly committee is dealing with the content of the allowance system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.192.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "surance, not least to the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) and the hon. Member for South Staffordshire, that if there were to be—although I do not anticipate this for a moment—aspects of Sir Christopher Kelly's proposals that the House wished to accept, but they were wholly inconsistent or incompatible with the legislation, we would have to amend the legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "consider it again at a time of less urgency. The impending general election will take place by next June, so I do not make that explicit promise, but I do make the explicit promise that if there are aspects of the recommendations from Sir Christopher that the House wishes to implement, but cannot because of this legislation—a very distant prospect—we will have to amend the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "felt when the Secretary of State accepted amendment 52 in the name of the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) , I failed to notice that amendment 55 makes exactly the same point. It requires the leave of the House for me to put that amendment immediately before I put the Question on the schedule. That is clearly logical and would save tidying up later. Do I have the House's approval?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "mistakes. The Justice Secretary is trying to persuade us that it is important for the independent fees office, as described by my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) , to be disciplined—or governed or looked after—by an independent functionary. Yet we also see, and not just in schedule 2, which we are discussing, but in other parts of the Bill, various references—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "Well, I am delighted to hear that, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "igation will be so important and why the way in which he presents his report, however difficult, will be crucial for the future of the allowances system. This is emergency legislation and it, including the amendment, will need to be reviewed. I think that that will be best done by a sunset clause, which I have not yet had an opportunity to table, but I hope will be tabled in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.246.4", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "st want to make one point. There are 168 hours in a week—that is not a matter for argument across the Chamber; it is just true. I merely offer hon. Members who are worried and their constituents this reflection. The European working time directive, whether one likes it or not—some do, some do not—prescribes 48 hours as the standard maximum that one is supposed to work in one job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.246.4", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "dard maximum that one is supposed to work in one job. [ Laughter. ] Hang on. If colleagues are sleeping normally—eight hours a day—that will them give them 56 hours. Adding those two together gives 104 hours. If we take that away from 168 hours we get 64 hours, which gives hon. Members nine hours a day, more or less, to do what they want with and still fulfil their constituency duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.254.2", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "shire (Sir George Young) has just said—and, indeed, with everything that he said in his brief but, I felt, totally persuasive speech. I feel very sorry for the Secretary of State. He is trying to be his master's voice and he is clearly finding it extremely uncomfortable. His performance at the Dispatch Box at the beginning of this debate was one of total sincerity but utter discomfort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-06-30", "file": "debates2009-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "79f22aab9b95e4b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " acknowledge that. I regard myself—whether others do is a matter for them—as someone who takes his constituency responsibilities very seriously. However, it happens that I have been on the Front Bench in one capacity or another since November 1980, which is some time ago. When I was in opposition, I used to earn a significant sum from writing, which I used to subsidise my office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-06-30b.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "1ad6e26bb9c043f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Prime Minister told you to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman and his Committee for their report. As he will know, there is a serious difference on that issue between independent jurists here—the Clerk of the House and his colleagues—and senior parliamentary counsel. Why would I want to pursue an unpopular clause unless it was felt to be necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "1ad6e26bb9c043f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " As he will know, there is a serious difference on that issue between independent jurists here—the Clerk of the House and his colleagues—and senior parliamentary counsel. Why would I want to pursue an unpopular clause unless it was felt to be necessary? [Hon. Members: \"The Prime Minister told you to.\"] No, no. To be blunt, it has not featured on the Prime Minister's radar at any stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "1ad6e26bb9c043f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the keeping of our expenses records and so forth. That has led to matters being taken to the High Court on two occasions, at considerable public expense. None of us—or at least only a very few of us, and I was not one of them—was asked for our view on that matter, but we are now none the less staring at the consequences of the High Court's decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "1ad6e26bb9c043f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.403.6", "colnum": "403", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "id not need a series of major changes to our rights, responsibilities and privileges, cobbled together on the back of that requirement. What has happened, on the whim of the Prime Minister, is that we now have this extraordinary piece of legislation, which is ill-thought-through and liable to major change in another place. Surely the purpose tonight is not to be party political. The purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.403.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "1ad6e26bb9c043f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "sue was discussed in detail during the Bill's previous stages in this place, and I am particularly grateful to my hon. Friends the Members for South Thanet (Dr. Ladyman) and for Leeds, East (Mr. Mudie) and the hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. Browne) for raising it. In response, the then Economic Secretary said that the Government were minded to table amendments on the matter in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "1ad6e26bb9c043f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "me to read the National Audit Office report—not simply the research prepared by a researcher—entitled \"Letting Rail Franchises 2005-2007\", will see that it says of the approach to running rail franchises: \"The Department's arrangements for identifying and managing risks, including handling the failure of a train operator, are well planned and follow good practice.\" Let us look further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to the RNLI for its work. In a previous life, I met its representatives on many occasions. This is a matter for the Treasury, but we will draw my hon. Friend's comments to the attention of Treasury Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "A large number of charities have had their assets frozen as a result of the Icelandic banking collapse. Why have the Government ignored the Treasury Committee's recommendation for compensation, and will the Government consider establishing a short-term Treasury loan fund to help out sound charities facing genuine hardship?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "No, total spending will continue to rise, and it will be a zero per cent. rise in 2013-14. In 2011-12 and 2012-13, it will continue to rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " expenditure. We have put forward proposals for expenditure in 2010-11—increasing expenditure, and the Opposition have rejected that. The capital spending that we have advanced to 2009-10 and 2010-11 is therefore not available after 2011. This is precisely the way in which a Government will act to take the country out of recession, and I must therefore ask the right hon. Gentleman why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Complete nonsense. Nobody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "h; [Interruption.] It is interesting that not even the Prime Minister's own Cabinet now backs the ludicrous line that he is taking about public spending. He keeps talking about this 10 per cent. I do not know whether he realises how much damage it is doing to him. It is not doing any damage to us. Let us explain where the deceit about the 10 per cent. comes from. Let me explain to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "If we take the Government's own spending plans, take off debt interest and take off the increase for unemployment, which, sadly, will go up, we are left with a 7 per cent. cut in every Department—the Government's own figures. If we exempt the NHS, we get a 10 per cent. cut—the Government's own figures. If we take out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "It would be wrong to have a spending review now, at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We are raising expenditure on the health service this year and next year. The hon. Gentleman should know perfectly well that we have done so against the advice of the Conservative party, which would prefer to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Virendra Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Virendra Sharma", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend believe that to build Britain's future we need to invest now in helping people through the downturn, and especially in young people's training and skills?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We have set aside £2.3 billion for investment in further education colleges over this spending review period. We put an additional £300 million into that in the Budget. I will ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": " correctly, if the House decided to discipline the Member concerned and it was subsequently found that the information was demanded unreasonably, the court would be interfering directly in the disciplinary matters of this House. If there is something on which we all agree, it is the fact that the House must retain the ultimate sanction to discipline its own Members. If I am wrong about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "hat we do not over-egg the pudding and seek to provide ourselves—and the implication is that this would be provided free—with something that is not available to others in similar circumstances. The availability of civil legal aid has been restricted for a long time. Although the costs of such aid continue to rise, eligibility, particularly outside the area of family law, is restricted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "We will come on to the offences later, but it is fair to point out that the House has been ready to impose similar offences on other bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.329.4", "colnum": "329", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " be fair. Now that we have accepted amendment 10, the commissioner, if he so judges, makes a report to the authority. Plainly, less elaborate processes can apply in respect of that initial consideration by the commissioner. I emphasise the point that, paradoxically, the overall process that we are providing under the Bill is more substantial and provides more inbuilt protections for Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.329.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.357.4", "colnum": "357", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Absolutely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "We have to be in a situation of clarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e, we will continue to examine it, and that will not necessarily be the end of the matter. I recognise the sensitivity of the matter of privilege but, to pick up a point made by my hon. Friend, privilege at its best is not about our privilege but about the privileges of our electors, and through that, the rights of this House. The hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) is no longer in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.372.6", "colnum": "372", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not take the view that they were wrong, but there is self-evidently a difference of emphasis on whether they are right, and we are trying to resolve that. I am conscious of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.372.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Prime Minister told you to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman and his Committee for their report. As he will know, there is a serious difference on that issue between independent jurists here—the Clerk of the House and his colleagues—and senior parliamentary counsel. Why would I want to pursue an unpopular clause unless it was felt to be necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " As he will know, there is a serious difference on that issue between independent jurists here—the Clerk of the House and his colleagues—and senior parliamentary counsel. Why would I want to pursue an unpopular clause unless it was felt to be necessary? [Hon. Members: \"The Prime Minister told you to.\"] No, no. To be blunt, it has not featured on the Prime Minister's radar at any stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir Alan. It is fair to say that you have not had notice of such a statement, because we have only just learned of the decision of the House, by 250 votes to 247. Of course, I understand the concerns of the House. We will respect the decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the keeping of our expenses records and so forth. That has led to matters being taken to the High Court on two occasions, at considerable public expense. None of us—or at least only a very few of us, and I was not one of them—was asked for our view on that matter, but we are now none the less staring at the consequences of the High Court's decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s serious anxiety in the House. I feel frustrated, although I know that it is one of those things. We are trying to get the Bill through, and there is heavy pressure—this applies to Governments of all descriptions, but it just happens to apply to this Government at the moment—and there was no time to debate clause 10. I fancy that my powers of advocacy would have been sufficient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "tion. ] I know that the Government are to blame for the fact that there was not time, but I am making the point that I hope that my powers of advocacy would have been sufficient to have persuaded three people to vote the other way, had I had the opportunity. Of course, we will consider amendment 6, too. However, on a point on which I was engaging the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ote the other way, had I had the opportunity. Of course, we will consider amendment 6, too. However, on a point on which I was engaging the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed— [ Interruption. ] This is in answer to the hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield. Of course, I respect the view of the House, but I also want there to be an overall scheme that is workable and effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.403.6", "colnum": "403", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "hort order. We did not need a series of major changes to our rights, responsibilities and privileges, cobbled together on the back of that requirement. What has happened, on the whim of the Prime Minister, is that we now have this extraordinary Bill, which is ill-thought-through and liable to major change in another place. Surely the purpose tonight is not to be party political. The purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.403.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He meant the hon. Member for Wirral, West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I was not sneering at the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "r for Wirral, West.\"] Okay, but I was chuckling at him, because there was a disconnection between his invective against the Prime Minister and what he said in his next breath about this not being a party political issue. I agree that it should not be seen as a party political issue, and I remind the House that all three party leaders backed the establishment of a parliamentary standards authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "First, there is good evidence in a Modernisation Committee report from two years ago—that evidence came from the Clerks of the House—that it is a myth that this House spends less time on legislation than the other place does. It is simply not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "ateway. The issue was discussed in detail during the Bill's previous stages in this place, and I am particularly grateful to my hon. Friends the Members for South Thanet (Dr. Ladyman) and for Leeds, East (Mr. Mudie) and the hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. Browne) for raising it. In response, the then Economic Secretary said that the Government were minded to table amendments in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": " to have the opportunity to become friends with the Opposition spokesperson before showing the disrespect in which I hold her comments, which lack vigour and do not reflect the facts. I heard Dermot Murnaghan say on \"Sky\" that he struggled to understand her arguments, and I know exactly what he means. She is the spokesperson for a party that privatised the railways, that led us to Railtrack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "me to read the National Audit Office report—not simply the research prepared by a researcher—entitled \"Letting Rail Franchises 2005-2007\", will see that it says of the approach to running rail franchises: \"The Department's arrangements for identifying and managing risks, including handling the failure of a train operator, are well planned and follow good practice.\" Let us look further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-01", "file": "debates2009-07-01b.xml", "sha256": "99fec0a9c9cf2451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think one question will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-01b.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-02", "file": "debates2009-07-02b.xml", "sha256": "be964b382cf4427d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-02b.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "fairs Committee debates that quite so many Committee members turned up. Perhaps this is the template for other Select Committees. My hon. Friend the Member for Bury, North (Mr. Chaytor) , the hon. Members for Chesterfield (Paul Holmes), for Mid-Dorset and North Poole (Annette Brooke) and for Beverley and Holderness (Mr. Stuart), and my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-02b.527.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-02", "file": "debates2009-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "8675cf5ce78dcd86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-02c.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " a range of other issues, and it will also ensure that all public authorities, be they local government authorities, health authorities or Departments, and indeed Ministers, play their part in ensuring that this country is a more fair and equal society. That Bill has the support of the whole Government, albeit not the support of the whole House. Unfortunately there is a division on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-02c.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-02", "file": "debates2009-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "8675cf5ce78dcd86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-02c.491.6", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I responded to what the hon. Gentleman had to say, so I have been considering whether we should have two committees. There would not be any point in setting up one Committee and then needing a further House resolution to add to its terms of reference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-02c.491.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64e181f31d00e716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "Of course I do, Madam Deputy Speaker, but when one is being barracked from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.749.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64e181f31d00e716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "migration, because foreign visitors will not have to have an ID card unless they plan to stay in the UK for more than three months. They will not prevent identity fraud. Microsoft's national technology officer, Jerry Fishenden, has said that introducing ID cards would make the problem even worse, warning that it could \"trigger massive identity fraud on a scale beyond anything we have seen before\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64e181f31d00e716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "al identity register. I commend schedule 1 to the Identity Cards Act 2006 to all those who have been peddling that myth; they should read the list of the information that may be recorded on the identity register. The list includes: \"the 'audit log' of how and when any information from an entry was provided to any person or body.\" Any attempt by anyone to look at a person's records gets registered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64e181f31d00e716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "d read the list of the information that may be recorded on the identity register. The list includes: \"the 'audit log' of how and when any information from an entry was provided to any person or body.\" Any attempt by anyone to look at a person's records gets registered. [Interruption.] The Home Secretary says that that is absolutely right. There is much more on the national identity register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "64e181f31d00e716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ate. We are fundamentally opposed to the Orwellian society that Labour is trying to create through schemes such as this. Privacy International—the Home Secretary should be ashamed of this—now ranks Britain as the most invasive surveillance state and the worst at protecting individual privacy of any western democracy. That is what we have come to after 12 years of new Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "No. The reasons that we set out to the British people—in an election that we won—on why we would introduce ID cards are exactly the reasons for introducing them now. We have not scrapped cards; we are accelerating their introduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "urrent extradition treaty with the US ensures equal co-operation between the UK and the Department for Trade and Industry US. This issue comes up periodically; I remember that it came up in relation to the Natwest three when I was at the Department for Trade and Industry. Perhaps hon. Members will remember the marching through the streets in relation to that case, but it all went very quiet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman anticipates the exciting part of my speech, which comes later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "We will inject £775 million in support through lifelong learning accounts to provide a careers service of the kind that I mentioned and an apprenticeship programme of which we can be proud. We will also put an additional fund in place: a further £100 million a year so that we can rebuild the infrastructure of adult and community learning, which has been so eroded under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "rovide a careers service of the kind that I mentioned and an apprenticeship programme of which we can be proud. We will also put an additional fund in place: a further £100 million a year so that we can rebuild the infrastructure of adult and community learning, which has been so eroded under this Government. [Interruption.] Well, as the Minister knows, the way we will fund that is by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "Well, we have discussed this before in the House, and the hon. Gentleman will know that the overall cohort of young people has increased in the country anyway, because of the demographics and habits of the baby boomers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "increase. Most economists agree that at some point in 2010 unemployment is likely to reach 3 million again. That brings back memories for many of us in the Chamber. The Minister has mentioned his memories of the early 1990s. I am sure that some of his colleagues, like my hon. Friend the Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) and myself, will also remember the misery of the 1980s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "tations either; indeed, I used to have one. What I have a problem with is people writing a thesis on how to get to level 10 on \"Grand Theft Auto\". I do not think that that is a good use of three years or of the taxpayer's money, nor do I think that it will lead to a job. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to lecture me about economics, let me tell him that I see things in a fairly simple way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "ave one. What I have a problem with is people writing a thesis on how to get to level 10 on \"Grand Theft Auto\". I do not think that that is a good use of three years or of the taxpayer's money, nor do I think that it will lead to a job. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to lecture me about economics, let me tell him that I see things in a fairly simple way— [ Laughter. ] Yes, I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "degree, but I am quite happy with that fact. I study history as an interest and what I have learned is that since man started herding animals together, all societies have had four requirements: food, shelter, construction and an ability to make tools to make life better for the next generation. Those are the basic fundamentals of any economy, but let us look at what goes on in 21st-century cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The right hon. Gentleman had well over half an hour earlier and took all sorts of interventions that turned into mini-speeches. He mentioned the creative industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What did she get?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "ding here as much as a mother as an MP, because my daughter opened her university results today and we all found out what grade she had got. It was a great day for us. I have now been a university mother for six years, and my children are the first on either side of the family to go to university. We are therefore incredibly proud of them, and Jennifer is also incredibly proud of her result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "Higher Education and Intellectual Property a long diatribe, with the usual history and spin in equal measure, but he failed to raise his game to the occasion as we would have expected. On the other hand, my hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) , in moving the motion, displayed his usual vigour, constructive argument, robustness, policies and logical argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "mployment reaches 3 million, 1.25 million or 40 per cent. of those will be under the age of 25. Let us not forget that that is a huge figure. Overall, as the Government admit and as can be seen in the figures, unemployment at 2.2 million is far too high—and, also on their admission, set to rise. Lives are blighted, talent is wasted and the human cost of unemployment is a very serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "larly from my hon. Friends, to this important debate. The hon. Member for Bristol, West (Stephen Williams) , who speaks for the Liberal Democrats, was moderate and constructive in his approach. He highlighted the complexities of training routes and spoke about employment rates for graduates and the reduction in their job prospects. All those issues are a matter of real concern for all of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "ouncil. The LSC has effectively delivered less for more money. It is no wonder that the Government want to get rid of it and replace it with three quangos. The time left for debate is very short, but I would like to deal with the crisis in higher education, particularly for those who want to go to university. The Minister said that everyone will get a place and that there will be no problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "he crisis in higher education, particularly for those who want to go to university. The Minister said that everyone will get a place and that there will be no problem— [Interruption.] Yes, he did. He said that there would be no problems for anyone getting the qualifications. He glossed over the problem, as he does so well and so regularly. Well, I thought that it was lamentable Lammy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.747.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " war, all British citizens were issued with an identity card that showed their name and address and an identity card number, which was held on a national register. When this requirement was abolished seven years after the war ended, the national register was transferred to the newly formed NHS. Identity cards do not create or extend the Big Brother society; they are an attempt to control it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "y the police, they are asked to produce it in short order at a police station. If the person involved is a gangster on their way to the costa del crime, I doubt whether they would bother to turn up later to produce their ID card. Very few countries make carrying an ID card compulsory, precisely because it is so draconian to lock up forgetful students, disorganised journalists or amnesiac grannies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "5 million and told that cards for foreign nationals would cost £326 million, but perhaps the Minister can confirm those figures when he replies to this debate. I have also heard anecdotally that one of the reasons why the scheme cannot be scrapped is that the contracts have been signed. With the contracts signed, it is not possible to renege on them, because the Government are bound by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "migration, because foreign visitors will not have to have an ID card unless they plan to stay in the UK for more than three months. They will not prevent identity fraud. Microsoft's national technology officer, Jerry Fishenden, has said that introducing ID cards would make the problem even worse, warning that it could \"trigger massive identity fraud on a scale beyond anything we have seen before\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "al identity register. I commend schedule 1 to the Identity Cards Act 2006 to all those who have been peddling that myth; they should read the list of the information that may be recorded on the identity register. The list includes: \"the 'audit log' of how and when any information from an entry was provided to any person or body.\" Any attempt by anyone to look at a person's records gets registered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "d read the list of the information that may be recorded on the identity register. The list includes: \"the 'audit log' of how and when any information from an entry was provided to any person or body.\" Any attempt by anyone to look at a person's records gets registered. [Interruption.] The Home Secretary says that that is absolutely right. There is much more on the national identity register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ate. We are fundamentally opposed to the Orwellian society that Labour is trying to create through schemes such as this. Privacy International—the Home Secretary should be ashamed of this—now ranks Britain as the most invasive surveillance state and the worst at protecting individual privacy of any western democracy. That is what we have come to after 12 years of new Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "bit less for a child. The total fee for the estimated number of passports issued over the next 10 years is up to £96.7 million; that gives us a gross cost. The £4.95 billion figure quoted for ID cards is a gross cost before fees and income. Then the question arises as to how much of that money is to be spent on the identity card. The answer is that that depends how many people get one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.800.7", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "t fee for the next year should be, and his officials provided him with a brief saying, \"We don't know how many are going to be sold next year, Minister, so we can't set a fee\", what would he do? He would say, \"We will base it on cost recovery. We will look at the previous average cost of passports and the marginal cost of production\", just as any business person has to do, and he will set his fee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.800.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-06", "file": "debates2009-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "6c14548ae8939cec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.800.7", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "od reasons for an identity scheme, no one reason is good enough. It is argued that an identity card system in Madrid did not stop the terrorist bombing. On that logic, the police force in Spain could be abolished. They had a police force, but that did not stop the bombing. The Government have not said, as the right hon. Member for Charnwood (Mr. Dorrell) claimed, that it was the key element—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-06b.800.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07b.xml", "sha256": "4365aa5e3c431c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07b.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "It is said, \"For whom the bell tolls\"—well, there is no question but that the bell tolls for new Labour on this proposal. The Government have turned the values of new Labour and old Labour upside down by what they have done. To those who think that the vote by the Conservative party has an element of cynicism about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07b.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07b.xml", "sha256": "4365aa5e3c431c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07b.930.7", "colnum": "930", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Last orders!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "shment. I enjoyed sparring with the hon. Gentleman in Committee on this and many other duties. I agreed with a great deal of what he had to say; I just thought it a pity that he did not properly explain the amendment before us, because it has a number of problems that need probing. Nevertheless, we seem to be making a habit of debating alcohol duty only very late at night or at the end of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07b.930.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.826.4", "colnum": "826", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "preceding_text": "The Department has had a number of recent representations from Members on the timetable for further reviews of regional spatial strategies. Margaret Beckett—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.826.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.839.5", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " House resolved \"that the UK Youth Parliament should be allowed for this year alone to hold its 2009 annual meeting in the Chamber of this House.\"—[ Official Report , 16 March 2009; Vol. 489, c. 742 .] You will also know that the annual meeting of the Youth Parliament takes place between 24 and 27 July at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and that it will not now take place in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.839.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Part of the challenge was for the Government to justify why they moved from the previous three-rate income tax system to the two-rate system, and simplification seemed a convenient explanation at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "No, which is exactly why I have explained my position on this amending provision and pressed Treasury Ministers on the issue of women. I have also explained why, if I am asked whether my constituents would thank me for causing the problems that would occur if the Budget did not go through, I do not think they would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "It is said, \"For whom the bell tolls\"—well, there is no question but that the bell tolls for new Labour on this proposal. The Government have turned the values of new Labour and old Labour upside down by what they have done. To those who think that the vote by the Conservative party has an element of cynicism about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "nd;92 a year, or £1.77 per week, if there is no offsetting tax credit gain. The average loss for a household is now less than £1 a week. I agree with those who have said that even a loss of that size is significant for some of the people we are talking about, but it is important to make it clear that we are not talking about average losses of £2 or £3 as has been suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "We now turn to another crucial subject, although I do not know whether it will hold Members in the Chamber for long. New clause 3 and the others in the group deal with tax competitiveness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "That would be an extremely popular measure, but it is not my intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-07", "file": "debates2009-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "922518e51053fb38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.930.7", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Last orders!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "shment. I enjoyed sparring with the hon. Gentleman in Committee on this and many other duties. I agreed with a great deal of what he had to say; I just thought it a pity that he did not properly explain the amendment before us, because it has a number of problems that need probing. Nevertheless, we seem to be making a habit of debating alcohol duty only very late at night or at the end of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-07c.930.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-08", "file": "debates2009-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "8e8dd04ada66203d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-08b.956.4", "colnum": "956", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "tment made from the United States indicates, Northern Ireland today is a genuinely welcoming community. My hon. Friend referred to the need to continue to build on \"A Shared Future\"; the First Minister is here today, and I know that he very much believes in that. But let us be clear. The best way in which we can build a shared future is to complete stage 2 devolution of policing and justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-08b.956.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-08", "file": "debates2009-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "8e8dd04ada66203d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-08b.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Care Homes (Domestic Pets)", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "The measures do not apply within the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-08b.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-08", "file": "debates2009-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "8e8dd04ada66203d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-08b.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Care Homes (Domestic Pets)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment 31, in page 15, line 40, leave out from 'unless' to end of line 9 on page 16 and insert 'they have been made in accordance with section 257 of the Banking Act 2009'. After the excitement of bingo we move to clause 25, which is less exciting but more important for revenue raising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-08b.1045.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-09", "file": "debates2009-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "47a2a12f888cb2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-09b.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "receives the lowest grant per head of population of any police force. It is rather galling to hear from Ministers about increases and how much money has been put into police forces nationally and then to look at the reality for Surrey. The grant for Surrey police has decreased in real terms. In 1997, it received £96 per head of population; now, 12 years later, it receives £93 per head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-09b.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-09", "file": "debates2009-07-09b.xml", "sha256": "47a2a12f888cb2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-09b.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "We are now going to have more nuclear power stations, which I greatly welcome. Does the Minister agree, however, that we have waited too long to make that decision, and that a lot of the skills we need to manufacture our own nuclear plants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-09b.1199.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-13", "file": "debates2009-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ab269d37c1c1ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "in producing helicopter capability in Afghanistan. The Secretary— [ Interruption. ] No, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has just set out some of the figures, including an 80 per cent. increase in the availability of helicopter hours over the past two and a half years. We also have an enormous programme of procurement of new helicopters: there are the Danish Merlins and the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-13", "file": "debates2009-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ab269d37c1c1ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Some £20 billion will be invested in nuclear power over the next few years. We want to see nuclear power moving forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-13", "file": "debates2009-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ab269d37c1c1ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ave this kind of legislation, the Government should let us have the time to debate it. Indeed, why cannot we go longer this week if colleagues already have holidays planned for next week? We could meet later on Wednesday or Thursday to accommodate the need to consider these measures carefully. I think that it is a great tragedy that the Minister will not rise from his seat and offer us that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-13", "file": "debates2009-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ab269d37c1c1ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Gentleman also think that it was an abuse when the incumbent Government decided to add £10,000 on top of already generous allowances so that Labour MPs in particular, who have the majority here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-13", "file": "debates2009-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ab269d37c1c1ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.61.5", "colnum": "61", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The same principle will apply to Scottish elections. I do not follow the hon. Gentleman's point, unless he is seeking to erect an iron curtain between us and Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.61.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-13", "file": "debates2009-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ab269d37c1c1ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "It is not trivialising it—in fact, someone might move, surprisingly enough, south across the border to Carlisle. Why on earth should they not be allowed to donate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-13", "file": "debates2009-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ab269d37c1c1ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disagree with my hon. Friend, but the issue of proportionality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-13", "file": "debates2009-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ab269d37c1c1ea5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of judgment, but all parties have stated their desire to see big money taken out of politics and to see foreign donations removed from politics. My starting preference was to get an examination in the round of the connection that was needed by people who were otherwise British citizens before they could participate to a greater degree in our politics —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-13a.67.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "g nothing. We have been investing in social care, and it is this Government who have put forward proposals to give people more control over that budget, giving them direct payments so that they can build and buy the kind of services that they want to live their life. That came from the Government, so it is not true that nothing has been happening. The hon. Gentleman mentioned the royal commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.161.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "t he said. The royal commission came up with a majority and a minority report. That, in itself, identifies how hard it is to take these issues forward. [Interruption.] There are no easy answers, and the subject should not be the stuff of straightforward tit-for-tat slanging matches in the House. We deserve a better debate about social care. The hon. Gentleman asked me about additional costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.161.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "crease in gun crime has been fuelled by a supply of weapons that have entered the UK, particularly from eastern Europe. The Metropolitan police commander, Cressida Dick, has said that three quarters of firearms used by UK criminals are converted replica and imitation guns, and that most of them are smuggled in from eastern Europe. The Minister, in a fit of honesty that he may come to regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.187.5", "colnum": "187", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "irport considers the current facilities to be inadequate. Clearly, Heathrow is the busiest facility, so I am sure that the Minister will be concerned about that. Indeed, Lord West of Spithead said in another place that he had visited the short-term facilities in Gatwick and that he was \"not over-impressed.\" There are clearly deep problems with the short-term holding facilities in all our airports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.187.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "ibility of certain difficulties arising in designating prisons and police cells as short-term holding facilities. One occasionally wonders how legislation arrives in such a form. I do not know whether the responsible official is here today and sitting in the Box, but it is strange the way these things happen, and it is fortunate that in this case it was spotted before the legislation went through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am reluctant to stop the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.195.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "says: \"Corruption and bribery were mentioned by a range of interviewees involved in smuggling and trafficking as a means of smoothing the passage into the UK\". I know that the Minister will be as concerned—indeed, disturbed—as I am at the thought that there are serious, organised, international criminals who believe that bribery and corruption can be used to smooth the way into the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that the Government have produced convincing evidence about the loophole in our defences. I know that the Irish Republic has taken considerable steps to improve its border security in recent years and that the Minister approves of those measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ments coming first to Parliament, Mr. Speaker. I hope that that extremely welcome rubric will apply over the summer, as well as during the day, as it were, and that when Ministers say they are about to announce something, that announcement should be made first to Parliament. Either the Minister has until next Tuesday to announce those proposals or we will expect nothing to come out before October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.249.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "rectly advised, on 25 June . The hon. Gentleman said that this motion was almost entirely the same but for a small point, and I do think that the \"but for the small point\" is rather significant in this matter. The original motion had proposed that the meeting on Wednesday 9 September should take place between 1 o'clock and 3.30. It is now intended that it should take place between 2 o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "3e5f895ee9b423c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " Scotland but, on advice, I think that I can safely say that there is no requirement for a designated, precise location of the kind that he specifies. I have looked at page 113 of the Standing Orders, and at Standing Order 117A(2)(a), which states that a Regional Grand Committee can \"sit on a specified day at a specified place in the region to which it relates or at Westminster\". The answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14c.260.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "6f9c03fa5aeb1eab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "g nothing. We have been investing in social care, and it is this Government who have put forward proposals to give people more control over that budget, giving them direct payments so that they can build and buy the kind of services that they want to live their life. That came from the Government, so it is not true that nothing has been happening. The hon. Gentleman mentioned the royal commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.161.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "6f9c03fa5aeb1eab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "to what he said. The royal commission came up with a majority and a minority report. That, in itself, identifies how hard it is to take these issues forward. [Interruption.] There are no easy answers, and the subject should not be the stuff of straightforward tit-for-tat slanging matches in the House. We deserve a better debate about social care. The hon. Gentleman asked me about additional costs-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "6f9c03fa5aeb1eab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ues. In the main, our short-term holding facilities are used for outflows-if I can use that word in this context. We think that our estate has been significantly improved, and that it is still improving, in both capacity and fitness for purpose. To continue the analogy with a tapestry, which I think that one embroiders rather than weaves, although I shall not dance on the head of a pin about that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "6f9c03fa5aeb1eab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ble increase in gun crime has been fuelled by a supply of weapons that have entered the UK, particularly from eastern Europe. The Metropolitan police commander, Cressida Dick, has said that three quarters of firearms used by UK criminals are converted replica and imitation guns, and that most of them are smuggled in from eastern Europe. The Minister, in a fit of honesty that he may come to regret-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.184.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "6f9c03fa5aeb1eab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "ibility of certain difficulties arising in designating prisons and police cells as short-term holding facilities. One occasionally wonders how legislation arrives in such a form. I do not know whether the responsible official is here today and sitting in the Box, but it is strange the way these things happen, and it is fortunate that in this case it was spotted before the legislation went through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.191.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "6f9c03fa5aeb1eab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Members for Rochdale (Paul Rowen) and for Reigate (Mr. Blunt) for their constructive attitude. Let me explain where we are. The Government are disappointed, as am I, that we have not been able to persuade the other place of the need for the clause. We think that the UK's security requires some amendments to the common travel area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.238.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "6f9c03fa5aeb1eab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that the Government have produced convincing evidence about the loophole in our defences. I know that the Irish Republic has taken considerable steps to improve its border security in recent years and that the Minister approves of those measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.247.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-14", "file": "debates2009-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "6f9c03fa5aeb1eab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ity for identity is entitled to her maternity leave, and we wish her well in her motherly duties. However, we felt that this was a difficult period for the Home Office, and that it was important that her job should be filled for this limited time-we are all sure that she will come back at the end of this period. We were told by the Home Secretary that it was the \"substantial\" figure of Lord Brett-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-14d.251.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.272.4", "colnum": "272", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear about the effectiveness of the measures being taken. The car scrappage scheme is being very effective; it is having an effect on the automotive sector and a positive impact as far as British Steel and Corus are concerned. It is extremely useful. We also need to recognise that we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.272.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.278.5", "colnum": "278", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "shire and Conwy in the objective 1 bid for Wales. We were left out and my right hon. Friend included us. Over the course of objective 1 funding, we hope to draw down £500 million in those two counties alone. Why did the previous Conservative Government not draw down objective 1 funding, despite the closure of Shotton steelworks, and the decline of agriculture and traditional seaside tourism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.280.6", "colnum": "280", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "Wales has a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.280.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.282.4", "colnum": "282", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "cratically, we hope. At the same time, I have talked to President Karzai about Afghanistan's own responsibilities—that the Afghans should provide army and police to Operation Panther's Claw. President Karzai has promised that he will provide additional resources for that purpose, and I believe that that is now starting to happen. I have also said to President Karzai that after October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is right to raise issues about the equipment so that I can assure him that we are doing everything that we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " get on with the task with which he's been given.\" And why? Because we have increased the number of helicopters by 60 per cent. over the last two years and we have increased the capability of helicopters by 84 per cent. I visited RAF Benson on Monday to see the Merlin helicopters that will be deployed in the field by the end of the year, and the training is being done immediately in America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "re helicopters. Let us take the argument about Nick Richardson. Of course I listen with respect to the official spokesman of the Army, but I think that the Prime Minister should also listen to someone like Stuart Tootal, who commanded 3 Para and who has said, for instance, \"In Afghanistan in 2006 repeated demands for more helicopters fell on deaf ears.\" He should also listen to Lord Guthrie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "First, the number of troops in Afghanistan has risen from just over 7,000 to 9,000 over the last two years. The number of helicopters has risen by 60 per cent. That is a higher percentage rise. Secondly, I have talked to Tim Radford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "First, the number of troops in Afghanistan has risen from just over 7,000 to 9,000 over the last two years. The number of helicopters has risen by 60 per cent. That is a higher percentage rise. Secondly, I have talked to Tim Radford— [Interruption.] That is an increase from 7,000 to 9,000, and a 60 per cent. increase in the number of helicopters. Secondly, I have talked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "re. So the helicopter equipment programme continues, and we work with our allies to deliver the best services on the ground. I think that we should look at this particular operation, Operation Panther's Claw, and be absolutely clear that it is not an absence of helicopters that has cost the loss of lives. We are dealing with improvised explosive devices on the ground, bombs that are against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.284.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the hon. Gentleman giving way. I sense that he is coming to the end of his speech. The motion talks about \"a series of high profile cases\". I have heard about one case, on which Mr. Speaker has ruled, so I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman could set out the other high-profile cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "er 2002; Vol. 396, c. 106 .] That issue related specifically to the European arrest warrant. However, I cannot find a single mention of reciprocity in the report of the Second Reading debate. The issue on which the Liberal Democrats, I believe, abstained and the Conservative Opposition walked through the No Lobby was, once again, their absolute fixation with Europe and the European arrest warrant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.326.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.372.4", "colnum": "372", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "ve help in these difficult times. They need a Government who are on their side, not a Government who have destroyed the value of their savings, laid waste their pensions and failed to provide a proper safety net for when they can no longer cope. They need a new Government who are prepared to tackle those issues with fresh energy and fresh ideas. They need change. I commend the motion to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.372.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca3fb58ab4b21db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "le. The hon. Member for South-West Norfolk (Christopher Fraser) asked about my party's policy. I am very pleased to tell him; we announced our policy last year. As a party, we think it important to engage in the debate and say what our policy is. Our policy involves a universal care guarantee—a partnership model based on the excellent King's Fund Wanless report, which the Government ignored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15a.383.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "e587810df49405a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ent to get on with the task with which he's been given.\" And why? Because we have increased the number of helicopters by 60 per cent. over the last two years and we have increased the capability of helicopters by 84 per cent. I visited RAF Benson on Monday to see the Merlin helicopters that will be deployed in the field by the end of the year, and the training is being done immediately in America-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.283.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "e587810df49405a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "First, the number of troops in Afghanistan has risen from just over 7,000 to 9,000 over the last two years. The number of helicopters has risen by 60 per cent. That is a higher percentage rise. Secondly, I have talked to Tim Radford-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "e587810df49405a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "First, the number of troops in Afghanistan has risen from just over 7,000 to 9,000 over the last two years. The number of helicopters has risen by 60 per cent. That is a higher percentage rise. Secondly, I have talked to Tim Radford- [Interruption.] That is an increase from 7,000 to 9,000, and a 60 per cent. increase in the number of helicopters. Secondly, I have talked-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "e587810df49405a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "e future. So the helicopter equipment programme continues, and we work with our allies to deliver the best services on the ground. I think that we should look at this particular operation, Operation Panther's Claw, and be absolutely clear that it is not an absence of helicopters that has cost the loss of lives. We are dealing with improvised explosive devices on the ground, bombs that are against-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.284.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "e587810df49405a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " to meet our 34 per cent. target, but we will not say that we will never engage in buying credits from abroad, because that is the right policy. We have set out the rates for consultation on feed-in tariffs. We have listened to what people have to say, and we think that we have set a realistic estimate of what tariffs can achieve-but if they can achieve more, that is a good thing. Let me just end-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.298.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "e587810df49405a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "er 2002; Vol. 396, c. 106 .] That issue related specifically to the European arrest warrant. However, I cannot find a single mention of reciprocity in the report of the Second Reading debate. The issue on which the Liberal Democrats, I believe, abstained and the Conservative Opposition walked through the No Lobby was, once again, their absolute fixation with Europe and the European arrest warrant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.326.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-15", "file": "debates2009-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "e587810df49405a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.372.4", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "ve help in these difficult times. They need a Government who are on their side, not a Government who have destroyed the value of their savings, laid waste their pensions and failed to provide a proper safety net for when they can no longer cope. They need a new Government who are prepared to tackle those issues with fresh energy and fresh ideas. They need change. I commend the motion to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-15b.372.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-07-16", "file": "debates2009-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "e2dafccf5f97a43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-16b.552.13", "colnum": "552", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, at the sittings on Monday 20 July and on Tuesday 21 July , the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any message from the Lords has been received, any Committee to draw up Reasons which has been appointed at that sitting has reported, and he has notified the Royal Assent to Acts agreed upon by both Houses.- (Kerry McCarthy.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-16b.552.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-07-16", "file": "debates2009-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "e2dafccf5f97a43e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-16b.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE REFORM OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ommittee; (5) That Dr Tony Wright be Chairman of the Committee; (6) That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time and to appoint specialist advisers; (7) That this Order be a Standing Order of the House until the end of the present Parliament.- (Kerry McCarthy.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-16b.552.15"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-20", "file": "debates2009-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "640838a665e7d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "ressure from the agricultural industry not to let people walk over land. In all the reviews of foot and mouth it has been acknowledged that that was a mistake At this stage, there is no suggestion that the swine flu epidemic need impact at all on tourism or on the sort of gatherings that my Department sponsors—sporting or cultural, or festivals. I was at two festivals over the weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-20", "file": "debates2009-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "640838a665e7d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "In replying to the hon. Lady, I will endeavour to respond to any points from the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) that I have not answered. The hon. Lady began by asking about the advice to pregnant women. I repeat that the advice has not changed. The Department has given very clear advice since the beginning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.590.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-20", "file": "debates2009-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "640838a665e7d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "me parents, not only fell out of work but fell out of the labour market altogether, making it harder for them to get back on their feet when the upturn came. The cost of that Conservative neglect was felt not just among the parents but among their children who are themselves parents today. The Tories are sometimes accused of abandoning a generation: the truth is they abandoned several generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.606.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-20", "file": "debates2009-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "640838a665e7d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.608.5", "colnum": "608", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might not think that is serious—he might not think the need to tackle child poverty is serious—but he should be ashamed of his party's refusal to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.608.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-20", "file": "debates2009-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "640838a665e7d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "It is Steve Webb, but if I say something stupid it is Ed Davey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.612.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-20", "file": "debates2009-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "640838a665e7d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has launched a withering attack on my party. As a former statistician, he will be aware that the current figure for children in poverty is 23 per cent. I have looked back at the figures, and it has been around the 23 per cent. figure for the past 30 years. It has gone up and down around that figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-20", "file": "debates2009-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "640838a665e7d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.627.2", "colnum": "627", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sixty thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "plex and the policies for tackling them will be expensive; for example, complex issues arise for children in families with disabilities or for children living in care. My understanding is that children in care do not count in the figures because they do not live in households, and surveys are based on households I have no idea what the number of children in care is, although I ought to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20b.627.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-07-20", "file": "debates2009-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "ce44f608c11241e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20c.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has launched a withering attack on my party. As a former statistician, he will be aware that the current figure for children in poverty is 23 per cent. I have looked back at the figures, and it has been around the 23 per cent. figure for the past 30 years. It has gone up and down around that figure-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-07-20c.625.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-14", "file": "debates2009-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "8d96d46cadd0853b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-14c.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "preceding_text": " dental problems and delay visits to the dentist. We need to address that problem. The third issue that arose from the 2006 reforms was connected to the units of dental activity. Dentists rightly complain that UDAs have created a new treadmill, with a possible incentive to provide treatments that are clinically no better than a lower band alternative as a way of increasing their practice payments-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-14c.388.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "No. We should devise ways to raise the present negligible taxes paid by hedge funds and private equity outfits. I will give way to any Tory who can tell me the name of any hedge fund that pays tax to the British Exchequer. No one stands up, because there is none—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "f any hedge fund that pays tax to the British Exchequer. No one stands up, because there is none— [ Interruption. ] No, if they cannot name a hedge fund that pays tax, they have no right to be here, unless they acknowledge that what I am saying is absolutely right. In the meantime, a windfall tax on the financial profiteers is the least we must do to satisfy the people of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ch will again lower aggregate demand and prolong the slump. What really takes the biscuit is the gall of the Leader of the Opposition, who told the Tory party conference that it was \"more government\" that has got us into this mess. Well, anyone—surely even a Tory, even him—can see that what got us into this mess was market fundamentalism, the doctrine that the market always knows best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": "a few things that have been said. I would like to come at the subject from a slightly different angle and, not surprisingly, to speak from a Scottish perspective. First, our economy—either the UK's or Scotland's—should not be where it is. Other countries went into recession better prepared. The country that I want to compare Scotland with is Norway, as they are of a similar size—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.715.8", "colnum": "715", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": "ry much a fan of the voluntary sector, but there are certain core functions that the state should carry out. Prisons should be in the public sector, as should health, the police, the mail service and, I suggest, welfare. The motion talks, too, about \"effective recession schemes\", but I wonder what that means in practice. The Government are planning to cut the Scottish budget by £500 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.715.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.715.8", "colnum": "715", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": " service and, I suggest, welfare. The motion talks, too, about \"effective recession schemes\", but I wonder what that means in practice. The Government are planning to cut the Scottish budget by £500 million. [ Interruption. ] I do not know if we have seen a comparative figure from the Conservatives, but I assume that it is similar to the Government's cuts. I see very little difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.715.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "mportant issue than the economy and the recovery. I remember a catchy tune—I shall not sing it, because I am an appalling singer and Hansard would not be able to record it properly—called \"Things Can Only Get Better\". I think that Tony Blair commissioned it. People voted Labour because they thought that things could only get better, but somehow that went wrong in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "The point I am making is that people cannot be sacked easily enough. If someone does not turn up for work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "ac184e8fb555b0d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": ". He said: \"If spending cuts are made too early and the monetary and fiscal and the monetary and fiscal stimuli are withdrawn, unemployment could easily reach four million.... If...there are substantial cuts in public spending in 2010, as proposed by some in the Conservative Party, five million unemployed or more is not inconceivable.\" That is the testimony to the Conservatives' economic policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19c.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": " first response to the unemployment crisis is to reach for the history books and rewrite the statistics from the 1990s. May I take the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform back to the question that his colleague failed to answer about the young person's guarantee? Does not that guarantee take effect at 10 months-his policy and her policy is for 10 months-not 12 months, as she seems to think?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ch operates in the normal way. There were 40 candidates, and they went through that normal process. There was one independent member of the panel, Sir Paul Ennals, who said that Maggie Atkinson was the most fiercely independent of all the candidates. I understand that there was also-as is completely normal-a civil servant from my Department and a civil servant from another Department in Whitehall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "He had the report for two hours-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "eficit of-people's estimates vary -6, 7 or 8 per cent. of GDP is structural, which means that it would be there in normal circumstances unless we did something about it. That has to be tackled now, and the only reason there is still any confidence in sterling, the British economy and British Government bonds is that the Opposition parties are at least talking about tackling the structural deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "If I heard the right hon. Lady properly, she said that this was going to be financed by \"additional borrowing\". I must say that nothing causes me deeper dismay than to hear a Treasury Minister get to her feet-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "tions! What I would repeal is the whole system that requires companies and voluntary bodies to go through a process of vetting the records of more than 5 million citizens if they are likely to meet children in the course of their work or their daily activity. I am thinking of recent examples; otherwise, the hon. Gentleman has defeated me with the same trick question that I sometimes put to others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "No. We should devise ways to raise the present negligible taxes paid by hedge funds and private equity outfits. I will give way to any Tory who can tell me the name of any hedge fund that pays tax to the British Exchequer. No one stands up, because there is none-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "e the name of any hedge fund that pays tax to the British Exchequer. No one stands up, because there is none- [ Interruption. ] No, if they cannot name a hedge fund that pays tax, they have no right to be here, unless they acknowledge that what I am saying is absolutely right. In the meantime, a windfall tax on the financial profiteers is the least we must do to satisfy the people of this country-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "workers, which will again lower aggregate demand and prolong the slump. What really takes the biscuit is the gall of the Leader of the Opposition, who told the Tory party conference that it was \"more government\" that has got us into this mess. Well, anyone-surely even a Tory, even him-can see that what got us into this mess was market fundamentalism, the doctrine that the market always knows best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": " agree with quite a few things that have been said. I would like to come at the subject from a slightly different angle and, not surprisingly, to speak from a Scottish perspective. First, our economy-either the UK's or Scotland's-should not be where it is. Other countries went into recession better prepared. The country that I want to compare Scotland with is Norway, as they are of a similar size-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.713.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.715.8", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mason", "preceding_text": "he mail service and, I suggest, welfare. The motion talks, too, about \"effective recession schemes\", but I wonder what that means in practice. The Government are planning to cut the Scottish budget by £500 million. [ Interruption. ] I do not know if we have seen a comparative figure from the Conservatives, but I assume that it is similar to the Government's cuts. I see very little difference-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.715.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "The point I am making is that people cannot be sacked easily enough. If someone does not turn up for work-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-19", "file": "debates2009-10-19d.xml", "sha256": "88548c2de4a2ffa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": ". He said: \"If spending cuts are made too early and the monetary and fiscal and the monetary and fiscal stimuli are withdrawn, unemployment could easily reach four million.... If...there are substantial cuts in public spending in 2010, as proposed by some in the Conservative Party, five million unemployed or more is not inconceivable.\" That is the testimony to the Conservatives' economic policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-19d.743.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "75348cb314c8d7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " the ombudsman's findings on the tragic suicide of Christopher Wardally? Will he take some responsibility? These are not isolated examples. As a result of the conditions in our prisons, incidents of self-harm rose by 10 per cent. last year. What hope can we have of reducing reoffending rates to protect the public when increasing numbers of prisoners are so desperate that they will harm themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.778.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "75348cb314c8d7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.789.5", "colnum": "789", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister have any idea how many postal workers, particularly in London, have second jobs? It is the threat— [ Interruption. ] It is the threat that they might have to work a full shift for which they are paid that is adding to the militancy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.789.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "75348cb314c8d7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I agree with the gravamen of what my right hon. Friend says. Surprisingly—or amazingly, to pick up the adverb used my right hon. Friend—not everything that the Government have done over the last 12 years has been absolutely perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "75348cb314c8d7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.800.5", "colnum": "800", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "espective arrangements for appointing bishops and the granting of honours, and to further rules on the pre-release of statistics. Gone are the days—the terrible days—of the previous Conservative Administration, when the Secretary of State for Employment, now Lord Tebbit, was able peremptorily to change the definitions of unemployment, for example, 18 times to suit the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.800.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "75348cb314c8d7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " every opportunity in the course of what I believe will be a significant amount of time on the Floor of the House to table his own amendments. Secondly, I shall be happy to ensure that both the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) , and I discuss the matter with him. I understand that proposals with which I used to be familiar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "75348cb314c8d7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "t he will change the royal line of succession, but that is not in the Bill. He told the BBC that he is going to change the voting system, but that is not in the Bill either. Once the headline has been banked, it is left to the Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor to try to get him off the hook and kick most of the proposals into the long grass. If any of the announcements had been serious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.813.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "75348cb314c8d7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": " the Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) , announced that he will step down at the next election. It is right to pay tribute to him for the work that he has done in this area of policy. He has always been extraordinarily passionate about constitutional affairs. I was delighted when he chose Leicester as the first city to visit on his roadshow. I am not sure how many other places he visited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20a.835.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "1cc07afb704a756e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20b.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I agree with the gravamen of what my right hon. Friend says. Surprisingly-or amazingly, to pick up the adverb used my right hon. Friend-not everything that the Government have done over the last 12 years has been absolutely perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20b.800.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-20", "file": "debates2009-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "1cc07afb704a756e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20b.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "l have every opportunity in the course of what I believe will be a significant amount of time on the Floor of the House to table his own amendments. Secondly, I shall be happy to ensure that both the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) , and I discuss the matter with him. I understand that proposals with which I used to be familiar-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-20b.801.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-22", "file": "debates2009-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "abdc192ec40cb4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22b.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "anchises, a fascinating topic. Generally I am a strong supporter of privatised rail. I have used trains in the hon. Gentleman's constituency quite a lot. He knows that I was brought up in Looe. The last time I took the Liskeard to Looe line was in 2007, when I thought that the quality of First Great Western rolling stock on that line left a lot to be desired. I hope that it has been renewed since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22b.1123.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-22", "file": "debates2009-10-22c.xml", "sha256": "8b1207ec7bd061e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22c.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady raises an excellent point. We keep our options open on the form and length of rail franchises. She is right to imply that a longer franchise might help to support more investment and provide greater stability, but she will be aware that when the directly operated- [ Interruption. ] I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, but there is a lot of chuntering from Opposition Front Benchers. Clearly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22c.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-22", "file": "debates2009-10-22c.xml", "sha256": "8b1207ec7bd061e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22c.1057.7", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "The \"Women in Power: Milestones\" fact sheet was produced in January 2008 by the Government Equalities Office to mark the 80th anniversary of women's gaining the franchise in 1918 and the 90th anniversary of the Equal Franchise Act 1928. The fact sheet was cleared through internal channels and officials only, not by Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22c.1057.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-22", "file": "debates2009-10-22c.xml", "sha256": "8b1207ec7bd061e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22c.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Economic Recovery", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " help make it common practice, not best practice. There are too many examples of best practice in Whitehall, in the sense that often what we suggest in a report might be acted on by the Department concerned but other Departments do not take up the recommendations. We have the bundle of reports on the Table before us, and I do not want to go through all of them, because I have taken up enough time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22c.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-22", "file": "debates2009-10-22c.xml", "sha256": "8b1207ec7bd061e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22c.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Economic Recovery", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "anchises, a fascinating topic. Generally I am a strong supporter of privatised rail. I have used trains in the hon. Gentleman's constituency quite a lot. He knows that I was brought up in Looe. The last time I took the Liskeard to Looe line was in 2007, when I thought that the quality of First Great Western rolling stock on that line left a lot to be desired. I hope that it has been renewed since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-22c.1123.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-26", "file": "debates2009-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "0bf0ebff477d37b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-26a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": " been called for from those on the Opposition Benches. I also have to say that it ill behoves the Opposition—whom, let us remember, are not proposing one additional penny of expenditure within the defence budget—to urge us to prioritise efforts in Afghanistan and then to cry foul as soon as that leads to difficult decisions. That is dishonest and disingenuous, and it ill serves our TA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-26a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-26", "file": "debates2009-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "0bf0ebff477d37b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-26a.93.2", "colnum": "93", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "e Estates of Parliament taking to consideration the great and many advantages that may arise to this Nation by encouraging the Salmond White and Herring fishings they being not only a natural and certain fund to advance the trade and increase the wealth thereof but also a true and ready way to breed seamen and set many poor and idle to work\". That sounds like a piece of legislation from the 1980s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-26a.93.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-26", "file": "debates2009-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "0bf0ebff477d37b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-26a.131.2", "colnum": "131", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lancaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lancaster", "preceding_text": "I would like to be able to say that it is a pleasure to have this Adjournment debate, but I cannot do so. The matter under discussion is very serious. [Interruption.] The Government have proposed cuts to the Territorial Army. That is of concern in all parts of the House, and I hope the Minister will note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-26a.131.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-26", "file": "debates2009-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "58d0654bbbb8b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-26c.15.9", "colnum": "15", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " county, the number of police officers on patrol has fallen by 30 per cent. When the Minister tried to solve the problem, did he go to the permanent secretary and say, \"How do we solve the problem?\" and did the permanent secretary reply, \"Well, let's just abolish the statistics\"? Because that is what they have done: they have abolished the statistics, so nobody knows how many police are on patrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-26c.15.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-27", "file": "debates2009-10-27d.xml", "sha256": "29e272f2b1d3344a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-27d.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": "ch is entirely different. If people's use of that permission is put in jeopardy by the intent of their actions, that right is withdrawn. There is therefore no automatic right to march. We had a wonderful presentation from the right hon. Member for Belfast, East in moving the motion about how we are talking about a huge cultural festivity, with tourists flocking from all over the world to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-27d.225.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ry economic policy. No wonder every policy announced by the shadow Chancellor collapses just after the morning headlines. They have got no ideas on how to get us out and into growth. Had we taken their advice, we would be in an even deeper and even longer recession with more unemployment than there is now. They are not fit even to be the Opposition, when it comes to promulgating economic policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "ecisions to tackle one of the biggest issues confronting us, which is climate change, and to minimise its impact on future generations. May I commend my right hon. Friend for the action that he has taken? He has been the first Head of State to recognise the need for leaders of Governments to attend the Copenhagen summit and to take part in those debates. Do not listen to the nay-sayers over there-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, East and Saddleworth (Mr. Woolas) , rightly said: \"The local spending report would cover all public expenditure in each local authority area in so far as it is possible to define it.\" -- [ Official Report, Sustainable Communities Public Bill Committee, 2 May 2007 ; c. 46.] In that same debate, which many hon. Members attended, he also entered a number of caveats-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "m centrally. We now have two significant additional universities in Hampshire that did not exist then, and they are much more successful because of the autonomy that they have gained. I make that point because an argument running through this debate is that quango expenditure is by nature illegitimate, funds nothing of any great value and should simply be included in local public spending reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": " I make that point because an argument running through this debate is that quango expenditure is by nature illegitimate, funds nothing of any great value and should simply be included in local public spending reports. [Interruption.] That was the gist of what the hon. Member for Meriden had to say. I do not accept that. When people outside hear the Conservative party attacking quangos in this way-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": " it has made some moves, and although the Government's amendment to the motion is a bit overlong-it took me a long time to read it last night-the most important part of it is the last line, which states that the Government will produce their response by December. As the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne has said, we will hold the Government to that. It would be nice to know how the Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": "hat they have some real bite. That is what I intend to do, and I shall continue to play that part in negotiations outside the Chamber. I want to say a few words about the local spending reports, which have not really been mentioned so far. We have spent a lot of time talking about what we are trying to do, but the reports are the basis for this debate and for the implementation of the legislation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.330.4", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": "ental protection, it makes a lot of sense to have a body that looks beyond immediate localities and considers an area which, whether we like it or not, could be called a region. We need a grown-up dialogue about how we can make sense of that and get some proper consultation-and more particularly some transparency when it comes to accountability-at that level. I will support the Government tonight-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": "id not convince us. What makes the situation even more frustrating is that the Government actually appear to be committed to the mapping of expenditure. They have developed their own project, Total Place, which we have discussed at length, and they support it with taxpayers' money, but they drag their feet on local spending reports. That looks to me like a bad case of \"not invented here\" syndrome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.355.7", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "That is just semantics-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.355.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "s tomorrow and I will try to come back to him on that as quickly as possible. The hon. Member for East Devon (Mr. Swire) made a number of criticisms about the in-year measures, particularly about what he described as the cheese-paring of the defence budget. I would simply say to him that, at just under 2.5 per cent. of gross domestic product, UK defence spending is high by international standards-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "ir impact on pre-deployment training. Let me be clear that, even though we are now in a different position, those changes would not have affected pre-deployment training-to Afghanistan, or indeed to any other deployment. I was going to pay tribute to the work of the hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) in the all-party group-until I heard what he had to say. Nevertheless, I will pay tribute-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.389.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-28", "file": "debates2009-10-28d.xml", "sha256": "a39eb319ced23447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "Usually the advice that hon. Members receive from Mr. Speaker is that if they wish for some assistance in drafting or presenting an amendment, they should speak to the Clerk at the Table, who I am sure would, as always, be more than willing to assist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-28d.403.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "er's report \"will form the basis of a statement to the House\"—[ Official Report , 28 October 2009; Vol. 498, c. 285 .] next Wednesday? Will she confirm that there will be an oral statement on the Kelly report and will she tell us whether she or the Prime Minister will be making it? It is a matter of great regret that whole sections of the report were leaked to the newspapers yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "rests of all European countries in a globalised economy and in terms of the globalised challenge to tackle climate change and the globalised efforts to ensure security. We want to be at the heart of Europe and for Europe to be strong on those issues. Of course, it is in Britain's interests, if, as we hope, the Lisbon treaty is ratified, that a Briton—Tony Blair—should take up the post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": "ent, and I hope that it remains that way through the rest of this week and next week. Over the next two weeks, millions of fireworks will be sold and used, safely and considerately, in back garden displays; and hundreds of thousands of others will attend professionally organised and safely fired public displays. Contacts that my officials have had so far this year with various police forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "to check whether the purchasers are old enough—that same argument was used about alcohol sales and now is cited about cigarettes. Last week, the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Lincoln (Gillian Merron) said at the Dispatch Box that she could not impose legislation on proxy sale of cigarettes as it was unenforceable, even though we have that provision for alcohol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "r before this Parliament is dissolved, and we will then take a proposal to the country on reform of the system. I want to create an unstoppable momentum whereby there will be legislation in the next Parliament. Obviously, I cannot promise that, as it depends on many different things. However, we should, collectively, make it our mission to ensure that the next Parliament legislates on social care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "er. The Secretary of State referred to the Down's syndrome example, so to some degree he covered it in his remarks, but the hon. Lady is right to highlight that absence from the Green Paper, which was the point that I was making. Mencap and many others have been anxious about whether that is a signal of an absence of commitment in the area, given that most people are focusing on the elderly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " I have referred to it, not terribly originally—others have called it this—as the obvious unfinished business of the modern welfare state. We had a royal commission some 10 years ago, and a minority report was produced. It was an interesting document, but, to be blunt, the Government then parked it in the \"too difficult\" box. I am pleased that these Ministers are returning to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.506.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "Of course. Unlike the era of Beveridge and another great Liberal—I am being polite today— [ Interruption. ] I am referring to Lloyd George; this is, after all, the centenary of his introducing the old age pension, is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "4faae3c07579ab2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "fficial Report , 4 December 1997; Vol. 302, c. 490 .] Here we are 12 years on, and the rhetoric from the Government is absolutely identical. Like many people, I like the style and the refreshing openness of the new Secretary of State, but he and the other Ministers have to take it on the chin that this has been a spectacular area of failure throughout the course of this Government's time in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29a.510.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.422.11", "colnum": "422", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Thursday 5 November .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "g Borough Council Bill which was originally introduced in this House in the previous Session on 22 January 2008 , should have leave to suspend any further proceedings on the Bill in order to proceed with it, if they think fit, in the next Session of Parliament according to the provisions of Private Business Standing Order 188A (Suspension of bills).-( The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.422.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "As I have indicated to the right hon. Gentleman previously, there is no simple cage-side test that can be used-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.430.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Minister to reinforce what he said in the earlier part of Question Time by gently saying to Lord Stern that, during British sausage week, we celebrate a varied diet and the value that it brings; that it should be a question of \"all things in moderation\"; and that if it is being suggested that vegetarianism will save the world, I am not sure that it is a world in which I want to live?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "ir Christopher's report \"will form the basis of a statement to the House\"-[ Official Report , 28 October 2009; Vol. 498, c. 285 .] next Wednesday? Will she confirm that there will be an oral statement on the Kelly report and will she tell us whether she or the Prime Minister will be making it? It is a matter of great regret that whole sections of the report were leaked to the newspapers yesterday-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ing the interests of all European countries in a globalised economy and in terms of the globalised challenge to tackle climate change and the globalised efforts to ensure security. We want to be at the heart of Europe and for Europe to be strong on those issues. Of course, it is in Britain's interests, if, as we hope, the Lisbon treaty is ratified, that a Briton-Tony Blair-should take up the post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": " incident, and I hope that it remains that way through the rest of this week and next week. Over the next two weeks, millions of fireworks will be sold and used, safely and considerately, in back garden displays; and hundreds of thousands of others will attend professionally organised and safely fired public displays. Contacts that my officials have had so far this year with various police forces-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "est to check whether the purchasers are old enough-that same argument was used about alcohol sales and now is cited about cigarettes. Last week, the Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Lincoln (Gillian Merron) , said at the Dispatch Box that she could not impose legislation on proxy sale of cigarettes as it was unenforceable, even though we have that provision for alcohol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "r before this Parliament is dissolved, and we will then take a proposal to the country on reform of the system. I want to create an unstoppable momentum whereby there will be legislation in the next Parliament. Obviously, I cannot promise that, as it depends on many different things. However, we should, collectively, make it our mission to ensure that the next Parliament legislates on social care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "en Paper. The Secretary of State referred to the Down's syndrome example, so to some degree he covered it in his remarks, but the hon. Lady is right to highlight that absence from the Green Paper, which was the point that I was making. Mencap and many others have been anxious about whether that is a signal of an absence of commitment in the area, given that most people are focusing on the elderly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "of long-term care. I have referred to it, not terribly originally-others have called it this-as the obvious unfinished business of the modern welfare state. We had a royal commission some 10 years ago, and a minority report was produced. It was an interesting document, but, to be blunt, the Government then parked it in the \"too difficult\" box. I am pleased that these Ministers are returning to it-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "and needs in the future, he thought that they were essentially insurable. One had a real risk-if I can use the world \"risk\"-of becoming old, so one needed a retirement pension. There was always the risk of unemployment, sickness and death, so a social insurance system was the fairest way ahead. I look at those on the Liberal Benches and wonder, \"May I refer to Beveridge as the last great Liberal?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "Of course. Unlike the era of Beveridge and another great Liberal-I am being polite today-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "Of course. Unlike the era of Beveridge and another great Liberal-I am being polite today- [ Interruption. ] I am referring to Lloyd George; this is, after all, the centenary of his introducing the old age pension, is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "fficial Report , 4 December 1997; Vol. 302, c. 490 .] Here we are 12 years on, and the rhetoric from the Government is absolutely identical. Like many people, I like the style and the refreshing openness of the new Secretary of State, but he and the other Ministers have to take it on the chin that this has been a spectacular area of failure throughout the course of this Government's time in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-10-29", "file": "debates2009-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "4fc6c4f1df5d3623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the very fact that the Conservatives call their scheme a \"home protection scheme\" shows where their minds are? Their policy is about protecting the home, not about delivering quality care for the elderly people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-10-29b.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks about equipment and does so within the frame of eight years. Enemy tactics change—they have changed considerably and massively in the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ation and Embryology Act 2008, and there was an awful lot of science in that. We respect the views of scientists, and we have respected the views of scientists in every aspect of Government policy. Our principal advisers—whether Sir David King, John Beddington, Sir Liam Donaldson or Professor Nutt—have to be clear that when they are appointed to such a crucial and privileged job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Home Secretary. I must say to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne) that he is unduly overexcited this afternoon—uncharacteristically so. He has had his say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "The ACMD has done a good job, but of course it is the politicians' job to take into account a whole range of other views, not just the views of the scientific community but the views of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.581.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "not support for the Conservative position. The right hon. Gentleman also mentioned the Lisbon treaty and its ratification. We know the position of the Conservative party. Its leader said: \"I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations.\" That is the position of the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "resentative will have real powers—a general with troops, by comparison. So will the Prime Minister confirm that that is the job that we are now aiming for? Will he also give us an indication of who he would like to see in the role? We all know that he is pushing the right hon. Member for South Shields (David Miliband) , but will he also look beyond his party ranks for other candidates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "The interesting question here is what exactly the Minister means by that, because if we think about targets, inspection and the policing pledge, we realise that there is a whole range of issues on which the police are measured under what is a specific target-driven approach. Therefore, it is still interesting that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "eal with nightclubs after that.\" Does it make sense for clubs to close at six o'clock in the early hours of the morning? Are we really a nation that needs to drink through the night? I do not think that we are, and I think that we have proved that these changes do not work. We are not a continental nation—we do not naturally sit there with a sausage and a lager at six o'clock in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "s that keep traditional games? Why can we not offer some incentives? It would not necessarily be very expensive. Do we really want empty, gloomy pubs that close down? I do not think so. Of course, the smoking ban has not helped. I voted against it and I am really pleased that I did, because the more that I look at it, the more I think that it was a great mistake not to gradually phase it in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "is more sensitively directed. I am suggesting to the House that it is not enough to have elected police authorities, even though they have been reformed and now have a different composition. There is a strong case for having some—not a lot, but some—elected police representatives in communities. I have one last point to make on the political issue. I notified the borough council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.652.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": " target's purpose is to make the police and others accountable to the public in all that they do, not least through the policing pledge, so that they face the public whom they serve. The police have the powers available at their disposal, including antisocial behaviour orders, and, as has been acknowledged, the evidence from the National Audit Office is that where these powers are used, they work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": " face the public whom they serve. The police have the powers available at their disposal, including antisocial behaviour orders, and, as has been acknowledged, the evidence from the National Audit Office is that where these powers are used, they work. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Hornchurch chunters from a sedentary position, and he has said, \"Never mind ASBOs, what about a warning letter?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "9519749574c6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "hat is a sad indictment, when someone has worked so hard to try to achieve an understanding to work together. Of course, the introduction of an ombudsman to police the way that supermarket supply chains operate is called for and supported by the National Farmers Union, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and Friends of the Earth, just to name a few who believe that that is the right way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02a.687.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "2f2c5cdc87a383ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02b.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Home Secretary. I must say to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne) that he is unduly overexcited this afternoon-uncharacteristically so. He has had his say-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02b.579.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "2f2c5cdc87a383ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02b.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "rope, not support for the Conservative position. The right hon. Gentleman also mentioned the Lisbon treaty and its ratification. We know the position of the Conservative party. Its leader said: \"I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations.\" That is the position of the Conservative party-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02b.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "2f2c5cdc87a383ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02b.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "the High Representative will have real powers-a general with troops, by comparison. So will the Prime Minister confirm that that is the job that we are now aiming for? Will he also give us an indication of who he would like to see in the role? We all know that he is pushing the right hon. Member for South Shields (David Miliband) , but will he also look beyond his party ranks for other candidates-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02b.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-02", "file": "debates2009-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "2f2c5cdc87a383ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02b.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [ Lords]", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "The interesting question here is what exactly the Minister means by that, because if we think about targets, inspection and the policing pledge, we realise that there is a whole range of issues on which the police are measured under a specific target-driven approach. Therefore, it is still interesting that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-02b.620.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-04", "file": "debates2009-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "63d9518826f9600d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-04b.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "hink that that cost is justified. I was one of those who always argued for a supreme court and who always argued that it was an extraordinary anomaly that the Law Lords sat within our legislature, thus making it very difficult for us to defend our position compared with most modern political and judicial systems. I was one of the first to suggest the Middlesex Guildhall as a suitable venue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-04b.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-04", "file": "debates2009-11-04c.xml", "sha256": "0cd51f5986373f2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-04c.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Gentleman's second question is yes. As for his first question, we are making that requirement clear. That is why we are, I believe, making substantial progress on decommissioning, although we expect more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-04c.846.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-05", "file": "debates2009-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "00259222ebaa161b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-05b.1009.5", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Climate Change", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes an important and characteristically smart point. Children really understand the issue. I believe that 50 per cent. of parents pay attention to their children when it comes to climate change, but that only 2 per cent. pay attention to politicians. That is perhaps slightly depressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-05b.1009.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09c.xml", "sha256": "5ac836c0047d02c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Minister. I do not know how detectable it is elsewhere, but within the Chamber there are far too many private conversations taking place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.22.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09c.xml", "sha256": "5ac836c0047d02c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "hoice of two stations—the Westinghouse station or the AREVA station. We shall benefit from the fact that the stations are being built elsewhere, because many of the issues that could be faced will have already been gone through. On for coal, let me be absolutely clear: we have said that there will be no new coal without CCS. That is absolutely clear. We are absolutely clear about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.36.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09c.xml", "sha256": "5ac836c0047d02c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.78.5", "colnum": "78", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Claire Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Ward", "preceding_text": "The Government cannot accept the amendment passed in the other place to remove the sexual infidelity exclusion in the new partial defence of loss of control. The history of the partial defence of provocation has led to a commonly held belief that this defence can be abused by men who kill their wives out of sexual jealousy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.78.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09c.xml", "sha256": "5ac836c0047d02c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " and found that his or her partner was being sexually unfaithful with a sibling, or a parent? Those things could happen, but they would not constitute a breach of the criminal law, unlike the Minister's example involving a child. I suggest to the Minister that all those examples are of a kind that might lead a jury, particularly if there are other circumstances that merit consideration, to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09c.xml", "sha256": "5ac836c0047d02c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "the Minister has brothers or sisters, but it seems to me that if the Minister turned up and found that the person with whom she was currently having a sexual relationship—her partner—was having a sexual relationship with a close relative, a court would be entitled to take that factor into account. In such circumstances, it would be an aggravating feature because of the breach of trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.85.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09c.xml", "sha256": "5ac836c0047d02c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "h;was having a sexual relationship with a close relative, a court would be entitled to take that factor into account. In such circumstances, it would be an aggravating feature because of the breach of trust. [Interruption.] I am sorry if the Minister does not understand what I am saying, but I think that I have made myself fairly clear. [Interruption.] Incest would be a different issue altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.85.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09c.xml", "sha256": "5ac836c0047d02c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " but Lord Waddington's amendment said simply: \"For the avoidance of doubt, the discussion or criticism of sexual conduct or practices or the urging of persons to refrain from or modify such conduct or practices shall not be taken of itself to be threatening or intended to stir up hatred.\" That is all that we are saying—simply discussing the matter is not threatening behaviour or worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09c.xml", "sha256": "5ac836c0047d02c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.111.2", "colnum": "111", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that without protection the Bill could be enforced in areas such as home schooling, when some people bring their children up in a particular faith, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian or another faith?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09c.111.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09d.xml", "sha256": "00e684eb149c8634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09d.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Minister. I do not know how detectable it is elsewhere, but within the Chamber there are far too many private conversations taking place-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09d.22.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-09", "file": "debates2009-11-09d.xml", "sha256": "00e684eb149c8634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09d.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "OLYMPICS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Member for Croydon, South (Richard Ottaway) has relatively recently toddled into the Chamber-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-09d.24.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-10", "file": "debates2009-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "bc0ff01c8058cdbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-10b.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "ely from the running of Parliament, such as those for rent, security, IT, catering, library services, cleaning and non-cash items, amount to about £7 million. So when the hon. Gentleman looks at these figures and genuinely tries to arrive at a like-for-like comparison, he will find there is no significant difference. If I may, I will give him some comparative costs for elsewhere in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-10b.143.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eaefa37809b5b45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": " the Government's artificial target of a 30 per cent. pass rate. In September this year, the number of pupils joining at year 7 was the highest for many years; and this at an allegedly failing school in a town of falling rolls. The numbers simply do not add up. I will turn to Building Schools for the Future and Partnerships for Schools in a moment. I am not in the business of wasting public money-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19a.217.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "57a92b19025321d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19b.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t many minutes after 17 years in Parliament. It was an inspiring speech, which I commend to anyone elected to this Parliament after the next election. It will show how it is possible to be on the Government side, pretty loyal, and interesting as well as representative of the interests of constituents. I would like say a few words to the Secretary of State, if I may have his attention for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19b.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "57a92b19025321d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19b.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": " Deputy Speaker, and you share with the county of Essex the birthplace and home of the country's greatest landscape painter, John Constable. He, of course, is famous for his broad canvasses, but within them there is a great attention to detail, and later on I shall turn to that point. Government Ministers will be pleased to know that every Constable painting had a dash of red to attract attention-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19b.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "57a92b19025321d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19b.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": " the Government's artificial target of a 30 per cent. pass rate. In September this year, the number of pupils joining at year 7 was the highest for many years; and this at an allegedly failing school in a town of falling rolls. The numbers simply do not add up. I will turn to Building Schools for the Future and Partnerships for Schools in a moment. I am not in the business of wasting public money-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19b.217.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "0669ee7c3a10187a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19c.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "more or less likely to be destroyed-she will probably always be poor-but we do not take that seriously enough in this country. The country is also awash with a focus on early sexual activity. I talked recently with members of another Select Committee who had looked at the amount of pornography on the internet available to children. That disturbs me greatly. An inquiry has been conducted into that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19c.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "0669ee7c3a10187a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19c.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t many minutes after 17 years in Parliament. It was an inspiring speech, which I commend to anyone elected to this Parliament after the next election. It will show how it is possible to be on the Government side, pretty loyal, and interesting as well as representative of the interests of constituents. I would like say a few words to the Secretary of State, if I may have his attention for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19c.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "0669ee7c3a10187a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19c.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": " Deputy Speaker, and you share with the county of Essex the birthplace and home of the country's greatest landscape painter, John Constable. He, of course, is famous for his broad canvasses, but within them there is a great attention to detail, and later on I shall turn to that point. Government Ministers will be pleased to know that every Constable painting had a dash of red to attract attention-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19c.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "0669ee7c3a10187a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19c.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": " the Government's artificial target of a 30 per cent. pass rate. In September this year, the number of pupils joining at year 7 was the highest for many years; and this at an allegedly failing school in a town of falling rolls. The numbers simply do not add up. I will turn to Building Schools for the Future and Partnerships for Schools in a moment. I am not in the business of wasting public money-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19c.217.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "oes not need to do so, because that was in Sir Christopher Kelly's report, to which, obviously, I have paid close attention. Perhaps it would assist the House if I went through some of those points and said which of them I do not believe will require legislation and which ones possibly will, in the next Session. First, there is the proposal for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.136.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.136.2", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "A written statement? [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"] No, what I said had a question mark-\"A written statement?\" I am not sure-I think that what I will do is have a meeting. I think the position is perfectly clear, but it might help the House if I could go through-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The UK delegation is as it is, and just for the moment, I cannot remember how it is-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "proposing. Let us be clear that none of these guarantees could have been delivered or even promised with any credibility back in 1997 because we inherited a school system and national health service that had been subject to underinvestment for decades. Let us not forget that in 1995 it was a Conservative Government who introduced and then failed to deliver an 18-month target for NHS waiting lists-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.145.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman shortly, but he asked me about our schools guarantee, so let me set out some details on that first. In schools too-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "y have we acted at the school level, but we are now saying that any child who falls behind will get extra help. That is the only way to close those gaps in attainment. It is a scar on our society, as it has been for generations, that children in poor areas do less well. The gap is narrowing, although there is more to do, but it will not narrow if we go back to the policies that we had before 1997-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.152.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "sponsibilities and support your child.\" If we do that, we can make great progress. It is true that more Labour Members have more experience of those challenges and difficulties. I thought the Leader of the Opposition was very candid yesterday when he said there were almost no Conservative voters in the whole city of Glasgow. That is probably true of a number of inner-city areas around the country-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "proposals to which the shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families put his name in 2005, unlike the shadow Secretary of State for Health, who has been doing some distancing of himself from Mr. Hannan and his book. On the national curriculum, the hon. Member for Surrey Heath has been clear: he wants all primary and secondary schools to opt out of the national curriculum altogether-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no authority to speak about future budgets, because as we have heard, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have contradicted him on every occasion. It is always a pleasure to hear the Secretary of State attempt to sandbag, manoeuvre or finagle the Treasury into spending more money, but-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.159.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "more or less likely to be destroyed-she will probably always be poor-but we do not take that seriously enough in this country. The country is also awash with a focus on early sexual activity. I talked recently with members of another Select Committee who had looked at the amount of pornography on the internet available to children. That disturbs me greatly. An inquiry has been conducted into that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t many minutes after 17 years in Parliament. It was an inspiring speech, which I commend to anyone elected to this Parliament after the next election. It will show how it is possible to be on the Government side, pretty loyal, and interesting as well as representative of the interests of constituents. I would like say a few words to the Secretary of State, if I may have his attention for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": " Deputy Speaker, and you share with the county of Essex the birthplace and home of the country's greatest landscape painter, John Constable. He, of course, is famous for his broad canvasses, but within them there is a great attention to detail, and later on I shall turn to that point. Government Ministers will be pleased to know that every Constable painting had a dash of red to attract attention-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": " the Government's artificial target of a 30 per cent. pass rate. In September this year, the number of pupils joining at year 7 was the highest for many years; and this at an allegedly failing school in a town of falling rolls. The numbers simply do not add up. I will turn to Building Schools for the Future and Partnerships for Schools in a moment. I am not in the business of wasting public money-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I have never heard such rubbish in my entire life. The hon. Gentleman's thinking on the issue is completely and utterly confused. The patients he describes would be covered by the four-hour target. People with such conditions would get straight into hospital-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.235.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " their profile. I am working with the hon. Gentleman on that issue, but I heard what he said to the House today. My hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) raised questions about obesity in the context of product placement. I was Culture Secretary, so my views are well known and, perhaps, would not help me if I were to rehearse them today. I do have concerns about product placement-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-19", "file": "debates2009-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "ef0031e050987d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The whole aim of the reform is to improve the level of care and support for the most vulnerable people in our society. The hon. Gentleman called a press conference today and said that I wanted to cut benefits and support for vulnerable and older people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-19d.241.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "846be865e31284d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "istan was because it represented their commitment to multilateralism. On that logic, I assume that if being in Afghanistan is part of their commitment to multilateralism, it would be intellectually inconceivable to have a unilateral withdrawal, whatever the opinion polls said. I now turn to the spokesman for the Liberal Democrats to see that that is a correct understanding of his party's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "fc98232dd619e62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23b.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ndenciales have caused grave concerns within our small territory. Due to his willingness to contribute to both political parties, as well as the small size of our population and economy-only 30,000 citizens and residents in total-Lord Ashcroft's wealth and his willingness to use it, has and does give him a level of influence that we feel puts any hope of democracy here at risk.\" And he goes on to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23b.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "c600bb5dfb3d01b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23c.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ndenciales have caused grave concerns within our small territory. Due to his willingness to contribute to both political parties, as well as the small size of our population and economy-only 30,000 citizens and residents in total-Lord Ashcroft's wealth and his willingness to use it, has and does give him a level of influence that we feel puts any hope of democracy here at risk.\" And he goes on to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23c.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "c600bb5dfb3d01b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23c.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "istan was because it represented their commitment to multilateralism. On that logic, I assume that if being in Afghanistan is part of their commitment to multilateralism, it would be intellectually inconceivable to have a unilateral withdrawal, whatever the opinion polls said. I now turn to the spokesman for the Liberal Democrats to see that that is a correct understanding of his party's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23c.366.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23d.xml", "sha256": "c42ce88de9420431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "the Foreign Secretary still has not explained the contradiction: on the one hand, the Government say that British troops are in Afghanistan to protect British citizens from terrorism, and, on the other, that if President Karzai does not clean up his corrupt Government, British troops will come home. That contradiction sends out mixed messages to the British public and to our forces in Afghanistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23d.xml", "sha256": "c42ce88de9420431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ndenciales have caused grave concerns within our small territory. Due to his willingness to contribute to both political parties, as well as the small size of our population and economy-only 30,000 citizens and residents in total-Lord Ashcroft's wealth and his willingness to use it, has and does give him a level of influence that we feel puts any hope of democracy here at risk.\" And he goes on to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23d.xml", "sha256": "c42ce88de9420431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.298.5", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": " conclude on this matter by saying very clearly that serious questions need to be answered by the Leader of the Opposition-I hope that he will do so-and that the matters relating to the TCI and the fact that the Caribbean bank plays a role in other territories in that region, including Trinidad, need to be looked at very seriously. In conclusion, much has been said in the debate about Afghanistan-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23d.xml", "sha256": "c42ce88de9420431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.298.5", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": " the matters relating to the TCI and the fact that the Caribbean bank plays a role in other territories in that region, including Trinidad, need to be looked at very seriously. In conclusion, much has been said in the debate about Afghanistan- [ Interruption ] - and Iran. The Foreign Affairs Committee has published serious reports on those countries, and there were debates in other places on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-23", "file": "debates2009-11-23d.xml", "sha256": "c42ce88de9420431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "n much more global. Al-Qaeda wants to destroy America and its western allies, as well as the Governments of the middle eastern states that it considers to be too pro-western. It has little love for Shi'a Islam or any other variation of its Wahhabi and Deobandi Sunni orthodoxies. The differences between the aims of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, however, do not mean that they can easily be prised apart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-23d.304.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4665039718fe8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24b.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "man for the Conservatives says that they would abolish the IPC. Business says that it is very worried about that plan because it would set back the process of building our low-carbon infrastructure. Thirdly, we say that it is wrong that 60 per cent. of wind turbine applications are turned down by Conservative councils, because that will not get us the low-carbon energy infrastructure that we need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24b.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4665039718fe8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24b.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "at they can be treated-can be treated in such a way that actually saves money. We need to unlock the savings that people can make, and use them to release to people up front the cost of making those investments. It is characteristic of the Government to assume that any proposal that they hear about must involve the expenditure of vast amounts of public funds. That is what they assume all the time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24b.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4665039718fe8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24b.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "\"The truth about energy efficiency is that it pays to do it, but the problem is the upfront costs. And the task is to spread those costs over time, not over the time that someone lives in a house, because that might be eight or nine years and that's probably not enough time, to spread it over a longer period so the repayment, if you like, is connected to the house not the person and to find ways\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24b.420.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "df694a0b5b01d5db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24c.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "r vulnerable consumers. I search in this debate for that elusive thing, all-party consensus, but on domestic policy I am not optimistic. It has to be said that the Conservatives are outstanding at green image-making. Let us be honest, the image that we all remember-perhaps their finest moment; I think it was the brainchild of the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker) -is the huskies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24c.413.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "df694a0b5b01d5db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24c.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "man for the Conservatives says that they would abolish the IPC. Business says that it is very worried about that plan because it would set back the process of building our low-carbon infrastructure. Thirdly, we say that it is wrong that 60 per cent. of wind turbine applications are turned down by Conservative councils, because that will not get us the low-carbon energy infrastructure that we need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24c.413.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "25a3beb975d01a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24d.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "man for the Conservatives says that they would abolish the IPC. Business says that it is very worried about that plan because it would set back the process of building our low-carbon infrastructure. Thirdly, we say that it is wrong that 60 per cent. of wind turbine applications are turned down by Conservative councils, because that will not get us the low-carbon energy infrastructure that we need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24d.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "25a3beb975d01a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24d.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "\"The truth about energy efficiency is that it pays to do it, but the problem is the upfront costs. And the task is to spread those costs over time, not over the time that someone lives in a house, because that might be eight or nine years and that's probably not enough time, to spread it over a longer period so the repayment, if you like, is connected to the house not the person and to find ways\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24d.420.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24e.xml", "sha256": "c16c911ff5fbe5d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "man for the Conservatives says that they would abolish the IPC. Business says that it is very worried about that plan because it would set back the process of building our low-carbon infrastructure. Thirdly, we say that it is wrong that 60 per cent. of wind turbine applications are turned down by Conservative councils, because that will not get us the low-carbon energy infrastructure that we need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.413.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24e.xml", "sha256": "c16c911ff5fbe5d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is completely right. It is a real disappointment that the Energy Bill does not contain a serious proposal to improve the energy efficiency of our properties. I was asked earlier about our green deal, which has been widely welcomed as offering the opportunity for people to save money on their energy bills. That is much needed-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24e.xml", "sha256": "c16c911ff5fbe5d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "at they can be treated-can be treated in such a way that actually saves money. We need to unlock the savings that people can make, and use them to release to people up front the cost of making those investments. It is characteristic of the Government to assume that any proposal that they hear about must involve the expenditure of vast amounts of public funds. That is what they assume all the time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24e.xml", "sha256": "c16c911ff5fbe5d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "\"The truth about energy efficiency is that it pays to do it, but the problem is the upfront costs. And the task is to spread those costs over time, not over the time that someone lives in a house, because that might be eight or nine years and that's probably not enough time, to spread it over a longer period so the repayment, if you like, is connected to the house not the person and to find ways\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24e.xml", "sha256": "c16c911ff5fbe5d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention because it allows me to tell the right hon. Gentleman that it will cost the public sector precisely nothing. The savings made on energy bills will be brought forward to pay for the costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24e.xml", "sha256": "c16c911ff5fbe5d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " is accurate, however. That is not the same situation as at Kyoto. The right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) quoted an article in The Guardian . I read the article, and it also made a statement about not detracting from the central argument about the accuracy of the science. Why did he not quote that? Why did he quote only the bits about the university in question, and so forth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-24", "file": "debates2009-11-24e.xml", "sha256": "c16c911ff5fbe5d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "cellor has now bought into it. I think that it is achievable, and if it is not, it should be an aspiration. The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, is on the Front Bench today, and in October her only real argument was, \"We cannot do it, because we have already set targets which go to dates beyond that, and this would get in the way of those.\" I just say to her very simply-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-24e.435.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25b.xml", "sha256": "66408142a01eb33f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25b.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "agination are steadily being squeezed out by the work of the state.\" That is an astonishing statement. Is that what those on the Opposition Front Bench really think? Do they really think that help for mums in Sure Start is killing kindness? Do they think that faster treatment through the NHS is undermining generosity? Do they think that free entry to museums is somehow crippling kids' imagination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25b.636.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25c.xml", "sha256": "49f1ec6bb461c66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25c.586.2", "colnum": "586", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "mphasis on detection. We also need more prevention, involving easy measures such as improving outside lighting, alarms and window locks. We need more detection, to ensure that criminals face justice. The prevention aspect of that agenda alone provides the main reason why crime has fallen further and faster in Liberal Democrat-controlled council areas than in either Labour or Tory-controlled areas-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25c.586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25c.xml", "sha256": "49f1ec6bb461c66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25c.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought to know that before any young offender goes to prison, they are given numerous warnings and reprimands, and they are given one community sentence after another. They go to prison only because all those interventions have failed, and failed miserably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25c.620.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25d.xml", "sha256": "337a590d9c0a5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25d.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought to know that before any young offender goes to prison, they are given numerous warnings and reprimands, and they are given one community sentence after another. They go to prison only because all those interventions have failed, and failed miserably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25d.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25d.xml", "sha256": "337a590d9c0a5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25d.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "nce unless they have told the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency whether they are married; or whether they will not be able to submit a planning application to extend their house, until they have told the council whether they have walked down the aisle; or whether people will not be able to get a library card until they have told the librarian whether their husband has gone off with someone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25d.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25d.xml", "sha256": "337a590d9c0a5edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25d.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "agination are steadily being squeezed out by the work of the state.\" That is an astonishing statement. Is that what those on the Opposition Front Bench really think? Do they really think that help for mums in Sure Start is killing kindness? Do they think that faster treatment through the NHS is undermining generosity? Do they think that free entry to museums is somehow crippling kids' imagination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25d.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.514.4", "colnum": "514", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I recently had the opportunity to visit the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, and the people there raised those issues with me. It is important that there be an upgrade for existing copper and wire networks, but the Government are also committed to a 50 per cent. levy on those with BT lines-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.514.4", "colnum": "514", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I recently had the opportunity to visit the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, and the people there raised those issues with me. It is important that there be an upgrade for existing copper and wire networks, but the Government are also committed to a 50 per cent. levy on those with BT lines- [ Interruption. ] I mean a 50p levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ce evidence into account. As my hon. Friend says, we must not get into a position in which the decisions that we make act as a recruiting sergeant for militants in this country. We are taking every action that we can to deal with the terrorist threat in this country, and I think that, on an all-party basis, we should be united in saying that we doing what we can to ensure that the al-Qaeda threat-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "t we can to ensure that the al-Qaeda threat- [Interruption.] The shadow Chancellor is saying something about money. We have doubled the amount of money being spent on security. That would not happen under a Conservative Government, because they would not be prepared to make the funds available. Why, when we are dealing with the issue of spending, do they persist in their policy on inheritance tax-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "hould be justice for them and their families if that protection fails. These elements must be balanced against the understandable concerns of those who have never been convicted of any crime about the retention of their DNA profile. Although not required to by the European Court judgment, we took the decision that all DNA samples should be destroyed after six months, once they have been converted-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " after six months, once they have been converted- [Interruption.] Six months. I wish Members on the Opposition Front Bench would listen more closely. The DNA sample-the swab-must be destroyed within six months. That was not a mandate from the European Court, but is something that we decided to do. That six months gives the chance to convert the sample into the 20 numbers that form the DNA profile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "hat we have, reinforced by the responses to the public consultation, shows that there is a strong case for the retention of the DNA profiles of those who are arrested but not convicted, and that there is a link between arrest for a previous offence and future offending. It also shows that after six years, the probability of re-arrest for this group is no higher than for the rest of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.586.2", "colnum": "586", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "mphasis on detection. We also need more prevention, involving easy measures such as improving outside lighting, alarms and window locks. We need more detection, to ensure that criminals face justice. The prevention aspect of that agenda alone provides the main reason why crime has fallen further and faster in Liberal Democrat-controlled council areas than in either Labour or Tory-controlled areas-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought to know that before any young offender goes to prison, they are given numerous warnings and reprimands, and they are given one community sentence after another. They go to prison only because all those interventions have failed, and failed miserably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "nce unless they have told the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency whether they are married; or whether they will not be able to submit a planning application to extend their house, until they have told the council whether they have walked down the aisle; or whether people will not be able to get a library card until they have told the librarian whether their husband has gone off with someone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "09cdab2c40ddc351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "agination are steadily being squeezed out by the work of the state.\" That is an astonishing statement. Is that what those on the Opposition Front Bench really think? Do they really think that help for mums in Sure Start is killing kindness? Do they think that faster treatment through the NHS is undermining generosity? Do they think that free entry to museums is somehow crippling kids' imagination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25e.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.514.4", "colnum": "514", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I recently had the opportunity to visit the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, and the people there raised those issues with me. It is important that there be an upgrade for copper and wire networks, but the Government are also committed to a 50 per cent. levy on those with BT lines-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.514.4", "colnum": "514", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I recently had the opportunity to visit the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, and the people there raised those issues with me. It is important that there be an upgrade for copper and wire networks, but the Government are also committed to a 50 per cent. levy on those with BT lines- [ Interruption. ] I mean a 50p levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "Given the Secretary of State's recent decision to reject the QinetiQ proposals for upgrading the Ministry of Defence ranges on Benbecula, is he confident that there will be no job losses on the Hebrides ranges for the next three years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "en the Secretary of State's recent decision to reject the QinetiQ proposals for upgrading the Ministry of Defence ranges on Benbecula, is he confident that there will be no job losses on the Hebrides ranges for the next three years? [ Interruption. ] If he cannot be confident of that, will he ensure that the future jobs fund will be applied to the islanders of North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Well, I will not only give it to the Prime Minister, but my hon. Friend-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " am grateful for that, but there can be no doubt that the organisation that I mentioned is a front organisation for Hizb ut-Tahrir. Two of its four trustees are members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, and the head teacher and proprietor of one of the schools-a school in Slough-are members of Hizb ut-Tahrir. I find it hard to understand why the Prime Minister does not know about that, given that we were asking-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "vidence into account. As my hon. Friend says, we must not get into a position in which the decisions that we make act as a recruiting sergeant for militants in this country. We are taking every action that we can to deal with the terrorist threat in this country, and I think that, on an all-party basis, we should be united in saying that we are doing what we can to ensure that the al-Qaeda threat-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "t we can to ensure that the al-Qaeda threat- [Interruption.] The shadow Chancellor is saying something about money. We have doubled the amount of money being spent on security. That would not happen under a Conservative Government, because they would not be prepared to make the funds available. Why, when we are dealing with the issue of spending, do they persist in their policy on inheritance tax-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I am quite clear not only that what we did last year was right but that we could afford to do it. I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman must ask himself another question. We saw what happened in America when the then American Government let Lehman Brothers go down-it resulted in the American banking system, and very soon the rest of the banking system, going down too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I agree with one of-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": " across the rest of the UK. I got in trouble for saying this some time ago, but I happen to believe that the Scottish Government made quite a good start after they were elected with the energy and excitement that took them over the finishing line. However, like most people in Scotland, I am starting to believe that they are a novelty that is wearing off. On the points that the hon. Gentleman made-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.550.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Personal Care At Home Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Full house.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "to the rehabilitation of prisoners, which is part of our prison reform and welfare proposals. We also need much more radical changes on DNA and identity cards than this Government have been willing to countenance. That means dealing with the DNA database issue, and scrapping the now voluntary ID cards scheme altogether. I am interested to know whether Ministers have their ID cards with them today-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Personal Care At Home Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "We have heard the views of the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell reiterated in the form of a major policy announcement from the Opposition Benches. We can see what this country would have to look forward to under a Conservative Administration: an age of austerity, with foxhunting reintroduced for our recreation, and with marriage-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.571.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Personal Care At Home Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "We are still working towards halving child poverty by 2010. That will be difficult, because there has been a global recession -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Personal Care At Home Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "hould be justice for them and their families if that protection fails. These elements must be balanced against the understandable concerns of those who have never been convicted of any crime about the retention of their DNA profile. Although not required to by the European Court judgment, we took the decision that all DNA samples should be destroyed after six months, once they have been converted-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Personal Care At Home Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " after six months, once they have been converted- [Interruption.] Six months. I wish Members on the Opposition Front Bench would listen more closely. The DNA sample-the swab-must be destroyed within six months. That was not a mandate from the European Court, but is something that we decided to do. That six months gives the chance to convert the sample into the 20 numbers that form the DNA profile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Personal Care At Home Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "hat we have, reinforced by the responses to the public consultation, shows that there is a strong case for the retention of the DNA profiles of those who are arrested but not convicted, and that there is a link between arrest for a previous offence and future offending. It also shows that after six years, the probability of re-arrest for this group is no higher than for the rest of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.583.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Personal Care At Home Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought to know that before any young offender goes to prison, they are given numerous warnings and reprimands, and they are given one community sentence after another. They go to prison only because all those interventions have failed, and failed miserably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.620.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-25", "file": "debates2009-11-25f.xml", "sha256": "8482960fca41af19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Personal Care At Home Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "agination are steadily being squeezed out by the work of the state.\" That is an astonishing statement. Is that what those on the Opposition Front Bench really think? Do they really think that help for mums in Sure Start is killing kindness? Do they think that faster treatment through the NHS is undermining generosity? Do they think that free entry to museums is somehow crippling kids' imagination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-25f.636.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-26", "file": "debates2009-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "76cb7c3520bef747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26b.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ust pay tribute to my Front-Bench colleagues from the west midlands, because the Government have taken the area seriously. If they had not, would we have had a Select Committee and a Minister? The aim is to give a bit of impetus to the west midlands, but it is equally important that Ministers understand that unemployment in the west midlands is far too high. It is probably about 10 per cent. now -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26b.764.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-26", "file": "debates2009-11-26e.xml", "sha256": "86ca26112254dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.692.4", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "In the light of today's Daily Mirror report, and that of The Independent last week, about the buying of influence in the Caribbean and in Britain, can we have an early debate on that monster from the Caribbean deep, namely Lord Ashcroft, and his influence on politics-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.692.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-26", "file": "debates2009-11-26e.xml", "sha256": "86ca26112254dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.692.6", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "ary term, Mr. Speaker, then we are limiting our vocabulary. May we have an early debate on this gentlemen, who forces right hon. Members on the Opposition Benches to dissemble on his tax status and uses gagging writs to intimidate newspapers. It is only in the House of Commons that this man's corroding and, I believe, corrupt influence on Caribbean and British politics can be debated and explored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.692.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-26", "file": "debates2009-11-26e.xml", "sha256": "86ca26112254dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.696.7", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "phoned her private office to draw the matter to its attention, so I hope that it drew it to hers. She gave a cast-iron commitment in the House- Official Report, 25 June 2009, column 962 -to open negotiations with Opposition parties. To date, neither she nor the Solicitor-General have had those discussions either with Opposition Front-Bench Members or through the usual channels about the timetable-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.696.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-26", "file": "debates2009-11-26e.xml", "sha256": "86ca26112254dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.704.4", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Corporation Tax Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "I may be able to assist with the hon. Gentleman's inquiries. I had lunch the other day with someone who works for a very big bank in the City, as one does, and he told me that he thought the official figures were wrong and that we were already out of recession. That was his opinion, which he said was also the opinion of his bank. Last night-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.704.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-11-26", "file": "debates2009-11-26e.xml", "sha256": "86ca26112254dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Corporation Tax Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "the Queen's Speech, to the radical regulatory budgets that the Prime Minister told us would \"transform the culture of Whitehall\"? They have been completely abandoned. What happened to the Regulatory Policy Committee that Lord Mandelson set up with such a great fanfare? It has not met for seven months. The Business Secretary has not found any space for it in his diary between the shooting weekends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-11-26e.711.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-02", "file": "debates2009-12-02c.xml", "sha256": "e966169a51e7e934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "John Penrose) arguing in a way that suggested he wanted to minimise the effect of what we are seeking to do by closing the gender pay gap. Good Lord- [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but the whole manner in which he put the case seemed to suggest that he was saying, \"Well, basically women have children, so we kind of have to understand that that puts them outside the workplace.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1130.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-02", "file": "debates2009-12-02c.xml", "sha256": "e966169a51e7e934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "because it has never been produced. We have never had any quantitative estimation of how many young people would be disbarred from employment as a result of being paid the rate for the job. The argument is the same as the one we had about the basic principle of having a minimum wage. We were told that it would cost jobs and would undermine the profitability of companies, but that has not happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-02", "file": "debates2009-12-02c.xml", "sha256": "e966169a51e7e934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": ". Members where on earth those situations ever exist in the real world. I have recruited many people in my time. I have never yet even remotely come across a case where two people have exactly the same ability and are exactly the same. Unless the Government envisage lots of twins applying for the same jobs right across the country, this is a completely meaningless, pointless and academic argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-02", "file": "debates2009-12-02c.xml", "sha256": "e966169a51e7e934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "cuss the different legal opinions, and we expect a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to consider the matter later on. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Transport and I will also be able to help so, on that basis, I hope that the amendments will be withdrawn. The hon. Member for Shipley would like to strip away all protection for businesses with fewer than 250 employees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1173.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-02", "file": "debates2009-12-02c.xml", "sha256": "e966169a51e7e934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1225.7", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady must know that she cannot plot Mr. Speaker's course on these matters. She must know that a programme motion was put together and was agreed by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02c.1225.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-02", "file": "debates2009-12-02d.xml", "sha256": "e76aef09b3e4595c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02d.1101.4", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "That one must have sounded great in the bunker. The fact is that the one policy that this country needs above all is a credible programme for getting the biggest budget deficit in the G20 under control. That is the view of the Governor of the Bank of England and he says they have not got a credible plan to get the deficit under control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02d.1101.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-02", "file": "debates2009-12-02d.xml", "sha256": "e76aef09b3e4595c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02d.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Equality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": " perhaps over the Government's belief that another four years of voluntary disclosure will work. The Liberal Democrats do not believe that it will. I was concerned and upset again, as I was in Committee, to hear the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (John Penrose) arguing in a way that suggested he wanted to minimise the effect of what we are seeking to do by closing the gender pay gap. Good Lord-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-02d.1130.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e very important question of Afghanistan is concerned, as Leader of the House I take it very much as my responsibility to ensure that the House is informed regularly about the situation, and that does happen. I ensure that there is an opportunity to debate it at large and hold Ministers to account, and that every week that this House is sitting, there is an opportunity for a debate on Afghanistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ublic Bill hearings. There were two Select Committees, then 38 hours in Committee. Report stage is one day in this House unless major new policy is introduced, but no major new policy was introduced between Committee and Report. I am sure that this will be a disappointment to Opposition Back Benchers, but there was no Front-Bench request for an extra day on Report until the business was announced-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1284.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1324.3", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "27 to sail boats between the islands and the mainland of Scotland. The Commission could ban that for EU citizens so that it would not happen to people who came from the A8 accession countries to work in the offshore industries. My constituents would welcome that. The TUC and the Scottish TUC are campaigning strongly to have such a provision extended to everyone through the Race Relations Act 1976.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": " this. A previous Defence Secretary and Europe Minister has defended the right of the Government not to give our Committee access to these papers on the ground that it is far too sensitive for Parliament to know what is happening in foreign policy and defence, which is of course ridiculous. Perhaps I am paraphrasing what the former Minister said, but I am certainly quite clear about what he meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": " Secretary that he is minded to be against it, and when the leader of the Conservative party was interviewed on the \"Andrew Marr Show\", he said that he was very much against it too. He told Andrew Marr: \"There are many things in the Lisbon treaty-giving more power over home affairs and justice-that we don't think is right.\" Given that the Conservative policy is to repatriate powers on those areas-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ant for British Ministers to hold themselves, the Government and colleagues to account as to whether those benchmarks have been met. I am glad that the Government remain committed to the accession of Turkey in the future-in the near future-and I am also pleased that the Opposition are fully supportive of it. I do not think that the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton mentioned Turkish accession-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ought to consider expanding the EU as quickly as possible. Independent conditions should be laid down, and when countries meet them, they should be automatically eligible to join. That should be that-there should no politicking behind closed doors, as happens so much in the EU. I was looking down the list of the great, famous Europeans who act in our name. Michel Barnier is one of the most famous-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "economics that has been imposed on a group of nations within Europe, but it is not the complete Europe. Some countries that have chosen to stay outside, such as Norway, have done rather well. I know that Norway has oil and fish, and so on, but it has chosen to stay outside and has done rather well. I am not suggesting that we should leave the European Union, because that would be seen as bad form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1358.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "at it disagrees with gets kicked out. There is no mechanism in the EU that allows the people to be asked whether this new supranational institution is what they want. My suspicion is that they probably do not, but that is neither here nor there. I have become agnostic on this matter. I grew up in a federal state so I have no problem with federalism, but I also remember the Austro-Hungarian empire-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "ederal state. What the Minister believes in is one state called Europe. On our side is someone else who believes equally strongly in a Europe of nation states-someone who opposes the Lisbon treaty, and who actually speaks for the British people. That leads me rather nicely to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, who has been consistent on Europe and has spoken for the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "the Member for Witney becomes Prime Minister, as I sincerely believe he will, he will be the most Eurosceptic leader of our country since Mrs. Thatcher. He will be more Eurosceptic than the current Prime Minister and Tony Blair-or John Major, for that matter-and he will do something that none of those Prime Ministers attempted, which has never been done before: he will get powers back from Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "4763ab97a38505fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1389.5", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "it makes any difference whether Parliament votes after a one-and-a-half-hour debate or passes a piece of primary legislation. The point is that Parliament should take a view. She asked about the rules of procedure, and I want to correct her on one point: the Council of Ministers was an institution before the Lisbon treaty came into force; it is the European Council that now becomes an institution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03d.1389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e very important question of Afghanistan is concerned, as Leader of the House I take it very much as my responsibility to ensure that the House is informed regularly about the situation, and that does happen. I ensure that there is an opportunity to debate it at large and hold Ministers to account, and that every week that this House is sitting, there is an opportunity for a debate on Afghanistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " Committee hearings. There were two Select Committees, then 38 hours in Committee. Report stage is one day in this House unless major new policy is introduced, but no major new policy was introduced between Committee and Report. I am sure that this will be a disappointment to Opposition Back Benchers, but there was no Front-Bench request for an extra day on Report until the business was announced-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House will be aware that sections of the media are covering the issue of libel tourism, which is something that Ministers will have to judge on its merits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "With all that knowledge, the hon. Gentleman should know better. He is aware that the European Conservatives and Reformists, the group that he handpicked, along with his leader and Dastardly and Muttley-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "All that we have seen so far is that every time a Conservative Member stands up, he comes out with a new-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "The Minister will know that I sat through the many days of debate in the House on the Lisbon treaty, so he will know that the Conservative party did what it said it would do. There was a vote in the House about having a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, and we all did what we said to our electorate in our manifestos that we would do-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1310.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1320.5", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "Okay, you've talked me into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1324.3", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": " sail boats between the islands and the mainland of Scotland. The Commission could ban that for people in the EU so that it would not happen to people who came from the A8 accession countries to work in the offshore industries. My constituents would welcome that. The TUC and the Scottish TUC are campaigning strongly to have such a provision extended to everyone through the Race Relations Act 1976.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "is. A previous Defence Secretary and Europe Minister has defended the right of the Government not to give our Committee access to these papers on the ground that what is happening in foreign policy and defence is far too sensitive for Parliament to know about, which is of course ridiculous. Perhaps I am paraphrasing what the former Minister said, but I am certainly quite clear about what he meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1327.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ant for British Ministers to hold themselves, the Government and colleagues to account as to whether those benchmarks have been met. I am glad that the Government remain committed to the accession of Turkey in the future-in the near future-and I am also pleased that the Opposition are fully supportive of it. I do not think that the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton mentioned Turkish accession-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1339.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "economics that has been imposed on a group of nations within Europe, but it is not the complete Europe. Some countries that have chosen to stay outside, such as Norway, have done rather well. I know that Norway has oil and fish, and so on, but it has chosen to stay outside and has done rather well. I am not suggesting that we should leave the European Union, because that would be seen as bad form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "co-ordinators who dole out the reports and sort out the business. In the past, it was often frustrating when there was no Conservative, or even like-minded EPP, co-ordinator. Deals were done behind closed doors without our being involved. The new group will have a co-ordinator on every single committee, which means we will have a voice on every committee when those important reports are given out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "o be in or out. The Opposition were very clever, particularly the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks. He made us laugh during those Lisbon debates. He was so funny that I even purchased a copy of his speech on Second Reading. It was worth it. The question is, why did the right hon. Gentleman make us laugh? He made us laugh to cover the fact that there was no real opposition from the Opposition-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "at it disagrees with gets kicked out. There is no mechanism in the EU that allows the people to be asked whether this new supranational institution is what they want. My suspicion is that they probably do not, but that is neither here nor there. I have become agnostic on this matter. I grew up in a federal state so I have no problem with federalism, but I also remember the Austro-Hungarian empire-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "ederal state. What the Minister believes in is one state called Europe. On our side is someone else who believes equally strongly in a Europe of nation states-someone who opposes the Lisbon treaty, and who actually speaks for the British people. That leads me rather nicely to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, who has been consistent on Europe and has spoken for the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1381.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-12-03", "file": "debates2009-12-03e.xml", "sha256": "ea251a515c3c0434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "4; (2) Standing Order No. 90 (Second reading committees) shall have effect for this Session with the following modification, namely: In paragraph (2) the word 'fifth' shall be substituted for the word 'eighth' in line 21; and (3) Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 29 January ; 5 and 26 February ; 5 and 12 March ; 23 and 30 April ; and 7 May . -(Mr. Frank Roy.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-03e.1390.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0ddf1f58aba4f800", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "efore should not be given a specific subsidy. I do not think there is any difference between us on that. If the Secretary of State can convince us that the money has, indeed, been spent, it may be the case that the levy is what we will have to fall back on. I still do not think, however, that he can get away with saying that this money has been spent on something the Government cannot account for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that we have a Green Paper, on which we are consulting, to provide-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "nsulting, to provide- [ Interruption. ] To answer the sedentary question, the problem is that we have an ageing population with increasing demands, and we need to find solutions in order to meet those demands. We have a Green Paper, which we are consulting on, and we are listening carefully to what people have to say. We need to ensure that those who are most vulnerable-those in the greatest need-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "mage our ability to tackle climate change. Secondly, the hon. Gentleman needs to answer the question that was posed brilliantly by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) last time about his £150 billion scheme for energy efficiency. He says that it will cost no public money, whereas his hon. Friend, the hon. Member for Wealden (Charles Hendry) has said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "House at the same time and, whatever his contribution might have been to our national economic success when he was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, he was not in charge of energy policy at the time, so we cannot hold him personally responsible for that. We can, however, agree on what the problems are. There are five in particular. We are facing power cuts and an energy crunch by 2017-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.52.6", "colnum": "52", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "he European Union emissions trading scheme. The Secretary of State tells me that they have been spent, although they do not begin to accrue in this phase until 2012. If they have indeed been spent, there must be an assumption of the amount that they were going to raise. Let me ask the Secretary of State now what that estimate is, and where it appears in the Red Book. I am happy to give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.52.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " we are where every Member who has spoken has urged us to be. We have already commenced a consultation on the best way to get a detailed policy so that we can travel forward... I believe that consultation is a very good thing and an important component of getting policy right.\"-[ Official Report , 3 July 2009; Vol. 495, c. 636 .] The consultation has ended, and we are clear that there ought to be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "size of the grant has been kept the same, but fewer and fewer people are benefitting. We have heard the example of the latest pilot scheme, which is for but a handful of people. If Ministers had said that they wanted a scheme rolled out across Britain, led by Government and using local councils, to make every home a warm home within 10 years, as we have argued for, they would have had our support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "policy, and I hope that that is not a theme that will continue through the debate. I want to clarify the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) put clearly into context the remarks about wind farms made by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) . It was, however, the comments made by the right hon. Member for Sherwood (Paddy Tipping) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "were not in the Bill, reciting a huge wish list of things that he believes could be legislated for. He failed to notice that most of the measures of which he spoke are already under way and do not require primary legislation. It was a complete nonsense of a speech. The hon. Gentleman said that there was a possibility of power cuts, which has been repeated by Opposition Members over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "226db4e0f74fda2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "hire (Nick Ainger) gave a helpful account of gas import and storage. He welcomed the Bill, and we appreciate his support. On fuel poverty, he argued that pensioners were not an absolute priority, but I have to tell him that, regrettably, the majority of people in fuel poverty are still pensioners. The hon. Member for Angus (Mr. Weir) posed a lot of questions that I think I have dealt with already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07b.121.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "nsulting, to provide- [ Interruption. ] To answer the sedentary question, the problem is that we have an ageing population with increasing demands, and we need to find solutions in order to meet those demands. We have a Green Paper, which we are consulting on, and we are listening carefully to what people have to say. We need to ensure that those who are most vulnerable-those in the greatest need-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "vident to anybody who looks at the NHS today, and because people all around the hospital can view clear images, that has been a real benefit for patient safety across the NHS. I simply do not believe that there has been no innovation or improvement in services. Indeed, clinicians-not Ministers-have today spoken in favour of the changes brought about by the national programme for IT across the NHS-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "O report confirmed that the cost of the original contracts had not changed and that the overall programme costs, including NHS costs and the costs of additional items such as payment by results and the 18 weeks, are substantially unchanged from the figure of £12.4 billion in the earlier NAO report. The hon. Gentleman asked about the care records system. That will be a matter for local choice-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "mage our ability to tackle climate change. Secondly, the hon. Gentleman needs to answer the question that was posed brilliantly by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) last time about his £150 billion scheme for energy efficiency. He says that it will cost no public money, whereas his hon. Friend, the hon. Member for Wealden (Charles Hendry) has said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.48.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "House at the same time and, whatever his contribution might have been to our national economic success when he was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, he was not in charge of energy policy at the time, so we cannot hold him personally responsible for that. We can, however, agree on what the problems are. There are five in particular. We are facing power cuts and an energy crunch by 2017-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "Once again, I had hoped that we would seek to achieve unity on these issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "country telling people that they are immoral to raise even a qualm about a wind farm in their area, but it has no policy response to it. If the Secretary of State has any policy suggestions, why do they not appear in this Energy Bill? The Bill is designed to solve a problem that the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Nigel Griffiths) seems to think exists-but the Secretary of State has no solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.52.6", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "he European Union emissions trading scheme. The Secretary of State tells me that they have been spent, although they do not begin to accrue in this phase until 2012. If they have indeed been spent, there must be an assumption of the amount that they were going to raise. Let me ask the Secretary of State now what that estimate is, and where it appears in the Red Book. I am happy to give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.52.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": ", and should not be given a specific subsidy. I do not think there is any difference between us on that. If the Secretary of State can convince us that the money has, indeed, been spent, it may be the case that the levy is what we will have to fall back on. I still do not think, however, that he can get away with saying that this money has been spent on something the Government cannot account for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "n building a pipeline network that was not adequate for the coal plants that he hoped would be able to access it in future. That is a waste. Will the Secretary of State make clear the criteria for the clusters of CCS that have been promised-but which are mysteriously absent from the Bill? Many parts of the country are keenly awaiting the answer to that. In particular, with the devastating closure-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " we are where every Member who has spoken has urged us to be. We have already commenced a consultation on the best way to get a detailed policy so that we can travel forward... I believe that consultation is a very good thing and an important component of getting policy right.\"-[ Official Report , 3 July 2009; Vol. 495, c. 636 .] The consultation has ended, and we are clear that there ought to be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "size of the grant has been kept the same, but fewer and fewer people are benefitting. We have heard the example of the latest pilot scheme, which is for but a handful of people. If Ministers had said that they wanted a scheme rolled out across Britain, led by Government and using local councils, to make every home a warm home within 10 years, as we have argued for, they would have had our support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "bout Tory policy, and I hope that that theme will not continue through the debate. I want to clarify the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) put clearly into context the remarks about wind farms made by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) . It was, however, the comments made by the right hon. Member for Sherwood (Paddy Tipping) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Turner", "preceding_text": "deed a modest Bill, but I think it unreasonable to expect a compendium Bill dealing with every outstanding energy issue to go through Parliament in the limited time that we have before the general election. For obvious reasons, this Bill focuses on what is needed immediately. I welcome the Bill, and I gather that, in a way, the Opposition do as well, so I assume that they will not vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "preceding_text": "Which word in particular, Mr. Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "t were not in the Bill, reciting a huge wish list of things that he believes could be legislated for. He failed to notice that most of the measures of which he spoke are already under way and do not require primary legislation. It was complete nonsense of a speech. The hon. Gentleman said that there was a possibility of power cuts, which has been repeated by Opposition Members over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": " have thought they would have done so, but it appears they have not. The hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells spoke about how vital an emissions performance standard is and again said that such a measure was not in the Bill. The fact is that it does not need to be in the Bill. We do not need primary legislation and can adopt an emissions performance standard without new legislation if we wish to do so-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "The other point on the emissions performance standard is that we think it better to gain a proper understanding of the potential of CCS before considering how the regulatory and financial measures relating to emissions from power stations will be affected. We will continue to maintain a rolling review of progress, as we have clearly stated, with CCS technologies. By 2018, we will publish a report-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "hire (Nick Ainger) gave a helpful account of gas import and storage. He welcomed the Bill, and we appreciate his support. On fuel poverty, he argued that pensioners were not an absolute priority, but I have to tell him that, regrettably, the majority of people in fuel poverty are still pensioners. The hon. Member for Angus (Mr. Weir) posed a lot of questions that I think I have dealt with already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.121.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2009-12-07", "file": "debates2009-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "2ec3ed50fce7f6a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.124.5", "colnum": "124", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e 44; (2) Standing Order No. 90 (Second reading committees) shall have effect for this Session with the following modification, namely: In paragraph (2) the word 'fifth' shall be substituted for the word 'eighth' in line 21; and (3) Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 29 January ; 5 and 26 February ; 5 and 12 March ; 23 and 30 April ; and 7 May .- (Mr. Mudie .)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-07c.124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bf63ab0fd1d1fb26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "placing either or both of these funds in the pool for Local Authority distribution could cut support and restrict choice and control for many disabled people.\" We should listen to what Disability Allowance has to say. Age Concern and Help the Aged said: \"If the idea to stop AA is taken forward, it will mean that many older people will be worse off than they are now.\" We should take that seriously-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "bf63ab0fd1d1fb26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "now? The Secretary of State made a point of quoting my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) , and he was quite right. We support what the Government want to do on extending personalisation. Indeed, the Welfare Reform Bill only allows social care funding to be integrated into the right to control because we pressed for that in this House, although we were opposed by the Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "preceding_text": "The case for FiReControl is absolutely compelling-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shahid Malik", "preceding_text": "ng, because I met representatives of the Chief Fire Officers Association only last week, which is as committed to FiReControl as ever. The idea that the Opposition are better placed to talk about national resilience in the context of the fire service than the CFOA is frankly laughable. FiReControl will improve national resilience and bring unprecedented levels of co-operation and interoperability-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Let me add my voice to the research, because all my constituents tell me that they find the HIPs to be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not need to ask ludicrous questions like that to confirm to the House that he is not exactly the sharpest tool in the box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not need to ask ludicrous questions like that to confirm to the House that he is not exactly the sharpest tool in the box. [ Interruption. ] However, thousands of jobs and hundreds of small businesses depend on the HIP process. Some 13,000 people-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman spent half an hour dreaming up that question, which confirms the point that I made about him earlier. The figures to which he refers actually show that already, in such a short period, nine out of 10 buyers are using the HIPs and one out of three said that it had helped them to decide whether to make an offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "an hour dreaming up that question, which confirms the point that I made about him earlier. The figures to which he refers actually show that already, in such a short period, nine out of 10 buyers are using the HIPs and one out of three said that it had helped them to decide whether to make an offer. [ Interruption. ] That is a massive improvement on the figures shortly after the HIPs introduction-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.154.7", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " and individuals who responded highlighted the implication that is set out in the Green Paper and responded to it. I therefore invite the Secretary of State to tell us what proportion of the Green Paper responses received up to 12 November supported incorporating attendance allowance and disability living allowance into the national care service. I wonder whether Ministers know the answer to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.154.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "e answer is not to abolish the cash benefits and combine them in a single system. The Government have said-and it is in the amendment-that there should be a single assessment process; I hope they mean that, as we have agreed, there should be a common assessment process. On 14 July , in response to the Secretary of State's announcement of a Green Paper, I said to him-I apologise for quoting myself-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "scrapped\", which is the word I used, in order to fund a national care service. That is something that the Government have proposed. I know and respect the hon. Gentleman, but he is trying to find a way not to vote for the early-day motion that he signed. I have not come to ask the House to endorse my press releases. I have come to ask the House to settle this issue. If it is the Government's view-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": ", but the hon. Gentleman has been choosing not to listen because it did not suit the grubby campaign that he has been mounting for the past couple of weeks. We have made this absolutely clear. He may not like it, because it does not suit his purposes, but it could not be clearer. As I said, the three principles in the benefits system will all be important features of a new care and support system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire will stop chuntering, let me say that cash payments will be at the heart of a new system. The care services Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Corby, and I have been saying that every day since we launched the Green Paper. That is what \"an equivalent level of support\" means. The hon. Gentleman has chosen not to listen to that because it was inconvenient-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Secretary of State, but I must say to Ms Milton that there seems to be a competition among Front-Bench Members for the dubious accolade of chunterer-in-chief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "incentivise work sufficiently. And it relies too much on large government agencies...Our policy review is examining the option of a radical simplification of the benefits package for disabled people. I welcome the principle of Individual Budgets. But I'd like to go much further.\" It is unbelievable-he was giving exactly the same argument that we have been mounting, which underpins our Green Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "dual Budgets. But I'd like to go much further.\" It is unbelievable-he was giving exactly the same argument that we have been mounting, which underpins our Green Paper. [Interruption.] Hear me out, there is more. He went on to back us up even further, saying: \"Instead of the half-dozen different benefits a disabled person can receive-each with its different conditions and its own application form\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "osts, so we want to start now with reform, by helping people to live independently for longer in their own homes for free, which is something they tell us they really want. Our Bill will do just that. It will end the postcode lottery in care for those most vulnerable members of our society. Let us not forget that many have already paid significantly out of their own pockets to fund their own care-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "as a need for consensus, he then went on to scaremonger about the so-called attempt by a Labour Government to take away disability benefits from nearly 3 million people in Britain. Frankly, that is a disgraceful way to come at the subject, because the reform of social care is an important matter for all of us. As the hon. Member for Northavon (Steve Webb) suggested, we should have a mature debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " debate. [Interruption.] In some ways-I point this out to the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Jonathan Shaw) , who is the current Minister with responsibility for disabled people-our approach to pension reform should provide a model. That was about consensus and moving forward on the basis of certain principles. Frankly, however-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.180.7", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should reflect on whether the Opposition have made any effort to contribute to the consultation over the past few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.180.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-08", "file": "debates2009-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "ca957a0146889151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "placing either or both of these funds in the pool for Local Authority distribution could cut support and restrict choice and control for many disabled people.\" We should listen to what Disability Allowance has to say. Age Concern and Help the Aged said: \"If the idea to stop AA is taken forward, it will mean that many older people will be worse off than they are now.\" We should take that seriously-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-08b.185.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-10", "file": "debates2009-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "cf40f80658851469", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-10b.529.6", "colnum": "529", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ver the past few months the Government and the higher education sector, having dismissed many of our concerns, have quietly been getting on with implementing most of the key recommendations in the report. Perhaps that is the way things are and how the system works. I hope that the Minister will explain why there has been a change of heart-perhaps the Government were planning it in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-10b.529.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-10", "file": "debates2009-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "e646d88bf258f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-10c.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "Obviously the Conservatives abolished it in the 1980s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-10c.521.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-14", "file": "debates2009-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "381a3c70929a309e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-14a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I know that the hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) will understand when I say that we do not want a dewy-eyed, romantic debate about-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-14a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-14", "file": "debates2009-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "37b9495be2d7fda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-14b.621.4", "colnum": "621", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "e detained for seven days or less-in time for a flight-five were detained for eight to 14 days, and five were detained for 15 to 28 days. A further 10 were detained for 29 days but for less than two months, and none were detained for longer than that. That is an average of just under 16 days. This is always a difficult issue, but we are a Government who are not afraid to duck the tough challenges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-14b.621.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-14", "file": "debates2009-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "37b9495be2d7fda8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-14b.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am very glad to hear that the hon. Gentleman is not going to go down that route, and there are two very good reasons why he should not. First, it would of course be constitutionally absurd for him to propose a member of Her Majesty's Government as a member of this Select Committee-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-14b.759.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2009-12-16", "file": "debates2009-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "d8586a38bcc4cb31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-16a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Soulsby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Soulsby", "preceding_text": "ch my breath, following that astonishing announcement, the young researcher went on to tell me that it was a city in which public services do not work well together and in which not enough was being done to tackle the major problems that many local people face. She also told me that people's health was worse there than anywhere else in the east midlands, and that too many of them were dying early-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2009-12-16a.1024.0"}
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