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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-05", "file": "debates2010-01-05b.xml", "sha256": "bceaee3de1cd91ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-05b.88.5", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Fiscal Responsibility Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "We are getting to the interesting nub of the argument. We are saying that there is not a good reason to ring-fence Departments. That does not necessarily mean that the Department of Health would be cut, but the implication of the Conservatives' policy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-05b.88.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-06", "file": "debates2010-01-06a.xml", "sha256": "ce6faeeee349c457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-06a.168.5", "colnum": "168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The idea that the Conservative party could take a lead on climate change when they cannot even convince their own Back Benchers of what is necessary-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-06a.168.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-06", "file": "debates2010-01-06a.xml", "sha256": "ce6faeeee349c457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-06a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "een debated using all the full procedures and has been in force for 25 years-it is only the enforceability that turns out not to have been enacted, and we need to address that. The second point that I want to stress is that the lack of enforceability has serious consequences. Almost any kind of serious, explicit, violent, brutal, nasty DVDs and video games can be supplied at the moment to anybody-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-06a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-06", "file": "debates2010-01-06a.xml", "sha256": "ce6faeeee349c457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-06a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "he debate on the Bill took place at a time when the technology revolution was just beginning. It is breathtaking to see the changes that have subsequently taken place in our lifetimes. It is worth reviewing some of the arguments for and against the Bill at the time. For example, there was a proposal to license video stores, which was rightly rejected as bureaucratic. There was also a debate about-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-06a.187.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07c.xml", "sha256": "3e694a6d479bf873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07c.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "There has actually been a fall in the level of crime since this Government came into office and an increase in the number of offenders brought to justice. No one is released from prison on the basis of a lack of prison places. We have increased the number of prison places-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07c.287.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "1680cc0ed3a2268e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.249.18", "colnum": "249", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be considered on Thursday 14 January .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Bill, as amended, be now considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.249.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "1680cc0ed3a2268e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.260.7", "colnum": "260", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Although wind power can make a contribution to Britain's energy needs, does the Minister also accept that local authorities have an important role to play in listening to the desires of their local residents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.260.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "1680cc0ed3a2268e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.261.5", "colnum": "261", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "We have heard evidence in the Energy and Climate Change Committee of the great enthusiasm of some generators for connecting carbon capture and storage with extra production from the North sea to the tune of about 15 per cent. That has not been mentioned much, and I want to ask the enthusiastic Secretary of State whether he will get enthusiastic about this particular point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.261.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "1680cc0ed3a2268e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.282.2", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e: Thursday 14 January -A debate on supporting young people in the recession. Thursday 21 January -A debate on violence against women. You, Mr. Speaker, have paid tribute, on behalf of the House, to David Taylor, as did the Prime Minister and the leaders of the Opposition parties yesterday. I should like to add my tribute as Leader of the House. There is an empty space up on that Back Bench today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.282.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "1680cc0ed3a2268e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman has made a mistake, and intended to address that question to the Chief Secretary. There is a fact here that we must all face: whoever is in government after the next general election will have to cut public spending. Surprisingly, even the Prime Minister on a good day-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "1680cc0ed3a2268e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "an in any other. After 13 years of Labour Government, the poorest are getting poorer. Most importantly, confidence in the Government's economic management, both at home and abroad, already shaky, has crumbled since the PBR. It is no exaggeration to say that it is only the prospect of a change of Government that has prevented an even more marked negative reaction in market sentiments since the PBR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "1680cc0ed3a2268e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Here we go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "I see. So, increases have been brought forward. That means that benefits will go up this year and go down again next year, so that is not a reduction. I will remember that for the future. This pre-Budget report is the dying gasp of a weak, divided and incompetent Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.321.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-07", "file": "debates2010-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "1680cc0ed3a2268e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "DP. What happened after the war-did we tackle the situation with gigantic cuts in public expenditure? No, it was tackled in exactly the opposite way with large public expenditure programmes of just the kind that I am talking about to get the economy working again and to get unemployment down. I hate to say this but, in some says, that inaugurated the golden age of capitalism between 1948 and 1976.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-07d.348.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-11", "file": "debates2010-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "1666cd3cd3d97dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.429.4", "colnum": "429", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Can the Secretary of State confirm that spending on initial teacher training in schools will increase, and spending on-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-11", "file": "debates2010-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "1666cd3cd3d97dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ht that the hon. Gentleman would be willing to join me in wanting to back the professional judgment of teachers and head teachers. At key stage 2, for years 3, 4, 5 and 6, a child who is not making progress is guaranteed one-to-one tuition. At key stage 1, they are guaranteed extra support, which could mean one-to-one tuition, small-group tuition or moving at a different pace through key stage 1 -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-11", "file": "debates2010-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "1666cd3cd3d97dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "believe that we would have up to 3,000 new schools\". Two weeks later he went further, saying that up to 5,000 new private schools would be funded by the taxpayer under his plans. However, last June The Sunday Times reported that senior Opposition figures thought the policy was unworkable and that the shadow Secretary of State's claim of 3,000 new schools was \"totally unrealistic\". In fact, in the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.442.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-11", "file": "debates2010-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "1666cd3cd3d97dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "e do not know where that £650 million will come from. Given that, according to the Chancellor, the Department's overall budget is to be cut, and given that the budgets for the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services and the TDA are to be cut, presumably the extra funding for the September guarantee will come from other parts of the right hon. Gentleman's own budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-11", "file": "debates2010-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "1666cd3cd3d97dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "erested to know whether he is still committed to that policy. Perhaps we shall find out in Committee. I said earlier that we wanted to move away from a culture in which bureaucracy runs what happens in our schools to one in which we trust professionals more. We know that one of the reasons why professionals need more backing is the poor behaviour-the constant barracking and low-level conversation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.453.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-11", "file": "debates2010-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "1666cd3cd3d97dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Surely not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "hat child later on. We should get to work early on one to one, if there is a choice. I think that the Government have got that right, although I wish that we could extend the provision across the whole age range. If a choice has to be made, however, it must be that one. I was talking to the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Mr. Gibb) about life skills before we came into the Chamber-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-11", "file": "debates2010-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "1666cd3cd3d97dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "street. It was attended by the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State and the head teachers of the 150 most improved schools in this country. Those people are a credit to this country; they work hard, and they have delivered real progress. We should start every debate by praising our head teachers, teachers and schools for the excellent work they have done and for raising standards in our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.514.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-11", "file": "debates2010-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "1666cd3cd3d97dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "The reason I am being shouted at is because the Conservatives' own Front-Bench team cannot believe that they said 19.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-11c.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-12", "file": "debates2010-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "f7e10a00464d99ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-12a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "nt. My hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet spoke from his experience as a Minister in this Department, and from his own professional experience, when he described the importance of extra care housing. I very much share his view. I listened carefully to the concern expressed by the hon. Gentleman that there might be game-playing among care home owners trying to change the status of their homes-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-12a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-12", "file": "debates2010-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "aafaa581c1383ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-12b.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Action) bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "nt. My hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet spoke from his experience as a Minister in this Department, and from his own professional experience, when he described the importance of extra care housing. I very much share his view. I listened carefully to the concern expressed by the hon. Gentleman that there might be game-playing among care home owners trying to change the status of their homes-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-12b.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "ea4486a722873282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "om the Minister what measures the Government are taking to tackle the crisis, and a full explanation of how he believes the cuts that have been announced in stages over the past few months will impact on universities and colleges. I have to say to the Minister that the suspicion is that the Department he that represents has fallen victim to the political arguments in the Labour Government between-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13b.xml", "sha256": "6ef7925c4c05e829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13b.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "om the Minister what measures the Government are taking to tackle the crisis, and a full explanation of how he believes the cuts that have been announced in stages over the past few months will impact on universities and colleges. I have to say to the Minister that the suspicion is that the Department he that represents has fallen victim to the political arguments in the Labour Government between-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13b.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "58c18a7363f6bd1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13c.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "om the Minister what measures the Government are taking to tackle the crisis, and a full explanation of how he believes the cuts that have been announced in stages over the past few months will impact on universities and colleges. I have to say to the Minister that the suspicion is that the Department he that represents has fallen victim to the political arguments in the Labour Government between-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13c.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "58c18a7363f6bd1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13c.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "l leave their primary school unable to read and write properly. One in four are not getting any GCSEs at grade C or above, and one in six 16 to 24-year-olds are not in education, employment or training. It was a Labour Government who promised us a welfare state that would look after people from the cradle to the grave, but in education they have delivered a failure from the nursery to the bursary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13c.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "58c18a7363f6bd1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13c.757.4", "colnum": "757", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": " That is the equivalent of three nuclear power stations shutting down at the same time, or to put it another way, 1 million people losing power for 15 minutes more than 20 times in the course of a year. Worse still, shortages would most likely strike at times of peak demand-that is, on the coldest winter evenings. The head of Ofgem warned us that the years following 2015 could be very cold indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13c.757.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "ly to be more expensive so it costs more to pay the bills. Those people are more likely to be in fuel poverty and at the end of the queue to apply for measures to help insulate the home. Is not one of the lessons of this cold spell that help should be directed at the homes that need it most, which means that people who use heating oil should be at the front of the queue, and not at the back of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.684.5", "colnum": "684", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister asks about pictures. Why don't we do a bit of market research? When it comes to Labour Members' election addresses, hands up who is going to put the Prime Minister's picture on the front. Come on, hands up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.684.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "s what the Development Secretary said. He said that Labour \"don't... have any policies. For God's sake, Harriet's helping write the manifesto!\" I must say that I think that is completely unfair. After all, the deputy leader of the Labour party took only five hours and 32 minutes to come out and support the Prime Minister, whereas the Secretary of State for International Development took six hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I must say that the right hon. Gentleman's airbrushed poster had better lines on it than the lines that he is delivering today. He should get better lines from the shadow Foreign-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlotte Atkins", "preceding_text": "Today's stunning results in the schools in Staffordshire, Moorlands demonstrate 10 years of remarkable achievement and a decade of investment in dilapidated schools transforming them into modern learning centres for the whole community. Why is it-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "om the Minister what measures the Government are taking to tackle the crisis, and a full explanation of how he believes the cuts that have been announced in stages over the past few months will impact on universities and colleges. I have to say to the Minister that the suspicion is that the Department that he represents has fallen victim to the political arguments in the Labour Government between-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.725.6", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "n the system during their first or second year. They would still have to make repayments of that element of the debt. However, as they enter the final year of their degree courses a further £3,000 worth of debt will not be added to the debt that has already accumulated. Over time the next cohort of graduates will be better off, and after six years all graduates will undoubtedly be better off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.725.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "l leave their primary school unable to read and write properly. One in four are not getting any GCSEs at grade C or above, and one in six 16 to 24-year-olds are not in education, employment or training. It was a Labour Government who promised us a welfare state that would look after people from the cradle to the grave, but in education they have delivered a failure from the nursery to the bursary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "By asking me to give way, the hon. Gentleman must be implying that my rhetoric is not as good as his rhetoric, because he gave the quality of his rhetoric as a reason not to give way to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.757.4", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": " That is the equivalent of three nuclear power stations shutting down at the same time, or to put it another way, 1 million people losing power for 15 minutes more than 20 times in the course of a year. Worse still, shortages would most likely strike at times of peak demand-that is, on the coldest winter evenings. The head of Ofgem warned us that the years following 2015 could be very cold indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.757.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "I have been generous in taking interventions so I now want to make progress. Ministers dismissed that comparison, saying that our declining North sea supply means that everything is still supplied, but that is dangerously complacent, because the Netherlands, which relies much less than us on imports, has three times as much storage relative to consumption-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Of course I accept that, but if one deduces from that or if it is implied-or if one allows others to infer from it-that that is the amount of gas we have available and therefore when we use that up there is no more, on its own it is a statement that one must qualify and add to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.777.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "SOVEREIGNTY OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " today because he has shown us how distrustful he is of his own Front-Bench team. He has shown us precisely that he does not trust a word that the \"smokescreen master general\" who leads his party has said about a sovereignty Bill. He does not believe that the parliamentary sovereignty Bill his leader has suggested should be brought forward will meet what the hon. Gentleman believes is the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.817.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "SOVEREIGNTY OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " stays in this country, in our Parliament.\" He went on to say that his idea \"is not about Westminster striking down individual items of EU legislation...It is about an assurance that the final word on our laws is here in Britain.\" But that is precisely the opposite of what the hon. Gentleman has called for this evening. He does want the UK to be able to strike down individual EU laws, does he not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-13", "file": "debates2010-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "0097d400dff4b628", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.818.6", "colnum": "818", "heading": "SOVEREIGNTY OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "anger to Britain. However, I should argue that if what the hon. Gentleman says-that he wants to be able to strike down European laws and prevent the European Court of Justice from determining whether we have stood by our treaty requirements-is true, he is effectively saying that it would be okay for the UK to step out of the European Union. That is the ineluctable direction in which he is pushing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-13d.818.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0094fb684f1b185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "er. He was an engineer and builder, not a fighting general, and he was the supreme governor of Germany in the immediate post-war period until German political institutions were able to get back on their feet. I have no idea who runs Afghanistan. I have no idea which Government department is in charge. Who can give orders to whom? When I was there, there were three different European Union offices-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0094fb684f1b185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": " coming east from Afghanistan. Both Pakistan and India suffer from serious drug problems, so all those big regional countries have an enormous stake in finding a solution to the Afghanistan situation. We should try to understand that Pakistan has a vibrant press and a vibrant judiciary. They forced out General Musharraf when we were rolling out the red carpet for him. It is an imperfect democracy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0094fb684f1b185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "uage of jihad and fundamental Islamism. We have to look again at the ideology that spurs on the Taliban and other extremists. That ideology is not of the Islam religion, which has the same respect as any other Abrahamic faith, but is a coherent world ideology of Islamism that is rooted in the Muslim brotherhood that was founded by Hassan al-Banna in the 1920s and that has developed steadily since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "e0094fb684f1b185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14a.897.5", "colnum": "897", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "In a word, no. The promoters of the Bill do not believe that we are close to Government legislation in this area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14a.897.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "14a70719377140b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "er. He was an engineer and builder, not a fighting general, and he was the supreme governor of Germany in the immediate post-war period until German political institutions were able to get back on their feet. I have no idea who runs Afghanistan. I have no idea which Government department is in charge. Who can give orders to whom? When I was there, there were three different European Union offices-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "14a70719377140b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": " coming east from Afghanistan. Both Pakistan and India suffer from serious drug problems, so all those big regional countries have an enormous stake in finding a solution to the Afghanistan situation. We should try to understand that Pakistan has a vibrant press and a vibrant judiciary. They forced out General Musharraf when we were rolling out the red carpet for him. It is an imperfect democracy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "14a70719377140b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "uage of jihad and fundamental Islamism. We have to look again at the ideology that spurs on the Taliban and other extremists. That ideology is not of the Islam religion, which has the same respect as any other Abrahamic faith, but is a coherent world ideology of Islamism that is rooted in the Muslim brotherhood that was founded by Hassan al-Banna in the 1920s and that has developed steadily since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "14a70719377140b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister who, if I may say so, is making a very good speech. I agree with most of what he said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-14", "file": "debates2010-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "14a70719377140b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.897.5", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "In a word, no. The promoters of the Bill do not believe that we are close to Government legislation in this area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-14b.897.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.6.6", "colnum": "6", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is your policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs to speak to those on his own Front Bench. That is indeed what they advocated last year, but their position changed in October. It changed again in November, and it has now changed back to the original one-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.6.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.9.7", "colnum": "9", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "I totally agree with my right hon. Friend about the success of the policy of free admissions to galleries in London, but I would like a little of that generosity to flow out from London to support many of our regional galleries, particularly the national Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby, whose opening hours, I am sorry to say, the local Lib-Dem council is going to cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.9.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.11.2", "colnum": "11", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": " examples? This Government introduced free admissions to our museums. Eight out of 10 of the most popular destinations for visitors in the UK are those museums, so we supported the tourism industry in the way that we have made our museums more attractive. This Government introduced the sea change programme, which has enabled us to invest, through heritage funding and in other ways, to bring back -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.11.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I do, and I will give my right hon. Friend exact figures. I believe that it is about 400,000 now, but I will update the House and ensure that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the Home Secretary did not answer my question. Of course the individual cases that he mentions are incredibly important; indeed, I shall refer to some of them if I am lucky enough to catch your eye later, Mr. Speaker, and deal with them-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I told the right hon. Gentleman that I would provide the House with statistics, and I have given two examples. Actually, even if there were only one example of a vicious murderer or rapist being brought to book in this way, I know that many Conservative Members would believe that this was worth doing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "So far as I am aware, only one country is currently looking at that possibility: the United Arab Emirates. For reasons of sheer practicality, no Government of any persuasion in this country would introduce such a scheme. That does not in any way suggest that the Opposition are right to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "First, I do not think that that would be proportionate. Secondly, we do not have compulsory vaccinations in this country for similar reasons. The thought of having to hold someone down to take a swab from the inside of their cheek because they were reluctant to give one is something that no serious politician could suggest. However-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " those convicted, it is retained for at least 20 years. For those arrested but not convicted of serious offences, it is retained initially for three years, but potentially for longer should the courts exercise their power to extend the retention period. Under our proposals, as I have mentioned, this material must be destroyed within six months. I make no criticism of the model adopted in Scotland-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to. I hope that the Minister's Government will call the election soon, that there will be a change of Government and that we can get on with the job of making the changes that Britain needs. What we need are instant responses to antisocial behaviour; we do not need to let offenders get away with it again and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "on wrote that in 2007 Tariq al-Dour, jailed for running jihadist websites from London, was caught accessing the internet from Belmarsh prison using his laptop, provided by the Prison Service, and a smuggled mobile phone. Furthermore, the extremist cleric Abu Hamza is thought to have got an audio message out of Belmarsh that may have been recorded on a mobile phone and passed to supporters outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "ailed for running jihadist websites from London, was caught accessing the internet from Belmarsh prison using his laptop, provided by the Prison Service, and a smuggled mobile phone. Furthermore, the extremist cleric Abu Hamza is thought to have got an audio message out of Belmarsh that may have been recorded on a mobile phone and passed to supporters outside. [Interruption.] Government Ministers-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "may not realise that mobile phones are getting smaller, but the inmates who smuggle them into prison via their bodily orifices have realised that. Phones are being routinely and regularly smuggled in, and that is a problem. I see that my right hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Crime and Counter-Terrorism is shifting in his seat; I hope he is not reaching for his phone to check the size of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "es who smuggle them into prison via their bodily orifices have realised that. Phones are being routinely and regularly smuggled in, and that is a problem. I see that my right hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Crime and Counter-Terrorism is shifting in his seat; I hope he is not reaching for his phone to check the size of it. [Interruption.] I knew I would get his attention one way or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I am not absolutely sure about that. I have a motor car; perhaps the hon. Gentleman still has a mule-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "t the civil standard, because the finding of guilt has with it serious criminal penalties. I make that point because the proposals in the Bill might be challenged on similar lines. However, I listened carefully to what the hon. Lady said, and perhaps I live in a fool's paradise from that point of view. I am very concerned about the keeping of DNA and fingerprint samples, and I am not the only one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.100.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-01-18", "file": "debates2010-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "b40f279cd216eac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.128.10", "colnum": "128", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Pedicabs Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, for the purposes of its approval under section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993, the Government's assessment as set out in the Pre-Budget Report 2009 shall be treated as if it were an instrument subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 118 (Delegated Legislation Committees) .- (Mr. Watts.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-18b.128.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "6ef7fa6f4bdf08be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19b.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": " past 20 years. We did not have a referendum on Maastricht. I am not sure whether the Conservative party has revisited its history and believes that we ought to have had a referendum on Maastricht. I cannot hold the hon. Member for Rayleigh responsible because he was not in the House at that time, but the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham was in the Cabinet at that time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19b.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that the Iranian regime rejected a visit of Members of the European Parliament recently for fear that they might meet opposition politicians in Iran?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.149.6", "colnum": "149", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I think that all citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland get a very good deal out of the EU. It guarantees jobs, and more than 50 per cent. of this country's trade is wholly dependent on our membership of the EU. If the hon. Gentleman wants to take Britain out of the EU, he should table a motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.176.7", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) , and not to me. However, he forgot to mention the \"and learned\", and the Hansard writer could not see that he was looking at my right hon. and learned Friend rather than at me when he intervened on me. I am afraid that he has been discourteous to the House yet again in the way that he responded and used the intervention-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": ", not necessarily for the whole of it. The programme motion takes no account of that, so why does the Bill have in its title the very word \"governance\"-the \"Governance Bill\"? The \"Governance\" of what? We have become nothing. I see tumbleweed blowing down this Chamber and out in Central Lobby. That is what the Government have reduced Parliament to. Do not think that it is not an Executive function-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I will not give way, because I want to make a few points while I have still got time, which is limited thanks to the programme motion-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "hesitation is about whether that should be specified in a Bill, because of the simple fact that we publish explanatory memoranda on a great deal of things. I realise that I am wandering between using \"memorandums\" and \"memoranda\". I have already been accused today of not speaking Latin, so I want to be careful. I cannot remember whether this is a gerund or a gerundive. I believe it is a gerundive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " should be specified in a Bill, because of the simple fact that we publish explanatory memoranda on a great deal of things. I realise that I am wandering between using \"memorandums\" and \"memoranda\". I have already been accused today of not speaking Latin, so I want to be careful. I cannot remember whether this is a gerund or a gerundive. I believe it is a gerundive. [Interruption.] Is it a gerund?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "The language of that subsection seems clear to me: the Commons has to resolve again, in period B, not to ratify the treaty if it is to prevent ratification. However, subsection (6) says: \"A statement may be laid under subsection (4)(a) in relation to the treaty on more than one occasion\", so the Government can just go through the process again, and can keep on doing so until the Commons gives up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "tely. I was there, and I know that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham was there. We watched the proceedings, and the construction of what followed, with some bemusement; we have seen the difficulties in which the treaty has placed Home Secretaries, and have seen that it raises questions of equity. The reason why I rose to speak, Sir Nicholas-sorry, Mr. Lord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way, as we have already had quite a lengthy debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ars. We did not have a referendum on Maastricht. I am not sure whether the Conservative party has revisited its history and believes that we ought to have had a referendum on Maastricht. I cannot hold the hon. Member for Rayleigh responsible because he was not in the House at that time, but the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) was in the Cabinet at that time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.241.6", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "It is a gerund. Keep your hair on. The point that Swiss colleagues made was that, more and more, their laws have to conform with the EU's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.241.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "rder, Mrs. Heal. The right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) may have inadvertently misled the House earlier, and I am sure that he would wish to retract that. As the word \"referendum\" means \"things to be referred\", according to the \"Oxford English Dictionary\", it is indeed a gerundive and therefore the plural should be \"referenda\". \"Referendums\" is acceptable in modern usage, though wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ed in their effect. For instance, amendment 125 refers to \"treaties which transfer competences from the United Kingdom Parliament to the European Union\". On the surface, that seems clear, but it is meretricious. No treaty transfers competence away from Parliament; Parliament always remains sovereign. We could, if we chose to do so as a Parliament, repeal the European Communities Act 1972 tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-19", "file": "debates2010-01-19c.xml", "sha256": "7cddda917fa24caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Health and Safety (Company Director Liability)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " process of treaty change when he spoke earlier. He knows that there are areas where we have decided that we will share our sovereignty with other countries in the European Union. If, however, we chose to do so, we could decide to leave the European Union and that would no longer apply. As a result of the Lisbon treaty, there is a process for leaving the European Union, which did not exist before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-19c.254.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-20", "file": "debates2010-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "893034921211d220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "There are many examples of how DFID aid has been used to rebuild civil society in Iraq, particularly in respect of the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-20", "file": "debates2010-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "893034921211d220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "There are many examples of how DFID aid has been used to rebuild civil society in Iraq, particularly in respect of the trade unions. [Interruption.] The trade unions were corrupted under Saddam, but they are now being rebuilt with the help of DFID aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-20", "file": "debates2010-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "893034921211d220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ack and white and that there have been occasions when the executive summary has provided a lack of clarity. A growing number of social workers, and their magazine, want those things published. This is an appalling case of two children being dragged on to wasteland and tortured within an inch of their lives. It shocked the whole country. The Prime Minister talks about the publication of the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.295.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-20", "file": "debates2010-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "893034921211d220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "difficult now- [ Interruption. ] I have to tell the right hon. Gentleman that no Government are doing more to try to protect and increase jobs than this country's. Unemployment is falling today as a result of the actions we have taken. If we had taken the advice of the Liberal party, unemployment would be a great deal higher than it is now. He has nothing to offer the debate on the economy at all-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-20", "file": "debates2010-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "893034921211d220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.297.6", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "ials of 60 senior civil servants in Whitehall. It concluded that the Prime Minister's Government is \"weak\" and dysfunctional, and that there is a \"strategic gap at\" its \"heart\". Indeed, it says there is \"a conspicuous lack of a single coherent strategy for government\". In particular, why does the Prime Minister think that one senior civil servant at No. 10 said that Ministers have lost their grip-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.297.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-20", "file": "debates2010-01-20c.xml", "sha256": "893034921211d220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.299.5", "colnum": "299", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "We have had the Conservative document on the family published today and it does not mention that they wish to take child tax credits away from large numbers of people. It does not mention that they want to take the child trust fund away from large numbers of people. As for honest politics, if you publish a document and you do not tell people what your policy really is-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-20c.299.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-21", "file": "debates2010-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "d0fc7616b69fea29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-21b.433.4", "colnum": "433", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "months, four Members have written in with proposals for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions on the parliamentary estate. Such correspondence is viewed as confidential, so it would not be right to name them. The number does not include Members who made requests for the Commons to participate in environmental campaigns, and several proposals were made orally or through parliamentary questions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-21b.433.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-21", "file": "debates2010-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "d0fc7616b69fea29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-21b.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Food Industry Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": " There is one final link in the chain: us eating the food. I pay tribute to the growing number of farm collectives that are being set up to market their produce. There is one in London called the Farm Collective, a deli in Smithfield where this morning I had a really good bacon roll and a nice cup of coffee. Everything is British-sourced-the provenance is there to see, and we can trace it through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-21b.474.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-21", "file": "debates2010-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "d0fc7616b69fea29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-21b.516.6", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Food Industry Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "It is significant that although we are debating amendments to both Bills, we have not-if my recollection is correct-heard any comments, whether positive or negative, from anybody from Manchester about anything that has been said this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-21b.516.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-21", "file": "debates2010-01-21b.xml", "sha256": "d0fc7616b69fea29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-21b.519.11", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Food Industry Competitiveness", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "subjects in great detail. My concern about the amendments is that they relate to a private Bill that will \"seek rights and powers over and above those sanctioned by public acts or the common law\". We are not debating a Bill that has been proposed by the Government; we are debating matters that relate to specific areas and are above the normal law. In my view, we must draw the provision as tightly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-21b.519.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.664.7", "colnum": "664", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend, who is an expert on these issues and probably knows more about them-[Hon. Members: \"Than you do.\"] He certainly knows more about them than I do, and I am not at all-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.664.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Something tells me that the hon. Gentleman seeks to entice or inveigle me into a debate. He knows that that is not a proper thing to do. On his point of order-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "hon. and learned Gentleman for his point of order. My understanding is that under the Standing Orders the matter did not fall to be debated. What I can say to the hon. and learned Gentleman and, more widely, to the House is that the earlier Order Paper, of which he and others had sight and by which, therefore, inevitably, they were informed, was erroneous and the position was changed subsequently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " can say to the hon. and learned Gentleman and, more widely, to the House is that the earlier Order Paper, of which he and others had sight and by which, therefore, inevitably, they were informed, was erroneous and the position was changed subsequently. [Interruption.] I am sure that the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) can understand the word \"erroneous\" and the concept embodied in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " because I am responding to the point of order. The hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) and others were guided by the old Order Paper; it was erroneous and was replaced by another. I do not know whether Secretary Straw wishes to respond to the point of order, but I feel sure that I am about to discover whether he does. If he wants to respond, he can. No, he is not going to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.683.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " the House through the circumstances of the 10 by-elections that have taken place. Of the two that involved the whole House, the first had 423 electors and the other had 348 electors. Since then, in all the rest, the total number of electors has been fewer than 50. The Conservatives usually manage about 50 electors, but they also usually manage between 30 and 45 candidates, which is absurd enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.694.5", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "That is not my objection in the least, and I am glad that they are Scotsmen. My objection is because life peers at least have to show some merit, whether or not they are party appointees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.696.5", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Before I ask my question may I just declare an interest? I am an hereditary peer and thus have a contingent interest in all this-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.696.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.696.8", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " We are not going to undermine that principle. The death of an hereditary peer can, like the death of a life peer, be taken into account in nominations of new peers, in exactly the same way as if the reduction of a party's representation in the House had been caused by the death of a life peer. I am afraid that I have not met the Earl of Stair, but if he is a man of great merit and a Conservative-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.696.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.696.8", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s place, he will no doubt add himself to the electorate of the Conservative peers, and he may seek election if there is a by-election and if this provision is not accepted. On the other hand-I do not wish to damage his chances-he is of sufficient skill, experience and perspicacity to recommend himself to the leader of the Conservative party for nomination as a life peer, which would be far better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.696.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "for the most extreme option precisely to ensure that it never happened. That happens on a lot of occasions in this House, so we should not imagine for a moment that either Front-Bench team or a majority of Members actually want there to be a 100 per cent. elected second Chamber. Do they really want that? Do they want this House battling with, and losing half its power to, an American-style senate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "gjammed into some major constitutional problems. As a slight aside, it is interesting to note, courtesy of The Sunday Times , that, in the expenses scandal in the other place, not one of the peers who has taken money for asking questions or for lobbying services-or through their second home allowances-is a hereditary peer. Every one of the 25 or so peers who has so far been accused is a life peer-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-26", "file": "debates2010-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "4876c6863d3d6257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Ambulance Response Times (Local Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The two acts-strengthening democracy and voting as we have just done-are entirely correct and compatible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-26a.734.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I join the hon. Gentleman in thanking Professor John Hills and his panel for the important report by the National Equality Panel. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the report states that under the Conservatives-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.805.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.824.4", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "ituency of East Devon, we are dealing with the case of Mr. Mejor, a former Spitfire pilot, which has attracted national attention. His care is being reassessed at the moment. His daughter is his carer and he has an elderly wife, but they may have to forfeit their home. Such isolated cases are becoming increasingly prevalent around the country, but they could be avoided if we adopted Tory policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.824.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": "perate desire to protect older people, it is possible to say that because someone has dementia and diminished capacities, they lack the right to make sound decisions for themselves. It is our responsibility, as far as we are able, however, to tailor our care packages to enable people to remain at home. We should not take the decision to remove a person's right to make that decision for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "r providers. We have read reports about donations given to the Conservative party; I do not know the rights and wrongs of that. However, I do know that it raises a question about the independence of policy making by its shadow Front-Bench team. Well over a week ago, I wrote to the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) to ask him to give me assurances that that independence is not compromised-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.839.7", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": " to all levels of the NHS, which it must be if it is to be delivered? It was promised that every town in the UK would have access to a memory clinic-that was how the promise was phrased-but it is clear from the NAO report that that will not happen. The hon. Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle) used a different word, and spoke of memory centres, but the hon. Member for Eddisbury spoke of memory services-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.839.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "I am sure it is. I am sure that Chorley is the ideal location for many things-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.850.6", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " before dementia gets a grip, when they are not forgetful. There are certain measures that could be taken-they are not necessarily seen as mainstream medicine-and I want to focus on three of them. The first, which has not been mentioned, is the lack of water. There is a serious problem with getting elderly people to drink enough water. I have raised this matter in the House before, over the years-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.850.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne Milton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Milton", "preceding_text": "ely important for those with dementia to be able to carry on and be as active as they can. All these aspects are vital, but what is needed is more than a strategy, although that would be welcome. Effective implementation is needed, which I do not believe the Government truly understand. I was a bit disappointed that the Secretary of State took the debate at such an early stage into party politics-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-27", "file": "debates2010-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "07e73b3892eb0d9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "ich would like to privatise the NHS? We know that the Leader of the Opposition has held such meetings. Would the hon. Gentleman like to tell us whether he has done so? No, he will not stand up and reply. He has received donations-questions have been asked about that and a conflict of interest today. We have heard Conservative Members claiming that there is no conflict of interest. If that is true-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-27a.867.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-28", "file": "debates2010-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "98b0ca04b890ff3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "the House to be able to elect those Chairs by secret ballot-but the Liaison Committee was split down the middle. It agreed to support the Wright Committee's proposals, but only by seven votes to six votes. If the right hon. Gentleman is trying to convey the view that there is consensus and that we are trying to oppose it, that is wrong. There are different views and we are trying to get consensus-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.948.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-28", "file": "debates2010-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "98b0ca04b890ff3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "but for all the UK. No doubt he can put that point to my right hon. Friend the Olympics Minister and get the information that he requires. The hon. Gentleman also asked about the radio spectrum. I shall look into whether there should be a topical debate on the matter. [Hon. Members: \"And the Budget?\"] As far as the date for the Budget is concerned, we are still a little way away from arranging it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-28", "file": "debates2010-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "98b0ca04b890ff3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Holocaust Memorial Day", "cue_speaker": "Lee Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Scott", "preceding_text": " tried, I was not prepared for what I experienced. I did not think I would react in the way that I did, and probably not a day has gone by since October, which is when I went, when it has not played on my mind. Of course I knew what happened in the holocaust. Like the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) , I have a very large Jewish community in my constituency. We can dispute who has the largest-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-28", "file": "debates2010-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "98b0ca04b890ff3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Holocaust Memorial Day", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "on their behalf, but I must assure the hon. Gentleman that I have quite a lot of contacts in the pedlar community. Indeed, one of the good things that has come out of this whole series of Bills is that pedlars are now much better organised. They have their own website-I think it is called pedlarsinfo.co.uk. That means that the pedlar community is now able to keep in contact with what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.1002.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-01-28", "file": "debates2010-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "98b0ca04b890ff3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "UK ARREST WARRANTS (ALLEGED WAR CRIMES)", "cue_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "preceding_text": "due course. However, it should continue be raised in debates such as this, because it is not right just to debate it when it comes to matters African. These things have a way of disappearing from the agenda. The Government have introduced amendments to cover people in the UK accused of war crimes and genocide. Because the legislation is going to be amended, facilitating the arrest of these people-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-01-28d.1018.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.20.3", "colnum": "20", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "he claimant count for young people is, in fact, about half what it was in the '80s. It is a major concern that young people have been affected by the recession, however, and that is exactly why this party and this Government are funding the youth guarantee, providing hundreds of thousands of additional opportunities for young people, but the hon. Gentleman's party opposes that and wants to cut it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.20.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND GOVERNANCE BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I have been through those provisions in some detail. Indeed, I did so when they were draft provisions, and I suggested to parliamentary counsel that the wording be made clearer. It is now clearer than it was, although the hon. Gentleman does not have the benefit of having seen the earlier drafts. IPSA does not believe that it has the capacity to set up-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND GOVERNANCE BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ht be done. Officials are considering whether, for example, provisions for Members' pensions should hook in with the provision in the 1995 Act, which might be the most sensible way of doing it. The second issue, which relates to trustees, has been raised by several Members, including my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Andrew Miller) . I have been to Ellesmere Port many times-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND GOVERNANCE BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "tive speed of the current disciplinary process, whereby a case can be resolved within a matter of weeks, with the rather cumbersome, top-heavy and, I fear, slow-moving new regime that we are about to introduce. Let me briefly mention new clause 87, standing in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Cambridgeshire (Mr. Vara) , about which the Secretary of State spoke movingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND GOVERNANCE BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "by discussing something that is not contained in these provisions? In my early years, I shared a large room in Old Palace Yard. One of my colleagues married his secretary-she was a competent secretary and she was a good wife afterwards, Why should such a person have to lose her job in those circumstances? What if I had married her, so that she could go on working for him? I was not free to do so -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.83.5", "colnum": "83", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND GOVERNANCE BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "No, I have got a clue. I have got lots of clues, the first of which is that it will happen during the next Parliament, but I promise the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire that my right hon. Friend the Minister of State will deal with that when he handles the next set of amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.83.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND GOVERNANCE BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "nd that. It will be for the PSA and the SSRB to recommend. I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman went on to make, that part of the pay should be non-pensionable and non-taxable. Personally, I do not agree with either proposition. If small businesses, which is essentially what we are for these purposes, want to offset an item such as batteries against their tax, they have to keep receipts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND GOVERNANCE BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "I do not want to get sucked into that issue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND GOVERNANCE BILL (WAYS AND MEANS) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure what the hon. Gentleman's problem is with being forced to pay tax. I think we could find very few people who actually want to pay tax. Most people accept it as a price of citizenship, and most of us do so willingly and happily. However, the idea is that we have laws in this country-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-01", "file": "debates2010-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bc02d3bc8d37df63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "EAST OF ENGLAND REGIONAL GRAND COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come to the motion on section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-01a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-02", "file": "debates2010-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "eb41407f2ffd1ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-02a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "As I have said before, we have still to see the details of what the President is proposing; I understand that we will see more during the course of this week. I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that we are dealing with a complex set of proposals. On the day that the President made his announcement, according to Robert Peston-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-02a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-02", "file": "debates2010-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "eb41407f2ffd1ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-02a.162.4", "colnum": "162", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Over the past 12 years, we have taken measures to take an increasing number of pensioners out of tax precisely by raising their personal allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-02a.162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-02", "file": "debates2010-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "eb41407f2ffd1ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-02a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Compensation Act 2006 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": " must be approved by the SUDS approving body-the SAB-as being in line with the national standards for drainage systems before any residual connection to the public sewer is allowed, and then only as a last resort-I keep repeating this-after SUDS have been employed to reduce the flow to the sewer. Water and sewerage companies will be statutory consultees in the SUDS approval process. I now turn to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-02a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-02", "file": "debates2010-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "eb41407f2ffd1ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-02a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Compensation Act 2006 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "we have just about got time to discuss today, is insurance. I welcome the Minister's positive statement about how he will engage with the insurance industry on some of the issues. I would have preferred the Bill to have said that explicitly and to have included slightly firmer regulations. Again, I am disappointed that I did not receive Conservative support on that. Our noble Friends will have to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-02a.266.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Jamie Reed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It is back to the bunker time with that line. I do not know whether the Prime Minister pulled the secretary out of the chair before he typed that one, but it was a lot of old rubbish. The Prime Minister talks about the hereditary principle, but there is only one leader in this House who inherited his title. What a lot of rubbish!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "There would be no change under the Conservatives; no change at all. The right hon. Gentleman is supporting the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. He is supporting the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "eculation about, whether any major capabilities will be confirmed in the Green Paper, but that is to misunderstand the purpose. I can say that we do not plan to revisit the conclusions of the 2006 White Paper on the nuclear deterrent. We have committed to a wide range of major capability improvements over the past few years including, most recently, signing contracts for two new aircraft carriers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "ow, we would be in considerable difficulty, because, effectively, the person whom the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell has ordained as the role model for elected police commissioners has just walked off the pitch. The Mayor of London has just said, \"I don't like this any more. It is too tough. I cannot be bothered being chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority.\" He said in his manifesto, no less-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "ed as the role model for elected police commissioners has just walked off the pitch. The Mayor of London has just said, \"I don't like this any more. It is too tough. I cannot be bothered being chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority.\" He said in his manifesto, no less- [Interruption.] I would like Members to listen to this, and I apologise for being metro-centric, but that is just the way I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.360.2", "colnum": "360", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "hope that the Minister will be able to promise us a total review of funding to ensure that when the new funding formula is introduced, it will be understandable at least to those who have to read these documents and try to make sense of them, but who, as my hon. Friend said, so far fail to do so on every occasion. I do not want to test the Minister on his knowledge of understanding of the formula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.360.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": " by cutting government advertising and government consultancy.\" Asked by the BBC's admirable Evan Davis: \"Hang on, why don't you cut the government advertising and other budgets in order to reduce the deficit, not council tax?\", the Leader of the Opposition insisted that the freeze would go ahead. So would it happen? Is it a promise, or merely another vague aspiration? Apparently it will go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.371.7", "colnum": "371", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "No, because I am just going to make the point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.371.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.371.7", "colnum": "371", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "No, because I am just going to make the point- [ Interruption. ] The hon. Lady had the opportunity to answer, so I shall make some progress on the statement-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.371.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": ", this is the last of the three years, and the Government have effectively delayed-many people would suspect cancelled-the comprehensive spending review, which could have given councils the framework for the next three years and an idea of what funding there may be. We now seem unlikely to get that before the election. If I am wrong about that, I am sure that the Secretary of State will intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.375.3", "colnum": "375", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": " a genuine appetite for a council tax freeze. It is just a shame that her party's Government cannot recognise that. We want to help local government deliver that, but her party wants to undermine it. There was one question that I did not get to put to the Secretary of State. He would not rule out the revaluation that is coming down the track and could mean families paying hundreds of pounds extra.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.375.3", "colnum": "375", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "d the Secretary of State's own local government body, the Labour group of the Local Government Association, in its document \"Putting Fairness First\", does not just talk about a revaluation but states that on top of that: \"At the very least, the council tax needs rebanding. The addition of more bands at both the top and the bottom of the scale will help to make it a more genuinely progressive tax\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I guess that we would all love to know whether the Liberal Democrats would go ahead with their local income tax policy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.379.5", "colnum": "379", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "Councils are under so much pressure that they are being pressed to go out to their local communities and fund services by raising council tax. Local authorities now have a raft of extra measures to deliver that have never been properly funded. In fact, there is a live one here in London on concessionary bus fares-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.379.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.379.5", "colnum": "379", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "Councils are under so much pressure that they are being pressed to go out to their local communities and fund services by raising council tax. Local authorities now have a raft of extra measures to deliver that have never been properly funded. In fact, there is a live one here in London on concessionary bus fares- [Laughter.] I am sure that many Labour Members find that entertaining-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.379.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-03", "file": "debates2010-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "5680aa391997da5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Pelling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady talks about uncertainty. If the Liberal Democrats had leverage over an incoming Government in a hung Parliament -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-03a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.432.6", "colnum": "432", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give my greetings to the taskforce, and will he come shopping with me when I visit my local Sainsbury's, Aldi, Tesco and Co-op?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.432.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "We have given quite a lot of support over the years to the Fairtrade Foundation. It is a really good example of a good idea that has taken off. It shows that consumers, when they buy food, want to ensure that the farmer at the other end of the transaction-even if they do not know them-gets a decent price for the good food that they produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "reement will be subject to an expedited conclusion, and that the European Council's intention is to conclude it once the European Parliament has voted on it. That will not permit Parliament the usual eight weeks to scrutinise the UK's decision to opt into the agreement. I deeply regret that, and can only stress to the House that that in no way represents a weakening of the Government's commitment-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.455.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "d under unanimity, it is implied that all states will opt in. In coming into effect, this agreement bridges the gap, so to speak, between the previous unanimous procedure and the new qualified majority voting procedure. We have, of course, the option not to opt into the agreement and to go through another period of parliamentary scrutiny, but I believe that that would not be in our best interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "ious unanimous procedure and the new qualified majority voting procedure. We have, of course, the option not to opt into the agreement and to go through another period of parliamentary scrutiny, but I believe that that would not be in our best interests. [Interruption.] We fought very hard for this agreement, so that we could get the information that we need to track terrorist financing. I do not-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "s is not the first opportunity under the Lisbon treaty. I have to balance the wider interests of people in this country against the proliferation of terrorist finances. Given that the substance of the agreement had been scrutinised under this House's procedures, the only other option that I had was to opt out of this agreement, which would send totally the wrong message about whether this country-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question 42!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "quests for a debate on the crisis in Haiti, will she now guarantee that that important debate will be held as soon as possible on our return from the February recess? I now turn to familiar territory. When will the Chancellor present his Budget to the House? Finally on dates, this is the last time we shall have business questions until 25 February , and there is still no news of the Easter recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And in the meantime?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "r hon. Members would not be asking me why we had not had a day to debate international development, because it would be down to Back Benchers to decide when to have a defence day, an international development day or a Welsh day, and to determine the subjects of topical debates. Frankly, I look forward to the day when hon. Members can ask themselves rather than me why such a decision has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Yes. I am sure the hon. Gentleman wishes that he had asked that question. I hope that hon. Members will accept my good faith on the Wright Committee report, because I do not do devious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate on food security, an issue that is rising up the political agenda? Bearing in mind that scientific evidence points to the world entering a 30-year cooling period-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "We are strongly committed to our armed forces and ensuring that their mission is clear, the numbers on the ground are sufficient, and that they have the kit and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-04", "file": "debates2010-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "4649f702ffc28519", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "I asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer a named day question about net contributions to the EU over the past three years. I got a holding answer, and I then got a rather bizarre answer addressed to the right hon. Member for Wellingborough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-04a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-05", "file": "debates2010-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6f26184883ebd99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-05a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has just broken the covenant whereby he was not going to ask for more public spending-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-05a.555.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-02-08", "file": "debates2010-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "24e09b4653934bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.617.4", "colnum": "617", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "ly welcome the implementation of the code to which my right hon. Friend referred in his answer to the previous question. The price of alcohol is going down in Northampton, where it is targeted at students, from £1.50 a pint and 50p a shot, so will my right hon. Friend say whether he will consider the introduction of a minimum price to provide a floor below which the cost of alcohol cannot go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-08", "file": "debates2010-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "24e09b4653934bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "We are having a lot of discussions with the bodies that represent small yachtsmen, and with yachtsmen themselves. I am dealing with a lot of correspondence on the matter-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-08", "file": "debates2010-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "24e09b4653934bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.692.6", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "spicion\" is a dangerous thing to be put in the hands of any Minister. If I were her, I would refuse it, because it puts her into an impossible position, which she should, in all honour, refuse. Even if she accepts this when there is no appeal against her, she might find that judicial review reveals that she has been unreasonable and that she should not have made that decision, as any fool can see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.692.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-08", "file": "debates2010-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "24e09b4653934bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "e on 6 May or before. I accept that if this Parliament were to run its full course and the election were to be in early June, it could plausibly be argued that there would not be enough time to complete the passage of a replacement Bill by the end of July. I also accept that the Government will not admit in a Committee of the whole House on an emergency Bill what the date of the election will be -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-08", "file": "debates2010-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "24e09b4653934bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "I will be very brief. I simply want to say that although we did not object to the Bill receiving its Second Reading, we find the methods adopted by the Government in clause 1, especially now that they have not been amended in any significant way-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-08b.717.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.738.6", "colnum": "738", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "ct of ensuring that people who have not engaged in education and training at the earliest possible opportunity in their lives get a chance to do so and are helped to stick at it, in whatever setting. I have been collecting Select Committees lately. If that was an invitation, I might just come along to his Select Committee to tell him what I think about this and his fellow members of the Committee-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.738.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The Opposition are Johnny-come-latelies to the issue of parliamentary reform-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Let me point out to the hon. Gentleman that there was a transfer of funding of £40 million from my Department to the revenue support grant to provide fully adequate compensation to local authorities for the increase in fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.783.4", "colnum": "783", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Gimmick!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "me great anathema, and that alternatives to first past the post have never been considered. We will come on to that in more detail in Committee, but that is an extraordinary suggestion. As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) pointed out, the Conservative party elected the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) as its leader not by first past the post but by the alternative vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.783.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.784.6", "colnum": "784", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You set it up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " of great consideration over many decades, as I will point out in my speech on new clause 88 in a moment. The truth is that a system of eliminating ballots is used by the Conservative party under its constitution, and it amounts to an extended form of the alternative vote. It is also used for the election of hereditary peers-a system that the Conservatives sought to defend less than two weeks ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.784.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "If it were a cynical ploy, which it is not-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.785.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "Just a few short weeks ago in a Westminster Hall debate on proportional representation, the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, the right hon. Member for North Swindon (Mr. Wills) gave me an assurance that this issue would not be debated in the House during this Session. May I ask what has happened since to make that promise no longer applicable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.798.6", "colnum": "798", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That has nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ns-but of course some hon. Members will ask why we need to make the change now. The answer is that in the past 12 months, as everyone knows-it has affected hon. Members in all parts of the House in the same way-we have seen a crisis of confidence in our political system and our politicians on a scale that none of us has witnessed before in our political lifetime. Trust has been profoundly damaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.798.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.800.5", "colnum": "800", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ry faced a profound existential crisis in 1917 when the first world war was going badly. At that time the Government sensibly decided that they needed to look to the future, and recommended a change in the system through a Speaker's Conference-which, I remind the Committee, Winston Churchill supported as a Liberal. As a consequence of those proposals, the alternative vote was put before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.800.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "o seek any kind of cross-party consensus. Cutting 65 to 80 seats by crudely equalising registered voters across constituencies would unjustifiably reduce the number of seats in urban areas when we already know, according to the Electoral Commission's independent estimate, that most of the 3 million people who are eligible to vote but who are not registered are to be found in our inner urban areas-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "eople who are eligible to vote but who are not registered are to be found in our inner urban areas- [ Interruption. ] It certainly would be gerrymandering. It would disadvantage Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It would hit every island community. Orkney and Shetland would be amalgamated with a large part of the highlands. The Isle of Wight would be amalgamated with a large part of Hampshire-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.803.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.809.9", "colnum": "809", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Frit!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "In a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.809.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.812.5", "colnum": "812", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ay. Time after time, the Liberal Democrats are succoured by broken promises of electoral reform, but there may be another reason for their support. Again, if we turn to the ready-reckoner in the Ministry's review, which the Minister has, we find that, although the alternative vote system is less proportionate overall, it would significantly benefit just one other political party apart from Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.812.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "There is no perfect system, although I am bound to say-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I refer the Secretary of State to his son's blog.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.814.4", "colnum": "814", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I have not the slightest idea. The Minister is now getting bogged down-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.814.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.817.9", "colnum": "817", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "irman might suggest that I should be speaking to the main new clause and not that issue. If what used to be called safe seats adopted a method of open primaries that were followed by uncontested results at the general election, the overall cost to the electoral system might not be that much greater. In other words, we would be using some of the money currently used in a general election to extend-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.817.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "st election, if we make certain assumptions about whether people would have voted for their first preferences in the same way and what their second preferences would have been. In the end, however, there is one advantage to AV, which is that it ends tactical voting. The hon. Member for Glasgow, South (Mr. Harris) was of the view that Liberal Democrats are the main beneficiaries of tactical voting-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "I wish that I could give that assurance. Manifestos are mainly for internal consumption-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You split our vote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "papers, but it makes sense, because of the distortion that first past the post brings to the system. Of course, that happens in Britain too. We have often heard the Conservatives blaming the UK Independence party for splitting their vote, and of course I believe that Labour would have been in power for most of the previous century if it had not been for the Liberals splitting the progressive vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that the only people who had an advantage under an AV system were the voters. That is not strictly true, is it? The other advantage is felt by very small and often quite extreme political parties, which are peculiarly disadvantaged by the first-past-the-post system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "No I will not-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "The Conservative voter has the same vote in both rounds, whereas the other voter is able to change his vote. That means he has two votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "The Conservative voter has the same vote in both rounds, whereas the other voter is able to change his vote. That means he has two votes. [Interruption.] I am very sorry. The hon. Gentleman can make his point as much as he likes, but the fact is that one chap has two chances to decide and the other chap has only one chance to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.854.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley) , I am a long-time member of the Labour campaign for proportional representation. Indeed, I am still a member, although not a member of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "re required to cleanse the stench of those stables, and this little broom-this tiny little reform-will not do it. It will take far more radical proposals than this Government are likely to introduce to restore public trust in this place, and far more than have been canvassed in this debate, which, I am sorry to say, has been characterised by a complacent, joking, student debating society approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.859.2", "colnum": "859", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mrs. Heal. Having had to put up with a guilt-ridden, doubt-fuelled rant about Parliament, we are now having to endure a treatise on STV, which is not part of the new clause-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.859.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "ave grasped this nettle, yet they refused to do so for the same cynical reason that they are now grasping for it. If they had listened to Roy Jenkins and implemented the Jenkins commission report, the centre-left majority that exists is this country would be entrenched in power and the right-wing rump represented by these people here, who opposed votes for women, who opposed votes for working men-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.859.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "and implemented the Jenkins commission report, the centre-left majority that exists is this country would be entrenched in power and the right-wing rump represented by these people here, who opposed votes for women, who opposed votes for working men- [Interruption.] They can laugh, but people know that the words democracy and the Conservative party do not easily fit together. This right-wing rump-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.859.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "d. Do the maths; look at any opinion poll; add up the Labour and the Liberal and the Scottish and Welsh nationalists and Respect and other parties, and it is easy to see that there is a very clear centre-left majority in this country. What would be wrong with an electoral system that gave the House of Commons the actual levels of representation that the people had voted for? My last words on this-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.860.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "ust two weeks ago-should be so axiomatically bad for parliamentary elections that the British people must be denied a say in whether they want to elect their Members of Parliament under that system. It is, I am sorry to say, hard to avoid the impression that the Conservatives are operating solely and exclusively in pursuit of what they believe, probably wrongly, to be their partisan self-interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-09", "file": "debates2010-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "deb6778326b9d269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "at might convince him of the merits of a Labour Government. Everyone agrees that this country's democracy needs to be renewed in every area, and this Government are committed to that. We have cleaned up the scandal of parliamentary expenses so the abuses that took place can never take place again. We are committed to giving Parliament more power, and many of the measures in this Bill advance that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-09b.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-10", "file": "debates2010-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "4931ec4ca4356065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "What is interesting about the Welsh Assembly Government is that they have driven forward a series of imaginative business support programmes in all areas, including in European funding, which has helped to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-10", "file": "debates2010-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "4931ec4ca4356065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.899.6", "colnum": "899", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "d in a progressive way can make a meaningful intervention. Investment in this area is extremely important, and one of the most positive examples of recent times has been the £6.1 million of European funding for flood and coastal defences across Wales. Given the hon. Gentleman's attitude towards Europe, I suggest that funding such as that might be put at risk, were his party to get into power-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.899.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-10", "file": "debates2010-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "4931ec4ca4356065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "We are doing a tremendous amount in that regard, in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.902.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-10", "file": "debates2010-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "4931ec4ca4356065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman knew what Lord Warner and others had said about it, why did his party support it in the House of Commons? [Interruption.] He cannot one day say he supports a policy, and the next day have a completely different policy, on a very important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-10", "file": "debates2010-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "4931ec4ca4356065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.904.4", "colnum": "904", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What we want to know is: where is the money coming from? People who have worked very closely with the Prime Minister are completely opposed to the way this is being done. Let us try Andrew Turnbull. He was Cabinet Secretary, and he was permanent secretary for four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.904.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-10", "file": "debates2010-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "4931ec4ca4356065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ite Paper, he will see that he has not reported it correctly. He should read the whole chapter, so that he sees what it means. Once again, what positive policy has come from the Conservative party? He has been the leader of the Conservative party for four years. He has put up lots of posters, he has lots of soundbites, but there is no policy coming from him. When we are dealing with social policy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.905.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-10", "file": "debates2010-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "4931ec4ca4356065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "oke, which will have a devastating effect on those people's lives and on the lives of their families. In Harrogate the Stroke Association has set up a carers resource to support families in their own homes, yet Conservative-controlled North Yorkshire county council has slashed the £35,000 budget, preferring to spend £140,000 on self-congratulatory newsletters. What is the Prime Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-10b.910.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-22", "file": "debates2010-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "44cf0b158e0c934d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-22a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Report from the House of Commons Reform Committee on Rebuilding the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ld be reassured that, whether or not the issue comes to the House by way of an amendment to a substantive motion, if it looks as though it might not be selected or that we might not get to vote on it, on 4 March , I will arrange, as Leader of the House, for it to be voted on. I do not know how many times I must say that to make it absolutely clear. I recognise that there is a climate of suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-22a.43.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is as on the Order Paper. As many as are of that opinion say Aye-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": ", rather than being implemented in such a way that they will be extremely difficult for any parent or pupil to enforce, and will give the ombudsman service an impossible job. Of course the Liberal Democrats welcome this small olive branch; we do not want to be churlish and we are grateful for all concessions. I hope that I have not struck a note that has implied any lack of charity or enthusiasm -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "hould be to parents and to pupils in terms of state education. This was not a \"back of a fag packet\" effort; serious discussions took place over a considerable time so that we could put forward a document setting out what a parent and a pupil can expect in terms of education. Let us go into fantasy land for a moment: if, after an election, we had a Conservative Government or a Liberal Government -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "e individual anonymity. These reviews are vital learning tools and it is imperative that they are made widely available.\" There speaks the head of the professional body for social workers in this country. A former social worker himself, he incidentally had experience for a short time as a Labour Member of Parliament in this House. In addition, Community Care magazine , the bible of social workers-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.191.4", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": " British Medical Association and the General Medical Council; what sensible representations they were. In clause 28, proposed new section 14B(2) states: \"The first condition is that the request is made for the purpose of enabling or assisting the Board to perform its functions.\" That seems a very wide request. I looked at the Bill's explanatory notes on the clause, but they left me none the wiser-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.191.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had answered the hon. Gentleman by suggesting that there could be an appeal mechanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "That, if I may say so, is something that we need to discuss. The Liberal Democrat proposal in new clause 10 would amend the Children Act 2004, and presumably the Government have a view on that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "e argument of the hon. Member for Mid-Dorset and North Poole struck me as being somewhat confusing, but no doubt we will find out from the Secretary of State what he intends to lay down, although the amendment is not his. This is where the confusion arises: unfortunately, the Government have not made a proposal, and things seem to be being done vicariously through the Liberal Democrats' amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "will find out from the Secretary of State what he intends to lay down, although the amendment is not his. This is where the confusion arises: unfortunately, the Government have not made a proposal, and things seem to be being done vicariously through the Liberal Democrats' amendment. [ Interruption. ] I can see the Secretary of State's frustration, so I shall give him another opportunity to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-23", "file": "debates2010-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "2c0be6e147b42fd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Rental Accommodation (Thermal Insulation Standards)", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Minister for that. As I am on a roll, is she prepared to accept new clause 7?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-23a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.285.5", "colnum": "285", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. I think everyone in Scotland knows that there is only one prominent person who is currently double jobbing, but I do not want to make a party political issue of it-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.285.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.287.5", "colnum": "287", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "course I shall be happy to visit his constituency. He has put his finger on something very important: as I have said before, the global importance of the current recession requires a team approach to be taken throughout Scotland by the Labour Government, the SNP Edinburgh Government, business and trade union leaders, so that we can get Scotland through the recession more quickly and more strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": " that answer. He will also want to congratulate both Ryanair on the expansion of its maintenance facility at Prestwick, and the Minister for having the summit tomorrow. However, will he take a look at an issue that is of concern to at least one of my constituents: the whole question of education maintenance allowance, where there is a disparity between Scotland and England? Will he look into that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.289.6", "colnum": "289", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must at least make an attempt to contain itself, and I know-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.289.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister wants to talk about the economy, we can talk about-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.293.4", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We can talk about the Prime Minister trebling the deficit, about wrecking the pension system, about ruining the tax system and about bringing this country to its knees. Right now, six weeks before an election, with a record Budget deficit, at the end of a long recession, I want to ask why the Prime Minister and the Chancellor are at war with each other. This is what we are told-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.293.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.293.6", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It was this Prime Minister who put character at the heart of the election. It was this Prime Minister who asked to be judged on his moral compass. Why is it that the moral compass always points at someone else rather than at him? This is a verbatim, eye-witness account from one of the journalists. Listen to this: \"Brown's point man...turned to the journalists and started laying in\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.293.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor and I can confirm that GDP is higher per head than it was in 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.294.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.294.5", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "is higher per head than it was in 1997. [ Interruption. ] That is the question that the right hon. Gentleman asked and that is the answer he will get. The problem with the Leader of the Opposition is that not one time does he ask any question about the substance of policy: he gets it wrong every time. People are now taking a hard, long look at the Conservatives and they are now seeing through them", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.300.4", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Statement by the Prime Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.300.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more with the hon. Gentleman. I am so glad to see such support on the Opposition Benches, from him at least. He is right: we need to get on with this-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "marvellous work of all our engineers. There were always expectations. There must be expectations if we are to achieve. To go forward and get things done, we must have expectations. We have expectations. A moment ago the hon. Gentleman was shouting from a sedentary position that CCS was a proven technology, and he cited Norway. He cannot have it both ways. Either he thinks the technology will work-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "e are debating a clause that provides for a strict reporting regime. The House will always know what is happening in this field and Government policies can be adjusted. We have said that that rolling review will conclude by 2018. If the CCS technology is not working and is not deployable, we will have to introduce other means of curbing and decarbonising. We have said that clearly again and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "I understand what the Minister is saying. Key decisions will be made by E.ON in Essen about whether it wishes to go forward with new coal plant at Kingsnorth, should it come through with the project. As a result of new clause 8, it knows that in 2011 the Government could say, \"It's not looking as good as we thought-we're now going to have to go down the route of the EPS.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "I will make a bit of progress, and then of course I will give way to the Minister when she has heard me develop my argument a little more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "It is a great shame that Tim Webb did not check the story with us before he wrote it, as we could have told him that it was without foundation. I am not aware of a single colleague who has said that they want to be away tonight because this issue is inconvenient to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disagree with the Minister, but I do not think that that clear signal is being given at the moment. In answer to the hon. Member for Wealden, the Minister talked about how an emissions performance standard might undermine the whole investment market, and the hon. Gentleman gave a very good response to that point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "that clear signal is being given at the moment. In answer to the hon. Member for Wealden, the Minister talked about how an emissions performance standard might undermine the whole investment market, and the hon. Gentleman gave a very good response to that point- [ Interruption. ] I do give credit to Conservative Front Benchers occasionally. They know about business and investment, if nothing else-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.355.3", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": " places are already delivering about 85 per cent. capture. Indeed, we discussed a proposal in Committee for a target of 90 per cent. capture. That was not supported, so we are trimming a little and trying to see at what level we can command support from the Government. The calculation is led by the science, yet it is an acceptance that we are perhaps having to moderate our ambitions a little, but-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.355.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Public Bodies (Procurement of Seafood)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "enting in arguing methodically and effectively on these issues. We will miss him hugely in these debates. I am sad that he has decided to step down. I also pay special tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Mr. Willis) , who served with me in Committee, as well as to my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood) , who has supported me and performed today-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.410.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-24", "file": "debates2010-02-24b.xml", "sha256": "a00f13212f663718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.414.16", "colnum": "414", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The question is as on the Order Paper. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. [Hon. Members: \"Aye.\"] Of the contrary, No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-24b.414.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.431.5", "colnum": "431", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The strange thing about the hon. Gentleman is that, although he talks a lot about gas storage, he has not one single policy in favour of having more of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, in our discussions with the Chinese, we would be in a better position when talking about emissions from coal-fired power stations if the previous Tory Government had not been so short-sighted and closed down the clean coal technology research project and research into improving the thermal efficiency of coal-fired power stations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I expect better from the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "uggling against something. If they have to feel that they are struggling against me to make these changes, they can go ahead, but that is not the reality of the situation. I can assure hon. Members that the reality is that all of the recommendations by the Wright Committee will be available to be voted on, if hon. Members wish to do so, because all that they have to do is table amendments to them-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "hon. Members muttering, and I understand their concern, because they are worried that the amendments will not be selected. There will be an opportunity for Mr. Speaker to reassure the House on that basis, so that hon. Members know what will be selected and that they will have the opportunity to vote. Am I really likely to say this week in and week out and then suddenly discover, on 4 March , that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": ". Am I really likely to say this week in and week out and then suddenly discover, on 4 March , that- [ Interruption. ] Well, as I have asked that question and got the wrong answer, I shall answer it myself. I would not be standing here saying what will happen if I thought that there was any chance that it would not. It is all going to be fine, and hon. Members just need to turn up and vote for it-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "n my view, we have debated the Wright Committee report enough-what we need is some voting and decision making. As I set out, we debated it on Monday, and the voting will be next Thursday. We will have a procedural motion. When I table it, Members will see that they can spend their time either debating it or having a further discussion on the Wright Committee proposals-I am not bothered either way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " new Member for Glasgow, North-East. He is very often in his place in the House-he is not in it today, but he is an active Member of the House, as well as an active constituency MP. I think, therefore, that we had a really excellent result in that by-election. We also had the tragic loss of the Member for North-West Leicestershire. Let us bear in mind that there will be a general election shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "y MP. I think, therefore, that we had a really excellent result in that by-election. We also had the tragic loss of the Member for North-West Leicestershire. Let us bear in mind that there will be a general election shortly. [Interruption.] Surely the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Robathan) is not suggesting that we go through the expense of a by-election immediately in advance of a general election-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ffect to what he says he is so passionate about. Suddenly he has discovered that he is passionately in favour of it, but he has never done anything about it in the past, so I take that to be hot air. On an international women's day debate, I welcome the commitment that the shadow Leader of the House has expressed to such a day, and I think that he will find that it might be topical come next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ort of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons...and looks forward to the House being offered the opportunity within 10 sitting weeks of the beginning of the next session of Parliament\"- so it is not time unlimited- \"to establish a backbench business committee and a new category of backbench business, in the light of further consideration by the Procedure Committee.\" We have tabled-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ion. I think that it is a good substantive motion, but if he wants to amend it, he can amend it however he likes. He does not need to worry about what my view is: there is a free vote, and, whatever he tables, hon. Members will look at it and decide whether they support it. On the second point, I think that the hon. Gentleman is right: what I said was wrong, but I am still right as to the general-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "There will be Foreign Office questions next week, and I suggest that the hon. Gentleman put his question about the Falkland Islands to the Foreign Secretary at that time. As far as the-oh God! I can't remember what his first question was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "There will be Foreign Office questions next week, and I suggest that the hon. Gentleman put his question about the Falkland Islands to the Foreign Secretary at that time. As far as the-oh God! I can't remember what his first question was. [ Interruption. ] Oh, yes; amendments. Some hon. Members want more programming because they want to be sure that the House will reach-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.478.4", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "e in Wales. We also want to take Wales forward as part of a digital Britain. The Conservatives seem ready to cast aside any broadcaster that dares to compete with Rupert Murdoch. We say that sharing a fraction of the BBC's licence fee-and it is only a tiny fraction- is necessary to help make sure that we get diversity of television news and strengthen local and national media outlets across Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "ng in this debate last year? I always found him to be most courteous in my dealings with him, and I am glad that he is offering himself up for re-election. I also express my best wishes to those hon. Members who have announced their retirement from the House at the general election. I begin with the hon. Member for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr (Adam Price) , who, sadly, is leaving us to go abroad-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again; he is being generous. It would be interesting to hear from the Conservatives, on the record, whether they will veto the housing legislative competence order in the wash-up negotiations, because they have the power to do that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that daffodils are in short supply at the moment. Very few of us have been able to get the real thing, but some of us have made an attempt and compromised, with at least a flash of yellow on our coats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "rmed. Moreover, it was not really a Labour Government who invented it. If anything, it was invented by a civil servant called Beveridge during the second world war. It was accepted by Members in all parts of the House that the national health service, in one form or another, would be introduced after the second world war regardless of who won the election. A health service was already functioning-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "d some entertaining times together in his constituency and he is welcome to come to mine any time he likes, but for him to accuse others of rewriting history and then declaim that the Conservatives supported the idea of a national health service is probably the most laughable commentary since Lieutenant-Commander Woodroffe's inebriated BBC broadcast from the royal naval review at Spithead in 1937.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-25", "file": "debates2010-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "37d8216650dd6b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.545.3", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "The fact of the matter is that in this country we had a tripartite system that did not work. There was no individual or body with overarching responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-25a.545.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-02-26", "file": "debates2010-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "b07b2fe1cabc4fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-26a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "I think the £1.2 billion is the amount currently in the process of being sued in all the actions that have been referred to. So the amount that the HIPC countries will be deprived of if the Bill is not enacted is about £1.2 billion-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-02-26a.582.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.641.6", "colnum": "641", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I am very aware of that problem, and I have taken members of the industry who are already particularly affected to a meeting with the Chancellor. The position is, however, that we are being driven by European regulations, not by any desire to increase income to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.641.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.643.7", "colnum": "643", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "May I welcome what the Secretary of State said about contract rights renewal and ITV, but does he acknowledge that it is the BBC that is one of the key providers of original UK content and that it needs security of funding to be able to plan for the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.643.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "sking the Conservative party questions, but, a few weeks before a general election, I think that both the House and the public have some entitlement to know what his party stands for. Its policies are totally confused across the entire responsibilities of this Department, just as they are nationally. Not only his leader, but Opposition Front Benchers wibble and wobble all over the place on policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.651.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "across the entire responsibilities of this Department, just as they are nationally. Not only his leader, but Opposition Front Benchers wibble and wobble all over the place on policy. [ Interruption. ] Exactly as my hon. Friends say, their policy changes every day. I simply say to the hon. Gentleman, who, I know, likes taking orders from Sky and Rupert Murdoch, as does his party, that he should be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.651.8", "colnum": "651", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State was alluding to the 2012 Olympics and the legacy that we will receive from it. Will he inform the House exactly how much the games will cost NHS London? I asked the same question of the Secretary of State for Health the other day, and he indicated that it will be £41 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.651.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course. [ Interruption. ] No, the question was: should the consultation be very carefully considered? Unlike the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Vaizey) , I do not give a running commentary on how the BBC should run its affairs. I have said that this is a matter for the BBC; there has been a leak; and we should wait for the full report. There will then have to be a full consultation on that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Points of Order", "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. He has placed his views and concerns very firmly on the record, and I listened carefully to what was said. Although I was mindful of our prohibition on imputing false motives, I think that in this case it was a matter of taste rather than of order. The Secretary of State is here. If he wishes to respond-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.661.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": ". He has placed his views and concerns very firmly on the record, and I listened carefully to what was said. Although I was mindful of our prohibition on imputing false motives, I think that in this case it was a matter of taste rather than of order. The Secretary of State is here. If he wishes to respond- [ Interruption. ] Order. If the right hon. Gentleman wishes to respond, he is free to do so-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.661.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.661.4", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State does not wish to apologise. So be it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is not a proper matter to be aired extensively on the Floor of the House. I will make inquiries, but what I will say to the hon. Gentleman-I do not think that he has ever accused me of ducking a matter, and I do not wish to give him the opportunity to do so on this occasion-is that he has made his point extremely forcefully-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "It would be the act of any sensible incoming Government to look at the unavoidable costs in any project that the previous Government had committed them to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "proposing anything different. That is not a responsible approach to opposition. Let us take Afghanistan. The Conservatives agree with us about the need to be there. They agree with the military and political strategy that the Government are pursuing. They have supported each deployment of further troops. They have supported the increase in funding of equipment and support for personnel in theatre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members will have all afternoon to answer. Will they take this opportunity to set the record straight? Can they confirm today in the House whether they will maintain, let alone increase, defence spending? George Osborne-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "reed with the Government every inch of the way. They were joined at the hip throughout the past 12 or 13 years. To pretend that things were different is incorrect, because they were together throughout that period. They now wish to point out their differences with the Government's record, but it is worth remembering that they were together, joined at the hip, during that time and that we were not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "good confidence-building measure. However, that is not the complete picture. For the benefit of the record and the country, let me set out that complete picture. This is what has happened on the Government's watch: the number of frigates and destroyers has been cut from the 32 recommended in their own strategic defence review of 1998 to 23, and we have one ship patrolling the whole Atlantic ocean-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "in the overstretch with which all hon. Members are familiar. Cuts in TA training were reinstated only following pressure from the Opposition Benches: the Government were forced to change their mind and restore TA training. As we heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Woodspring, £1.4 billion was cut from the helicopter programme in 2004 by the current Prime Minister, against all the advice-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has raised three issues. We are, in fact, considering intercept evidence. My hon. Friend will be aware that a group of privy councillors have presented a report on the subject to the Government, and we intend to respond to it before the general election-which, as all Members know, will take place in short order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": " The High Court has indeed upheld four control orders since the House of Lords judgment, following proceedings that were compliant with the test laid down in the cases of AF and others. The Government therefore remain of the view that the regime remains viable. Lord Carlile's most recent report on control orders reaches the same conclusion, and he will continue to monitor our activity accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady obviously missed her vocation; she should have been a lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "? It would not cost a significant amount and there would be no \"unintended consequences,\" as she described them. I asked her that question in response to the statement before Christmas. She did not deal with it then; I hope she will do so now. There are strong arguments that people are being misled and that we should have had consistent indexation between the basic pension and additional pensions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " I apologise for going too soft on the official Opposition, but he reminds me to have a go. I have long since given up expecting consistency from the Conservatives on such matters. In a few months they hope to be pulling the levers of power, so they do not want to rock the boat too much. We heard from the Conservatives that they would abstain, which is their default position on so many key issues-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come now to motion 7-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-01", "file": "debates2010-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "7392b66a4885788b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day-First Part]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Lady is displaying an imaginative interpretation of the terms of the motion-some might even go so far as to use the word \"liberal\", although I do not in any way wish to cast an aspersion on her-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-01a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.788.8", "colnum": "788", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The best way of supporting legal and appropriate economic development around the Falkland Islands is to uphold the rule of international law. That is precisely what we are doing in the case of the hydrocarbons exploration that is going on at the moment. The companies are acting wholly within their rights and within the legality of international law-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.788.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "Modifying statements made by the Foreign Secretary is not a good career move from my point of view-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On the question of Afghanistan, the issue surely must be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And Welsh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that this is a matter of self-determination for the people of the Falklands. When some people-Argentines-suggest that there are not any indigenous people to the Falklands, I point out that many people from Argentina are of Italian, British, Scottish and German stock, going back fewer generations than the presence on the Falklands Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Joan Humble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Humble", "preceding_text": "Has the Secretary of State visited Cuba recently, and if he has not, does he have any plans to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) suggested to the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor that we should have two days on Report to reflect both the insufficiency of time that we had had to consider amendments properly in Committee on the Floor of the House, and the fact that we are also now exposing ourselves to a further raft of Government amendments-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ors-perhaps by the Audit Service. I have just been provided with further and better particulars. I am happy to say that I knew this bit already and was going to mention it, but I am deeply grateful none the less. My constituency contains a large new hospital which is under a PFI contract which will run for more than 20 years, and I believe that the same applies to some of the new prison contracts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "ment. He was therefore subject to the accountability of the House, even though everyone said at the time that the case was highly unusual and not a matter of routine. However, in respect of the second case-the one involving the Cabinet Committee and devolution-the Secretary of State made a written statement. He did not come to the House, and I think that we are drifting towards routine objections-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ke a point, however, he would have needed some slightly more contemporary examples. Furthermore, it is also true that, as Queen Victoria was uttering those concerns about the Liberals being elected, £10,000-equivalent to £1 million today-from the Secret Service Vote was routinely made available to the Chief Whip for him to use as he wished to ensure that Government business went through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to resort to the text of new schedule 1, but my hon. Friend will see that it sets out the relevant categories of information-communications with the sovereign, the heir and the second heir. The key word is \"communications\", which covers a wide range of information. I believe that it is appropriate that it should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Gentleman is nit-picking. The intention of amendment 3-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "condly, to the extent that there is a problem, the means already exist for dealing with it. Parliament is situated in the middle of a city; it is not in the middle of the countryside. One cannot expect total silence in the middle of a city. The evidence of the noise that we hear-it was accepted by the Government in their consultation exercise-showed that it was no more annoying than traffic noise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "on would make demonstrations more dangerous for the people taking part. There is a further point. It is often said-I have heard it said from the Conservative Front Bench as well as my party's-that any power we grant will end up being abused. A power is being granted here to seize any device designed to make a noise. That could cover almost anything-buckets, balloons or party poppers, for instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "abused. A power is being granted here to seize any device designed to make a noise. That could cover almost anything-buckets, balloons or party poppers, for instance. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Epping Forest (Mrs. Laing) is looking amazed, but all those things were seized by the police in the Kingsnorth demonstration in Kent, on the grounds that they were going to be used in illegal ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "used to interfere in the right to protest. I therefore cannot go down the route the hon. Lady proposes at all; I am sorry to have to tell her that she will not find consensus in support of her proposals from my party, or, I hope, from the Labour party. I shall now turn to the other 18 amendments in this group that were tabled by me and my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-02", "file": "debates2010-03-02c.xml", "sha256": "0633743db6853a55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Major Capital Contracts (Skills Training Requirements)", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " some sensible amendments in respect of the House of Lords, which we also welcome, and we await with interest how the other place responds to them. Some of the amendments are extremely good. We are delighted that our proposals about the tax status of Members of the House of Lords, put forward by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and tabled by us, enabled us to bring about a change-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-02c.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.932.6", "colnum": "932", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "countries and their citizens when it comes to getting children into school. In Zimbabwe, for example, children still have to pay user fees to go to school, even though our assistance is providing support. That is one reason why we are determined to protect the international development budget, going forward. It is a pity that 96 per cent. of Tory candidates do not share our commitment to that aim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to know what the Prime Minister is going to say to the Chilcot inquiry, he will have to wait until he says it. It is fatuous for the Foreign Secretary to ask me-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.936.5", "colnum": "936", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bonds!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that the value of sterling", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.936.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.936.5", "colnum": "936", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You said it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that the value of sterling [Hon. Members: \"Bonds!\"] depends on a range of issues. On his point in relation to his own position, there are two contingencies there. First, he is making the assumption that the Conservatives have won the election. They are arrogant. They have not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.936.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Secondly, the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) is making the assumption that he will remain in his position. I wonder about that, since the House puts the highest value on integrity-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Secondly, the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) is making the assumption that he will remain in his position. I wonder about that, since the House puts the highest value on integrity- [Interruption.] Yes, it does, and the country-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "This is something that the whole House can agree on-that this House places the highest value on the question of integrity. This country has been misled, and the question is whether it was misled by the deputy chair of the Conservative party, or whether it was-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "As I said in answer to the right hon. Gentleman's earlier point, many issues affect the value of sterling, and we are determined to strengthen the economy and pay down the deficit. The issue that he referred to is a question of the assurance that was given by Lord Ashcroft-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.938.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.938.6", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I think we know what a desperate panic the Government are now in, and it will not save their marginal seats. Is not the continued absence of-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.938.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.939.7", "colnum": "939", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "x allowance. The hon. Gentleman, as it turns out, was right that Lord Ashcroft, despite the assurances he gave, was a non-dom, and he was right that the country had been misled into believing that Lord Ashcroft was complying with his previous assurances. I agree with him that there are answers to be given on this, but they are not answers to be given by the Government. They are to be given by the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.939.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.940.3", "colnum": "940", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend recollect that we had to fight the Falklands war because the then Conservative Government withdrew the patrols by HMS Endurance and offered to hand over sovereignty of the Falkland Islands to the fascist dictator Galtieri? Will she-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.940.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.941.6", "colnum": "941", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "What did he say? [ Interruption. ] This is how you can tell it was not a planted question-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "In a sense, that is more a matter for the prosecutorial authorities, but I will certainly look at it. If somebody has egregiously taken a bribe, they are unlikely to come forward and volunteer the information in any event. They might have to enter into a compromise agreement, which is a rather different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-03", "file": "debates2010-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ce8a76676db8c583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e Security Service Act 1989, our intelligence and security agencies-GCHQ, the Secret Intelligence Service and the Security Service-were never \"averred\", a strange verb meaning that their existence was never admitted to. Everybody denied that these agencies existed, even though there they were in Century house above a petrol station on the St. George's road to the Elephant, and in Gower street and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-03a.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1002.4", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has expressed himself, but unfortunately the relationship with the national investment corporation is not merely tangential, it is non-existent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1002.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " get through. The right hon. Gentleman asked about the Equality and Human Rights Commission. That subject could be raised during the debate next week on international women's day. As it turns out, I was correct in anticipating that that would be a topical debate; it is going to be topical. On the business of the House, I announce the business for the following week each Thursday; that is all I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "g that that would be a topical debate; it is going to be topical. On the business of the House, I announce the business for the following week each Thursday; that is all I do. [Interruption.] No, anything after that is provisional. The business for next week is firm, so hon. Members can be clear and know what they are doing next week, but after that it is only provisional. The Leader of the House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must ask the Leader of the House to focus her remarks exclusively on the business for next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Lord.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "nd covering all areas. So there are further opportunities to debate that issue. On small businesses, we have, as the hon. Gentleman said, just had Department for Business, Innovation and Skills questions. He will have an opportunity to raise the issue of artisan cider-makers again in next week's debate about alcohol. The hon. Gentleman asked me to be less hyperbolic about the question of Ashcroft-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1021.5", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1021.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1022.6", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman entered the House first in 1959 and has served without interruption in his present constituency since 1966, so he will know that business questions is the occasion to ask a question requesting either a statement or a debate the following week. That did not quite happen, but if the Leader of the House wants -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me just say to the Leader of the House and to all Members of the House that criticism of Members of the other place should be on a substantive motion. The points that have been made have been made extremely clearly, but I think it is reasonable and proper for me now -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw the word \"dissembling\". I have a matter of seconds ago indicated to the House that we should have seemly exchanges. That word in this context is not seemly. I ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw it and to complete his question in parliamentary language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Speaker, for calling me one last time to speak on an issue that I feel I have been living and breathing since the end of last summer. I spoke early in the debate last week and I will try not to cover some of the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": " a number of experts. The Procedure Committee went to a great deal of time and trouble to produce the report in short order, as my right hon. and hon. Friends have said, to enable it to be debated and voted on before dissolution. The motion indicates a time limit of two hours. By my miserable reckoning, and even allowing for my continuing for a couple of minutes, that takes us up to about 4.15 pm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "iament. I think it is right that the House should be able to reach a decision tonight on the establishment of a committee. The effect of the two amendments would be broadly similar, but I personally suggest that colleagues support amendment (b), which provides greater clarity on the number of days the Back-Bench business committee will have at its disposal. It also offers a more flexible approach-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "ay so, I think that I probably have as much experience as the hon. Gentleman of studying the experiences of other Parliaments and hearing observations from them. I gently say to him, as regards reforms that it is proclaimed that other Parliaments have made, that their parliamentarians and politicians will speak fervently of them in public, but not always quite so fervently in private conversation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " it is rather silly and demeaning to bother with it when we are moving on other matters that are so grave and important. After all, the Leader of the House, the right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) , has never thought to change her name, even though she has had every opportunity to do so. She could call herself \"Har\" or \"Harperson\", or even think up a name, such as-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-04", "file": "debates2010-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "321391697d972724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "ed the credibility of the ISC's scrutiny and work, and public confidence in it. That is particularly apposite in view of the Committee's apparent failure to be able to scrutinise adequately the Binyam Mohamed case. I wish to make two other extremely brief points. After some considerable thought I am going to support amendment (b) to motion 7. I realise that that will disappoint some in the House -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-04a.1085.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-05", "file": "debates2010-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "7d8eec09bb2b0652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-05a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": "e front row-the odd bit of eye-gouging and the occasional use of the boot to make it clear who is in control of the game and who stands to lose if they push their luck too far. That might have gone on in the old days of rugby, but in these days of cameras and so on, people are less inclined so to behave, particularly given that they could end up with a fine after the game or-dare I say it?- a ban.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-05a.1131.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.146.6", "colnum": "146", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "Despite the difficulties in the housing market, HIPs are helping to speed up the process. A survey of 37,000 transactions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.146.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that what I have said about public health will not impact directly on the availability of NHS services. I remind the House about the current level of spending on public health care in London through the Healthy Living programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Thirty-four minutes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": " and until improved access to new services is available and that any changes must be subject to full and formal public consultation; and further notes that the Government is preparing robust planning systems to ensure that NHS London is fully prepared to meet the challenges posed by the London 2012 Olympic Games.\". In opening, the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) took 24 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.172.9", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ally led improvements, the aim of which was to drive up the quality of services, not to make cuts. Because Ara Darzi was an eminent consultant-not a politician or a manager-clinicians bought into the process. They accepted his bona fides and his work to improve provision, and they engaged in the difficult process of change. Discussions about possible reconfiguration have taken place across London-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.172.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.174.4", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "It is the case that Government funding for the NHS has, of course, increased massively over the past decade, as the hon. Gentleman well knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": " will stop shouting at me from a sedentary position and listen to what I am saying. As a former leader of his party, he does himself no service by reacting in that way. I am trying to respond to a genuine question in a genuine way. Let the vibrations settle a bit, eh? It is important for the Darzi process to be led by local clinicians and not driven by managers following a purely financial agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrats welcome this debate on an incredibly important issue for the people of London. However, it is fair to say that the Conservative motion does not really achieve very much, because all it calls for, in effect, is a delay in the reconfiguration process until there has been more effective public consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I merely say to the hon. Gentleman that it is a convention of the House that Members do not read books or newspapers while a debate is taking place. There are other places-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.213.4", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ann Keen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Keen", "preceding_text": "All the proposals are being considered clinically and in the appropriate way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.213.4", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ann Keen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Keen", "preceding_text": " this evening. Many of the polyclinics that have been set up, including the Heart of Hounslow clinic in my constituency and another in Hammersmith and Fulham, are making a huge difference to what takes place in A and E departments. London's A and E departments are used and sometimes abused differently than those in the rest of the country. The way forward is to bring primary care into polyclinics-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Rogerson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And some evidence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Rogerson", "preceding_text": "nity to discuss them in Westminster Hall last week, and the order itself will be discussed in Committee within a matter of days. In Westminster Hall, however, we did not have the benefit of the Minister's view of where we had got to. As has been pointed out, the advice that she is sending out to councils appeared in writing a few hours ago. I hope that we will hear a slightly more cogent argument-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "agues, and my Lib Dem political opponent at the general election, Simon Wright-this is the 24th Lib Dem target seat in the country-both strongly support the unitary option for Norwich? Will the hon. Gentleman support them in that? When he decides what he is going to do tonight, will he support them or do something that effectively stabs them in the back in their efforts to put their views forward?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.239.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "She's not from Norfolk!", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I remind hon. and right hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed an eight-minute limit on Back-Bench contributions? I call Dr. Starkey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "our examples not just because they are bad decisions, which they are, but because each of them is a decision which should properly be taken by the city council, by people who are accountable to the electors there, rather than by people who live as much as 50 miles away from Norwich and have absolutely no idea of the condition of life in the city that is Norwich. It is a ludicrous state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": " city council, by people who are accountable to the electors there, rather than by people who live as much as 50 miles away from Norwich and have absolutely no idea of the condition of life in the city that is Norwich. It is a ludicrous state of affairs. [Interruption.] That is why there is support across the whole of the city for the proposals that are being made. It is not just the Labour party-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "I wish to home in on the two compelling reasons about which we have heard so much in the debate on this important issue, although the Government have not disclosed what evidence lies behind those compelling reasons. The reason why Ministers felt able to depart from the criteria-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-09", "file": "debates2010-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "e7a3833a96ff2bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "sed pensioners are finding it increasingly difficult to pay? That is not just my view: if Ministers talked to anybody representing a constituency in Devon, from any party other than the Government party, or to any Member of Parliament representing a Norfolk seat, I suspect that they would say the same. However, because this Government have squandered the golden economic legacy that they inherited-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-09d.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.280.4", "colnum": "280", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman has to understand that the Government are seeking to minimise costs for all organisations, and that is why we are facilitating meetings leading to agreement. We intend to proceed with agreement between the charities and voluntary organisations and PPL. He suggested that the costs would be around £20 million, but I think that that is an overstatement. The organisations concerned-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "I can. The grassroots grants and community assets programmes are two of my favourite Government programmes for the sector, because they really involve the community in making a difference. My hon. Friend's constituent, whom he mentioned, really earned-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "conversations taking place in the Chamber. I might just tell the House at this point that since last Wednesday I have received a large number of letters from members of the public, whose support we will all be seeking in a few weeks' time and to whose views we should attach importance. Those letters have complained bitterly about the excessive noise, barracking and yah-boo behaviour in this House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.286.8", "colnum": "286", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "You have had a go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.286.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.287.4", "colnum": "287", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "It is important that we consider a couple of areas. For instance, from 1 April 2009 the Cabinet Office required all proposed procurements for external resources to be approved by the external resources board. External resources are used only when the external supplier offers skills or resources that are not available within a Department, and offers value for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.287.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ething that should never have been said by the Minister, and the House will be grateful for that. From that apology, let me turn to the broader issue of the Prime Minister's evidence to the Chilcot inquiry. Following his evidence, one former Chief of the Defence Staff said that he was being \"disingenuous\" and another said that he was \"dissembling\". Both those people worked with the Prime Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "of the Defence Staff has said on record that we are the best equipped force that we have ever been. That is the person who-both on the ground and in his position-has got to satisfy himself that the forces have the equipment they need. I also have to tell the right hon. Gentleman that I am going to take no lectures on integrity from the man who will not answer even one question about Lord Ashcroft-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The reason the defence budget fell in the '90s is that under the Conservatives, we won the cold war-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "mmons! I seem to remember that he was at school at the time. The Conservative party talks about the new politics, but how can there be new politics with Lord Ashcroft? The Conservative party talks about modernisation, but how can there be modernisation with Lord Ashcroft? And the Conservative party talks about change. How can it ever change as long as Lord Ashcroft is vice-chairman of their party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I think it is important in this House that people recognise where there is agreement and where there is not. There is agreement on our membership of NATO, and there was agreement on what we had to do to end the cold war. There has been agreement that we need to finance our defence forces more, and there has been agreement that we needed to take action in Iraq and Afghanistan-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "his customary force and clarity, he has put his views on the record. I must say to him and to the House that I was, of course, listening very carefully to what the Leader of the Opposition said-I always listen carefully to what every right hon. and hon. Member says-and my distinct recollection is that he referred to his disagreement with the views of Mr. Foot on the subject of nuclear disarmament-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "d to the House that I was, of course, listening very carefully to what the Leader of the Opposition said-I always listen carefully to what every right hon. and hon. Member says-and my distinct recollection is that he referred to his disagreement with the views of Mr. Foot on the subject of nuclear disarmament- [ Interruption. ] Will the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) let me finish?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.299.8", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has put his views on the official record-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.299.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "f order, but I am afraid that what he said was not a point of order, but a point of frustration. Let me make two observations for his benefit and for that of the House. First, I remind the hon. Gentleman that Members should not criticise Members of the other place other than on a substantive motion. I have had reason to make this point before, and I hope that I shall not have to keep repeating it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The difficulty with the hon. Gentleman's point of order is that he is expressing himself in hypothetical terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The difficulty with the hon. Gentleman's point of order is that he is expressing himself in hypothetical terms. [ Interruption. ] Order. It is not reasonable therefore for him to expect me to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The difficulty with the hon. Gentleman's point of order is that he is expressing himself in hypothetical terms. [ Interruption. ] Order. It is not reasonable therefore for him to expect me to reply. [ Interruption. ] I have seen a letter on this matter, but I am not sure that it quite warrants the description that he has just offered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2009-10 — DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "The people who have studied the proposal, which the right hon. Gentleman's Select Committee seemingly has not done, came to the conclusion that there is no evidence that it would have any effect at all on alcohol use, yet his Committee is prepared, without any evidence, to siphon off-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2009-10 — DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anne Milton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Milton", "preceding_text": "er for Selby (Mr. Grogan) and many others mentioned the significant issues for pubs, given the huge discrepancy between their prices and the supermarkets', and the impact of that on pubs. I know, and I think we all know now, that my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) feels very strongly about this issue-about the nanny state and the public health police. The issue is about balance-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2009-10 — DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "preceding_text": " problem. The report articulates brilliantly some of the problems that have been mentioned in the debate, and I look forward to hearing the Minister's response. In conclusion, there are fundamental problems, and there is a disproportionate responsibility on the British road user and taxpayer to deal with those problems. Our roads, alas, are not up to the usage of this day and age, which is a pity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-10", "file": "debates2010-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "3c77f906323ebc92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2009-10 — DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "ccount. I am a little surprised that the Government have selected this subject for today's estimates day debate, because we had an opportunity to explore these issues only yesterday in Westminster Hall in a debate initiated by my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) . I guess it is the nature of transport that we can wait weeks for a debate to come along and then two come together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-10a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wrong one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "Through the hon. Member for South-West Devon (Mr. Streeter) , I request that the National Audit Office look particularly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "What does that say about today's Conservative party, which told the Electoral Commission that it would not-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We now come to questions to the hon. Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey) , representing the House of Commons Commission, and to the Leader of the House. Unfortunately, I note that the hon. Member for North Devon is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.422.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Now we come to the business question-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Now we come to the business question- [ Interruption. ] Order. The hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) should calm himself-he has the weekend ahead, which he can enjoy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I interrupt the Minister of State for a moment? This has been a most curious exchange so far. First, the statement was a bit on the long side, although it was highly informative to the House, and I am sure that hon. Members appreciated that. Secondly, rather unusually, the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs. Villiers) did not pose any questions in her response, which is the norm-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat. The hon. Gentleman did indeed ask a question on the matter, to which he received a reply. Unfortunately his question was a bit on the long side, which is why I had to cut him off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.465.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "International Women's Day", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Yes indeed. There are six, and the proportion is higher than in the Government's Cabinet. The issue of women in politics has been at the heart of the fight for equality since the beginning and I believe that the Conservative party has a proud history of getting women into Parliament. A number-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "International Women's Day", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": ", my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) made clear his determination to bring more Conservative women into Parliament. Since then we have been making significant progress in the selection of women candidates to fight the next general election. I am very happy to acknowledge that we want to go beyond our current 18 women MPs. Today, about 30 per cent. of our candidates are women-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "International Women's Day", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "selection of women candidates to fight the next general election. I am very happy to acknowledge that we want to go beyond our current 18 women MPs. Today, about 30 per cent. of our candidates are women- [ Interruption. ] From the Treasury Bench, the Solicitor-General is muttering something that may indicate that she thinks we will not get many women into the House of Commons at the next election-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "International Women's Day", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "her on the back inside the Chamber for a change. She was brave and right to say what she did, which is that the allowances system for MPs must ensure that MP parents spend time with their children, and it will be women who will lead that drive forward. The right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) and I simply growl at each other all the time, but that is the way it goes, I am afraid. I want to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-11", "file": "debates2010-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a146311557c8d639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "preceding_text": "party combined to go for the later date-the Alliance completely confounding the position that had been taken up on its behalf, based on its previous position, by the Liberal Democrats, including by Members of another place and this House who had raised that issue in early-day motions. So, the Alliance party confounded its position-all, as we know, in pursuit of other gains, offices and privileges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-11a.498.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-15", "file": "debates2010-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "b56b1a3396b76db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-15a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "obal stage or, indeed, whether we are to retrench. Upon that we can base our future spending commitments. In the minds of many, although not in my mind, is the question whether we have indeed reached another \"east of Suez\" moment. We look forward to the Prime Minister being called back before the Iraq inquiry for a more forensic examination of the role he has played in curtailing defence spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-15a.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-15", "file": "debates2010-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "b56b1a3396b76db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-15a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "ts. His rhetoric is, in my view, irresponsible, and it is unkind. He should go back to his constituents and tell them that the positions of the Opposition and of the Government are extremely similar, if not identical, and explain why Ministers-his Ministers-wrote in the break clauses that he is waving like a shroud in Glasgow. The right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) is not in his place-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-15a.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "etary Fund, the Bank of England and respected economists such as the chief economist of UBS have all made it clear that this year would be the wrong year to start making cuts. The hon. Gentleman is, I think, reaffirming the argument made this morning by the shadow Business Secretary, which is that another £20 billion should be cut from public spending. Will the hon. Gentleman deny that today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "There is one party that has been clear and transparent in how it receives donations -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.732.4", "colnum": "732", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has placed his point firmly on the record, but the Minister requires only the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.732.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.732.6", "colnum": "732", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.732.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry- [ Interruption. ] Order. Leave me to deal with this. I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that his question does not remotely relate to the issue that we are considering, and that is why-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry- [ Interruption. ] Order. Leave me to deal with this. I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that his question does not remotely relate to the issue that we are considering, and that is why- [ Interruption. ] Order. I do not require any comment or signalling from the hon. Gentleman. I am giving a ruling: the hon. Gentleman can listen to it and he can like it or lump it. I intervene-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e to say to the hon. Gentleman that his question does not remotely relate to the issue that we are considering, and that is why- [ Interruption. ] Order. I do not require any comment or signalling from the hon. Gentleman. I am giving a ruling: the hon. Gentleman can listen to it and he can like it or lump it. I intervene- [ Interruption. ] Order. I require no gesticulation from the hon. Gentleman-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It would give me great pleasure if I were able to satisfy the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew) , but I fear that I cannot. I entirely understand why he and others might have been frustrated by this; however, it results from the simple fact that the Secretary of State-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.735.4", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me deal with this point of order very clearly and conclusively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.735.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "described, and it is a terrible position for him to be in. I agree with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) , who said that the Chief Secretary is playing a game with the public on this issue. He tried to set up an artificial dividing line between following the Chadwick process and fulfilling the ombudsman's recommendations. That is a false choice. We very much hope-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah McCarthy-Fry", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman will be aware that we have received interim reports from Sir John during this process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "Yes-it is the hon. Member for Havant who apparently has two brains, and he adopted that new phrase. Before even taking power, he began to reform modern universities to such an extent that he abolished them. That is an indication of what they can expect. The hon. Gentleman must explain properly to the House how he would fund that proposal-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks what I say to them. I say to them that sixth form is available, and we are funding that. I also say that advanced apprenticeships are available, and we have brought forward 35,000 more of them-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has just confirmed that the Liberal Democrat policy is to abolish tuition fees over a six-year period. Can he now give a commitment-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the House, I appreciate that the general election is not very far away, but this-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "No, I am not prepared to confirm that there would be fewer students, or, indeed, more. The Minister is probably quoting me out of context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": " policy on taxes and the Treasury, where all they have to offer is a cut in inheritance tax for the very wealthy. The only people who are certain to benefit from the proposal from the hon. Member for Havant are those students who are going to university and were always going to do so, and who come from the wealthiest families. There is no certainty that those from a poorer background are going to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.815.5", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": " forward at the election is the introduction of a pupil premium, so that schools whose pupils who come from a disadvantaged background-for example, those on free school meals, as I was when I was in school-will get extra money for the pupils in their care to invest in smaller class sizes, smaller teaching groups or one-to-one intervention in order to make sure that young people do not fall behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.815.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Wilson", "preceding_text": " the money has not arrived for the past six months? Where is the money now, and when will it be paid? How can a family survive in such circumstances? Although only 0.5 per cent. of students are eligible for support, they are in many ways the most affected. Such students are crucial to the widening of participation, and they should be nurtured. Let me say one last word before I am told to sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "by working-class students has hardly improved since 1995. As my hon. Friend the Member for Reading, East (Mr. Wilson) memorably put it, so much for so little. As though that were not bad enough, the improvement rate for working-class participation has actually declined. In the previous decade, participation by working-class students grew at a faster rate, according to the Government's own figures-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-16", "file": "debates2010-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "32050525d34ce147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": " the way in developing innovative ways to study online. Many new universities, first as polytechnics and since, have developed strong links with local industry over many decades. They have pioneered sandwich courses and part-time day release courses in which students can combine work and study. But the Government's expectation that universities should all be alike has often undermined those links.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-16a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.861.5", "colnum": "861", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman what I have had in my constituency-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.861.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a long-standing and consistent opponent of this exemplary defence establishment, which is most unfortunate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a long-standing and consistent opponent of this exemplary defence establishment, which is most unfortunate. [Interruption.] Labour Members are full-square behind it. We recognise that this will be a huge investment for south Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Francis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Francis", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will be aware that the Welsh Affairs Committee has completed all its pre-legislative scrutiny of the legislative competence orders that have come before it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Francis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Francis", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will be aware that the Welsh Affairs Committee has completed all its pre-legislative scrutiny of the legislative competence orders that have come before it. [ Interruption. ] Can he give an assurance to the House that he will make every effort to ensure that these orders complete all their remaining stages before the Dissolution of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "l families and to all children. That is a major transformation of children's services since 1997, and it would be a very sad day if an all-party consensus could not be reached on the fact that what we do for our under-fives is an essential element of early learning and an essential element of the development of their potential. The Conservative policy to cut back on Sure Start children's centres -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that every person in this House would want to see a resolution to the dispute as quickly as possible. My thoughts are with the customers of British Airways and with those who depend for their jobs on the success of British Airways and our other airlines. That is exactly why, at this point in time, I want the sides to get together and to discuss these issues-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "- [ Interruption. ] The Conservative party and others may wish to laugh about this issue, but I think the important thing is the advice that I gave to the management of British Airways and to the unions, which was to take a deep breath, keep calm and keep talking about the issue. I do not think that an industrial relations dispute should be brought into the House of Commons in this way. It is our-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.870.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Not once has-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.872.7", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Five hundred thousands mothers die avoidable deaths each year, but there are things that we can do-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.872.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "e had a reputation as an absolutely first-class local MP. He was a defender of the steel industry, and spoke out on the environment before it was fashionable to do so. He always spoke out for fairness. Charlie Whelan and Lord Ashcroft are exactly the same. One is the baron of the trade unions, and the other is the baron of Belize. Both are bankrolling political parties, and both are trying to buy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "That is rewriting history. They both blocked the Hayden Phillips agreement-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.873.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Public Administration Committee is meeting tomorrow to consider the circumstances surrounding the elevation of Lord Ashcroft. We have invited Lord Ashcroft and the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) , but we have heard nothing. Is it not a terrible discourtesy to the Committee to be ignored in this way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Dementia Strategy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I listened with great interest to the proposal for a mandated choice approach as outlined by the hon. Member for South Ribble (Mr. Borrow) . I happen very much to agree with organ donation, and when I pass on, if there are any bits that are still usable, the state is perfectly welcome to them-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.884.5", "colnum": "884", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Dementia Strategy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, I do not get Tory party briefings. If the hon. Gentleman is still getting them, there must be something very wrong with the Tory party machine. I wonder whether he is still getting UKIP briefings. In any case, if he wishes to pass them on to me, I would be more than happy to use them-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.887.5", "colnum": "887", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Dementia Strategy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bournemouth, East is correct on this point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.887.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Dementia Strategy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "e doing an awful lot to pay for the existing clear-up, but what a shame that we did not include in the convention a retrospective element according to which signatories are asked to consider what they can do in the former war zones in which they fought to assist with the removal of mines. My hon. Friend the Member for Leominster pointed out that Africans are carrying out the clear-up in Argentina-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Dementia Strategy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I was not questioning any of the other hon. Members; I was merely commenting on my understanding of the hon. Gentleman's contribution, but he seems now to be much more unambiguously supportive of the Bill-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-17", "file": "debates2010-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "338448f23934f7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.925.3", "colnum": "925", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Dementia Strategy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "mission. The hon. Lady also asked about the US stockpiles and I hope that I have answered those questions. The hon. Member for Salisbury (Robert Key) made a wonderful speech. I hope that I unite all hon. Members this afternoon if I say that he is one of our most decent Members, which I am sure is why the Anglican Church has made him an honorary canon. Fortunately, he did not go off this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-17a.925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Often, it is the drivers of four-wheeled vehicles who cause the harm. But, what steps is the Minister taking to try to stop ordinary pedal cyclists going through red lights, cycling the wrong way and endangering pedestrians-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mole", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mole", "preceding_text": "hope that the hon. Lady is not suggesting that we bring back John Major's cones hotline. I seem to recall reading recently that last time a journalist rang that number he was told that there was no one there any more. The hon. Lady should appreciate that there are a number of reasons why the perception might be that there are cones without works going on: for example, when materials are hardening-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that this is coming to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "In answer to the right hon. Gentleman's first point, those issues can be raised in the Budget debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.981.5", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I just say to the Leader of the House that I know that this matter has already been covered, but what we cannot have is the situation in which continuing reference is made to a Member of the House who is not present, and in particular -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.981.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not need any help from the hon. Gentleman. I have the greatest affection for him, but he should not tell me how to do my job. He is a very able fellow, but I am not sure he would know where to start. What I want to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.988.6", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "his matter, but in a sense the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister are both the same and both to blame. The right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) wrote to me on Friday about his visit to Tilbury on Monday. I am not suggesting that that was deliberate, but both of them need to understand that they owe courtesies to ordinary Back Benchers in this House. Their offices should tell us-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.988.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "It is an important question, but it is a completely different question from the one that we have been discussing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "rs who have said it would be very difficult to read the record of this debate in Hansard and then to suggest there are not independent people serving on this Committee holding our intelligence services to account. We need to bury that lie here today. May I join the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) in giving my apologies in advance: I may not be present for the winding-up speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1026.3", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Michael Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Mates", "preceding_text": " all the documents; it looked at the secret signals that were sent on this subject; and it was roundly critical of the United States authorities, because they broke an undertaking, which appears on the bottom of such secret reports, not to divulge them to anyone else. That criticism was as strong as we felt it needed to be, but stronger than some Ministers wanted, because we did not want to upset-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "a diplomatic way of saying, \"We're very concerned about this, and it may affect the co-operation between us in future.\" Some 12 months ago, an official in Washington put it rather more bluntly to the Committee, saying, \"Well, the way things are, we'll tell you if they're about to blow up London, but beyond that we'll have to take it on a case-by-case basis whether we share things with you or not.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "he patronage of the Prime Minister. We all want to pay to tribute to him for the work that he has done in this capacity and in many others. He has also provided some of the most enlightening criticism of modern British art and other matters in history, but I shall not recite them. I shall try to answer directly as many of the points that have been raised by right hon. and hon. Members as possible-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "the time he was referring to, my right hon. Friend the Member for Torfaen was the Committee's Chairman, so I am not sure whether the white van had \"Murphy's\" written on the side of it. My hon. Friend got rather overexcited at one point, and I was worried about whether the white van was going to turn up again. My hon. Friend has heard what I have said about hearings in public. There is substantial-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-18", "file": "debates2010-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "2cd049b4f283c08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend sometimes subscribes to the conspiracy theory of life, despite not being a member of Unite, so far as I am aware. My biggest concern about him, when he retires from the House, is where he going to deliver these speeches. To his poor wife at home?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-18b.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-22", "file": "debates2010-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "c038bedfdef9cc72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-22a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": " worthy objective, which we would all strongly support, but it could produce an enormous amount of time-consuming additional form-filling, regulations and analysis. The heart of the child poverty issue is not necessarily, though it could be, a lack of money or any of the criteria set out in the Bill. There is also the problem of children being exposed, for example, to social networking facilities-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-22a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-22", "file": "debates2010-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "c0b7851c58c3c727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-22b.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e was no proposal for the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments-if that is the committee that the right hon. Gentleman meant-to be put on a statutory footing by any Member in any part of the House during the passage of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill. However, it is worth looking into. The current arrangement appears to be working well at present, but if hon. Members want that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-22b.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-22", "file": "debates2010-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "c0b7851c58c3c727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-22b.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "tions the regional fire control centre for London is due to become operational during September 2011. Planning assumptions are currently under review.\"-[ Official Report , 15 March 2010; Vol. 507, c. 666W .] That gave a clear impression that the London fire control centre was still on course to be operational by September 2011. As we know, Mr. Speaker, the Olympics run from July to September 2011.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-22b.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-22", "file": "debates2010-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "c0b7851c58c3c727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-22b.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "CHILD POVERTY BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": " worthy objective, which we would all strongly support, but it could produce an enormous amount of time-consuming additional form filling, regulations and analysis. The heart of the child poverty issue is not necessarily, though it could be, a lack of money or any of the criteria set out in the Bill. There is also the problem of children being exposed, for example, to social networking facilities-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-22b.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed5069a619a8365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "It makes that individual, whoever it may be, a persistent offender. Whether a community punishment or a short sentence would be appropriate is, I think, open to question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed5069a619a8365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainability of livestock farming and food production (Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "in the law that have taken place since. It is possible that nothing will come of this, because of the probing nature of my hon. Friend's amendment, but I believe that there is a difficulty involved, and the Minister does not take us any further merely by asserting that we are wrong. We have very little opportunity to get this right, and there could be a problem with this provision in a year or so-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed5069a619a8365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainability of livestock farming and food production (Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is attempting orally to table an amendment, but unfortunately it has not been tabled-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed5069a619a8365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainability of livestock farming and food production (Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "s attempting orally to table an amendment, but unfortunately it has not been tabled- [ Interruption. ] Now he is asking me to table it, but I do not want the amendment that he has suggested. If he had really wanted us to debate it, he might have tabled it himself. Earlier, he was trying to take the Attorney-General out of the equation; now, he seems to want to put her in, but at a different point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed5069a619a8365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainability of livestock farming and food production (Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "le it, but I do not want the amendment that he has suggested. If he had really wanted us to debate it, he might have tabled it himself. Earlier, he was trying to take the Attorney-General out of the equation; now, he seems to want to put her in, but at a different point- [ Interruption. ] I understand, but I am afraid that I must-assertively and, I hope, charmingly-disagree with him on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ed5069a619a8365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainability of livestock farming and food production (Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You missed it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "Was my hon. Friend surprised by the speed with which the Minister moved the resolution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0d68a011eba93a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.116.5", "colnum": "116", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "hat he reads in the papers; they are not always right. In this case they are wrong, and he was wrong to quote them. I am sorry that he thinks what we have done is too little, too late-and I am trying to recall all the letters he has written to me about this issue in the past, but I am afraid I cannot recall any. In fact, the Opposition were, sadly, silent on the subject until I started work on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.116.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0d68a011eba93a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.116.5", "colnum": "116", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "s too little, too late-and I am trying to recall all the letters he has written to me about this issue in the past, but I am afraid I cannot recall any. In fact, the Opposition were, sadly, silent on the subject until I started work on it. [ Interruption. ] I am afraid the record speaks for itself, and it is quite clear. I am happy to show it to any hon. Member who wants to approach me afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.116.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0d68a011eba93a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "It makes that individual, whoever they may be, a persistent offender. Whether a community punishment or a short sentence would be appropriate is, I think, open to question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.130.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0d68a011eba93a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.130.5", "colnum": "130", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, I did not quite catch all of the hon. Gentleman's question. Insofar as I understood what it was about, the Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0d68a011eba93a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainability of Livestock Farming and Food Production (Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "in the law that have taken place since. It is possible that nothing will come of this, because of the probing nature of my hon. Friend's amendment, but I believe that there is a difficulty involved, and the Minister does not take us any further merely by asserting that we are wrong. We have very little opportunity to get this right, and there could be a problem with this provision in a year or so-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.154.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-23", "file": "debates2010-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "0d68a011eba93a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainability of Livestock Farming and Food Production (Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "le it, but I do not want the amendment that he has suggested. If he had really wanted us to debate it, he might have tabled it himself. Earlier, he was trying to take the Attorney-General out of the equation; now, he seems to want to put her in, but at a different point- [ Interruption. ] I understand, but I am afraid that I must-assertively and, I hope, charmingly-disagree with him on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-23b.177.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-24", "file": "debates2010-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "b396532906a7c233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "y of State promised me further talks, \"not with empty slogans and hollow promises but with real action-and not by doing nothing.\"-[ Official Report , 3 June 2009; Vol. 493, c. 261 .] But here we are, nine months later, and nothing has happened. We cannot go on like this. Is it not time for change and for him to make way for a Secretary of State who will stick up for the people of Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24a.233.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-24", "file": "debates2010-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f6c8b6cd5812b731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "y of State promised me further talks, \"not with empty slogans and hollow promises but with real action-and not by doing nothing.\"-[ Official Report , 3 June 2009; Vol. 493, c. 261 .] But here we are, nine months later, and nothing has happened. We cannot go on like this. Is it not time for change and for him to make way for a Secretary of State who will stick up for the people of Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.233.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-24", "file": "debates2010-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f6c8b6cd5812b731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " Members should be ashamed of this-more than every single Labour Government in history ever borrowed, added up together. That is what they have done. Like every Labour Government before them, they have run out of money, and they are leaving it to the next Conservative Government to clean up the mess. Today the Chancellor had his last chance to do the right thing for the country. He totally failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.265.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-24", "file": "debates2010-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f6c8b6cd5812b731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "t, particularly in the face of the deficit hawks who want to cut now and cut severely. We must tread the path of the next few years carefully. The public sector will have to step back and allow the private sector to play a leading role in growing our economy, but we must ensure that the timing is right and we do not crowd out private sector growth with too much debt-fuelled public sector spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.273.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-24", "file": "debates2010-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f6c8b6cd5812b731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jack", "preceding_text": " for individuals in the long term. Indeed, the economy will have to face such restructuring if we are to make progress. It is always correct for a Member to declare their interests at the beginning of their contribution, so I apologise to the House for the slight delay. I am a non-executive director of a retail company called Topps Tiles. We are Britain's largest seller of tiles and wood flooring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.303.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-24", "file": "debates2010-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f6c8b6cd5812b731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cider!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ing areas such as the east Mendips, where it could mitigate some of the environmental effects of quarrying, but that money has now been taken away. Now, this money is spread out in an amorphous way across any body that thinks it might have a useful purpose for it. We are not even getting the direct benefit of the aggregates levy, and it is time the policy was revisited. My main bone of contention-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-24", "file": "debates2010-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f6c8b6cd5812b731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "h my Government-I am proud to say-have tried to do with some success during the recession. If we look at the economic policies of Wolverhampton city council, we see that the Opposition approach to the economy is to use the state of public finances as a cover for shrinking the state. That is what they wish to do. I do not wish, as a Labour MP, to shrink the state. There is a big ideological divide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-24", "file": "debates2010-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "f6c8b6cd5812b731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION IN SOUTH AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "nt, an application and the processing of documents. I am therefore puzzled as to why the application for spousal and family visas was not made at that stage. The assumption throughout this debate is that the lady in question-the wife-is the primary applicant. There are children involved as well, who would be entitled to apply for British citizenship by virtue of their father's British citizenship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-24b.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "dd7c0c2037f755c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25b.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that I am pretty reluctant to take lectures on effective legislation from the party responsible for the original, 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act, which had to be amended in 1997. He should be slightly cautious on that subject. That is the first point. The second point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25b.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "dd7c0c2037f755c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25b.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ings that were in the Budget but not actually mentioned in the Chancellor's Budget speech. The debate will give us all a chance to reflect on what the rest of the country thought about the Budget-which is: not a lot-and the fact that only three Labour Back Benchers have turned up to support the Government's final Budget suggests that the parliamentary Labour party does not think much of it either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25b.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "dd7c0c2037f755c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25b.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "An empty Budget. An exercise in politics, not an example of governing. The only ideas of any substance in this Budget are Conservative ideas. Taking first-time buyers out of stamp duty? Now, I knew I had heard that before, and when I did my research, it turned out that I had announced it at the Conservative party conference three years ago. It was roundly condemned by Labour Ministers at the time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25b.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "dd7c0c2037f755c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25b.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "n those that contribute to binge drinking. My hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) made one of the most succinct points of the entire debate. If the Economic Secretary to the Treasury is listening I shall repeat what my hon. Friend said, because he pointed to the Minister and asked, if an election had not been coming up in the next two weeks, would we have seen this particular Budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25b.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that I am pretty reluctant to take lectures on effective legislation from the party responsible for the original, 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act, which had to be amended in 1997. He should be slightly cautious on that subject. That is the first point. The second point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "day, all vehicular traffic is banned and the city becomes a paradise for cyclists, walkers and joggers? Why cannot we shut down in London in that way for a day a week, or for an hour each morning to allow children to be taken to school and to allow me to bike or jog to Parliament without my lungs being clogged up by the filthy fumes of our city? Let us have an hour a day free of traffic in London-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate this surprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "e Session-especially given that although we have some rudimentary control over business in this House, the Government have no control over the House of Lords and there are no timetabling procedures there-he should focus his attention, as we are, on seeking the support of the official Opposition. If they stopped their blocking of the Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill, we could get it through-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " to get their Members to stop blocking the Bill. If it is the official Opposition's position, they should unblock the Bill. As for the proposals from the Wright Committee-the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons-if the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome thinks there is something about the Standing Orders that we have drafted and that have been on the Order Paper for a number of days-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House will have seen my early-day motions in 2007-08 and 2008-09 that sought to stop MPs abusing their expenses and second jobs. Even now, can we plan to meet in the House on 31 March to debate the matter and press forward on the remaining, much-needed changes to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " it. As for her second point, I note the force with which she has made her concern known, but as she will know, the question of whether a Bill survives in the wash-up is a matter for others, not the Chair. As for the shadow Leader of the House's point of order, the safest thing that I can say is that it is not entirely clear to me that this is a matter of order for the Chair. A statement was made-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "You referred to the hon. Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) being earnest, Mr. Speaker, but was he actually here when those exchanges were made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.394.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "How heartening it is for all of us that the House is in such a convivial mood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " things that were in the Budget but not actually mentioned in the Chancellor's Budget speech. The debate will give us all a chance to reflect on what the rest of the country thought about the Budget-which is: not a lot. The fact that only three Labour Back Benchers have turned up to support the Government's final Budget suggests that the parliamentary Labour party does not think much of it either-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "An empty Budget. An exercise in politics, not an example of governing. The only ideas of any substance in this Budget are Conservative ideas. Taking first-time buyers out of stamp duty? Now, I knew I had heard that before, and when I did my research, it turned out that I had announced it at the Conservative party conference three years ago. It was roundly condemned by Labour Ministers at the time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " exactly the same policy at £70 million less in the Red Book. That is typical of their complete nonsense. I will tell the House about something else that was not in the Budget. The first-time buyers' exemption is for only two years. It is a temporary exemption, but the increase in stamp duty to 5 per cent. at the top rate is a permanent increase. That is something else that was not mentioned-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.397.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-25", "file": "debates2010-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0a61b7b388ba65af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.409.4", "colnum": "409", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "their leader promised \"the most family-friendly manifesto that any party has produced in British political history.\" This is family friendly? We always knew that the Conservatives had a narrow view of \"family\", but this shows that they have a pretty sinister view of friendly too. I say to the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats that they should rethink this. The Labour party set out yesterday-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-25c.409.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-29", "file": "debates2010-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "0aa0c1b2b5d32f9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-29b.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "nes that they like so much? Labour stands for waste and taxes, and the Conservative party stands for efficiency and aspiration. As the Prime Minister contemplates his national insurance increase on employees and employers, what on earth makes him think that the way to rescue an economy from the longest and deepest recession on record is a tax on jobs that hits every single business in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-29b.511.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-29", "file": "debates2010-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "fdb55185b0bfbbab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-29c.495.6", "colnum": "495", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "We have not had to repay moneys granted to us for urgent operational requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-29c.495.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-29", "file": "debates2010-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "fdb55185b0bfbbab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-29c.495.7", "colnum": "495", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that there is a contradiction between the arguments of those who say that not enough money is being spent on defence while also saying that the break clauses in the contract for the aircraft carriers must be examined?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-29c.495.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-29", "file": "debates2010-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "fdb55185b0bfbbab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-29c.503.4", "colnum": "503", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Gentleman quite genuinely that I am not dead certain about whether, after taking the urgent operational requirements into account, the fact that he cites is correct. The only thing that I would say to him is that, because of a Labour Government, the time that he mentions has been a period of unprecedented growth in GDP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-29c.503.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-30", "file": "debates2010-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "9a1086c50da6b944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "efore the election takes place. On efficiency savings, there are two elements to consider. Of course we must all make efficiency savings-those on both sides of the Chamber talk about them-and the public are extremely aware of the need to cut wasteful spending. We addressed the national insurance increase and identified areas where we were confident that we could avoid that particular tax increase-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-30", "file": "debates2010-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "9a1086c50da6b944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Heaven forfend. I like the tower and I always go there when I am in Blackpool. My party used to go there and I also have fond memories of it as a child. The tower is a national monument and £8 million is no doubt money well spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-30", "file": "debates2010-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "9a1086c50da6b944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "as gone to Blackpool tower. This is part of the £7 billion that is suddenly being disbursed. Where is the money coming from? It is being borrowed. Is it the Government's money? No, it is the taxpayer's money, which the Government hope that eventually some Chinese investor will help to finance. At the moment, the necessary bonds are presumably being printed by or bought by the Bank of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-30", "file": "debates2010-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "9a1086c50da6b944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "What I said, or what I thought I said, was that we would cut child tax credits for high earners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-30", "file": "debates2010-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "9a1086c50da6b944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "What I said, or what I thought I said, was that we would cut child tax credits for high earners. [Hon. Members: \"No!\"] Well, if I mispronounced it, then I mispronounced it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-03-30", "file": "debates2010-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "9a1086c50da6b944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "easing the debt to nearly £1.5 trillion. The task before us is therefore truly awesome. There is also an intergenerational problem and a question of fairness. Are we really going to hand on to our children a debt that we have incurred? It is already the case that a baby born in Britain today arrives with a debt around its neck. That is not a sure start; it is a debt start, and it is up to us-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-03-30b.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06b.xml", "sha256": "ef3fdc1d49d993e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06b.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": ". I am largely unsympathetic to the concerns of the big ISPs, but BT has made some important points in its representations, particularly that \"the rights holder must show the court that he has taken all reasonable steps to enforce his rights\". That, too, is something that we should have had an opportunity to look at in detail, but that opportunity has been denied. I shall turn briefly to spectrum-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06b.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"This is a different question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "cede the territory to Mauritius when it is no longer needed for defence purposes. It is also without prejudice to the outcome of the current pending proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights. The BIOT administration has been tasked with taking the establishment of an MPA forward in order that this is achieved in a realistic, sustainable and affordable way. Finally, on a separate topic-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "1960s and early 1970s. However, we believe that that has now been settled in the highest court of this land by the Law Lords. Yes, a court case will be heard in the European Court of Human Rights, but this is an important step to take, notwithstanding any possible discussions or judgment handed down by the Court, because we believe that the biodiversity in that territory is essential to the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, we do not believe that the Chagossians will be returning to the islands-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.823.5", "colnum": "823", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The extension of the marine protected area and the new measures we are taking will not have any direct or indirect effect on the rights or otherwise of Chagossians to return to the islands. These are two entirely separate issues. Some have suggested that one should protect humans and not bother to protect the marine environment -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.823.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "current infringements are already carried out in other ways. Originally, the Government wished to future-proof the legislation with what used to be clause 17, which would have provided powers to take action against other forms of online infringement. That clause, however, was too much for Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers in the other place, who tabled a new clause 18 to allow site blocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend content with clause 31, on the digital switchover? It is estimated that the costs to the consumer will be £800 million, and there is no sign of manufacturers of DAB radios producing cheap radios, no estimate of the cost of throwing away millions of existing FM sets, no sign that the motor car industry is going to come up with the goods-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.859.2", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress and deal with the issue of site blocking. When we got rid of clause 17 in another place, we acknowledged that although two thirds of the illegal activity was peer to peer, one third involved people accessing illegal websites. We believe that action should be taken. In another place we proposed, at very short notice, an amendment that we thought would deal with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": ". I am largely unsympathetic to the concerns of the big ISPs, but BT has made some important points in its representations, particularly that \"the rights holder must show the court that he has taken all reasonable steps to enforce his rights\". That, too, is something that we should have had an opportunity to look at in detail, but that opportunity has been denied. I shall turn briefly to spectrum-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": " very well. It is Spielberg and George Lucas who are the enemy, along with Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and talented, not rich, low-budget British film makers. Yes, the Beatles and the Stones are also the enemy, as are young unsigned bands. I am not talking about super-rich rock stars and film producers, but about struggling young musicians, ordinary jobbing and grafting musicians and film makers-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": " and within a few hours was campaigning against said amendment. That illustrated the point very well, because he was trying to deal with what he saw as a wrong. It turned out that that was not very popular in his party and the amendment did not do what he wanted it to do, so he tried to amend it again. That is what the Committee stage of a Bill is for. I am deeply concerned that what we are about-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Gentleman-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what day Department for Culture, Media and Sport questions is, but I think that question was an excellent one formulated for the next event. This is the Equality Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I have just set out my hon. Friend's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-06", "file": "debates2010-04-06c.xml", "sha256": "5919f4862c1fd992", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "GLADYS TAULO", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "information available to me, I would say-that she has not breached paragraphs 128 to 130 of the immigration rules relevant to work permit holders. Nor has she failed to observe any condition of leave to enter or remain, and therefore she is not a suitable person to have removal proceedings taken against her. Yet, everybody has been obdurate, including the Home Office, in insisting on this removal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-06c.945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.957.7", "colnum": "957", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "rose-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.957.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend is absolutely right. He and others are fantastic champions of shipbuilding in Scotland. He makes a very clear point. The Scottish Conservatives are in favour of industry-destroying cuts, creating elitism and sinking shipyards-we have an unchanged Scottish Conservative party. The last thing that Scotland wants to do is to go back to the old divisions of the 1980s under the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Again, no answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.963.0", "colnum": "963", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "g street, said that this Prime Minister \"will go down in history as the one who destroyed our pensions system...He just ignores what he doesn't want to hear, then tries to cover up the consequences...people are finally starting to rumble Gordon Brown and it serves him right.\" Presumably she was deceived as well. Let us take another decision for which the Prime Minister needs to be held to account-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A Tory!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "This morning the Prime Minister said that these business leaders had been deceived. Since then another 30 business leaders have come again and said, \"Ah, they're right, and the Government are wrong.\" Let me read the Prime Minister what they are saying. Paul Walsh, the head of Diageo, who is on the Prime Minister's business council-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "It is the same old Conservative party-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "There is one person who prevented the Liberal and Labour proposal from being agreed by the Conservative party. The Conservatives withdrew from the talks, and the reason why is one name: Lord Ashcroft. That was the reason-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must calm down. Members-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.965.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.968.4", "colnum": "968", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend on one point, and that is the importance of tax credits, which have helped lower and middle-income people get out of poverty and secure their livelihood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.968.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.983.2", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "ake. They could have tabled a business motion in the Lords that would guarantee the passage through the Lords of the parts of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill that they are now agreeing with the Conservatives to get rid of. There are precedents for this because in 1997, when the Conservatives were last in charge, there was a business motion in the House of Lords in the wash-up period-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.983.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.992.4", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "We made our position on the Standing Orders absolutely clear during our negotiations with the Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.992.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "That is my Ealing comedy alter ego, Sir Alan-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "on that, as it will depend on various factors. He is right, however, to identify that problem with mephedrone. Professor Iversen appeared before the Committee and said that mephedrone was an amphetamine by any other name, and that it could have harmful effects. My hon. Friend might be right about the individual cases, but my point is that 25 deaths were in some way related to the use of that drug-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-07", "file": "debates2010-04-07b.xml", "sha256": "77cd847968b48e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Grogan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"One night and one day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Grogan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Watson) has been working on the amendments night and day in the limited time available-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-07b.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-08", "file": "debates2010-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0de5e3d19eec5502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08a.1164.2", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I once lived in a 17 (th) century stone cottage in a rural area, so I know how difficult it is to take those measures-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08a.1164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-08", "file": "debates2010-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0de5e3d19eec5502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "effectively hand over control of the City of London to the axis of France and Germany-Frankfurt and Paris. Nikolas Sarkozy has been quite clear from the beginning about their overriding objection to the Anglo-Saxon methods of dealing with financial services, and about their objective of taking over the City of London. That is one of their objectives, and the same goes for the Germans in Frankfurt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08a.1248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-08", "file": "debates2010-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "2f3dedfb9246a310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1161.8", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Greg Barker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1161.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-08", "file": "debates2010-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "2f3dedfb9246a310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1164.2", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I once lived in a 17th century stone cottage in a rural area, so I know how difficult it is to take those measures-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-08", "file": "debates2010-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "2f3dedfb9246a310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1167.6", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman knows perfectly well that the Government have made great strides in developing marine technology. In the south-west, we already have a wave hub, to which we have made £60 million available. We have made it clear that, although it is not an immediate technology, which can be deployed at this moment, as wind can-the hon. Gentleman needs to get his party's position on wind straight-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-08", "file": "debates2010-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "2f3dedfb9246a310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I do not consider it to be waste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-08", "file": "debates2010-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "2f3dedfb9246a310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have already ruled on that matter-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-04-08", "file": "debates2010-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "2f3dedfb9246a310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "effectively hand over control of the City of London to the axis of France and Germany-Frankfurt and Paris. Nikolas Sarkozy has been quite clear from the beginning about their overriding objection to the Anglo-Saxon methods of dealing with financial services, and about their objective of taking over the City of London. That is one of their objectives, and the same goes for the Germans in Frankfurt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-04-08b.1248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-18", "file": "debates2010-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "dff03450fc080edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-18a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": " have the pleasure of congratulating you on your elevation to Father of the House? You first entered this Chamber in 1959, when Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister. Since then, you have established your reputation as a Member who speaks on matters with the greatest of clarity and with the deepest of passion; that has been your trademark. Indeed, it has been said that when Sir Peter Tapsell rises -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-18a.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-18", "file": "debates2010-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "0e7c4c299683c1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-18b.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": " have the pleasure of congratulating you on your elevation to Father of the House? You first entered this Chamber in 1959, when Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister. Since then, you have established your reputation as a Member who speaks on matters with the greatest of clarity and with the deepest of passion; that has been your trademark. Indeed, it has been said that when Sir Peter Tapsell rises -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-18b.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-18", "file": "debates2010-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "0e7c4c299683c1f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-18b.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "congratulating the new Father of the House, and yourself, Mr Speaker-Elect, on your re-election. In my brief contribution, I want to highlight the fact that there is no longer a second, UK-wide Opposition party in this House. That underlines the point that it is the parties of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland that, together with the Labour Opposition, will take on much of the work of scrutiny-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-18b.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "9facd5b20ca2cf51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "y the then Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which tips the balance by enabling planning officers to claim that they have to treat the needs of the Traveller community above those of the established community. I do not mind an even playing field, but this tips the balance; it is also used on appeal. I ask my right hon. Friends on the Front Bench to consider immediately suspending this circular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": " will be delighted that the Gracious Speech promises a Bill to \"give local communities control over housing and planning decisions.\" The Gracious Speech is the first instalment of the coalition's programme. I congratulate the Prime Minister on recognising that the inconclusive election result meant that the only way to provide strong and stable government was to form a coalition with the Liberals-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ormer. At last year's Lib Dem conference, and with eerie foresight, he played the Johnny Cash classic \"Walk the Line\". I suggest that this time he goes to the Tory conference to play another Cash classic-\"Ring of Fire\". The hon. Gentleman has also had a long-standing interest in science. Again, with a self-knowledge that we can only envy, he wrote a noted scientific publication \"Science with Gas\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "he was the local secretary of the European movement and was vigorously campaigning for a yes vote. As my right hon. Friend said, it is their wedding anniversary today. They have been happily married ever since. As someone who has recently got into bed with an ardent Europhile, I should perhaps ask my right hon. Friend's advice about how to hold the relationship together over a long period of time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "any future treaty that transfers power to the European Union will be subject to a referendum. Never again will a Government be able to surrender sovereignty to Brussels without the full consent of the British people. This Queen's Speech is the first in 65 years from a coalition Government. It is a Government driven not by party interest but by the national interest, with clear values at its heart-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has to understand that, in the words of the outgoing Chief Secretary, we have run out of money-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "portant points. First, in its manifesto, the Labour party supported fixed-term Parliaments. Secondly, in order to entrench fixed-term Parliaments in Scotland, almost every Member opposite who was there at the time voted for a 66%, rather than a 55%, threshold. Let me give a little warning: I can tell you, having sat on the Opposition Benches for the past nine years, that opportunism does not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.47.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.48.7", "colnum": "48", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wooh!", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for the hon. Gentleman's question, although I hope that before long he will be referring to it as \"our Government\" rather than \"his Government\". You are absolutely right-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.48.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "he is not really trying to stitch up a majority in the Commons for a lot longer than he might truly own one. If he is appointing new peers to ensure that the coalition has a majority in the House of Lords, while at the same time requiring a Commons vote of more than 55%, which is more than all the Opposition parties can muster, before the Government can fall, is it not stitching up the House and -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "t \"help\" means is not very clear, but if they keep the promise, there will be six new houses in every constituency in the country. That will scarcely help to solve the housing problem. On international development, the Liberal Democrat manifesto promised to increase the United Kingdom's aid budget. Yesterday, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Government cut money for international development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "old me that they had told him. He knows about it now. I will wait to see what he does to deal with an overtly anti-Semitic candidate who fought an anti-Semitic, and personally anti-Semitic, election campaign. If the Deputy Prime Minister does not take swift action to deal with that person, I will know that he accepts that anti-Semitism is a run-of-the-mill form of campaigning by Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " on more modern and foreign examples. My right hon. and hon. Friends will understand that we need good friends, because we must win this argument for the sake of our country's prosperity. I know a number of people whom I describe as entrepreneurs on strike. They have been very successful in business and they are now in their late 40s and 50s. Many of us would feel that they were still quite young-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased to hear that reassurance from the hon. Gentleman, who knows his party's policy better than I do. I am glad that there is no proposal to elect chief constables, but we must look at the democratic deficit to see how it can be filled effectively, leaving operational matters to local people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "y the then Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which tips the balance by enabling planning officers to claim that they have to treat the needs of the Traveller community above those of the established community. I do not mind an even playing field, but this tips the balance; it is also used on appeal. I ask my right hon. Friends on the Front Bench to consider immediately suspending this circular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-25", "file": "debates2010-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "655cc2563ddcf7f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "DEPUTY SPEAKERS", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "t reforms Government structures, too. It also disbands other Labour creations, which so blatantly wasted taxpayers' money. I was never sure exactly what the British Potato Council did, but it cost the taxpayer £6 million a year and I am glad to see it go. Likewise, I am pleased to see the South West regional development agency disappear. It costs us in the south-west around £300 million-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-25b.126.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "53d024c1872803f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "n planning, but she was also a shadow Minister for Scotland, for London, for planning and for home affairs. Having been with her for several months, I know how much she cared and how much she did for the little people, which the press did not know about. She used to leave me and go off to look after people. I was seriously impressed by that, and if I can be as good as her, I shall not be half bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "53d024c1872803f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "It is a tremendous honour to speak in a debate that has featured so many genuinely outstanding maiden speeches. They have caused me to recall my own puny affair with a growing sense of inferiority as the afternoon has proceeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "There was not a single clue in the statement that we just heard from him about how he would address those challenges. May I also respond to the shadow Chancellor's point about making statements in the House? Of course, Mr Speaker, we want, wherever possible, to make these statements first and to be held to account for them, but if he is so passionate about this, can he explain why it was the case-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " (David Miliband) has just made it into the Chamber in the last few seconds as, in our exchanges across this Table in our previous roles, he and I often reflected that bipartisanship in many areas. He is now standing for another position that I would not wish on anybody, given my experience as Leader of the Opposition. I will not wish him well with that, in case it damages his chances of election-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "House on the need to make urgent progress on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before the window for such a solution closes. Our goal is a secure and universally recognised Israel living alongside a sovereign and viable Palestinian state, with Jerusalem the future capital of both states, and a fair settlement for refugees. We will seek to buttress the diplomatic initiative -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.186.4", "colnum": "186", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "The last thing a new British Foreign Secretary should do is lecture other people about Kashmir. The British position is long standing and well known, and it has not changed with the arrival of a new Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shadow Foreign Secretary!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "That is an absolutely shocking allegation. It is not true, and I want to tell the hon. Gentleman why. It is a shocking allegation because the idea that the last Government spent their time simply increasing the aid budget rather than increasing its quality is contradicted by every single independent report, national and international, on the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.195.2", "colnum": "195", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point, founded on the actual experience of going to Afghanistan and talking to people there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": " is allied with \"a bunch of nutters, anti-Semites, people who deny climate change exists, homophobes.\" Meanwhile, the Prime Minister says of the Lib Dems that they want to \"take away Britain's seat on the United Nations Security Council and replace it with a European one.\" The Foreign Secretary himself has called the Lib Dems \"the most fanatically federalist party in Britain.\" So when it comes to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.195.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "John Woodcock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Woodcock", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this debate on defence, an issue of such importance to my constituents. It is a great privilege to make my maiden speech after a speech on Europe by the hon. Member for Stone (Mr Cash) . As a teenager, I used to watch him speak in Parliament, and it is a privilege to be here today to hear pretty much the same speech from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-26", "file": "debates2010-05-26b.xml", "sha256": "360bf6de6c0076c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUN)", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "It is a tremendous honour to speak in a debate that has featured so many genuinely outstanding maiden speeches. They have caused me to recall my own puny affair with a growing sense of inferiority as the afternoon has proceeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-26b.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-27", "file": "debates2010-05-27b.xml", "sha256": "b77897f5f88b093e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-27b.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "sponsible in our party for these issues. I enjoyed that task immensely and have taken a long interest in environmental and energy issues. I wish the two Secretaries of State and their ministerial team all the best in what is one of the most important areas of public policy for us to get right. As someone who sat for 27 years on the Opposition side of the House, haranguing Government to be greener-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-27b.348.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-27", "file": "debates2010-05-27c.xml", "sha256": "72db3eeecf9d0ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-27c.310.5", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "I should make a little progress, because answering one intervention and then moving straight into dealing with another without even delivering a few of the sentences in my prepared text would be -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-27c.310.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-27", "file": "debates2010-05-27c.xml", "sha256": "72db3eeecf9d0ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-27c.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "us meet the target. You do not have to take my word for that, Mr Speaker-you can take the word of the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, who supported our position. If he would like to intervene to tell me, or his former right hon. Friend, who is now the Secretary of State, that he agrees that local councils need to contribute to the 15% target, I would be very happy to give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-27c.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-05-27", "file": "debates2010-05-27c.xml", "sha256": "72db3eeecf9d0ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-27c.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "sponsible in our party for these issues. I enjoyed that task immensely and have taken a long interest in environmental and energy issues. I wish the two Secretaries of State and their ministerial team all the best in what is one of the most important areas of public policy for us to get right. As someone who sat for 27 years on the Opposition side of the House, haranguing Government to be greener-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-05-27c.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.426.5", "colnum": "426", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The House of Lords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "preceding_text": "All parties in this House will welcome the coalition's proposals to eliminate quangos and shift power away from unelected functionaries to elected representatives. The biggest quango of the lot is, of course-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.426.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.426.6", "colnum": "426", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking that question. I do not always give him answers that make him happy, but this time I can. There will be a draft motion, by December, which the House can vote on. I have always supported a predominantly elected House of Lords, and I am delighted that agreement has been reached on the coalition programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.426.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ent Benches, an enormous recognition of marriage in the tax system was introduced by the Labour Government in-wait for it-inheritance tax. [Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] Yes, they massively increased the threshold for inheritance tax that can be transferred between husband and wife. If recognising marriage in the tax system is such a good thing for the better-off, why do we not do it for the less well-off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.429.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " and say that I, too, have visited the Nissan plant near Sunderland. It is an absolute wonder to see the incredible investment that has gone in there and the many jobs that have been created, not just at that plant but in the supply chain. I want to see electric cars being developed, and when I was at Nissan we discussed that specifically. As for the grant, I do not have a specific answer for her-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.432.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that resolution 1860, as well as calling for an end to the blockade, acknowledges that the international community itself has responsibility to ensure that weapons are not smuggled into Gaza? We know that the Foreign Secretary does not want to send a gunboat to ensure that this happens-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more. School transport is covered by the revenue support grant in almost all circumstances and has not been affected. With respect to special educational needs, we are ensuring that the commitment is there to fund the services that our most vulnerable children need. What I would say to all hon. Gentlemen on the Labour Benches-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman answers his own question: the Labour party did leave chaos and mayhem, and the tough decisions that it relentlessly avoided now have to be taken. By refusing to state exactly how it would deal with the public spending mess that it left behind, the Labour party is placing itself outside the European mainstream-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "eacher programme, which is too bureaucratic and puts barriers in the way of those who want to enter teaching, is expanded by turning it into a Teach Now programme. I see from the nods coming from the former Chairman of the Select Committee that he appreciates that there is room for consensus and for constructive work in this area, which unites everyone who is serious about raising teacher quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I have asked officials to calculate exactly how much we will save.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I have asked officials to calculate exactly how much we will save. [Interruption.] Well, we will bring forward legislation, but there is a sum of £36.50 for every teacher, which will save us hundreds of thousands of pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "atement, even-is point out whether he agrees with the policy. If he will tell me whether he agrees with it, I will be interested to hear his views. We do know, however, that money will be saved, and that introducing this change in respect of this organisation is in the interests of teachers and of making sure that money that is otherwise spent on bureaucratic bodies can be spent on the front line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "will be interested to hear his views. We do know, however, that money will be saved, and that introducing this change in respect of this organisation is in the interests of teachers and of making sure that money that is otherwise spent on bureaucratic bodies can be spent on the front line. [Interruption.] I have had the opportunity to read the advice, and I know that this is the right thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.465.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " What do we want to do? Let me quote: \"We need to make it easier for every school to acquire the drive and essential freedoms of Academies, and we need to so in a practical way that allows their rapid development to be driven by parents and local communities, not just by the centre...We want every school to be able quickly and easily to become a self-governing independent...school\". Who said that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": ", the new Minister for Children and Families. In recent months, the Education Secretary's new Front-Bench colleague has made some notable speeches-notable in retrospect, at least. Back in March, she told the Liberal Democrat spring conference: \"The Tories don't know what they are talking about. They have no idea how the other 90% live. Scratch the surface and the old Tory party is alive and well.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "estore a mixed, non-faith school for 11-year-olds in Croxteth and Norris Green. Almost 1,000 years ago, West Derby featured in the Domesday Book. Today's parliamentary constituency includes Dovecot, Tuebrook, Croxteth, Norris Green, Knotty Ash and West Derby itself. Perhaps my most famous constituent resides in Knotty Ash. He is the comedian Ken Dodd who is now 82 years old and still going strong-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "the NHS continues to move forward in this period. I have never doubted the right hon. Gentleman's commitment to the NHS, but I am less sure about the people behind him and around him. Last August, a ComRes survey of prospective Tory parliamentary candidates found that an amazing 62% disagreed with their Front-Bench policy to increase NHS spending in real terms during the course of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "73bc64919c100db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " advising Henry VIII on divorce, and the thought crossed my mind that the family's skills might be of some use if the fabled married men's allowance ever reaches the Floor of the House. We had a second maiden speech from my hon. Friend the new Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Stephen Twigg) . I have just been out to check, and I can assure the House that the second was much better than the first-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02c.539.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "63459c58aa9861b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02d.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ent Benches, an enormous recognition of marriage in the tax system was introduced by the Labour Government in—wait for it—inheritance tax. [Hon. Members: “Oh!”] Yes, they massively increased the threshold for inheritance tax that can be transferred between husband and wife. If recognising marriage in the tax system is such a good thing for the better-off, why do we not do it for the less well-off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02d.429.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "63459c58aa9861b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02d.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " and say that I, too, have visited the Nissan plant near Sunderland. It is an absolute wonder to see the incredible investment that has gone in there and the many jobs that have been created, not just at that plant but in the supply chain. I want to see electric cars being developed, and when I was at Nissan we discussed that specifically. As for the grant, I do not have a specific answer for her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02d.432.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "63459c58aa9861b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02d.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more. School transport is covered by the revenue support grant in almost all circumstances and has not been affected. With respect to special educational needs, we are ensuring that the commitment is there to fund the services that our most vulnerable children need. What I would say to all hon. Gentlemen on the Labour Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02d.459.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-02", "file": "debates2010-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "63459c58aa9861b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02d.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "orm. What do we want to do? Let me quote: “We need to make it easier for every school to acquire the drive and essential freedoms of Academies, and we need to so in a practical way that allows their rapid development to be driven by parents and local communities, not just by the centre…We want every school to be able quickly and easily to become a self-governing independent…school”. Who said that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-02d.469.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03c.xml", "sha256": "c3b2c3b31024d1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03c.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Julian Sturdy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Sturdy", "preceding_text": "g tribute to the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern) for her excellent contribution, and to my hon. Friends the Members Brighton, Kemptown (Simon Kirby) and for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier) for their excellent maiden speeches. I am grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to take part in today's debate, as I stand here making my maiden speech on my 39th birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03c.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03c.xml", "sha256": "c3b2c3b31024d1c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03c.680.7", "colnum": "680", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Far be it from me to take any mantles upon myself at all, although I thought that I might be Warden Hodges, who was always the nemesis of Captain Mainwaring. Anyway, we had a splendid speech from the hon. Member for Wyre Forest-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03c.680.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "8f11433f1b20f616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "apparent to my colleagues and me that under the previous Government, Departments could have worked together better, particularly more strategically. That point might also be relevant to previous Governments, and we intend to put it right. We are establishing a new Cabinet Committee on European affairs that I will chair, with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change as the deputy chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "8f11433f1b20f616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for reminding me of our wager. Without giving too much away, I should say that I am looking forward to drinking with her the proceeds that she owes me. The wager was made on the understanding that I would join her so that we could consume the proceeds together. I am looking forward to doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.602.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "8f11433f1b20f616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You're the shadow Foreign Secretary!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "oth petulance and insolence. I will focus on the Council's agenda, but first I must pick the Foreign Secretary up on one thing. These debates are not traditionally partisan affairs, and my remarks will not be dedicated in that dimension. Pre-European Council debates-not European debates in general-have generally been focused on the agenda of the European Council. The shadow Foreign Secretary said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.613.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "8f11433f1b20f616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Julian Sturdy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Sturdy", "preceding_text": "g tribute to the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern) for her excellent contribution, and to my hon. Friends the Members Brighton, Kemptown (Simon Kirby) and for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier) for their excellent maiden speeches. I am grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to take part in today's debate, as I stand here making my maiden speech on my 39th birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "8f11433f1b20f616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " great capital city need. I made a mistake in the last year. I thought that my colleagues were talking about amending regional development agencies, but I had had clear instructions for months that One NorthEast should continue. I heard from my right hon. Friend the Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary today that One NorthEast will continue, and I hope the hon. Lady will be reassured by that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "8f11433f1b20f616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "n the new Government want to reduce the number of Members-by 65, I believe. Well, that is a legitimate debating point and we will no doubt vote on it at some stage in the future, but if we are going to reduce the number of Members, we have to have those who are Members here in the Chamber in the first place. That is the first duty of Government. We, of course, have less onerous duties in terms of-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "8f11433f1b20f616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend is piping up, because we always have Private Frazer, \"We're doomed, Captain Mainwaring! We're doomed!\", and he is always played by my hon. Friend. Then, of course, we always have someone who is immensely sanctimonious-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-03", "file": "debates2010-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "8f11433f1b20f616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.680.7", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Far be it from me to take any mantles upon myself at all, although I thought that I might be Warden Hodges, who was always the nemesis of Captain Mainwaring. Anyway, we had a splendid speech from the hon. Member for Wyre Forest-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-03d.680.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07d.xml", "sha256": "c44c4fae5614ecef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07d.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": " straightforward. First, do the Government accept that if a Government lose a vote of confidence on a simple majority and no alternative majority is formed within a reasonable time, Parliament will then be dissolved and there will be general election? If they say yes and make it clear that that is their position, they will deal with many of the objections held by Members on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07d.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07d.xml", "sha256": "c44c4fae5614ecef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07d.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ord) spoke impressively about how constitutional issues can be of immense importance to the more prosaic, day-to-day issues that affect our constituents. The hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock) spoke of the beauty of his constituency and of the work of Richard Spring, which many of us in this House admired, despite his obvious failure to secure a bypass for Brandon. The Member for Tory-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07d.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.7.6", "colnum": "7", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is of course a former Minister, and talking of dates, I would love to have a date with him so that we can discuss exactly how poorly Nottinghamshire was being treated by the last Government, and the fact that Nottinghamshire has just reached its outline business case-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.7.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks about the pride of place in which the coalition document is held, but I suggest that he should get better material to read before he goes to bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.27.7", "colnum": "27", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "or the new, reformed House of Lords. I am happy to discuss that further with the hon. Lady in or outside the House. I have set out the importance of constitutional change being made, whenever possible, by consensus. I therefore greatly hope that the Deputy Prime Minister will resist calls from his side to use the Government's majority to ram through change for party advantage. That would be wrong-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.27.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "the other place but not improved, as I have often put on the record. I therefore hope that the Deputy Prime Minister will resist the temptation of some on the Government side, as we have read in some newspapers, to pack the other place with up to 200 Conservative and Liberal Democrat Lords to ensure that the previous convention of no one party having a majority, which has worked well, is retained-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to allow me to say that I consult my colleagues about the whipping arrangements that would apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "or giving way, and I am glad that the sinner is repenting. Does he regret the use of the guillotine on so many important Bills during the last Parliament? In the Housing and Regeneration Bill, for instance, which I was involved in, more than 200 Government clauses were tabled between Second Reading and Report, so Members were not allowed proper analysis and oversight of that important legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "t we favour a referendum on the alternative vote, but I make it clear that we will not allow that to be used as a Trojan horse for an omnibus Bill that will profoundly harm our democracy. The Liberal Democrats would do well to consider the damage to democracy that will arise from these proposals. If appealing to their sense of democracy is not enough, then I appeal to their sense of self-interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "al for a 55% threshold to secure the dissolution of Parliament. That 55% threshold appeared in no party manifesto. It is a partisan measure stitched up by the coalition partners to protect themselves from each other-nobody else-while retaining their ability to go for an early election if they believe it would be advantageous. Where does the figure of 55% come from? That is an interesting question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not understand. Either this has been done for partisan reasons-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I should like to make progress and then I will give way again. First, we need to relinquish Executive control. The Government are determined that no Government should be able to play politics with the dates of a general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.40.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " regard as completely spurious his argument that there would be some net saving by reducing the total number of MPs, unless our constituents are to receive a far less good service than they receive at the moment. Secondly, of course we will examine proposals for ensuring that the system can be speeded up, but does the right hon. Gentleman accept that, if future reviews are to be sensible and fair-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": " straightforward. First, do the Government accept that if a Government lose a vote of confidence on a simple majority and no alternative majority is formed within a reasonable time, Parliament will then be dissolved and there will be general election? If they say yes and make it clear that that is their position, they will deal with many of the objections held by Members on the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hart", "preceding_text": "d Arms Park. If the hon. Member for Sherwood (Mr Spencer) was worried about where the beach scene in Russell Crowe's recent \"Robin Hood\" epic was filmed, I can reassure him by saying that it was in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire-and I regret to tell the House that Dobby dies in the sand dunes on Freshwater West beach in the final film in the Harry Potter series, which comes out next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ord) spoke impressively about how constitutional issues can be of immense importance to the more prosaic, day-to-day issues that affect our constituents. The hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock) spoke of the beauty of his constituency and of the work of Richard Spring, which many of us in this House admired, despite his obvious failure to secure a bypass for Brandon. The Member for Tory-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.121.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-07", "file": "debates2010-06-07e.xml", "sha256": "e06e9572d355050f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "he business progresses. I am sure that that will happen on many future occasions. It is a great achievement by the new Government. For new Members, let me explain that, in the past, the Government would try to get something through on the nod, at the end of a sitting. If no one objected, it would become law. That will not happen under the coalition. The Government will table the issues for debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-07e.137.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-08", "file": "debates2010-06-08e.xml", "sha256": "dadab4bdb72a95e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "y found that the process is not straightforward and that the ombudsman's ruling was not as clear-cut as some people thought. We therefore commissioned Sir John Chadwick to investigate the matter, and I am glad to say that he will report in July. I had thought he was going to report at the end of May, which is what he had told us, but it may be that he has had further discussions with the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-08", "file": "debates2010-06-08e.xml", "sha256": "dadab4bdb72a95e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ancellor of the Exchequer. The measures that he has just outlined and the success were considerable, but is it not also true that back in 2002 his Government, and my Government, finally paid off the second world war and post-war debt that was run up with the Americans in 1947? The final bonds were paid off not by the Conservatives in the 1950s, 1960s or 1980s, but by the Labour Government in 2002.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-08", "file": "debates2010-06-08e.xml", "sha256": "dadab4bdb72a95e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The shadow Chancellor said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "At least the hon. Gentleman acknowledges-it is the first time, either in this debate or in Treasury questions, that we have heard this from those on the Opposition Benches-that cuts have to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-08", "file": "debates2010-06-08e.xml", "sha256": "dadab4bdb72a95e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "zone, are having to take the measures that they are taking is that there are concerns about sovereign credit worthiness. Of course they must deal with their situation, but, in the month that I have done the job, I am very aware when I sit down at ECOFIN or at the G20 that I represent the country with the largest budget deficit at either of those gatherings. That is the situation that we inherited-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.201.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-08", "file": "debates2010-06-08e.xml", "sha256": "dadab4bdb72a95e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Alan Haselhurst", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "Order. I fear that this is getting worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-08", "file": "debates2010-06-08e.xml", "sha256": "dadab4bdb72a95e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " gather that she made an extremely good speech, and spoke about her predecessor, John Battle, who was well liked in the House. She also quoted the Japanese advice to lead, and not to reduce borrowing quickly. I am an eighth Japanese, and the Japanese are not always right about everything. My hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Gavin Williamson) praised his predecessor, Patrick Cormack-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-08", "file": "debates2010-06-08e.xml", "sha256": "dadab4bdb72a95e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "s that on this side of the House, we can unite the party yet again. It is a fairly tenuous link, I grant. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Shabana Mahmood) has very big shoes to fill. Clare Short ended her parliamentary career in some measure of dispute with her party, but I can hardly think of anyone who has left the House, whether in government or opposition who was more well respected-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-08", "file": "debates2010-06-08e.xml", "sha256": "dadab4bdb72a95e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.309.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "HOUSING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "elieve that there is a way forward on that. I would be interested-I do not suppose that I have the choice-to receive further representations from him and from others who think differently, but there are serious difficulties over how that can be done, not least because, for the first time, we are bringing the ownership of an asset into consideration of whether it was a material planning use or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-08e.309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "8a8692236e7c2635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09e.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The point that I am making is a simple one. The last Labour Government claimed that this would be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09e.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.317.6", "colnum": "317", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": "I welcome my hon. Friend back to the House and I thank her for her question. Clearly we need to be proud of the college, which is a national centre of excellence and has won awards, including, I believe, a best in the world award, for its work? I understand that it has been through a recent reorganisation. If it would welcome a ministerial visit, I would be happy to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.322.6", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, let me be as frank and as clear as I can be. We had a meeting of the joint ministerial council yesterday with representatives of all the devolved Assemblies and Governments. I want to have a genuine respect agenda between the UK Government and all those Administrations. We have always said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.322.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has shown that he is not listening to the argument that he cannot redraw the boundaries, which is his Government's proposal, until the problem of the register is sorted out. He has shown that he is not listening to argument, but pressing on regardless. That is not the new politics; it is downright unfair. May I move to another issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.325.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.325.4", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, I am not surprised that the right hon. and learned Lady wanted to move on to another subject. Let me make one last point on the previous question-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.325.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.328.5", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ow that the right hon. Lady cares very deeply about this issue-the key issue of getting the conviction rate for rapists up-as do I. I know that she gave a good speech on the subject in an Adjournment debate. What I would say is that none of us should ignore the fact that somehow there is a problem with this. We know that a lot of people are falsely accused, whose careers and lives can be blighted-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.328.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Outrageous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. She does indeed have an honourable record of maintaining opposition to identity cards. I will make reference to this point later, but I can tell her now that we will not be offering refunds to all those who chose to get an identity card.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I must make a confession; I did not study the 2005 Labour party manifesto in any great detail because I was too busy promoting the 2005 Conservative party manifesto-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.347.5", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Will the Home Secretary give way? I am very grateful to the right hon. Lady for doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.347.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "No. I shall go a little further in my speech. I return to the subject of savings. The Bill is not just about saving money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The point that I am making is a simple one. The last Labour Government claimed that this would be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "that the previous Queen's Speech under a Tory Administration, in November 1996, included a Bill to introduce a voluntary ID card scheme, following extensive public consultation by the then Home Secretary, Michael Howard, who said that the potential benefits fell into two categories. It is worth repeating them to the House. This was a Conservative Government, proposing a Bill at the Queen's Speech-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "That precise point has been made by Liberty, which opposes ID cards-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "nment intend not only to stop issuing cards, but to make the 15,000 already in circulation illegal. I find that despicable, and I do not think that that is too strong a word. How can any Government seek to punish hundreds of thousands of its citizens for having the temerity to take advantage of a scheme that was pledged in a manifesto, supported in law and introduced in an entirely legitimate way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Fifteen thousand is a significant number of people-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who won?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "preceding_text": "at Mrs Cryer has a long and happy retirement. The family name will of course be kept in the Chamber for some time to come, in that the hon. Member for Leyton and Wanstead (John Cryer) has been elected. I met him for the first time in 32 years a couple of weeks ago. He and I went to school together. He was the Labour candidate in the mock elections in 1979 and I was the agent for the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "Bill or in a future Bill. Someone who did buy an identity card has asked me what now happens to it and to the money that they spent. That is a fascinating issue, and I should be interested if the Government were to work out what the cost would be of maintaining the entire system and all the back-up systems to service the 15,000 people in that position. That involves issues relating to interaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and congratulations on being elevated to your post. I also congratulate the hon. Member for South Swindon (Mr Buckland) on his maiden speech-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "eaker. I am particularly grateful to be able to speak in this debate to take part in rejecting the Identity Cards Act 2006 and the proposal for identity cards introduced by the previous Administration. Many Government Members have spoken on this issue and it is telling that the Opposition Benches are entirely empty of people prepared to defend what the previous Government had planned to introduce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is the point?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "That rather proves my point. The law as it stood and still stands is that no one is required to carry their national identity card.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "l have to pay for visas as countries demand more security, and we also risk having a much less secure document. The Government use the curious phrase, \"halting second generation biometric passports\", which are those with fingerprints, so will the Minister clarify that? There is Tory muddle on this issue, and I have some further questions. Is the hon. Gentleman in favour of fingerprints in general?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-09", "file": "debates2010-06-09f.xml", "sha256": "4b7a8d00a43e3552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Identity Documents Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "etaries and former Home Office Ministers-seems not to get the point that if we charge someone for something they have to give us some money, and their money is taken away. What makes it worse is that the previous Home Secretary, at a press conference, memorably called this level of saving \"diddly squat\". The British people will disagree that it is not worth saving £835 million of their money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-09f.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "ddcb41f952287c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10c.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "re to see you in the Chair, and I think that you are the first successful Labour candidate I have ever voted for. I have to confess that as I voted for you and for my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr Evans) , I realised that I as a Yorkshireman had cast my ballot for two Lancastrians. I was consoled by realising later that I have at least silenced two Lancastrian Members for some time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10c.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "ddcb41f952287c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10c.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "lay Goole Town football club-a potentially dangerous situation for a Member of Parliament. My predecessor had a clever approach to the problem, courtesy of the communications allowance, and regularly sponsored both clubs' matches-a pleasure that will not be open to me. The constituency was formed when the dreaded Humberside authority existed, and we are all delighted to have seen the back of that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10c.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "ddcb41f952287c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10c.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "eacher, and I intend to champion the issues of school funding, deprivation and exclusions. I am delighted to have been called to speak in the debate on poverty because although I represent a large rural constituency I was brought up in a neighbouring constituency of Hull as a proud comprehensive boy, and I am pleased to say that there are two comprehensive boys now in Parliament, one on each side-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10c.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "ddcb41f952287c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10c.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": " London, particularly in Redbridge and Waltham Forest in my constituency, and to start reducing community officers in those teams would reverse that impact on our communities. An issue that is particularly close to my heart is that of the Sure Start centres. We are not quite clear where we are with Sure Start. Before the election, the Conservatives said that they would cut them pretty extensively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10c.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.443.7", "colnum": "443", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "You are absolutely right, Mr Speaker. I was just so happy to be here. I hope that I do not go on too long-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.443.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "Those in greatest need ultimately bear the burden of paying off the debt which this country has been left-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.451.4", "colnum": "451", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I made it pretty clear that we intend to protect the rights of social tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.451.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "t announced two years ago. The Housing Minister knows full well that the costs were agreed with the Treasury and would have been met with £340 million from capital under-spends in other Departments and £540 million in greater departmental flexibilities. If that had not been the case, the Government's accounting officer would have prevented us from making the announcement. If that pledge-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.454.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker; it is an honour finally to be called by you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "Thank you for that answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.457.8", "colnum": "457", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that the plans we set out in our manifesto to make the funding formula more transparent-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.457.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.457.8", "colnum": "457", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that the plans we set out in our manifesto to make the funding formula more transparent- [ Interruption. ] Excuse me-I would like Opposition Members to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.457.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Tackling Poverty in the UK", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "e to see you in the Chair, and I think that you are the first successful Labour candidate I have ever voted for. I have to confess that, as I voted for you and for my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr Evans) , I realised that as a Yorkshireman I had cast my ballot for two Lancastrians. I was consoled by realising later that I have at least silenced two Lancastrian Members for some time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Tackling Poverty in the UK", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "lay Goole Town football club-a potentially dangerous situation for a Member of Parliament. My predecessor had a clever approach to the problem, courtesy of the communications allowance, and regularly sponsored both clubs' matches-a pleasure that will not be open to me. The constituency was formed when the dreaded Humberside authority existed, and we are all delighted to have seen the back of that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Tackling Poverty in the UK", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "eacher, and I intend to champion the issues of school funding, deprivation and exclusions. I am delighted to have been called to speak in the debate on poverty because although I represent a large rural constituency I was brought up in a neighbouring constituency of Hull as a proud comprehensive boy, and I am pleased to say that there are two comprehensive boys now in Parliament, one on each side-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Tackling Poverty in the UK", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": " Severn, creating flood plains and fields that are famous for being able to grow the most succulent asparagus. On the west of the River Severn, across more fine fields, pasture, orchards and common land, the Malvern hills rise up suddenly, to a great height. It is said that someone standing on the top of the Malvern hills and looking due east will not see a higher hill until they get to the Urals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Tackling Poverty in the UK", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "preceding_text": "around the wonderful Kirk House, a care home for the elderly, and I went into a room where three of the elderly ladies were having their hair done. They greeted me, and were pleased to see me. The hairdresser said, \"Are you the gentleman whose pictures I have seen on all the posters around the town?\" \"Yes,\" I replied, rather proudly. She looked at me and said, \"It is a very flattering photograph.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Tackling Poverty in the UK", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": " London, particularly in Redbridge and Waltham Forest in my constituency, and to start reducing community officers in those teams would reverse that impact on our communities. An issue that is particularly close to my heart is that of the Sure Start centres. We are not quite clear where we are with Sure Start. Before the election, the Conservatives said that they would cut them pretty extensively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-10", "file": "debates2010-06-10d.xml", "sha256": "8fd27249470f19bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Tackling Poverty in the UK", "cue_speaker": "David Nuttall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Nuttall", "preceding_text": "he Economic Secretary to the Treasury, I attended a comprehensive school in Rotherham. It must be something of a record, but this is the second time in less than half an hour that Rotherham has been mentioned, as it was by my hon. Friend the Member for Calder Valley (Craig Whittaker) . In those days, Rotherham was-and it probably still is-referred to as the \"Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-10d.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "1162f75d6f977058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14b.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. and learned Lady for her response-both for what she said and the way in which she said it. I know that we will have our differences across these Dispatch Boxes, but on the issue of Afghanistan there is great unity on the Labour and coalition Benches-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14b.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "1162f75d6f977058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14b.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Howell", "preceding_text": "rompenaars, is Canada, where 96% of people would shop their friends to the police. Emerging markets, however, are some of the best places to have friends: in South Korea, 26% would shop their friends; in Russia, 42% would; and in China, the figure is 48%. Those responses should not be taken literally, but they are indicative of how much obligations to the state outweigh obligations to individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14b.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.585.7", "colnum": "585", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": "Many of my constituents have Welsh connections-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.585.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.593.4", "colnum": "593", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "Our job is to get as many young people, indeed people of all ages, as possible back into government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.600.6", "colnum": "600", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, he is playing a game of notional figures-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.600.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. and learned Lady for her response-both for what she said and the way in which she said it. I know that we will have our differences across these Dispatch Boxes, but on the issue of Afghanistan there is great unity on the Labour and coalition Benches-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You haven't answered a single question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "tructural deficit-the crucial part of the numbers: the black hole in the public finances-is higher by a significant amount than he forecast. Of course, we are all concerned about the situation in the eurozone, but 28 out of 30 independent bodies that look at the British economy did not believe that the figures that he gave in the March Budget were accurate. Indeed, we pointed that out at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "It would probably have to be published, if it were-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Before I answer the hon. Gentleman, I, too, should welcome you to the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a great delight to see you in the Chair. I shall not reveal how I voted, but I did nominate you. This is the dawn of a new parliamentary era.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.688.4", "colnum": "688", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "e 10th largest economy in the world and enjoyed significant advantages over many others: great natural resources, a well educated population and strong international ties to the United States of America, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. Today, however, Argentina languishes. Why? In part, I believe, because of the self-inflicted political turbulence that it has experienced; in part, because of-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.688.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.690.4", "colnum": "690", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "e business would not be taken to India or China. I do not think that most people would want to buy a high-quality Burberry product that purported to be British if it had not been made in the UK. Unfortunately, we lost that battle. However, we export a lot more than just financial services. For example, a lot of our exports relate to extractive mineral industries, which I shall come to in a moment-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.690.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ceeding in the emerging economies. The second thing we need to do is to learn some lessons about modern foreign languages. The Minister of State was rather complacent about the facts that India now uses English as its business language and many people in China learn English, rather than French as in the past. Unless we have a cadre of young people, and not only those working in the Foreign Office-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "er than French as in the past. Unless we have a cadre of young people, and not only those working in the Foreign Office- [Interruption.] I think \"cadre\" is now a sufficiently anglicised word to be allowed in a debate and not to be out of order. Unless we have a sufficient number of people who speak modern foreign languages, and not just the useless modern foreign languages such as French, but the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "sent are Mandarin, and Spanish and Portuguese because of Latin America, and we need to focus on Arabic as well. My biggest concern is that the effortless British superiority with which we stride around the economic world means that all too often we are the only country that presents business people in other countries who do not speak even the rudiments of a foreign language. That is a big problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": "l 1997 by a Conservative Member, Sir Anthony Durant, who previously represented the Reading North seat between 1974 and 1983. Sir Anthony was an excellent constituency MP, who served the people of Reading with great distinction. In recent months, Sir Anthony has not been in the best of health, and I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House will join me in wishing him a speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "John Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Howell", "preceding_text": "rompenaars, is Canada, where 96% of people would shop their friends to the police. Emerging markets, however, are some of the best places to have friends: in South Korea, 26% would shop their friends; in Russia, 42% would; and in China, the figure is 48%. Those responses should not be taken literally, but they are indicative of how much obligations to the state outweigh obligations to individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "UK Policy on the Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "That is the whole point-that happened because of grade inflation. The results reached a high every year for 13 years. One must conclude that either students are getting much cleverer or exams are getting easier. You take your choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.707.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-06-14", "file": "debates2010-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2ba56ad50ad9ce28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ons (Timing), Select Committees (Membership), Select Committees (Machinery of Government Change) and Sittings of the House not later than 9.30 pm; such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; proceedings may continue after the moment of interruption; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply.- (James Duddridge.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-14c.709.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Thursday 24 June .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That so much of the Lords Message [ 10 June ] as relates to the City of Westminster Bill [ Lords ] be now considered.- ( The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "the House looking at it again. There are people who want us to do so, and we will have an opportunity, no doubt in due course, to put it to Members. I am not responsible for the whipping in the House, but I suspect that all three parties would rather prefer a fairly free vote on the issue, because I do not think that there is any consensus in any part of the House, unless I am suddenly told it is-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.731.7", "colnum": "731", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " by victims who are then treated properly and that cases in which the evidence is sufficient are prosecuted and convicted. I trust that that will be pursued in Merseyside. As I say, some 30% of those charged are convicted, and I shall not dilate further than I did earlier on the particular nature of rape allegations, which are rather different from the allegations of normal violent crime or theft-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.731.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What?", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "s are a significant proportion of the total cases of rape. We shall also have to consider the arguments on the other side, where a woman can make an anonymous complaint, the man can eventually be convicted, after going through a long and probably rather destructive ordeal, and the woman retains her anonymity as she walks away, with her ex-boyfriend or ex-husband left to live with the consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.737.3", "colnum": "737", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Personally, I think that this Government are going to give a very high priority to restoring and, I trust, maintaining this company's reputation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "tion of holding the Government to account: and accordingly asks the Government to put to this House specific proposals for sitting periods in September 2010.\" Some of us were Members when the House last had September sittings, and they were a complete disaster in that there was never any business to debate. Frankly, it was just a public relations stunt, which might have made some people feel good-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "That is part of the point that I was making. A discourtesy was shown to the Opposition because the motion was not shared with us. I would have expected our main debate to be segmented. In the past, if we were considering several House business motions, we would have given an hour on one, and perhaps taken two motions for an hour and half-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman wish to intervene and clarify matters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.780.2", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "We are implementing the recommendations of the Wright Committee, of which the hon. Gentleman was a distinguished member. The Wright Committee said that the committee should have between seven and nine members, and we are proposing that it should have eight members-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "e progressed that they have not received proper scrutiny on Report and entire swathes of Bills have been left undiscussed on the Floor of the House. I understand the motivation, therefore, but I very much hope that at least amendment (a) to motion 4, which would insert a reference to 27 days into Standing Order No. 14 , will be accepted. That would certainly go some way towards giving reassurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Seats, not Chairs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": " Select Committees for minority parties. I strongly agree that those parties need appropriate representation, but the argument that an increase in the size of Select Committees is required to achieve that is completely bogus. The minority parties must have adequate representation on the territorial Committees-I am appalled that they do not-and they should have three Chairs on the other Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": " the next week or so, the difficulty that we were all trying to address-the representation of minority parties on Select Committees-will be addressed sensibly. I hope too that minority parties will have representation on the territorial Committees-the Scottish and Welsh Committees-as they should do and as they are entitled to expect, and that the numbers are brought back to the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-15", "file": "debates2010-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "22ebce8c49698f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "PRIVATE WHEEL-CLAMPING COMPANIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Member for Doncaster Central (Ms Winterton) starts her speech-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-15d.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "f28a7d250141130f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": ", but we cannot have a situation in which the car industry, or any other, assumes that it can come to the Government for money, just because it has an interesting project. It is worth underlining the point that, in large parts of the British car industry, brilliant companies have got through the recession without Government support. My first visit as a Minister was to the Bentley factory in Crewe-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "f28a7d250141130f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "During the 2005 election, we were-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "f28a7d250141130f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "\" The reason why we have done so is simply that we were spending too much. I have a Methodist background. My mother is a Methodist lay preacher, and she would tell the Sunday school, which I attended, about the seven fat years and the seven lean years. Those hon. Members who know the Old Testament will remember that Joseph had a dream in which dreamt of seven fat cows and then the seven lean cows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "f28a7d250141130f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": " Those hon. Members who know the Old Testament will remember that Joseph had a dream in which dreamt of seven fat cows and then the seven lean cows. [ Interruption. ] This is not very complicated; it is quite simple actually, so please bear with me. I know that Labour Members have concentration problems sometimes. I am sorry-it was a long time ago. The pharaoh had the dream and he spoke to Joseph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "f28a7d250141130f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sedgefield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "e are meant to save money in the fat years, so that we can spend it in the lean years. The Labour Government comprehensively failed to do that. They thought that the fat years would run indefinitely. They thought that they had abolished boom and bust. The point of telling that simple story is to show comprehensively the reason for the cuts mentioned by the hon. Gentleman-I forget his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16a.947.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.855.6", "colnum": "855", "heading": "LONDON LOCAL AUTHORITIES BILL [ LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. The debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Wednesday 23 June .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That the promoters of the London Local Authorities Bill [ Lords ], which was originally introduced in the House of Lords in Session 2007-08 on 22 January 2008 , may have leave to proceed with the Bill in the current Session according to the provisions of Standing Order 188B (Revival of bills).- (The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.855.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "e for their families. The figures this morning give a mixed picture. On the one hand, the claimant count is down; on the other hand, the International Labour Organisation measure of unemployment is up by 23,000. What I can say to her is that we will bring in our Work programme as soon as we can, which will be the biggest, boldest scheme for getting people back to work, and everything that will be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.865.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Yes, they are; if she looks at the figures, she will discover that. She asked about the Budget. I have to say that I am still waiting for the Budget submission from the Labour party-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.866.5", "colnum": "866", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. and learned Lady should consider this statement about the importance of sorting out the budget deficit-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.866.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.868.2", "colnum": "868", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ceed; it is a very important company, employing many people in this country, not least in the hon. Gentleman's own constituency. As he knows, a £270 million Government loan guarantee to support GM Europe was announced on 12 March 2010 . We are reviewing commitments made since 1 January 2010 . Projects that are good value for money and consistent with the Government's priorities will go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.868.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, may I welcome the hon. Gentleman and say that I know how much his constituency depends on the work going on in the submarine yards in Barrow, which I have visited and where I have seen the building of Astute class submarines and the submarines carrying our nuclear deterrent? I know how important that is, but a defence review is under way, and it must include the Astute class submarines-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "y. That is what he has just done. What we are going to do is to have an open debate about the structure of banks. That debate is happening in the United States of America, in the newspapers of this country and in parliamentary debates here. The only place it was not happening was in the last Government under his chancellorship. We think that the sensible approach, in order to resolve these issues-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No we haven't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": ", not just here in Britain, but across the world. That is being done in the international councils on which we sit. But surely, whether with Lehman Brothers, the Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS or Northern Rock, we must learn the lesson of what went wrong. Again, I find it breathtaking that, at the beginning of the Parliament, the Labour party has set itself against changing the system of regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.881.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "What I said about Northern Rock was that we should have found a way to have a Bank of England-led reconstruction of that firm. The previous Government then introduced legislation in Parliament that would have allowed that to happen in the future. That is exactly how they proposed to handle future bank failures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Lady was reading the newspapers when she was campaigning for election to this House, but there was a major sovereign debt crisis emerging in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.899.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "nds were planning to make in their area of government with what we have already done. In the first week of office we had to find cuts, and we found £830 million-we got £200 million back in recycled money and we have made a cut of £630 million. That is a large sum of money, but it is about an eighth of what we know a Labour Government would have taken out of my Department's spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.903.9", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is showing some indignation. I am so used to hon. Members asking for more money, and I am sorry if I have underestimated him-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.903.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": ", but we cannot have a situation in which the car industry, or any other, assumes that it can come to the Government for money, just because it has an interesting project. It is worth underlining the point that, in large parts of the British car industry, brilliant companies have got through the recession without Government support. My first visit as a Minister was to the Bentley factory in Crewe-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, 250,000. We introduced 50,000 within three weeks. There is a very strong commitment-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.907.8", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I will move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.907.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.908.5", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman misunderstands completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Dugher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Dugher", "preceding_text": "ng \"The Road to Wigan Pier\". He once said, in a rather critical way: \"A Yorkshireman in the South will always take care to let you know that he regards you as an inferior. If you ask him why, he will explain... The Northerner has 'grit', he is... 'dour', plucky, warm-hearted, and democratic; the Southerner is snobbish, effeminate, and lazy\". That might be slightly uncharitable towards southerners-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "Obviously I am not running the Treasury, and I am not the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "ware that the Government Chief Whip was also a miner, so he may add him to his little club. The hon. Member for North West Durham (Pat Glass) also spoke eloquently, as did the hon. Members for Wansbeck (Ian Lavery) and for Bolton West (Julie Hilling), and our friendly doctor, my hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (Dr Lee) , even though his joke was the worst that I have heard in a maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "During the 2005 election, we were-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.947.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-16", "file": "debates2010-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "b3a07a54f155bbc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "ose hon. Members who know the Old Testament will remember that Joseph had a dream in which he dreamt of seven fat cows and then the seven lean cows. [ Interruption. ] This is not very complicated; it is quite simple actually, so please bear with me. I know that Labour Members have concentration problems sometimes. I am sorry-it was a long time ago. The pharaoh had the dream and he spoke to Joseph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-16b.947.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-17", "file": "debates2010-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "1db55082b2aec373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-17b.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Building a High-Skilled Economy", "cue_speaker": "Jason McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jason McCartney", "preceding_text": " at Thornton Lodge. Then we get to the valley where I live-the Holme valley, which includes my village of Honley, as well as Brockholes and the big market town of Holmfirth. It really is a beautiful part of the world with lovely countryside, stone walls, lots of sheep and lots of traditional folk. That brings me to Cleggy, who has had a bad time in the past month. He has had an absolute nightmare-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-17b.1092.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-21", "file": "debates2010-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e80a5ce40a68baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I hope that the schools will be set up in a variety of new buildings-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-21", "file": "debates2010-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e80a5ce40a68baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ushing for agreement on Doha, reforming and completing the single market and making the process of trade easier. Even without Doha, there is a huge amount that countries across the world can do to facilitate trade. I want Britain to be one of the driving forces in helping to bring this about. Next is the eurozone. Britain is not in the euro, and, let me be clear: we are not going to join the euro-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.35.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-21", "file": "debates2010-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e80a5ce40a68baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "e to write to him expressing our views, I think he will miss a real opportunity. He knows that there are considerable financial pressures on both the MOD budget and the public finances overall. I do not believe that, when he is faced with all those difficulties, it is in his interests or those of a proper debate to do anything other than continue to be open and give people an opportunity to share-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-21", "file": "debates2010-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e80a5ce40a68baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "preceding_text": "et has almost been destroyed by the depredations of the common fisheries policy. What is left of it is now also threatened by the new plans for offshore wind power. At the centre of Fleetwood there is a whole community of family businesses. Perhaps the famous \"Fisherman's Friend\" is the most well known to Members; I am told that it sells 4,000 million lozenges per year, in more than 100 countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-21", "file": "debates2010-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e80a5ce40a68baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Dai Havard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dai Havard", "preceding_text": "slative scrutiny-we agreed that in the past, but now it has apparently been forgotten. One would have thought that it was a good idea for the various Select Committees to be involved. That was supposed to happen in the new Parliament. This was supposed to be the new dawn, if I may use the pun again, whereby Parliament, and not just the Front-Bench team, would have an important role in the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.93.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-21", "file": "debates2010-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "8e80a5ce40a68baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "preceding_text": " the replacement of Trident. At the same time, the Scottish National party Government would, if they could, try to remove Trident from Faslane, and as a consequence would run down the base there. Multilateral disarmament is a noble aim that I support, but it would be foolhardy, to say the least, to get rid of our nuclear deterrent when other countries will not. Negotiation is the best way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-21b.116.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-06-22", "file": "debates2010-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "41e483bdb923aac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that there are a great many such things-fairness in transmission charges to the grid, for example, and access to the fossil fuel levy-so perhaps he will explain why, over 13 years, his party did not do them either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-22", "file": "debates2010-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "41e483bdb923aac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "The council tax freeze is most certainly popular, but the argument that it removes flexibility is completely wrong. The Scottish Government ended ring-fencing. We trust local authorities-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-22", "file": "debates2010-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "41e483bdb923aac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "0.5%, that rates will be low in the long term, and that quantitative easing has already been undertaken, it is pretty much impossible to see how we can loosen monetary policy further-that is simply not at our discretion. I urge the Government not to manipulate the Canadian experience to justify today's deep cuts. I do not dispute that we need a realistic and credible plan for reducing the deficit-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-22", "file": "debates2010-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "41e483bdb923aac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ing still going on. However, a clear message will be sent to the outside world that we want lower taxes and that we believe in lower tax rates. The lower headline rate is the most beneficial thing that we can do to get people abroad interested in coming here with their companies, investments and new ventures, which is what we need. I am pleased that the Chancellor has done more for small business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.210.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-22", "file": "debates2010-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "41e483bdb923aac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "As I have said before, we need a pro-growth strategy. Sometimes we have to spend to save. Investment is exceptionally important at this point in the economic cycle. All borrowing is not evil, as the hon. Lady suggests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-22", "file": "debates2010-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "41e483bdb923aac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He's a Conservative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "There is no need to defend the Conservative party at every juncture in my speech. The hon. Gentleman might concentrate on defending his own party for its part in the process-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-22", "file": "debates2010-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "41e483bdb923aac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is raising an issue that many of his colleagues have raised, and said that somehow under a Labour Government there was profligate, wasteful spending that could easily be tidied up-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-22c.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Actually, what the Chancellor did yesterday was more complex than that. He said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.285.4", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have to say to the right hon. and learned Lady that there is a danger in asking the second question without having listened to the first answer. The first answer is that the pension will be uprated by RPI, which is likely to be higher than earnings next year. In terms of how much money we are putting into the state pension system-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.286.5", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point that the right hon. and learned Lady has got to address is who left us in this mess. Who left a budget deficit of £155 billion, with absolutely no proposals to deal with it? Who put forward-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.286.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.287.4", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, may I welcome my hon. Friend, who, I know, will speak with great passion for his town of Blackpool? We should congratulate it on its footballing success recently. On that note, I am sure that the whole House will want to show its support-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.287.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.290.6", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. The Labour Government's plans were to increase benefits by less than consumer price inflation next year. They left a £300 million-they do not know this, the dupes behind the Front Bench-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.290.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Under the Order of the House of 15 June , I will now announce the determination of the party make-up of the Backbench Business Committee, which will be elected on Tuesday 29 June . Four members shall come from the Conservative party, two members shall come from the Labour party, one member shall come from the Liberal Democrat party. These proportions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Is it in order to describe Members as dupes-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "sions. No Government can ever eradicate economic cycles. They have been around for years, and I expect that the current Government will find that they will be around for years as well. What I would say to the hon. Gentleman is this. Just before we went into this crisis, we had the second lowest debt level of the G7, behind only Canada, and although we had a structural deficit, it was much smaller-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that, and I am bound to say that I do not remember anybody-and certainly not the Conservative party at the time-criticising the reduction of CGT down to 10%. It was believed that it would help and encourage entrepreneurship-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "is worth looking at the work of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which has conducted a distributional analysis based on expenditure. It came to the conclusion-this is its word, not mine-that value added tax was fairly \"progressive\" because of the exemptions that are given for zero rating, as food, children's clothing and other essentials are key items in the expenditure patterns of poorer people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "sis based on expenditure. It came to the conclusion-this is its word, not mine-that value added tax was fairly \"progressive\" because of the exemptions that are given for zero rating, as food, children's clothing and other essentials are key items in the expenditure patterns of poorer people. [Interruption.] The top 10% of the population pay three times as much in value added tax as the bottom 10%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "preceding_text": "I do not know-there is no detail. We have had vague promises from Ministers about what the regions will get, but no detail. I cannot explain to business men and entrepreneurs in my constituency where the money is coming from to support and incubate their businesses. As far as I am concerned, this is all hot air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": "We should certainly listen to \"Danny\" Blanchflower, for whom I have great respect. He gave evidence to the Select Committee on several occasions, and he is one of a number of voices that we should-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "icult for us to take what the shadow Chancellor says seriously when he has been looking through rose-tinted glasses for the last 10 years. Time after time, either he or his predecessor, the former Prime Minister, came up with growth forecasts that were well out of touch with what was happening. That is what led us down the path of thinking that the economy was doing much better than it really was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-23", "file": "debates2010-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "38a65f76d050802a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "l need to be not just efficiencies, but cuts and prioritisation of projects and spending, and that will hurt. My fundamental point, which I shall return to in some detail shortly, is about how we do it and when we do it; the timing of it. I have to say that I could not disagree more with the hon. Lady's earlier point, and neither could most of the child charities or the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-23b.348.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I can fully understand why the Secretary of State feels the need to justify his change of position; he has a lot of voters to try to explain himself away to. I can also understand why he makes the argument that some elements of the economic situation in Europe have changed over the past few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills that it would be helpful if we had a PowerPoint presentation pack in the Chamber for the edification of those who seem to be unaware of the evidence-and in particular from the analysis of the impact by decile of expenditure, it is very clear that VAT is not in fact the regressive tax that the Opposition have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.446.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that regressive taxes are those that stay the same regardless of people's income, such as council tax, whereas progressive taxes are those that increase with income, such as value added tax, under which the rich will pay more because they will spend more?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that regressive taxes are those that stay the same regardless of people's income, such as council tax, whereas progressive taxes are those that increase with income, such as value added tax, under which the rich will pay more because they will spend more? [Interruption.] I say that as one of the qualified accountants in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.448.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.453.6", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.453.6", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "oderate boom and bust, then an important objective for my Department has to be to ensure that that moderation takes place by making energy security a more serious objective and defining energy security not merely in terms of physical interruptions-problems, say, in the straits of Hormuz-but in terms of our ability to withstand price volatility and price shocks. I think I have gone on far too long-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.453.6", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "y a more serious objective and defining energy security not merely in terms of physical interruptions-problems, say, in the straits of Hormuz-but in terms of our ability to withstand price volatility and price shocks. I think I have gone on far too long- [ Interruption.] As the hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) says from a sedentary position, and I can agree with her-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ss; maybe soon he will join those predecessors. But the problem for the right hon. Gentleman is that in order to complete this political journey, he has to engage in the most remarkable amount of doublespeak, which speaks to the heart of the traditions of liberalism. I come to this House today to praise the traditions of liberalism; he comes to bury them. What is the legacy of John Maynard Keynes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " was anything like a people's Budget. So I am afraid I give up on the right hon. Gentleman, but there are some Liberal Democrats in the Chamber today, and of course the new Tribune of the left is the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes) . I am afraid that we have to put our faith in him as far as this Budget is concerned, because we have to give up on the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " day, but there is an important national interest in doing so on the key issue of public finances. If David Cameron's view that the 'cupboard is bare' gains ground, not only will policymakers feel more constrained, but we will risk thinking and talking ourselves into a worse downturn.\" He does not even have a blank record to defend, because his record is one of defending us on the public finances-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "credits. The Chancellor said in his Budget speech that he would reduce payments to families earning over £40,000 next year, but we learn from the Red Book that the cuts are for those earning over £25,000 a year-not well-off families. What about fairness? How have the banks fared as a result of the Budget? The banks were a big target for the Liberal Democrats during the election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "I had assumed that the hon. Gentleman had a better sense of humour. It was clear to the whole country that it was a joke, so I do not regard that as being a serious point. The Government blame the public sector for the recession, but what about the banks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.469.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-24", "file": "debates2010-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "140e09d172d908f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "he scale of the public finance deficit clearly required radical action... NECC believes the measures taken broadly support the wealth-creating part of the economy in the North East.\" It adds: \"Freezing public sector pay and reforms to pensions were difficult but necessary decisions to address the deficit and help reduce the need for large job cuts in the region's public sector.\" The NECC welcomes-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-24b.508.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.554.5", "colnum": "554", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "agree with my hon. Friend, who will know that, under the previous Government, one of the many shambles in the immigration and asylum system was the problem of being able to remove people to safe countries. We will try to do better. The Dublin regulation, which is the system under which we do this, is working-in 2009, the UK removed 625 more cases than we accepted-but it is not working well enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.554.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "rovinces and districts to Afghan control should be done on the basis of the facts on the ground and the capacity that they have to do that, rather than on the basis of a timetable. Having said that, I do not see anything wrong with saying, \"This is a task that has to take place over the coming years, but we should not be there, for instance, for five years.\" That is a perfectly fair point to make-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.573.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.594.5", "colnum": "594", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Margot James", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margot James", "preceding_text": "nforgivable and we cannot let it happen again. We were elected on a clear platform significantly to reduce immigration. Can my right hon. Friend assure the House that she will stand firm in the face of lobbying that seeks to defend unacceptably high levels of immigration again in the name of skills? The skills we do not have in this country, and indeed across the rest of the EU, cannot reasonably-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.594.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.595.5", "colnum": "595", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "on my own Front Bench. Indeed, had we been clearer about our direction of travel, we might not be sitting on these Benches today. I am, however, disappointed on two counts. First, the Home Secretary said nothing that she did not say to Radio Scotland this morning. I was not aware that it was the practice to make announcements to Radio Scotland first thing in the morning before coming to the House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.595.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.598.7", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You said last week, and five weeks ago, that you wholly deprecated the practice of Ministers announcing things to the press before they had announced them to the House. You will know that many hon. Members on both sides of the House complained about this when Labour were in government. We tried to ensure that it did not happen and, in many cases, succeeded-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.598.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It is not just the Government who are listening to them; it seems that the rest of the world is as well. I must remind the hon. Lady that if we are not careful-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady wants to go on fighting past elections, she can; it will not change the results of them. The reality is that under her Government, child poverty rose-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.603.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I was going to come on to that, but I shall deal with it now. As my hon. Friend knows, the Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Thornbury and Yate (Steve Webb) , fully supports all of this, and has made an announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ption. ] We are a coalition, and we are together. He has announced some radical proposals on pensions, and I am enormously proud to be the first Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to say that we have relinked pensions and earnings. Moreover, even in these difficult times, we will triple-lock that pension, so that it will rise in line with earnings or prices, whichever is highest, or by 2.5%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.612.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I should be grateful if the right hon. Lady answered the original question. She was in government not two months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "I hope that meant for this year, next year and future years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.617.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "I think that I will be the last person this evening to make their maiden speech-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "ey) , nice fellow though he is. He has, in one contribution, echoed so much of the same political nonsense that has come from the Government Benches to justify this unnecessary Budget. Day after day, we have heard about the state that Labour left the country in and the deficit that Labour caused. The hon. Gentleman forgets that from 1997 until 2007 and into 2008 we had unbroken growth every month-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It's your lot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": " to leave behind the memories of the Thatcher 1980s. They got jobs, bought houses and started to take pride in themselves and their families. They started to think that they had a future. That was our Labour Government, but what those on the Government Benches seem to forget is that they are letting some greedy, irresponsible people get away with what they have done to this country and its people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "account deficit, 1.7% of GDP this year, falling to 0.8% in 2014,\" and both the structural budget deficit and the cyclically adjusted deficit falling. That was all in the independent report that the Chancellor called through. So when those on the Government Benches are walking through the Lobby to force cuts on people-kids who want to go to university; disabled people; people on incapacity benefit-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I will not; I must press on. The previous Government abolished the 10p rate of income tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.676.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-28", "file": "debates2010-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "68d4baf5fc330b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "CAPITAL GAINS TAX (RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-28a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.703.7", "colnum": "703", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "I imagine that that would be an answer the previous Government should be giving, and they should be sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.703.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.712.4", "colnum": "712", "heading": "NICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Secretary of State?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "So there we have it, Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.713.3", "colnum": "713", "heading": "NICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I have looked at Commonwealth Fund reports for a number of years; it regards the NHS as efficient because it spends relatively little in comparison with other health economies. In this country, we need to recognise that the NHS does not spend very much in comparison with other countries but it could spend it more efficiently. There has been declining productivity for 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.714.2", "colnum": "714", "heading": "NICE", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "One of the concerns of a great many of us recently has been the availability of cancer care drugs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.714.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.714.5", "colnum": "714", "heading": "NICE", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I am a bit confused as to where to look.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.714.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.718.4", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I think that quite enough has been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Minister. To move the motion, I call Mr Grant Shapps-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. Despite some apparent superficial similarities between the two gentlemen, one thing is clear: John Prescott never ran away from a debate or argument, unlike the Secretary of State-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": ". The Government are not just slashing local spending: they are fragmenting it. There is no point in giving councils more and more control over disappearing funds if, at the same time, school spending is disappearing into academies and free schools, if the chance to work with health money disappears into hundreds of GP budgets or if police funding rides off into the sunset with an elected sheriff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for clarifying that. I now understand that the note was in the right hon. Gentleman's pigeonhole, and that the telephone call-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I will come in a moment to the RDAs that were set up by Lord Prescott. In the meantime, I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that this is a new £1 billion-the regional development fund £1 billion announced in last week's Budget and designed to help-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.736.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": " kind of constituencies that they have come here today to complain are being underfunded. They do not want to know that this coalition Government are doing something to help those areas. That is the truth. We live in grave financial times, with the previous Government bequeathing a scorched-earth policy. As Labour's departing Chief Secretary declared, \"I'm afraid there's no money left. Good luck.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.736.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment after making a little progress. So the £6.2 billion immediate savings this year are the priority to tackle the inherited £156 billion deficit. It is worth saying it again-£156 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.740.6", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. We are not going to set targets because they did not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.740.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my hon. Friend, who gives us an opportunity to talk about matters such as the comprehensive area assessments, which somehow, through ticking boxes and using-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "e ballot box. That is a radical concept that can be expanded much further by allowing councils, by the end of this year, to publish online details of all their spending, tenders and contracts over £500. That will be proper transparency and empower a new army of armchair auditors to go through local authorities' books and help identify wasteful spending, helping to protect front-line services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.743.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "Central Government obviously have a large budget-[Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] They do have a large budget, so the limit will initially be set at £25,000-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is the same fund, and it was mentioned to the House verbally, at the Dispatch Box, by the Chancellor on the day. No, I cannot confirm how it will be divided up. Members would quite properly expect that to be announced in a statement to the House from the Dispatch Box, and they would not expect me to do that today, because today's debate-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.762.5", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": " like to do so, but we cannot do things that quickly. We have to make people confident that the country is solvent. The country could be liquid at this stage without any great difficulty, but we have to make people confident that it is solvent and capable of paying back the debt so that the interest is paid. We are not paying back the deficit, however. The deficit is the amount borrowed each year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.762.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.762.5", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": " capable of paying back the debt so that the interest is paid. We are not paying back the deficit, however. The deficit is the amount borrowed each year. [ Interruption. ] I have another four minutes and am quite happy to explain to the Labour party the basics of finance, because there is a lot of confusion about debt and deficit. \"Deficit\" is the amount of money borrowed each year on a net basis-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.762.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "ous regulations, the people who go round and wash people's feet are different from those who go round and cut their toenails, because they have to have different qualifications. That is not an efficient way of providing public services. If, through Total Place, the same person can go round and wash people's feet and cut their toenails, that will be more cost-effective and involve less travel time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": " not know what we are all worried about. Well, I can tell him this: to my local authority it is a great deal of money. It is significant, but I have no doubt that further bad news is on its way, and that tremendous cuts will be made in the autumn. If they are signified by the same unfairness and north-south divide that we have already seen, Opposition Members will have a great deal to worry about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ctor has already borne the brunt of the recession, and it is important that this responsibility is shared by all of us. The private sector endured job losses and business closures during the dying days of the previous Government. Businesses have been forced to make savings, to cut back and to make redundancies, so it is only right that this pain is shared by all, because we are all in it together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "preceding_text": "It is because the hon. Gentleman's Government have cut the area-based grant and additional services that the cuts have to fall in the ways that I am describing. It would have been much more sensible not to have-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "preceding_text": "he area-based grant and additional services that the cuts have to fall in the ways that I am describing. It would have been much more sensible not to have- [ Interruption. ] Is the hon. Gentleman going to listen to my answer or not? What I am saying to him is that if we did not have these additional cuts in-year and if there had been a proper programme of consultation, it might have been possible-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": " warned Tory councillors last Friday that they might experience cuts of between 30% and 40% during the current Parliament. No wonder-again-that third sector bodies such as Age UK, and outside experts such as the King's Fund, say that the Government's actions will leave councils with almost no money with which to support people in their own homes. What about George Osborne's other great white hope-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "ncellor-for now-and his great white hope, the private sector? As Opposition Members have pointed out quite straightforwardly, no account has been taken of the existing dependence on public contracts. No attempt has been made to squeeze out or drop out. Many refuse contracts are already outsourced; how will those contractors cope with Comrade Pickles's latest diktat about weekly refuse collections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "lable to sort this out, given that the Government are leaving the regional development agencies in limbo and there are no successors around? The Government need to be wary of the dangers of a squeeze on public pay. With a work force demonised and demoralised by them, where will it lead us? Given the way in which these cuts have been made, I want to make a final point about the financial structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "public pay. With a work force demonised and demoralised by them, where will it lead us? Given the way in which these cuts have been made, I want to make a final point about the financial structure. [Interruption.] If the Secretary of State had been here for most of the debate, we might have taken a little more notice of what he has had to say. What I want to say is that this huge leap in the dark-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-29", "file": "debates2010-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2276c9b18e4b2793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.825.4", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment, when the right hon. Gentleman has listened to this statistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-29a.825.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.853.5", "colnum": "853", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The forecasts that are published now are independent from the Government. That is the whole point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.853.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The figures published today show 2 million more private sector jobs. They show 1.4 million more people in work at the end of this Parliament. They show unemployment falling every year. It is not really any surprise that the former Labour Minister, Digby Jones, after the Budget said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "on left us the biggest Budget deficit in the G20-the biggest Budget deficit in our history. We have been having a good trawl for the stupidest piece of spending that they undertook, and I think we have found it. It was in her own Department, which spent £2.4 million doing up the Department, including £72,000 each on two-storey meeting pods known as peace pods. This is what they were for-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady talks about the importance of firms being owned by their own employees; I am looking forward to her support and the support of every Labour Member when we make sure that the Post Office has that sort of ownership model and we get the investment going as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.857.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": "My constituent Milly, aged five, wrote to me recently asking why there are special days for mothers and fathers and not for children-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.861.5", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": " seat out of 59, and they did not choose the Conservatives' poodles, the Liberal Democrats, either. Can he assure the House, as an absolute chill runs through Scotland at the 1.3 million hidden job losses that he did not publish, that any proposals for cuts in public services and expenditure in Scotland, and any Barnett formula cuts, will be brought before the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.861.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.861.7", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that the Conservative party did not sweep Scotland, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for reminding me of it. What I said I would do if we formed a Government was to go straight to Scotland and Wales to meet the First Ministers and have-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.861.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.887.3", "colnum": "887", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "tor, and more recently the recession has, indeed, been a factor, but the independent Committee on Climate Change has acknowledged the difference that Government programmes over that period made. Lord Turner, the chair of the Committee on Climate Change, said very recently that the last Government \"set out a whole series of policies, and as long as we drive those through we will make a difference.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "There is no dispute between us on that matter, and I have not suggested that there is. I asked the Minister if he would take any credit-any benefit, rather-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.889.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for his statement. He was absolutely right to highlight our collective failure to address energy efficiency adequately, but he seems so keen to do something about it that I could almost mistake him for a Lib Dem-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "efficiency adequately, but he seems so keen to do something about it that I could almost mistake him for a Lib Dem- [ Interruption. ] Not quite, perhaps. On the green deal, the ministerial team has imaginatively built on proposals. Obviously, I shall claim that the Lib Dems were the very first to produce such a scheme, but the Conservatives did, too, and towards the end the Labour Government were-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "preceding_text": "It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and to address the House for the first time on behalf of the people of Wells, the most beautiful constituency in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.908.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "Just so that we are absolutely clear, we are talking about deep coal mining. That is where vast reserves lie. Without going into the techie details, the point is that quite a lot of the coal from open-cast mining is not suitable for burning in our power stations without doing serious work to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-06-30", "file": "debates2010-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0d71f6622871719e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that intervention, because it allows me yet again to remind him that we are talking about a loan that the Government were providing. It was not a gift or a bung; it was a loan. It is astonishing to hear Government Members-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-06-30a.945.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-01", "file": "debates2010-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "cd4d11aabe1ab107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1009.5", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "And he then apologised very clearly, which is an important point to note. It really is extraordinary for Labour Members now to complain about regional Cabinet meetings, having introduced them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1009.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-01", "file": "debates2010-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "cd4d11aabe1ab107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1017.2", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "n terms of policy or to change a hitherto understood public policy, he or she is expected to make that clear first to the House, as I hope experience earlier this week testifies. I appreciate the extreme importance of this matter. I am not aware thus far of any intention on the part of a Minister to make a statement. It is open to the right hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members to table questions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-01", "file": "debates2010-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "cd4d11aabe1ab107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Global Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes a very interesting point. We are working on the effectiveness of measures that are already being taken in Afghanistan-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-01", "file": "debates2010-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "cd4d11aabe1ab107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Global Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "As I have said, I am happy to have both main parties' records scrutinised. We trebled aid, whereas the previous Conservative Government halved it. My right hon. Friend played an honourable and distinguished role in ensuring that, through the International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Act 2006, there is effective scrutiny by the House of the rising budget line we delivered year on year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-01", "file": "debates2010-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "cd4d11aabe1ab107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Global Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "uld receive further funding from the Treasury. The reality is that most ministerial colleagues face substantial cuts in their departmental budgets and spending lines. DFID is fortunate, because its spending is protected, but it must be clear to everyone, including Opposition Front Benchers, that, if they call for extra spending from the DFID budget in one policy area, they are beholden to explain-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-01", "file": "debates2010-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "cd4d11aabe1ab107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Global Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "speech, and from her performance here again today, we can see why a girl like her is in this place. I am sure that she will represent her constituents well. Before moving on to my main theme, I would like to respond to the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Ann McKechin) , who made a passionate plea to keep funding based in the UK, which has been stopped by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-01c.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.14.3", "colnum": "14", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I have to confess to my hon. Friend that I have not been looking at that particular issue; however, I am sure that the closure-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.14.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "electoral system, we give that system a new legitimacy. Surely, when dissatisfaction with politics is so great, one of our first acts must be to give people their own say over something as fundamental as how they elect their MPs. The question will be simple, asking people whether they want to adopt the alternative vote, yes or no; and the precise wording will be tested by the Electoral Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " must be to give people their own say over something as fundamental as how they elect their MPs. The question will be simple, asking people whether they want to adopt the alternative vote, yes or no; and the precise wording will be tested by the Electoral Commission. [ Interruption. ] As for the date of the referendum, in making that decision we have been driven by three key considerations: first-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "ve vote, the 2015 general election will be held on the new system, and according to new boundaries. These are complementary changes-the outcome of the referendum is put in place as the new boundaries are put in place, too. The Bill will require the Boundary Commissions to set new constituencies within 5% of a target quota of registered electors, with just two exceptions: Orkney and Shetland, and -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "e country people found themselves in. How on earth can he and other Labour Members brand something as simple as giving fairness to every voter in the country as \"outrageously partisan\"? This proposal is based on a simple principle of fairness and he should support it. The right hon. Gentleman cited the figure of 3.5 million unregistered voters, and I agree that something should be done about that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.27.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.32.4", "colnum": "32", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman's support for a referendum that would allow people to have their say on the electoral system. I believe, none the less, that the boundary changes that we are proposing are perhaps more modest than he and other Labour Members fear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.33.7", "colnum": "33", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "But what did the previous Government do for 13 years? Of course we can all agree with the right hon. Gentleman that it is bad and wrong that 3.5 million people are not on the register-he is absolutely right about that-but we will take measures to increase and accelerate individual electoral registration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.33.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Clearly, we will be consulting with the devolved Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.35.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.37.7", "colnum": "37", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "We are the only Parliament in the world whose second Chamber is larger than the first, and Labour's next phase of reform would have addressed that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.37.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister is a student of Germany. In that context, he will be aware of what happened in the early 1980s when Hans-Dietrich Genscher betrayed Helmut Schmidt, crossed the floor, propped up a new Government without the election of Helmut Kohl. Is it his aspiration to be the Hans-Dietrich Genscher in British politics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "This is 20 questions by a historian. The last Government-the hon. Gentleman's party in government-governed for five years. We are merely legislating-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "As hon. Members will know, projects will go ahead in those local authorities that have reached financial close, and I presume that they will know whether their local authority has reached that stage. Every single one of the school projects that is to go ahead will be listed, and every Member of the House and every local authority is being written to today to be told which projects are going ahead-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "o point out to him that we are sticking precisely to the limits on capital laid out by the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) . If the right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) thinks that the proposed level of capital spending is devastating for the private sector, he should have been campaigning against the last Chancellor of the Exchequer before the last election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.53.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do apologise for interrupting the right hon. Gentleman, but I am hearing from a sedentary position, \"Point of order\". May I say gently to the House that points of order follow statements? I have an almost insatiable appetite for hearing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "primary schools are not covered by the BSF programme, and today's announcement does not affect the primary capital programme. As far as secondary schools go, the hon. Lady will know that her principal local authority, Camden, has reached the close of dialogue but not yet financial close. As a result, she will know that there are two sample projects in her local authority area, and they fall under-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.65.4", "colnum": "65", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "t result of the bureaucracy. Dunraven school is a sample school, and therefore falls within the group of local authority schools that we will look at. Elm Court, a special school in his constituency, has already opened under BSF. I believe that two other schools have not reached financial close, and I will confirm that in my letter to him. A full list of all schools is being placed in the Library-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.65.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "nadvertently or not-I leave others to judge-the House has been unfairly and discourteously treated. I have made that point extremely robustly, and I do not think that I need add to it at this stage. As for what the hon. Gentleman said about what was in the media, I am happy to undertake my own reading at an appropriate time. I suggest to the Secretary of State, who is listening to these exchanges-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.76.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-05", "file": "debates2010-07-05c.xml", "sha256": "4bed12f687b2cdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.145.4", "colnum": "145", "heading": "NORTH TEES AND HARTLEPOOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton South-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-05c.145.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Andrew Stephenson-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure that the Foreign Secretary is being asked to do that in the context of discussions with his EU counterparts, and in respect of EU policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure that the Foreign Secretary is being asked to do that in the context of discussions with his EU counterparts, and in respect of EU policy. [Interruption.] Order. I do not think that I need to hear any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.166.6", "colnum": "166", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "The Government believe that British membership of the EU is very much in the national interests of the UK, and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.166.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "preceding_text": "Last week the Secretary of State stated his intention to establish a National Security Council. Will he explain to the House what its remit might be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " get it done properly. Although I have ultimate respect for the Intelligence and Security Committee, during the previous Parliament, there was such a run-around between the Government and the Committee-not about holding an inquiry, but about publishing the guidance-that I wonder whether the right hon. and learned Lady is taking the right line on that. It is much better to have a judge-led inquiry-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.196.7", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "I am rushing to get to the ballot box -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.196.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "No party proposed an increase in VAT at the election, and no party ruled one out. The Liberal Democrat manifesto-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": " I will happily let the hon. Gentleman know at a future date or write to him with the precise figures he is looking for. The measures that we are taking, rightly, close the avoidance issue that arose under the system put in place by the previous Government, whereby someone who was taking a substantial bonus, for example, in capital gains could pay less tax than the person who cleaned their office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has today put out a number of very constructive suggestions-for example, urging people hit by budget cuts to wear more clothes, to turn down the thermostat and to eat more vegetables-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.210.5", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Well, that rather proves my point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.210.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I note that the hon. Gentleman was so eager to participate in this debate that he missed the beginning of it. The words I used were not my words, but the words from a wide section of the British business community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Some Front-Bench Labour Members believe in redemption, and we have not given up on the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes) . That is why we are looking forward so much to hearing his contribution later this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Let me come to that point in a moment because-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. I just wish to say to the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Jonathan Edwards) that, as he knows, my party has been supportive of increasing autonomy and self-government in Scotland and in Wales. That has happened in Scotland and it is on the agenda for Wales, and he knows -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.222.7", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would allow me to make a little progress first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "I have given way previously, so I ask hon. Members to allow me to make a little progress. A lot of people want to speak -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.223.7", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady misunderstands me. I understand that people have to buy all those capital items, and I know that this is going to be regressive in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.223.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "Given the right hon. Gentleman's admission that the OBR's forecast on job losses may be wrong-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.232.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is not higher.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is speaking passionately about his opposition to unemployment. Surely he must be ashamed to be a member of a party that has formed Governments many times over the past 70 years and that, every time it has left office, has left unemployment higher than when it came to office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "aham Evans) spoke. I did not know that area of the country at all before he did so, and I feel much better informed as to its great beauties. The hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Nic Dakin) told the House, to its considerable relief, that he is not going to be a pugilist, as one of his predecessors once was, so I am glad to note that, if he disagrees with my speech, I may not end up with a broken nose-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ntleman ought to bear in mind that we will achieve growth if we leave some money for business to borrow rather than it all being pinched by the state. That was the point that I was making at the beginning-if the state borrows all the money that is going, in the absence of quantitative easing, it crowds out private investment. I know that Members do not want to listen to me all evening, so I shall-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "To somehow attribute that decline to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No-more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": " when I stand down as a Member of Parliament, but I have paid that tax. I jest, but I seriously suggest that we need to look at this area. Clearly, IPSA and the court of public opinion said that we could no longer claim for legitimate tax advice. That is fine. I do not need a tax adviser, unlike some hon. Members, to handle my personal tax affairs. So we need to have a look at that point. Finally-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.282.2", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "ence, and that has not shown the House or this debate in a good light. We should be trying to get to the nub of the evidence that drives us towards the correct answers; we, as politicians across the political spectrum, are seeking to assist the country. People witnessing the debate will not have been enlightened by many of the contributions because of the tribalism into which the House has fallen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I will just make this point, if I may. There are very significant questions to be asked about this issue. On page 67 of the Red Book, the changes to VAT are described as \"progressive\". I question whether it is entirely accurate to describe a VAT rise as being, on balance, progressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I think that we are all competing in sentence length-perhaps the hour is causing us to use sub-clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misses the point. The point is what the Liberal Democrats said about capital gains tax before the election and what has happened afterwards. I cannot find any record of anybody saying, \"Thank God we have the Liberal Democrats to water down this horrible Tory Budget\". No one is saying that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "th in the sector. The report on exports came as a survey of credit conditions by the UK Bank of England underlined the concern at the prospects for demand in the UK. Credit conditions were expected to deteriorate by the most since the first quarter of 2009, when the recession was at its deepest.\" What we are seeing there is the extreme concern in the business sector since the Budget was announced-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "rats told us that they were going to break up the casino banking system. The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills wanted the banks to be broken down into smaller banks, separating casino banking from normal banking. Yet we are told that the Chancellor opposes this and has set up a commission to look into it, which will take at least a year, thereby kicking it into the long grass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "y kicking it into the long grass. [Interruption.] I hear a sedentary intervention that we are dealing with the Finance Bill. Yes we are, and this is not in the Finance Bill, but it is an integral part of the Budget. It is therefore legitimate to ask where it is, when it is going to happen and what the consultation will be about, because it impacts on what taxes we raise on the people we represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "ur banking system. \"We will break them up and break them down.\" It continues: \"Until such a time, the taxpayer will have to continue underwriting the banks\"- well, we know that from this Budget. \"To recognise this, we are proposing a new levy on bank profits at a rate of 10%...This levy would be supplementary to corporation tax\". Well, where did that happen? If we look at corporation tax outcomes-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I gently say to the hon. Gentleman that I do not have a party? Some people have known that for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it's still today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "preceding_text": "Thank you for calling me, Mr Speaker. I am constantly amazed by this Chamber. I had had ambitions to speak in this debate today, but I now discover that it is tomorrow-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely correct. I believe that the point may have been made earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "onight that these savage public sector cuts will somehow liberate private sector surpluses, entrepreneurialism and growth in the economy, and it is confused. There is confusion at least on the part of the Liberal Democrats as to how they managed to enter the political fray at last, only to find themselves, as an old soldier in my constituency described it last week, on the side of the axis powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" You already have.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "he decision to scrap the health in pregnancy grant designed to tackle malnourishment in pregnant mothers in the poorer sectors of our society. Opposition Members consider such provisions the hallmark of a civilised society, but Government Members clearly think they are a burden on economic efficiency. I do not really want to talk about the heartlessness. I would rather talk about the cluelessness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "In this instance, I beg to differ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.317.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He is entirely correct that my Pontypridd constituency will be badly affected-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "have no idea whether his hasty exit from the OBR is prompted by unhappiness about the new office perhaps having its integrity compromised, but I point Members to an interview that he gave a couple of years ago, which is of relevance to the Bill. He was asked whether he felt any discomfort when he was advising the Thatcher Government that perhaps some of the decisions he was making as an economist-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.319.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.323.4", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lilian Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lilian Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Has the growth of the retail sector in Derby made a significant contribution to the city? I know that the Westfield centre there seems to have attracted many people. Does my hon. Friend share my concern that the increase in VAT will have-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.323.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-06", "file": "debates2010-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "c072679002b8482b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.325.5", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ill. We heard a tour de force from my hon. Friend the Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) , who understandably had a go at the Liberal Democrats for their twisting and turning on VAT. He had some words to say about the Office for Budget Responsibility, which I will come back to. We heard a superb speech from my hon. Friend the Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Gregg McClymont) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-06b.325.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I had the opportunity to speak at the UN last week, specifically on the importance of injecting real vigour and energy into trying to ensure that we have a proper road map for progress in the last five years of the MDGs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.358.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "I am so grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that basic lesson in economics. He may not be aware of my past working as an adviser to small businesses and to MBAs at Cranfield university on how to set up small businesses. Our economic record between 1997 and 2005 was extremely good when it came to ensuring that new businesses were created-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.413.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "nding was placed in the House of Commons Library. I wish to apologise to you and to the whole House for not placing that list on the Table of the House and in the Vote Office at the beginning of my statement, as you reminded me page 441 of \"Erskine May\" quite properly requires. I further wish to apologise for the inaccurate information on the list I was supplied with and which I gave to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend find the synthetic anger somewhat sickening? Banbury-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.485.2", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I know that passions are running very high on this matter-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before we go any further, I must ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw the term that I think he used. I think I heard the term, \"pipsqueak\". The hon. Gentleman must withdraw that term. It is not appropriate-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that the other piece of important factual information he presented on Monday, the expansion of the Teach First programme, is in fact accurate, and that the numbers were presented-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.490.6", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "pened on Monday: the Secretary of State was cuddling the list as if it contained secret information, and he slipped bits out only as they were forced from him in response to questions from Opposition Members. Therefore some of us on the Opposition Benches suspect that the Secretary of State knew that the list was not complete and that there were errors in it when he was delivering it in the House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.490.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must ask the hon. Gentleman to resume his seat. I would not want to misunderstand the hon. Gentleman, but I am gaining an impression that he is suggesting that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must ask the hon. Gentleman to resume his seat. I would not want to misunderstand the hon. Gentleman, but I am gaining an impression that he is suggesting that- [Interruption.] Order. I am gaining an impression that he is suggesting that the Secretary of State was engaged in a knowing deception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "I did say that some of us suspect that that is the case, Mr Speaker, and if you ask me to withdraw that, I will obviously do so, but I think there is something that needs to be investigated further in the way that the Secretary of State treated the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.491.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-07", "file": "debates2010-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5be7f2b87d349bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.493.7", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr Mark Williams will now present a public petition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-07a.493.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.521.7", "colnum": "521", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady, if I may say so, is a very good advocate-possibly even a champion-of tourism and so forth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.521.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The answer to the right hon. Gentleman is that points of order follow statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "o understand. I think what the shadow Home Secretary needs to understand is the degree of concern that there has been about the use of these section 44 powers under the Terrorism Act 2000-the degree of concern that did arise, not just initially from the way in which they were being used by the police, but a continuing concern about the impact on our civil liberties. I make no apology for the fact-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.545.4", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "preceding_text": "ision that she has announced today. Does the earlier draft of the Home Secretary's statement that has gone into circulation and that referred to Northern Ireland, particularly to the approach to the parades season, in any way corroborate the suspicion that these powers have been used as a matter of convenience by the police on matters that are not directly a situation where terrorism is suspected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.545.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "preceding_text": "Last December, I was subject to section 44-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "preceding_text": "Last December, I was subject to section 44- [ Interruption. ] Fortunately, I was sent away and everything was fine, but nevertheless I felt that my liberties as a citizen had been infringed on, and a sense of grievance, albeit a small one, against the authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.559.5", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Government are listening and proceeding slowly, but there are other wide-ranging issues that I hope are also under consideration. Can the Minister tell us whether anonymity is being considered in the context of all sexual offences, as one category-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, you haven't!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "I think I have already answered that question-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "h this subject, and we will certainly take note of its views in developing our scheme further. We will speak to specialist voluntary sector organisations, the education sector and the children's work force with a view to gaining a better idea of the detailed impact on suspects and victims, and we will work up practical options for implementation. We see no case, however, for a formal consultation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "beral Democrats, is a consensus in the House and around the country not to proceed, both parties are open to persuasion along that line. I want us to go deliberatively, because there is a strong case for changing the law, but it is not a cut-and-dried, open-and-shut case. I hope that the rest of the debate is much less partisan than the beginning of it, because this is not a party political issue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "o take the threats seriously, to ring the alleged perpetrator's local police station so that the police there could take those threats seriously themselves, and perhaps the largest manhunt in British history would never have needed to take place. There is still, as I said in an earlier intervention, a prevailing view in this country that incidents of rape, for example, are the fault of the victim-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "ted in full by the coalition Government, have ensured that the role and relevance of Parliament as an institution have increased, as have those of Back Benchers. In my view, he was simply one of the best parliamentarians of recent times. It is therefore no wonder that he never got to serve as a Secretary of State-only the Labour party could ignore such talent, and put its spin above his substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": " she stood for on three occasions before finally being elected in Longbridge. A successful café owner, in 1950, when the House of Commons kitchens were reported in the national press as running at a loss, she publicly offered to supervise the catering right here, to pay £1,000 for the privilege of doing so and still make a profit. History does not record why her offer was never taken up-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "o congratulate the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Mr Burley) , who is in his place, on his maiden speech. He conjured up a picture of his constituency that I think we all enjoyed. However, he conjured up more of a picture of his family, which we all enjoyed possibly even more. I would have liked to have met his grandmother-I wonder what she would have thought about him sitting on the Tory Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-08", "file": "debates2010-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "48a1d730c3098e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Defendant Anonymity", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "d suggestions for how the policy-wherever it came from and whatever its provenance-might be improved. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Broxtowe and others for the tributes that they paid to the strides taken by the previous Government. The hon. Lady said that she had a private Member's Bill, and we look forward to seeing her take it forward. I am not quite sure what number she came in at, but-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-08a.621.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.667.7", "colnum": "667", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I have not been briefing anything to anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.667.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.669.4", "colnum": "669", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am astonished that Labour Members are still attacking general practice. I thought that shadow Ministers-former Ministers-had had enough of doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " diagnosed with cancer actually came through the two-week wait process at all. She is right that it is very important that patients' signs and symptoms should be identified at an earlier point and that they should have earlier diagnosis. Whom does she imagine is best placed to identify signs and symptoms and to take action on them other than patients and the GPs who are responsible for their care?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ients' signs and symptoms should be identified at an earlier point and that they should have earlier diagnosis. Whom does she imagine is best placed to identify signs and symptoms and to take action on them other than patients and the GPs who are responsible for their care? [ Interruption. ] If Opposition Members stop interrupting from a sedentary position, I can continue. Actually, patients need-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.674.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.681.2", "colnum": "681", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "there was any difficulty, it was that at least one Plymouth GP had very high referral rates. I do not think he had ever checked those rates with his colleagues. It was interesting to hear them talk to one another. It became perfectly obvious that peer review-that sense of working collectively to manage services in an area-is going to hold GPs to account very effectively within consortiums as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.718.6", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "If they are saying that the corporation tax cashback, as my hon. Friend says, will offset the levy, perhaps by less than the banking levy or perhaps by more, then I think this would be wrong. It sounds as though the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock) is defending the cashback arrangement that he wants to implement-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.718.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "h what my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham East is proposing. When people who are going to face higher rates of VAT and other taxation realise that this money is going to be given to the banking sector, they will find it very difficult to understand. Earlier, it was said that the banks will not get back all the money taken off them by the levy-no, but they will get a large portion of it back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "etween banking and other sectors. Clearly the SME sector will pay dearly, and that is in addition to some of the other matters that will affect it. The cuts in capital allowances will prevent many SMEs from investing in vital equipment. That is no way to grow the economy in the way that the Government are suggesting. Despite the rhetoric that we heard before the election about bashing the bankers-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am shareholder in a bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-12", "file": "debates2010-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "0665451c732806a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "The corollary to the corporation tax cut is the banking levy, but although I respect the information that my hon. Friend has given in his reply so far, he has not yet addressed himself to the criteria for the setting of the banking levy and why it has been set at the proposed level-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-12a.735.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-13", "file": "debates2010-07-13c.xml", "sha256": "51722d63ffe8c73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Shared Parenting Orders Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making a big thing about VAT being 20%. It has been 17.5% for as long as he and I have been in Parliament, and it has been accepted by hon. Members that priority is sometimes given-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-13", "file": "debates2010-07-13c.xml", "sha256": "51722d63ffe8c73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Shared Parenting Orders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Conservative party concluded that it needed to bring forward by a year the date at which debt as a proportion of GDP needs to start to fall. Therefore, another £40 billion in tax rises and spending cuts are needed. The only way to secure that is to take an enormous risk by whacking domestic consumption with a regressive tax. So he must contend with a question of economics and one of fairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-13", "file": "debates2010-07-13c.xml", "sha256": "51722d63ffe8c73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Shared Parenting Orders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, from a sedentary position, is absolutely right. The Library produced exactly the kind of report that I have just set out, and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-13", "file": "debates2010-07-13c.xml", "sha256": "51722d63ffe8c73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Shared Parenting Orders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": " a sensible point, but we would need to consider matters as each Budget came forward. This is the first Budget of a five-year Parliament, and it set out to tackle a specific issue. I did some research on this matter, and the Library told me that VAT is applied to only 50% of consumer goods that are bought by the public, so the VAT rise is far less regressive than a rise in income tax, for example-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-13", "file": "debates2010-07-13c.xml", "sha256": "51722d63ffe8c73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Shared Parenting Orders Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "to growth. While the bulk of the deficit reduction will come from spending, tax also has an important part to play. We increased VAT rather than increasing income tax or national insurance contributions, which are probably the only other sources of revenue with the capacity to raise the necessary sums, because that was the least economically damaging way of doing this. Of course, we are not alone-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-13", "file": "debates2010-07-13c.xml", "sha256": "51722d63ffe8c73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Shared Parenting Orders Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "t of the VAT increase is built into the inflation forecast in paragraph C.19. Paragraph C.23 sets out the impact on household demand and paragraph C.24 the impact on company profits. Paragraph C.5 sets out the OBR's view of the VAT tax gap, and paragraphs C.39 and C.64 explain that VAT is expected to fall as a percentage of GDP, because the OBR assumes rebalanced economic growth with consumption -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.872.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-13", "file": "debates2010-07-13c.xml", "sha256": "51722d63ffe8c73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.881.4", "colnum": "881", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Shared Parenting Orders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I think I can reassure my hon. Friend that it is a probing amendment. It was put together at some speed, and I believe it is technically deficient, in ways to which I shall not draw attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.881.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-13", "file": "debates2010-07-13c.xml", "sha256": "51722d63ffe8c73d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Shared Parenting Orders Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "lated by Rossi, RPI, CPI or whatever mechanism. As the cost of living goes up, those families are automatically given an increase in income. If that increase is greater than their increase in costs, they end up marginally better off. I am not saying that it is a massive amount of money, but the key is that the poorer households, as a result of the VAT increase, actually end up slightly better off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-13c.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " leveller. People from all sorts of backgrounds and geographies came together to work together, and that did promote cohesion. We are especially concerned that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds should not be excluded from this process. I hear what my hon. Friend says and it would be good if one of the pilot schemes next year could involve disadvantaged young people from his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "For some people, two weeks is too long. That is the whole point. If a target contributes to good clinical outcomes, it stays; if it does not, it goes. Now let the right hon. and learned Lady answer a question. Is it your policy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "aucracy; we are scrapping the bureaucracy. Is it really Labour's great new tactic that the right hon. and learned Lady will be left defending the bureaucracy of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities and all the quangos and all the bureaucrats, all of whom are paid vast salaries and huge pensions? Is that the new divide in British politics: they back the bureaucracy, we back the NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend will be happy to meet the hon. Lady, whom we should all welcome to this House. Presumably, she has come here to keep an eye on her brother and to see what he has been up to. Let me just say this about the apology tour. I think there is something quite refreshing about a Minister who makes a mistake, comes to the Dispatch Box and makes an apology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Obviously, we have to have a defence review, as the Opposition recognise. I always find the position of the Scottish National party on this quite confusing. I did not think that the SNP was in favour of having a British Army, a Royal Air Force or the British Navy. Perhaps if the policy has changed-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.946.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "No one wants to see reductions in those programmes-they are very important-but, like everything else there is a comprehensive spending review-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Carers (Identification and Support)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point, because there is a link between the investment by the Labour Government and the fall in crime. Whatever assessment we make, that investment in police officers on the streets and in other areas, including capital build on new police stations, has had a direct impact in reducing levels of crime-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.972.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.973.4", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Carers (Identification and Support)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I look forward to the hon. Lady voting to remove £1.6 million from her police force later. She argues that Derbyshire is underfunded by £5 million, but she is happy to vote through a £1.6 million in-year cut-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-14", "file": "debates2010-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "40c200d4329c0ccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.983.2", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Carers (Identification and Support)", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": " Kalyx, which runs the 840-bed category B private prison in Peterborough, has been awarded a contract. It is a very interesting social experiment, and I believe that it will deliver the goods. Kalyx will receive 40% of the indicative cost of incarcerating a prisoner for one full year if it keeps that prisoner from recidivism and reoffending. I am no tree-hugging lily-livered liberal on this issue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-14b.983.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-15", "file": "debates2010-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bff371aefbae22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Superannuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "In trying to square the circle of how we can raise taxes when there is no money, it is interesting to note that we have not committed to Labour's rise in fuel tax, which was going to add a further £425 million-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-15", "file": "debates2010-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bff371aefbae22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Superannuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " is making a reasonable point. Given that it is not illegal to have private insurance, and that those who have it help to eke out NHS funds, should we be taxing it more? That is a very good question to raise. I shall make no stronger statement than that, but it will be interesting to see how the Treasury responds. After all, on this side of the House, we are all now big society fans and advocates-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-15", "file": "debates2010-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bff371aefbae22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Superannuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "e remarkable signal that the coalition Government and the Prime Minister want people to stand up for themselves and take responsibility, as part of the big society, by insuring themselves. I am in the wonderful position of being a Conservative Back Bencher who does not have to worry about the Whip in Committee. The Prime Minister has already said that he wants the Government to be held to account-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-15", "file": "debates2010-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bff371aefbae22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Superannuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "IPT is currently structured and where it is levied, it does not apply to long-term insurance; the conclusion to be drawn about something that falls within the definition of long-term insurance is fairly logical. However, in respect of the types of insurance that are affected, insurers have the right to respond to the tax as they see fit. They are not obliged to pass on IPT through higher premiums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-15", "file": "debates2010-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bff371aefbae22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Superannuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "dentials and his prejudice. I shall not get into a full debate about the NHS, as I hope that we will have an opportunity to do so when the private Member's Bill tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone) -which I support-is debated on a Friday in February. Let us not forget that many of our top clinicians stay in this country because they can supply their services to the NHS-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-15", "file": "debates2010-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bff371aefbae22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Superannuation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "Schedule 4 provides for the exemption from income tax of expenses paid or reimbursed to MPs, following the introduction under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 of the popular new scheme for paying the expenses of MPs administered by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. I understand that that will broadly have the effect of maintaining-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-15a.1182.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I would say to the Secretary of State-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It is ridiculous for the right hon. Lady to stand there, two and a half months after leaving government with the finances in a total shambles, and try to lecture us about youth unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of taking any lessons from the previous Government on child poverty-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.22.6", "colnum": "22", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I have spoken to the Welsh Secretary on a number of occasions and I have accepted her invitation to go and visit the Assembly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.22.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "We have 720 schools where children from primary school were looking forward to going into brand-new schools. Their hopes have now been dashed by the Conservatives to pay for their free-market schools policy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "onsult is, presumably, that they disagree with the hon. Gentleman. If they were going to consult anyway, there would be no need to build the provision into the Bill. It is there because they know some head teachers and chairs of governors would consult nobody at all, which would be undemocratic and unfair. The reality is that under our academies policy-look, let me turn to the details of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady would like to defend that policy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady would like to defend that policy- [Interruption.] She can sit down for a second.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.43.5", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "l table an amendment to prevent this-is profit-making companies taking over the entire management of schools and touting themselves for business. That amounts to completely ripping up the last 60 years of free state education. Secondly, on this point, if a group of parents wants to go it alone, there must be somebody whose job it is to say, \"Will this contribute to, or undermine, social cohesion?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.43.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the hon. Lady has not discovered the new politics. This is not about party political point scoring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.94.5", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They've gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that Labour Members have gone-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.94.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "et out in the Bill, and the Government are not bringing it in through straightforward measures, but it is writ large through every clause and the intention is very clear. Liberty from the dead hand of bureaucracy, which is how the Bill is being presented, is merely a catchphrase, nothing more, designed to shield the Government's true ideological concerns. I shall move briefly, if I may, to Sweden-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-19", "file": "debates2010-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "2deff2b60baf2212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Academies Bill [ Lords ]", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "dren and parents everywhere. By elevating market mores above the core principles of co-operation, accountability, democracy and equality, it will turn our education system into a dismal experiment in educational Darwinism. It will be the survival of the fittest and the demise of the rest. The consequences could be calamitous for tens of thousands of children and take decades to reverse. Education-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-19b.125.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.155.6", "colnum": "155", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "On the latter point, the right hon. Gentleman will have to wait until the sentencing review when we will bring forward our detailed proposals, which-I am sure-will hang together in a properly co-ordinated manner. He must also appreciate that the economic inheritance that this Government received-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.155.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ortunity to point out to the House and to the hon. Gentleman that I have today made a written statement setting out plans for the implementation of the Bribery Act 2010? This important piece of legislation from Parliament reflects cross-party support for anti-bribery measures and its effective implementation is a priority for me in my role as the coalition's international anti-corruption champion-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.168.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman asked about the appointment process. These are interim appointments; we believed that it was important to establish the OTS quickly. The appointments will be there for 12 months, at which point we will go through the usual process of appointment for permanent appointees. In that 12-month period Mr Whiting and Mr Jack will add a great deal to our tax system, will establish the OTS-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.181.8", "colnum": "181", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "The appointees will not be paid. If they incur proper expenses, they will be reimbursed, as is only reasonable-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.181.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPPROPRIATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "ives and the Liberal Democrats a chance to vote for an amendment to delay the VAT increase until a plan was in place to compensate pensioners and charities fully, and they voted against it. The public will draw only one conclusion-that this Government simply do not care. If I am not mistaken, the entire contribution of the big society bank that Labour created will be wiped out by the VAT increase-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPPROPRIATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "ture. It enables families to do both those things. Most families are using the child trust funds to put a little bit extra by. The parents who scrimp and save to put into the child trust fund will not let their children waste the money. The straw man that has been held up is that they will blow it all on their 18th birthday party, on buying fast cars and all the other things that 18-year-olds do -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPPROPRIATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "That is what the voters expect, and what they-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "therwise, I-and, I am sure, the House-will expect to hear explanations and apologies as necessary.\"-[ Official Report , 25 May 2010; Vol. 510, c. 53 .] You have been as good as your word, Mr Speaker. The Backbench Business Committee-and, I hope, the whole House tonight-will praise you for that, because you insisted that Ministers who have not complied come to the Chamber to apologise to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": " or any other means, as long as the House hears about the policy first. I want the Press Gallery to be full. When an important announcement is made by, say, a Minister from the Department for Transport, the Press Gallery is full because members of the press want to hear the news on the Floor of the House first. When it is pre-released to the media, the Gallery is empty. I have spoken for too long-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Alison Seabeck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Seabeck", "preceding_text": "ed to the House and that only one or two of the main items have been released to the public-that is of relevance to a point made earlier about the precise wording of paragraph 9.1 of the ministerial code. That excuse is not good enough, because often the juicy bits of the White Paper or statement are leaked to the press and the House is left with the odds and sods-if I am allowed to use that term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "e us. He talked about the seven or eight written statements that are released each day and the many oral statements, but how on earth can we come to a situation in which somebody somewhere is tasked with deciding what is \"the most important\"? A written ministerial statement was made today on the 2013 review of the Rural Payments Agency, but I would say that that is probably not the most important-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "nch Business Committee, and thus helping to bring forward the subject of this debate. It is an excellent subject, because it goes straight to the heart of the relationship between Parliament and the Executive-and inevitably, as hon. Members have already pointed out, the relationship between Parliament, the Executive and what are nowadays 24-hour media. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hollobone-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": " this debate. It is an excellent subject, because it goes straight to the heart of the relationship between Parliament and the Executive-and inevitably, as hon. Members have already pointed out, the relationship between Parliament, the Executive and what are nowadays 24-hour media. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hollobone- [ Laughter. ] Sorry, not Hollobone. It is Mr Hollobone, the Member for-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "preceding_text": "his-to dream up draconian punishments for Ministers on the spot, what we need is a well-thought-through, workable protocol that Ministers understand and, crucially, can use to drive a culture change in their private offices and Departments. This issue is not just about Ministers; it is a whole culture of government. We need to ensure that the mantra is changed from \"In the Loop\" to \"In the House\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": " Perhaps he will come back as quickly as possible with the stick-suspension from the ceiling, birching or lynching; we are open to everything. He can bring back the stick and we can have a proper debate about how we as Back Benchers can hold the Executive better to account. I thank all Members who have taken part in the debate and made sure, with some notable exceptions, that is has been sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.303.5", "colnum": "303", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Jill-in-the-box.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "Once again, the hon. Lady springs up like a jack-in-the-box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.303.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's experience may be different, but his intervention would have been better directed at the Deputy Leader of the House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "The point that I am making is that there is no logic to the case for allowing only the UK Youth Parliament to use this Chamber. If people take the view that no one else should be allowed to use the Chamber, it would be a sensible and rational point of view. If someone takes the view that anyone should be allowed to use the Chamber, that would be an equally valid point of view. For the life of me-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.314.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "to think that members of the UK Youth Parliament are unique in not being able to vote or stand for Parliament at a general election. That, I am afraid, is not the case. They are not unique. No young people have the opportunity to participate in general elections, not just members of the UK Youth Parliament. As I made clear earlier, the royal family do not have the opportunity to vote in elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "rateful that he made the point that I am the antithesis of Conservatism. Thank you for that, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Bury North (Mr Nuttall) made the most salient point: younger people do not vote at general elections, not because we do not allow them to use the Chamber or because we do allow them to use it, but because we do not inspire them to vote. The onus is on us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "s-youth issues may well be one of them-perhaps we can also raise the profile of other issues. I do not understand why we need the Youth Parliament to have a debate in this Chamber in order to raise its profile. Why would a debate held elsewhere not also raise its profile? I hope that Members who are in favour of the motion will deal with that point. I would also like to talk, Madam Deputy Speaker-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-20", "file": "debates2010-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "277927a4f596e1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked whether that was in order, and the simple answer is yes. If there are no further points of order, we shall proceed to the presentation of public petitions. I call Mr Peter Bone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-20c.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.333.4", "colnum": "333", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Graham Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Evans", "preceding_text": "In Scotland, there are urban seats that have an electorate of between 50,000 and 80,000; that disparity cannot be justified by extreme geography. Does the Secretary of State agree that it is disappointing that the previous Government had so little regard for the fundamental principle that every vote should have equal value?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.333.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.339.8", "colnum": "339", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I advise my hon. Friend that the Scottish Government have no proposals for any major schemes on the A1 trunk road in Scotland, but I will speak to colleagues in the Department for Transport about the need to liaise on cross-border routes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.339.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his welcome of my appearance, probably my one and only appearance, here in this capacity-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "son was writing out cheques to companies like Forgemasters, which he knew would bounce, all the while writing in his memoirs: \"We were deep in a pit of debt and still digging.\" That was what was wrong. It was wrong to pretend that there could be Government assistance for a great company like Sheffield Forgemasters when, as the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury said, there was \"no money left\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "That was not a question-it was a sort of dissertation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "That was not a question-it was a sort of dissertation. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman talks about openness and transparency. It would have been more transparent if Lord Mandelson and his Government had admitted that there was no money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "That was not a question-it was a sort of dissertation. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman talks about openness and transparency. It would have been more transparent if Lord Mandelson and his Government had admitted that there was no money. [Interruption.] Hon. Members should not take it from me; the position was summed up rather well in Sheffield Forgemasters-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to interrupt the Deputy Prime Minister, but that is very discursive and not relevant to the precise responsibility of a member of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.344.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "beral Democrat-held seats, less than a quarter of voters thought the Lib Dems were having a significant impact on the Government's agenda.\" First, the Deputy Prime Minister blamed the cancellation of the loan on Sheffied Forgemasters' unwillingness to dilute the shareholding, then he said that it was unaffordable. Last week he told the Yorkshire Post that the company did not need a loan after all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "nment's agenda.\" First, the Deputy Prime Minister blamed the cancellation of the loan on Sheffied Forgemasters' unwillingness to dilute the shareholding, then he said that it was unaffordable. Last week he told the Yorkshire Post that the company did not need a loan after all. [Interruption.] I am not surprised that hon. Members are baying, because there has been one excuse after another. He said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Members are beside themselves. I am quite worried about their health. They really do need to calm down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.6", "colnum": "345", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Claire Perry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.9", "colnum": "345", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that the right hon. Gentleman has had his allotted span.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.345.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House really must start to behave itself. We have made slow progress-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.346.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend understandably refers to the privacy of this Chamber, given that we have all said things in it that were widely unnoticed by the rest of the world, and which, when we said them in a television interview two weeks' later, were news to the rest of the country. However, perhaps that is because not enough of our friends are upstairs regularly enough. However, I do not agree-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Credit Regulation (Child Pornography)", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "onventional cards, but that particular horse has, of course, already bolted. Few abusers would now risk their identities becoming known, so now they use pre-paid cards instead. Once more we find ourselves with growing credit card-driven child abuse on the web. The credit card companies are not taking pre-emptive action. There is lots of money involved and no appetite for voluntary industry action-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "It is my speech; I thank my hon. Friend-for he is my friend-the Minister of State. I will always give way to Members. However, I do not want to hear a point of order at 10 pm about how the Minister went on-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": ". As the hon. Gentleman said, amendment 28 would prevent special schools from converting to academies. That was the previous Government's policy. We think it is right that special schools should have access to the same opportunities and freedoms that we are giving to mainstream schools. Indeed, many special schools want that freedom: more than 50 have registered an interest in becoming an academy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "As I said at the beginning of the debate on the previous amendment, for which the hon. Gentleman was present, I want to see more academies. I have not said that there should not be any more academies. Indeed, many of the academies that will open in September-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "This is a Committee stage, but the hon. Gentleman has retreated into a Second Reading political statement. I was asking what evidence the Government had presented to Parliament-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it's not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "preceding_text": "ave built in a mechanism under which that scrutiny will not need to be carried out in the first instance, because only outstanding schools will be allowed to go forward. The whole point of the previous Government's academies programme was to lift standards in schools that were performing below the level that we all want for our children. This Government's programme is for outstanding schools only-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "There are a number of reasons, but the principal one is that most inner-city grammar schools were sadly destroyed by misguided policy, so there are fewer grammar schools in the most deprived areas and they tend to survive-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": " we raise the standard and quality of education right across the system. I do not decry the desire of the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr Field) to ensure that all children achieve the very best that they can, and I hope that he would not decry me, or any of my hon. Friends, in terms of wanting that either. It is a difference of philosophy and view about how one achieves that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "There is no change from the current situation. The catchment area of a grammar school after conversion to an academy will be the same as it was before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "The provision is consistent in the same way that it was consistent with the arrangement under the hon. Gentleman's Administration, and under current law on maintained grammar schools -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "As Members will know, the amendment proposes that academies should follow the national curriculum. Under the Government's proposals, once a state-maintained school becomes an academy, it is no longer required to follow the national curriculum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.489.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "No. Let me make this very clear: in the letter that Mr Cook wrote, he mentioned a number of things. I have the letter with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "in the letter that Mr Cook wrote, he mentioned a number of things. I have the letter with me. [Interruption.] I will answer the question fully. As the hon. Member for Sheffield South East correctly says, Mr Cook states, right at the top of the letter, that he is a donor to the Conservative party. He goes on to say that he is a senior industrialist in Sheffield with two casting plants in that city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.528.5", "colnum": "528", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "important possibility. Hon. Members alluded to the fact that the company has set out its views in just the past 48 hours. It might help the House if we listened to those views. Dr Honeyman has said, in the past 24 hours: \"We are still keen to undertake the 15,000 tonne press development but feel that the company's best interests will be served by suspending work on the project for the time being.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.528.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "ing as all that or would not really represent debt on the books of the Government is not correct. The reality is that by taking on that commitment we would have been adding to the enormous debt, regardless of the nature of the assets it financed. I turn now to the question of the letter and the background to it, which Labour Members appear to be more interested in than the question of the company-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.531.5", "colnum": "531", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "No, because the hon. Member for Sheffield South East has asked questions that need to be answered-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.531.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.531.7", "colnum": "531", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": " the letter, because it was emailed to me. As I have made clear, it was apparent from the letter that this was a business man who had knowledge of Sheffield and the industry and was making various representations. My view was that that should go to the officials. It went to the officials and the answer that came back was \"We have noted your letter, Mr Cook.\" That was it. There has been no further-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.531.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.531.7", "colnum": "531", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "as a business man who had knowledge of Sheffield and the industry and was making various representations. My view was that that should go to the officials. It went to the officials and the answer that came back was \"We have noted your letter, Mr Cook.\" That was it. There has been no further- [ Interruption. ] The reply is included in the replies that I have given to the local Members. It is clear-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.531.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-21", "file": "debates2010-07-21b.xml", "sha256": "18dadf2c9c301a7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman usually makes intelligent contributions, but that was just part of the knockabout nonsense-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-21b.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "stions next week or the Business Secretary in a statement will tell us the following: first, whether the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr Prisk) told the Business Secretary that he had given the letter of 25 May from the Tory donor to officials; secondly, whether either the Secretary of State or the Minister of State-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.560.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.595.6", "colnum": "595", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "I know. Perhaps it is the way I speak. Anyway, it is a delight to be back here. It does not seem long ago that we were finishing the debate last night-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": " Halton is still here, because he and I have always taken a keen interest in these matters. At the end of the regulations, we find out that they deal with not only building school premises regulations and design requirements, but \"playing field regulations\". I cannot remember a time when Members on both sides of the House have not become incandescent about the selling off of school playing fields-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.597.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) will recall that we both made our maiden speeches on Labour's flagship Bill in 1997. He will also recall the optimism that existed in the country then for education and for the incoming Government. How different the mood is today. My constituency, which has been devastated -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.608.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.624.9", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": ". I very much welcome his appointment to that position, and I know that he will work with diligence and determination. He and I have known each other for a long time. We go back over a number of years, in our various roles in Nottinghamshire, so I sincerely hope that he does well. I wish him the best and wish him good luck with things over the next few months, years or whatever it turns out to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.624.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "ough they will have fewer resources to provide for special educational needs in an area, they will not make any savings from an administrative point of view either. It is also totally unclear exactly how all this will be worked out. What will a school that chooses to become an academy receive? I know there is a ready reckoner on the Department's website, but will the Minister explain how it works?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Metcalfe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Metcalfe", "preceding_text": "think that I shall be able to add as much, in terms of detail. As hon. Members would expect, I have studied previous maiden speeches and, not surprisingly, found them to be very formulaic. Although I do not intend to stray far from that formula, it would be worth recognising that change has come to this House. I look around and I see my new colleagues brimming with enthusiasm, optimism and energy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.645.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for South Basildon and East Thurrock (Stephen Metcalfe) , whose constituency I know slightly less well, although I think that it is somewhere near where \"Dad's Army\" used to be filmed. One thing that I have picked up from this debate is that Members on both sides are concerned about special educational needs. The hon. Member for Gelding, the shadow Minister, made that clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": " Committee, who have drawn on their extensive experience and expertise. I defer to those hon. Members who have that professional expertise-expertise that they have been able to articulate today in a way that has shown the House and this Committee at its best, as was made clear in his generous contribution by the hon. Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) , who I can confirm is a stallion, by the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "edly both today and yesterday-for the provision of children with SEN. I can confirm that we have accepted the amendment and that we intend to take the necessary steps to ensure that SEN children are protected as the noble Lords intended. On the other questions that I have not yet answered in this all too short peroration-I am not suggesting for a minute that all questions do not deserve an answer-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-22", "file": "debates2010-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b09759e31d778b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": " worthy replacement for a friend of ours, Angela Smith. I wish him well in Parliament, and we look forward to hearing further contributions from him. I was not quite sure whether the contribution of the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Rory Stewart) was a second maiden speech or a maiden, but although he did not agree with me, I still thought it was a reasonable speech, if that makes sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-22a.670.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "It would be fair to start by thanking the hon. Gentleman for his contribution to grass-roots sport over many years as a rugby coach in his own area. The question of competitive sport is a difficult one, and it is clearly something that, as a new Government, we put at the heart of our sports policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.695.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes the important point that what is most important is that Bills are written correctly and are made right first time, rather than having them rewritten, as was so often the case under the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ernment want to strengthen the fight against crime. He returns-as did the shadow Home Secretary-to the issue of cuts. Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary reported last week that it thinks that it will be possible to find 12% budget cuts in the police force without affecting front-line policing. The reason that we are having to look at the sort of spending cuts across Government that we are-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.737.4", "colnum": "737", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I have answered the question about-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.755.6", "colnum": "755", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Local Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend does not find my intervention unhelpful, although he might-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.755.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Local Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "at which it would be possible to begin the process of setting up an academy. How quickly will the Government be able to agree on the financial basis? What will happen to the role of local authorities that have already budgeted for the coming year? What will happen to the existing budgets in schools? That brings me to a point at which I have to declare an interest yet again, Ms Primarolo-Primarolo-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.765.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Local Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "Sometimes things are so obvious that when one trusts people they will do the obvious thing. Of course these people will want to carry the local parents with them because otherwise they will lose their school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Local Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "ions that the Minister needs to answer. On consultation, it would help if the Government and the Minister answered named day written questions, including a large number that are specifically relevant to this whole process and our discussions on consultation. I have 11 named-day questions for last Monday that have not yet been answered by the Department. Not all of them are relevant to this debate-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Local Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "nterruption. ] The Front Benchers are now debating who is responsible; I am afraid that it involves both Conservative and Liberal Democrat Ministers. Some of those questions are specific to today's debate on consultation, so for the Department to talk about consultation, procedure and correct processes when I still have not received the answers to questions for which the named day was last Monday-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.775.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Local Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "The school can continue with an academy order made. That is the point. The academy order can be made in September, but the funding agreement might take several additional weeks afterwards-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Local Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "saying that they do not want strangers in the building. Social cohesion means that the school can be used on a Sunday afternoon if someone is prepared to put the money in to pay the caretaker, not that the facilities are jealously guarded by the school as if they are only for its use. If this is going to work, we have to accept that these schools are an integral part of community provision. Sadly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.797.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-26", "file": "debates2010-07-26b.xml", "sha256": "391f2c228eb0fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Local Referendums Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. Gentleman's point, and I am sure the Minister will want to respond to it in respect of how the funding agreement will work as the academies come into being. However, the hon. Gentleman said earlier that he thinks that academies are a good thing and that if Labour had continued in government, they would have increased in number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-26b.806.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As my the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper) , said earlier, we are extending the period of consultation on proposals for the independent boundary commissions from one month to three-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.852.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Let me remind my hon. Friend that, during the general election, there was a party-the Labour party-that wanted to press ahead with the alternative vote and another party-the Liberal Democrats-that believed in a more proportional voting system. As is the nature of a coalition agreement, we reached a compromise-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.858.6", "colnum": "858", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I will endeavour to assist the hon. Lady, irrespective of the way in which her question ended up on the Order Paper. First, I want to congratulate her on her appointment as the shadow Minister for those affected by disability issues. I am sure that she will be an active participant in these debates, and I hope that policy will develop as a consequence-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.858.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bareback!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I do not want to worry the right hon. Lady unduly at our daily meeting, but I broadly welcome this statement. I suspect that I am just a short preliminary to the real opposition on the matter, which is the Brokeback tendency behind her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "r passing to the European Union. Given that the Home Secretary promised us that no sovereignty would be transferred by the EIO, will she reassure us of that by putting into the draft proposal a simple clause that says that Britain can withdraw from the arrangement at any time if it proves to be not as advertised? If we have that clause, we are sovereign; if we do not have it, we are not sovereign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "preceding_text": "or a local hospital, church or school, but South Staffordshire is blighted by industrial car boot sales involving many hundreds of traders descending on our rural villages. There is no regulation or control by the district council, and the events bring misery to many areas. I invite Members to visit the villages of Featherstone or Himley on a Sunday to see the blight that the car boot sales bring-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": "ort to my constituents, who pay zone 6 fares. We also suffer from generally ill-kept stations which could do with a deep clean. Staffing at stations is limited and often non-existent; late at night, of course, that does not encourage a feeling of safety and security. Sunday services are non-existent. Many loyal Tottenham Hotspur fans travel regularly to see their team-is that not suffering enough?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": "As I have said, they have to pay the most in our area, which is in zone 6. National Express's reply was most illuminating, because after several paragraphs of basically saying, \"No change\", it said, \"Please go to our improvement plan on the website.\" Hon. Members will not be surprised to hear that that link, which I tried only this morning, does not work either. The frustration is all too evident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "If I may take a leaf out of the introduction to the speech by the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Nick Smith) , I would like to wish happy birthday to everyone in Portsmouth South who has a birthday today. That covers that one. I cannot name individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "o congratulate all those who made their maiden speeches today. It is always a formidable task, but it feels so good once it is over. I am sure that they all feel a lot better for that experience being done and dusted. When the hon. Member for Leyton and Wanstead (John Cryer) was on the Government Benches in his first incarnation in the House of Commons, he called most of the then Government prats-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "preceding_text": "Before the House adjourns, I wish to place on the record the problems and concerns of my constituents as a result of road congestion through the villages of Mottram and Hollingworth, and mention the ongoing saga of the proposed Mottram-to-Tintwistle bypass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.961.0", "colnum": "961", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Luciana Berger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luciana Berger", "preceding_text": "ernment raise unemployment with their cuts, but they seem to want to punish those who are unfortunate enough to find themselves out of work. All of us in the House recognise the value of helping people off benefits and into work. That is important for self-esteem, well-being and the economy, and jobseekers should be supported, not castigated. The Government's plans to freeze jobseeker's allowance-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "ll those children and young people who will not be able to afford the costs of participating in sport, particularly now that the grants for free swimming have been cut. My hon. Friend the Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) talked about enjoying Adjournment debates in the middle of the night in the 1980s. For most people, this debate, lasting five hours in the daytime, has been long enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-07-27", "file": "debates2010-07-27d.xml", "sha256": "4fdb8469d3261f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "eep this place running. They include the staff of Hansard , the Library and the Tea Room, the cleaners, the Clerks, the police, the Serjeant at Arms and her team, and the Doorkeepers. I particularly want to join the authors of early-day motion 596 in paying tribute to George Blaylock, Clive Burrows, Ken Jones and Clive Thomas, who, after a combined 73 years of service, are retiring as Doorkeepers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-07-27d.969.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.5.8", "colnum": "5", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Thanks for that!", "preceding_speaker": "Lorraine Fullbrook", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that a partnership between the police force and the local community is the best way to tackle crime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.5.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman accuses me of engaging in soundbite politics, may I be allowed to use the Dispatch Box to advertise my Royal Commonwealth Society lecture this evening, in which I will make quite a long and detailed speech on immigration policy, to which I invite him-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.14.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.14.7", "colnum": "14", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "There will be net savings of approximately £86 million over the next four years-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.14.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.14.7", "colnum": "14", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "There will be net savings of approximately £86 million over the next four years- [Interruption.] . From a sedentary position, the shadow Home Secretary describes that as \"diddly squat\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.14.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I will take first the issue that the shadow Home Secretary raised about the number of people involved who may or may not have had telephone calls intercepted. Assistant Commissioner Yates made it clear in his interview on the \"Today\" programme this morning that there are-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "s made it clear in his interview on the \"Today\" programme this morning that there are- [Interruption.] Labour Members may tut, but Assistant Commissioner Yates was interviewed on the matter this morning and made it clear that there is often a misunderstanding between somebody's name appearing on a list and that person assuming that they have therefore had their phone intercepted. He made it clear-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jack Dromey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Dromey", "preceding_text": "May I ask you to make a ruling, Mr Speaker? My hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) has put before the House evidence that he was hacked into-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to raise the matter with the Metropolitan police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "It is impossible to predict what effect a new electoral system will have-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "idised at a rate of about £48 million a year. I would rather continue with free swimming for another two years than have a referendum that nobody wants. My third reason for opposition is that these proposals were not in the manifesto of any party at the last election. Call me old-fashioned, but I think that manifestos are important and that we should do what we say we are going to do in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.60.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was in your manifesto.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "vellous position to be in-I always wanted to be in such a position-but AV will achieve very little else. It has suddenly been dragged out of the tomb in which it has lain since 1929, given the kiss of life-bandaged and bleeding as it is-by the Deputy Prime Minister, and trundled out on to the stage. It was not in the Liberal Democrat manifesto or the Conservative manifesto. Where did it come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "but there is no satisfaction. Over a lengthy period, I have watched the parading of princes in this House of Commons. I have seen Governments come and Governments go, so my objective is the system that best protects the sovereignty of the people. I profoundly believe that it is first past the post, for the simplest and most obvious reason of all-you know how to get rid of the Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " to be incandescent about the carve-up of his island constituency, but let me say this to the rest of the House. Just wait until every Member in every area realises what will be done to their own constituencies based not on natural communities, not on natural towns or parts of cities, but on an arithmetical diktat imposed by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Government on the boundary commissions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-06", "file": "debates2010-09-06b.xml", "sha256": "cfc59fd07e260910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REDUCTIONS (WOMEN)", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": " why we are determined to reform welfare to get people into work, creating a new Work programme to give the unemployed tailored support. It is why, as I said, we are protecting the lowest-paid public sector workers. It is why we are increasing child tax credits for the poorest families, protecting against rises in child poverty. Child poverty rose in the past few years under the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-06b.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-07", "file": "debates2010-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "810d7e2c3ecb02dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Freedom of Information (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "information laws to extend fully to all our media organisations. They have far more power than many public agencies, local councils and the rest, which are covered by FOI legislation. What our media organisations and the oligarchs-often from overseas-who own them decide to do has a huge impact on our public life, and any company that is in receipt of taxpayers' money should also be covered by FOI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-07", "file": "debates2010-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "810d7e2c3ecb02dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Freedom of Information (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "a critic, and if he looks at the alternative Budgets that I provided annually-which this House rejected, but never mind-he will see that there would have been no deficit if I had implemented them. There would have been a redistribution of wealth and an increase in taxation, which would have enabled us to afford the public expenditure that our society requires. I am not a Keynesian; I am a Marxist-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-07", "file": "debates2010-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "810d7e2c3ecb02dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.231.3", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Freedom of Information (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "I will not quote the figures again, but I refer the hon. Gentleman to the income data survey. I am happy to provide him with a PCS briefing that sets out the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-07", "file": "debates2010-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "810d7e2c3ecb02dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Freedom of Information (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Michael McCann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael McCann", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is absolutely correct, but earlier contributors made it clear that that refers to a very tiny proportion of the civil service staff; the vast majority are under the terms that I have given the House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-07", "file": "debates2010-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "810d7e2c3ecb02dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Freedom of Information (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Michael McCann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael McCann", "preceding_text": "absolutely correct, but earlier contributors made it clear that that refers to a very tiny proportion of the civil service staff; the vast majority are under the terms that I have given the House- [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock) shakes his head, but it is absolutely true that the vast majority will receive severance terms based on a maximum three years' payout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-07", "file": "debates2010-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "810d7e2c3ecb02dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Freedom of Information (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": "mparison. I have been in the private sector all my life. I have never had a pension or redundancy terms, and I have always managed to earn a considerable amount of money. I knew what I was getting into. When I signed on for this place, I knew that I would experience a severe reduction in my pay, but that I would get a pension and redundancy terms, although of course the latter are not now so good-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-07", "file": "debates2010-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "810d7e2c3ecb02dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Freedom of Information (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "question when he says that the previous Government did nothing about the problem over the last 10 years. As for this new argument I am hearing expressed by Labour Members, that we had a large deficit in 1945-yes, we did, but we also had large cuts in 1945 and not least to the military because we had just won a war. There are no such easy reductions now because of the mess left by the Labour party-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-07a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I feel that I should say to the hon. Gentleman, \"Listen very carefully, I will say this only once,\" because I heard an interview that he gave on the radio in which it appeared that he had not listened to the answers that I gave at the last Welsh questions. Can I just tell him that I have-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.312.10", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "alion the Royal Regiment of Scotland; and Captain Andrew Griffiths, from 2nd Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. Each of those men was an heroic, selfless individual who has given his life for the safety of us and the British people. Nothing can ease the pain of the loved ones, families and friends they have left behind, but their lives, service and sacrifice will never, ever be forgotten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.312.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree that the previous Government have left us with an extraordinary legacy, with the largest deficit in our peacetime history. It was they who took their eye off the ball and allowed the banks to lend money irresponsibly, and it was they who racked up these extraordinary debts and deficits-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " We did not just inherit a legacy of deficit; we also inherited a legacy of bureaucracy. As Sir Denis O'Connor, the chief inspector of constabulary, pointed out in July, 2,600 pages of guidance were issued to police officers last year alone. He said that, if they were laid end to end, they would be \"three times higher than the Eiffel tower\". We need less bureaucracy and more police on the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "as preparing for today, suspecting that this issue might come up, I read in one of the briefing notes I received that when Andy Coulson resigned from the News of the World the first person to call to commiserate was the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) . He told him not to worry, that he had done the honourable thing and that he knew he would go on to do a worthwhile job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.315.5", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "What I expect and hope the right hon. Gentleman will believe is that it is now for the police to investigate whether these new charges and allegations have anything to them. That is what the police are there for. Does the right hon. Gentleman want us all to start second-guessing what is in the newspaper and what statements have been made? Let the police-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.315.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend well knows, the challenge of balancing the Budget and filling the huge black hole left to us by Labour is, indeed, very difficult. That has, of course, been recognised by Tony Blair in his recent book, where he has said: \"if governments don't tackle deficits\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The legacy we inherited-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The legacy we inherited-[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] I know Opposition Members do not want to hear this, but it is worth reminding people in the country at large that after 13 years of Labour the United Kingdom has the highest-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.317.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "It would be a disservice to the many millions of people affected-certainly the 1.4 million who are being chased for repayments-if we allowed this matter to be passed over in gaining party political points on either side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.331.4", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Matthew Elliott.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.331.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Sex and Relationships Education", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "jor mental health problems. Some end up committing suicide. The incidence of suicide among homosexual pupils is six times higher than it is among heterosexuals. In 1990, only 10.3% of women had had their first sexual encounter under the age of 16, but in 2000 that had risen to 20.4%, which is another depressing statistic. Some Members may say that all that was the fault of the previous Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.347.3", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "When we were in government, we decided to pick the priority Departments, and the chosen areas were health, education, international development and crime and policing. It is extraordinary that the present Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ses to do exactly the same. The difference is that we would keep the DNA profiles of those innocent of both serious and non-serious offences while she would keep the former but not the latter. Furthermore, we would both take the DNA from all those arrested and keep it for a sufficient period to check against previous crime scenes. The logic of the lofty argument that she has got from the Lib Dems-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "The Minister is in the Home Office now. He can seek the evidence. It comes from ACPO's research, and it comes from Home Office statistics. That is why I used it when I was Home Secretary. That is why my right hon. Friend the Member for Delyn (Mr Hanson) and I used it when we steered through legislation that was agreed to by the Minister's colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "First, the episode of the cat in the bin was filmed not by state-controlled CCTV, but by CCTV that belonged to the householder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "The answer is quite simple. The Home Secretary ought to do some research. From 1998 onwards we did not need a strategy, because we had introduced an action plan involving the changes that led to the reduction to which I referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "e of the operational independence of chief constables. I think there is a better solution and I offer it to the Government in a spirit of political generosity. If the Government are wedded to some measure of direct accountability I believe a solution might be direct elections for the chair of a police authority while leaving police authorities in place and certainly not causing this huge upheaval-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " might now like to pretend otherwise, if they had won the election, they would have had no choice but to take action to reduce the deficit. We know that they were already planning 20% cuts-they just did not have the guts to tell us where those would come from. This afternoon, however, we were told by the shadow Home Secretary that they were going to come from health, defence and local government -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "lic services even as we reduce public spending. If we are to succeed, the policing reforms I announced to the House before the summer recess, which were so derided by the shadow Home Secretary, will be vital. Despite spending more on criminal justice than any comparable country, we remain a high-crime country-the chance of being a victim of crime here is higher than almost anywhere else in Europe-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": " in your police force?\" surprise, surprise, they will probably say no. It is a matter of regret that some chief constables are engaging in a political debate, when they should be thinking in more innovative ways about delivering more for the people whom they serve and not debating issues and speculating about hypotheses that are unproven. If Labour Members were as fair-minded as I have been today-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "preceding_text": " we seek to deliver it. When I first expressed an interest in joining the police 25 years ago, the general reaction was \"Well, you've got the height for it\", as if being tall were the defining characteristic of a good police officer. Other stereotypes also do nothing to help the debate on policing. Dixon never actually policed Dock Green, and Sam Tyler did not actually go back to 1970s Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "ke the assault on Ian Tomlinson that lead to his death or like the case in which a police officer recently received a custodial sentence of six months, I want police officers prosecuted fairly, vigorously and swiftly, just like anybody else. There should be no bounds, and the police must be prosecuted properly. I also want police officers to be prosecuted when they give perjured evidence in court-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "k-this is the major charge in the motion-by the proposals to cut the resources of the police service. That proposal, which was actually encouraged by the Home Secretary and the Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice-they did not fight the Treasury-will mean that we will face potential major reductions of 20 to 25% in the police service budget. That will create major difficulties in the future-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": " policing is up, violent crime fell by 42% in those 13 years, overall personal crime fell 41%, household crime fell 44%, vehicle crime fell, convictions rose, there are more people in prison and we have longer sentences. As a result of that, crime is down by 43% overall, as I said. I am not saying it was perfect, because it was not. If an individual is subject to a crime, to them it is 100% crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.418.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "d the Liberal Democrats supported proposals under which people who had not been convicted of a crime-but who could potentially have been criminals-would not have their DNA stored. I look forward to a day that could be disastrous for the Government, if people are committing crimes when they could have been prevented from doing so. People could be killed, injured, raped or attacked, but individuals-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-08", "file": "debates2010-09-08c.xml", "sha256": "c06a00644fa8630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "We must look forward to the fact that two pilot schemes are being held back when they could have been developed. On the issue of CCTV, there is certainly a need for regulation, but individual Government Back Benchers have said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-08c.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-09", "file": "debates2010-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "b9f4b16c450bd881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "May I begin by complimenting the right hon. Lady on her choice of outfit? It is very DEFRA-esque-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-09", "file": "debates2010-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "b9f4b16c450bd881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "Of course I would be very happy to speak to my hon. Friend on this subject, and I appreciate the point that he is making. The upland entry level stewardship scheme is basically a very good scheme; I would not dissent from that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-09", "file": "debates2010-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "b9f4b16c450bd881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.451.6", "colnum": "451", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "he point of having a whole superstructure of an Agricultural Wages Board for the sake of 2p an hour? That question answers itself. The right hon. Gentleman talks about who is responsible for abolition, but he should remember that it was Labour policy to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board and the Government were forced to rescind it by the Warwick agreement when they were in hock to the Liberals-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.451.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-09", "file": "debates2010-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "b9f4b16c450bd881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.467.5", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "In view of the impact of spending cuts on boroughs like mine, which was mentioned on the wireless today arising from a survey which had been undertaken-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.467.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-09", "file": "debates2010-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "b9f4b16c450bd881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "act of the matter is our soldiers require our support. I accept the point that they have a problem with understanding the nuances of people saying, \"We support our troops, but we don't support the war.\" When we talk to them, they say, \"Come off it, we're out here doing a mission; support us! Don't just say, 'We support you.' We don't quite get that.\" One of them said to me, \"Are you smoking dope?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-09", "file": "debates2010-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "b9f4b16c450bd881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.507.3", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "John Woodcock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Woodcock", "preceding_text": "Members on both sides of the House will support the Secretary of State in what he has just said. Does he accept that his Government must be more focused in communicating the mission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.507.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-09", "file": "debates2010-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "b9f4b16c450bd881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "Given the time, and the fact that the wind-up speeches need to begin, I will be brief-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-09b.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.596.6", "colnum": "596", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Gallant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "r undertaken on public expenditure. More than 100,000 substantive ideas have been received from members of the public. Teams at the Treasury have been sifting through these ideas over the past six weeks and some are already being implemented. We have also created a mechanism for collective discussion of spending issues across the Cabinet, which is something of an innovation, so the Prime Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ect capital investment in our economic future. We have not reduced capital spending in future years beyond the plans that we inherited, and as we take further decisions, we will strive to ensure that those support economic growth, promote reform and local control, and are fair-fair between different sections of society and between different generations. Let me say something about welfare spending-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "d to do that while we are protecting those who cannot work and protecting the most vulnerable in our society. I would argue that the failure on welfare reform over the last decade was one of the greatest failures of the previous Government. Despite the lurid headlines in some newspapers, the relationship and the co-operation between the Treasury and the DWP is strong. There is a perfectly natural-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "o do not pay their taxes. Later this week, figures will be produced-independent figures, not produced by me-which will show the latest situation on the tax gap that we have inherited: in other words, the gap between what should be collected in tax and what is not collected in tax at the moment. Judging by previous figures I have seen, I think that the House will be pretty staggered by this number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ay? In June, the Chancellor wrote to the Secretary of State: \"I am pleased that you, the prime minister, and I have agreed to press ahead with reforms to the ESA as part of the spending review that deliver net savings of at least £2.5bn by 2014/15.\" His Chief Secretary said yesterday that this was not agreed; well, is it agreed or isn't it? The Chancellor is not being straight with the House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that he wishes to protect the most vulnerable. Will he intervene personally to solve the problem of a constituent of mine, who is severely epileptic, who has not received his tax credit for six weeks owing to the total inefficiency of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, and who has no money whatsoever-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.612.6", "colnum": "612", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "o introduce the banking levy. We were bitterly opposed in the run-up to the election by a Government, in whom I think the right hon. Gentleman was a Minister, who told us that we should not introduce the banking levy until all the other countries had done so. We took a lead and introduced the banking levy, which will raise £2.5 billion. Since then, many other countries have followed our lead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.612.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I do of course recollect what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said during the general election campaign. What he said has been improved upon and superseded by this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.622.6", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As I said, the virtues of a fixed-term-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.622.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.625.6", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " legislative working term of four years\"-[ Official Report , 21 February 1911; Vol. 21, c. 1749 .] That is a quote that I picked up from the Committee's report, rightly pointing out that when a Parliament is expected to last for only four years, as is now the case, it very often ends up, in effect, a three-year Parliament. So our view is that by fixing the cycle at five years, we help to mitigate-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.625.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "al circumstances, such as the foot and mouth crisis in 2001, so that is not the intention. What I have just tried to explain is that there will be an issue, once every 20 years, with the coincidence of elections to this House and to devolved Assemblies. The devolved Assemblies, as I said, have powers to adjust that date, and we are considering whether those powers are sufficient to deal with this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As I was seeking to explain, our approach is first to acknowledge that there is a legitimate issue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.630.2", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will not all we have in those 14 days just be an auction of offices and promises and the usual making of a Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The Bill speaks for itself. With respect, this is genuinely not about the internal dynamics of this coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " from the Front Benches in 30 years to seek to justify difficult positions and have emerged upright at the other end, but with a commitment as clear as daylight in our manifesto-of blessed memory and only five months old-that said, in terms, that the Labour party will introduce legislation for fixed Parliaments, it would have been a bit tricky for me to have come to the House and opposed the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ther end, but with a commitment as clear as daylight in our manifesto-of blessed memory and only five months old-that said, in terms, that the Labour party will introduce legislation for fixed Parliaments, it would have been a bit tricky for me to have come to the House and opposed the Bill. [ Interruption. ] The Deputy Leader of the House may say that that did not worry me a week ago. But it did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Williams", "preceding_text": " day. We already have difficulty in explaining the devolution settlement and how it works, and indeed explaining the distinction between powers for the devolved nations and powers exercised by this Parliament. It is a very big issue. I did not necessarily expect my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister to address this issue, but I am very pleased that he has. We do not know what it involves-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "\"R-E-S-P-E-C-T\" is what Aretha Franklin sang so heartily back in the 1960s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "d. That is nothing to do with the intelligence of the electorate; it is to do with the democratic integrity of those Assemblies and that Parliament. They have their own democratic remit and integrity, and we should not undermine that by overlaying our elections on top of theirs. Frankly, this is a dog's dinner of a Bill. I have seen some dog's dinners in government, but this one takes the biscuit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "lts of a poll conducted in October 2007. It found that 25 per cent. of Conservative MPs, 41 per cent. of Labour MPs and 88 per cent. of Liberal Democrat MPs support fixed-term Parliaments. If anything was to convince me to be against any Bill it would be the fact that 88 per cent. of Liberal Democrats...are in favour of it.\"-[ Official Report , 16 May 2008; Vol. 475, c. 1714 .] Well, times change-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Fixed-term Parliaments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "Is not one of the advantages of having a five-year or four-year fixed-term Parliament the ability to plan the legislative timetable, and will the Minister therefore reassure Members of all parties that in future all Bills will be subject to a 12-week pre-legislative scrutiny process?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-13", "file": "debates2010-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "54493197632a8fe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.710.7", "colnum": "710", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker, for this opportunity to present to the House of Commons this petition from the people of Bromsgrove, signed by more than 1,600 of my constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-13b.710.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-09-14", "file": "debates2010-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "a40f3450c7e06b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be read a Second time on Wednesday 13 October .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made , That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-14", "file": "debates2010-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "a40f3450c7e06b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.727.6", "colnum": "727", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Gentleman sees the Bill, I think he will find that we have very clearly defined those articles of the treaties where a referendum would be required and those where primary legislation would be required. I only wish that the Minister had it in him to welcome the fact-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.727.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-14", "file": "debates2010-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "a40f3450c7e06b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Karen Lumley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Lumley", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that answer. Having spent a great deal of time in the Maldives helping to elect a democratically elected President -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-14", "file": "debates2010-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "a40f3450c7e06b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Karen Lumley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Lumley", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that answer. Having spent a great deal of time in the Maldives helping to elect a democratically elected President -[Interruption.] Somebody has to do it-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-14", "file": "debates2010-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "a40f3450c7e06b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.759.8", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Apprenticeships and Skills (Public Procurement Contracts)", "cue_speaker": "Dave Watts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Watts", "preceding_text": "Is not the point made by his right hon. and hon. Friends this: when on the Government Benches we accepted the recommendations in principle-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.759.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-14", "file": "debates2010-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "a40f3450c7e06b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.760.8", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Apprenticeships and Skills (Public Procurement Contracts)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-14a.760.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that, but let me make some additional points: first, the directive itself is still being finalised; and, secondly, there are opportunities at any stage to opt in to something of which we approve. However, the key point is that we must examine the directive and then ask whether opting in would add anything to what we already do in this vital area-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.875.5", "colnum": "875", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We have already taken some big steps to pass power from the Executive to Parliament-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.875.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ooked at, that is the one where we were left the biggest mess-£38 billion over-committed, and decisions taken that made very little sense at all. But the hon. Gentleman will be seeing a strategic defence review in which we properly review how we can make sure that we have forces that are right for our country, right for our interests and ensure that we protect our interests around the world.-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I have no props.-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My apologies for missing the joke. Next time I will look more carefully. I did not know that we were allowed props, Mr Speaker, but obviously you take a more relaxed view of these things. My hon. Friend raises a very important point and the conference-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ogramme it was. It took three years and £250 million before a single brick was laid; well, maybe we should assess that. The other thing that we could perhaps assess-it is worth reminding people of this-is the bureaucracy of Building Schools for the Future. There were nine meta-stages to putting in a bid. Each of the nine stages had further sub-stages. This is what a local authority had to do-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " thing that we could perhaps assess-it is worth reminding people of this-is the bureaucracy of Building Schools for the Future. There were nine meta-stages to putting in a bid. Each of the nine stages had further sub-stages. This is what a local authority had to do- [ Interruption. ] Well, the hon. Gentleman was responsible for the programme; I am sure this will be a trip down memory lane for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.879.6", "colnum": "879", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much. Local authorities that wanted to get involved needed a partnership for schools director, a director of education project adviser, a 4Ps adviser, an enabler from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.879.6", "colnum": "879", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much. Local authorities that wanted to get involved needed a partnership for schools director, a director of education project adviser, a 4Ps adviser, an enabler from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment- [Interruption.] I am sorry the list is so long, but it goes on and on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "immediate run-up to, and during, the election. The Minister complains now about cost and complexity, but given that our scheme in the 2009 Act was the subject of detailed cross-party consultation by Lord Wills, then my right hon. Friend the Member for North Swindon, why was no such complaint made just six months ago? That system provided a key role for the European-I mean the Electoral-Commission-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.889.5", "colnum": "889", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "bliged to respond to them accurately, but there is no obligation on individuals to register at all. When registration is a household matter, and a person is responsible for registering other people, it is right that that should be obligatory, but when individuals take responsibility for their own registration, it is perfectly reasonable to say that it is up to them whether they choose to register-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.889.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "The whole point about-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "18. RELIEF FROM TAX (INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "ntities and with different facial images. There are fairly obvious security and immigration control issues arising from a person travelling to a country in one identity and perhaps leaving in another identity. There is also the personal situation for a transgendered person. I do not know whether hon. Members are aware that following the Committee sitting, I wrote about it on my blog. It was clear-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "18. RELIEF FROM TAX (INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "a-matching would be relatively straightforward, given that everybody who holds an identity card, including myself, has, or has recently had, a passport. Of course, there are data protection rules, and we would have to gain permission from those individuals, but I would happily give permission for my data to be transferred. In the process, we would lose the fingerprint, because it cannot be stored-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.921.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "18. RELIEF FROM TAX (INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": " for my data to be transferred. In the process, we would lose the fingerprint, because it cannot be stored- [ Interruption. ] I am glad to see that the Minister is listening. It cannot be stored on the passport database- [ Interruption. ] I am being ironic: the Minister will, I hope, be listening in a moment. It cannot be stored, because the Government, in their desire to get rid of it so quickly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "18. RELIEF FROM TAX (INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "y £30. The new Government are rightly seeking to confiscate it, but they owe me modest compensation for doing so. I would never be allowed, under your stern tutelage, Mr Deputy Speaker, to accuse the Ministers of misleading the House or not being straight with us, but may I say that they are being a right pair of tea leaves at the moment? They are going to steal my money and not hand it back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "18. RELIEF FROM TAX (INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "man of affairs, a business leader and a distinguished Government adviser, and shelter behind his outrage. Frankly, it does not matter if we are talking about one person or 14 million people. I put it to the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire that the Government could do themselves no end of good by accepting the new clause, because 14,000 or 15,000 people, in good faith, took out ID cards-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "18. RELIEF FROM TAX (INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "preceding_text": "election, my colleagues and I have listened to the grandstanding from the Government Benches about their civil libertarian credentials. That will work in the early months of government, when it is easy to run around saying that they are against speed cameras or DNA testing, but it will not work when they face constituents who have suffered and want to know why the Government are not on their side-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-15", "file": "debates2010-09-15c.xml", "sha256": "e0be7622f6d15abf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "18. RELIEF FROM TAX (INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Mills", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure, as always, to follow the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Steve McCabe) . I have done it so often he might want a restraining order at some stage. I understand the argument for why the people who foolishly bought an ID card should get some compensation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-15c.932.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-16", "file": "debates2010-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "a00c551c7fc60986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " and the Secretary of State and the coalition parties have to realise that there can be no credible plan for deficit reduction in this country if we do not have a credible plan for growth and jobs. When will he start fighting for the investments that are necessary in offshore wind, in clean-coal technology and in Sheffield Forgemasters, where there was the absolutely terrible decision to cut back-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1003.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-16", "file": "debates2010-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "a00c551c7fc60986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": " matter of Government accounting. What I am saying is that if these pretty profound decisions are being seriously considered-if they are just about delay they do not make sense, but if they are about something else they are core to Government policy-then they ought to be discussed openly and not attempted through any sleight of hand. I have gone on for too long and many hon. Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1047.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-16", "file": "debates2010-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "a00c551c7fc60986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "r the Prime Minister, will not allow the Treasury to take a divide-and-rule approach. I look forward to what we will hear at the end of October, and I hope I am correct in the impression that I have gained from the Minister that all the BBC's reports about Trident today were complete and utter nonsense. Nobody seems to know quite where they came from or to want to take any responsibility for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-16", "file": "debates2010-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "a00c551c7fc60986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " party to replacing the Trident nuclear system with a successor system that would be submarine-based. We went into the election on that basis, but did not win enough seats-sadly, it must be said-to form a Government by ourselves. Conservative MPs were summoned, got together and addressed by our party leader. We were told about the various offers made to form a coalition with the nuclear deterrent-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-16", "file": "debates2010-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "a00c551c7fc60986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to be reading out the script he has been given by his party's central office or his Front-Bench colleagues, and it is unusual for him to swallow what they give him, but I must tell him that the £38 billion to which he refers actually relates to the equipment budget over the next 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-09-16", "file": "debates2010-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "a00c551c7fc60986", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Illegally Logged Timber (Prohibition of Import, Sale or Distribution) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "From a sedentary position, the hon. Gentleman makes a crack about Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-09-16a.1097.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-11", "file": "debates2010-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "19dd774636a3af70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "he passage of the Special Educational Needs (Information) Act 2008. I am sure she will be a knowledgeable opponent over the next few months, which I look forward to. On the hon. Lady's specific question- [ Interruption. ] I am being heckled when I am trying to pay a compliment. Labour Members cannot even let me be nice to Opposition spokesperson. Goodness gracious! They should wait till next week-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.4.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-11", "file": "debates2010-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "19dd774636a3af70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.8.9", "colnum": "8", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "Am I up? [Hon. Members: \"More, more!\"] I am intoxicated by the exuberance of the situation, one might say. The Government are absolutely clear about their determination to deliver practical learning in the way that I have described, and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.8.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-11", "file": "debates2010-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "19dd774636a3af70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.40.5", "colnum": "40", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is right that child benefit has been and will continue to be a very effective mechanism to get money to the poorest families. We are not eradicating the universal benefit in the case of child benefit. We are capping it off at the higher rate. The rest-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.40.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-11", "file": "debates2010-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "19dd774636a3af70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "eepest deficits among developed countries. Contrary to what the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) said-I tried to intervene on him at the time-it is a fact that the deficit that this coalition Government have to tackle is the largest among the larger economies in the world. It is larger than that of the US and Japan, as well as those of the so-called PIGS countries, including Spain and Greece-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-11", "file": "debates2010-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "19dd774636a3af70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "d to consider that; this is not just a series of numbers. Some Members on the other side of the House operate as if the cuts in spending and child benefit and the rise in VAT are just numbers, but the effect is very real for millions of people out there, and it is that effect that really counts. The hon. Member for Watford also mentioned the multiplier effect. I see he is no longer in the Chamber-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-11c.96.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.139.4", "colnum": "139", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "It is good to see my hon. Friend. I make the observation that the situation is, unfortunately, yet another legacy of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor was a millionaire the day he was born, so he has not got a clue what it is like to try to raise a family on £40,000 a year-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ound: I went to the same school as the deputy leader of the Labour party. On child benefit, we have had to take some difficult decisions. It is quite extraordinary that the Labour party finds itself opposing our decision. Yes, it was a tough decision, but it was fair in the context of the decisions that we must take. The fact that Alan Milburn today warned Labour Members not to oppose the measure-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " Marr Show\". He was asked: \"we now read from Peter Mandelson's book that you were quite keen on the idea of VAT going up\". Alistair Darling replied: \"Well yeah, obviously...It would have allowed you to have done you know a lot more to take down the deficit...and would have...ameliorated some of the worst effects of reductions\". For once, the previous Chancellor of the Exchequer had the right idea-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is a great deal of interest in the Secretary of State's statement, and I appeal to Members leaving the Chamber to do so quickly and quietly, because I want to hear the Secretary of State-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ggestions. We will make detailed proposals that will not only make it attractive for students from families of modest means to go to university, but be fair and affordable, including by exempting the poorest students from graduate contributions for some or all of their studies. Lord Browne considers alternatives, including a graduate tax, which I believe the new leader of the Labour party favours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": " that they read the open letter from the new shadow Chancellor to the new Labour leader three weeks ago, which reads: \"Oh, and for goodness' sake, don't pursue a graduate tax. We should be proud of our brave and correct decision to introduce tuition fees. Students don't pay them, graduates do, when they're earning more than £15,000 a year, at very low rates, stopped from their pay just like\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "63;7,000 basic fee. On 28 April this year, the leader of the Liberal Democrats-now the Deputy Prime Minister-said: \"If fees rise to £7,000 a year...within five years some students will be leaving university up to £44,000 in debt. That would be a disaster. If we have learnt one thing from the economic crisis, it is that you can't build a future on debt.\" So what exactly is the difference-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "as, under a Labour Government, confronting cuts of 20% to 25%. About 70% of that budget is for higher education. He and his colleagues have already said that they do not accept the cuts in regional development agencies and they do not accept cuts in science. They were therefore planning to make massive cuts in the university teaching budget. It is just sheer hypocrisy to stand up here and tell us-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Secretary of State. I know that feelings are running high on this subject-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "y back less than under the current system\" -that is, the system that the right hon. Gentleman operated. Only the highest-earning 30% of graduates would pay back the full amount of their loans. That is the progressive system with which we are identified, and with which the previous Government had no intention of proceeding. Finally, let me confront the pledge, the promise, that my colleagues and I-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "That is the progressive system with which we are identified, and with which the previous Government had no intention of proceeding. Finally, let me confront the pledge, the promise, that my colleagues and I- [Interruption.] Yes, I am confronting that issue: the issue of the pledge that my colleagues and I undertook to implement. In the current circumstances, we cannot implement it. I fully accept-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "Of course nobody wishes to stop people travelling to other communities in pursuit of the best course-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I have to say that the Minister is being remarkably blasé about this. I know that he goes blasé when he is trying to be nice, but-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": " so that Welsh Members can have a specific day on which to debate issues specific to Wales. The Bill has huge implications for Wales-more so than for any other part of the UK. My former constituency, Caernarfon, was the most altered by the boundary changes put in place for the previous election and my constituents are still mystified about what happened. They were completely uninformed about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's assertion is correct. The referendum, when it arrives, will probably receive very little attention in Scotland, because those of us involved in politics will not waste any time discussing whether we are for or against. We will have greater priorities that affect Scots day in, day out-and not a voting system for Westminster that comes along every four or five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": ". The commission concluded: \"It is essential that any referendum campaign and result is seen to be elevated above party politics. This is difficult to achieve in a combined poll\". By any stretch of the imagination, the referendum will decide a constitutional issue, and one which divides all parties-there are people even in the Conservative party who are mad enough to consider the alternative vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Europe!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "If we were really keen on reflecting what the electorate of this country want, we would not give them a referendum at all, because I do not think they want one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "I have just returned from the British-American parliamentary group visit to the US, with colleagues from all parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her kind words about the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " made clear, it is a very serious step to vote against the leadership of one's party for the first time. It will not come as a surprise to those in the Whip's Office to hear that I shall be doing that today, because I informed them in advance that that was the decision that I reached. In fairness to them, with their typical liberality, they have not sought to put any pressure on me to dissuade me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "est, I was initially agnostic about AV, and in many ways I remain agnostic about the principle of AV. I oppose the single transferable vote and other forms of proportional representation, but I could live quite easily with AV. I am much more concerned about the context in which the proposal has been introduced. It was not in my party's manifesto, so it must be a good thing and should be supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "k of consultation with stakeholders, I am genuinely shocked by the fact that the coalition Government chose, as far as I am aware, not to ask anyone in the Scottish Parliament or in civic Scotland what they thought of the idea of having the AV referendum and the Scottish parliamentary elections on the same day. That was entirely a top-down decision. We have heard a great deal about a new politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "t deal about a new politics. [ Interruption. ] I am not sure whether that was an approving heckle, or just a heckle, but I accept that the Member concerned is demonstrating that he is still alive. The fact that there was no consultation or discussion at all very much harks back to the old politics of drive and control, and shows immense contempt for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "ere underlined by the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Mr Donaldson) and by the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) . The hon. Member for Belfast East made a cracking, quick-fire factual speech, and she also hit on the difficulties with the media and with the Royal Mail. I only wish she had spoken to the absent Deputy Prime Minister before he landed the hon. Member for Epping Forest in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": " Scotland cross-party co-operation is more needed, including in Northern Ireland. I am sure that the fire in the hon. Lady's belly had nothing to do with the fact that the Faroe Islands have drawn with Northern Ireland. Perhaps this is a good point at which to mention that I am chairman of the all-party Faroe Islands group, which will hold a meeting before the end of the month-everyone is welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "o do with the fact that the Faroe Islands have drawn with Northern Ireland. Perhaps this is a good point at which to mention that I am chairman of the all-party Faroe Islands group, which will hold a meeting before the end of the month-everyone is welcome. [ Interruption. ] I hope there will not be a differential turnout. Despite the Faroe result, Scotland are drawing 2-2 with Spain at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": " New Forest East (Dr Lewis) called for a level playing field, and he highlighted the difference between an election for a national Parliament, one for local councils, and no elections at all in the UK. He discussed his relationship with the leader of the Liberal Democrat party. The rest of us are not sure of any relationship at all, and might not even be able to pick him out in an identity parade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "I find that incredibly disappointing and defeatist-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I understand the Minister's point, but I just want to help him avoid becoming too much like the Deputy Prime Minister, because we would not want him to morph into a Liberal Democrat-I am sure he would not want that either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "n a Back Bencher-has put their name to the amendment. I recall that the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change said on 2 February 2010 : \"We will bring forward amendments next week to give people a real choice for a more significant change to fair votes and a proportional election system.\" The Liberal Democrat election manifesto pledged to change politics and abolish safe sex-safe seats-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " for MPs.\" It continued: \"Our preferred Single Transferable Vote system gives people the choice between candidates as well as parties.\" Of course, the Deputy Prime Minister himself said: \"AV is a baby step in the right direction-only because nothing can be worse than the status quo.\" He wanted a proportional system. I think it is a sadness that the great, grand Liberal Democrat party is no longer-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.291.2", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ed amendment of my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby (Austin Mitchell) makes clear. I believe that it is not time for this timorous beastie of a reform Bill, which was cobbled together not so much to bring about proper reform in the country as to keep people in government. It has not been properly consulted on, properly thought through, or given the proper time to allow it to be successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-12", "file": "debates2010-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "0cf5f74eefcf94d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Royal Commission (London)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ple are voting for the two main parties, whose share of the vote has gone down from about 90% to about 60%. A multi-party system is in the process of being born, with nationalists, including Welsh nationalists, Liberal Democrats, the UK Independence party, and all the rest of it. We are trying to fit that within the constraints of a first-past-the-post system that works well only with two parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-12a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.316.9", "colnum": "316", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "In 2009-10, the Department for International Development provided £13 million of bilateral aid to Burundi, £12 million to Liberia and £109 million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Those figures were published in \"Statistics on International Development\" on 7 October . I will place a copy in the House of Commons Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.316.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.318.9", "colnum": "318", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The fight against malaria will be included in every bilateral programme where it is relevant as a part of the bilateral aid review, but I can tell my hon. Friend-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.318.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.319.4", "colnum": "319", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "I saw for myself-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am afraid it is nought out of two on straight answers. We should try to change the tone of these exchanges, but the Prime Minister must provide straight answers to straight questions that I ask him. I am not defending the rich-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.323.4", "colnum": "323", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The problem that the right hon. Gentleman has to face up to is that he left us the biggest budget deficit in the G20, and he has absolutely no proposals to deal with it. He opposes our changes on housing benefit, yes? You oppose those? He opposes our changes on a benefit cap-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.323.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.323.6", "colnum": "323", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman opposes our changes on a benefit cap, yes? Just nod. And he opposes our changes on child benefit. He quoted something to me; let me quote him something back: \"We have to be frank with people and show our mettle. In times of plenty, giving child benefit to high earners is a luxury the country\" cannot afford. That was Alan Milburn, someone who cared-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.323.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am extremely sorry, but I did not catch the hon. Gentleman's question. I will either write to him-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.327.5", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It is vital that we retain a good science budget and invest in our science base, but I cannot hide from the hon. Gentleman-or anyone in this House-the fact that we inherited a budget deficit of £155 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.327.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.327.7", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know, as he worked closely with the previous Prime Minister, that there was never a guarantee about the scheme. We will look at it carefully and make our announcement in the spending review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.327.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": " trading and making a living\". I shall not read out the rest, but there are many other comments on the hon. Gentleman's blog, including some from nurses in his constituency. One of them says that they wished he had put this proposal in his manifesto when he stood for election in May, because they may have then had a different view about the Conservative candidate. I would like to oppose this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.333.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "Again, we are not here to answer questions. We are here to put the questions and to get-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "nts before us today, there are some good programmes that we should support, to the extent that they have demonstrable outcomes and that they make a difference, rather than being fine words that do not achieve what they set out to do. Let me go briefly through the headings in the budget. The Minister was unspecific. She spoke generally in favour of a cash freeze, but did not specify in which areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "No, I have heard enough from the right hon. Gentleman. All he does is repeat his old mantras-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "butive effect of the budget acts in an arbitrary way, in that some relatively rich countries are net recipients, whereas some relatively poor ones are, unjustly, net contributors. We have a smaller agricultural sector than many other countries, and we have, unfairly, been a net contributor. I would not agree with Mrs Thatcher on many things, but I thought it was right that she negotiated a rebate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.432.4", "colnum": "432", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "ellow conservatives and centre-right politicians across the rest of Europe. The hon. Member for Stone brushed aside my earlier intervention, but the plain fact is that a fortnight tomorrow the leaders of Europe-the vast majority of European Governments including those of Mr Reinfeldt, who has just been confirmed in Sweden, and the new conservative-liberal coalition being formed in the Netherlands-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Clacton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "he was Chancellor, to get back money from structural funds but failed and then went quiet on the issue. I very much doubt that the hon. Lady has yet, in her new job, read the European budget line by line and page by page. Alas, I did that nine times out of 10: the 10th time, I found a fantastic new doorstop. I am not going to talk about the budget in financial terms, as my hon. Friend for Harwich-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "That is a good question. I am not convinced that it is possible. There is only one way to get rid of any European Commissioner, and that is to get rid of the whole lot. That involves a process that an individual constituent-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "has been said about how the auditors have qualified the accounts. The whole matter is a complete and utter disgrace. The audited accounts only tell part of the story, of course, because they do not cover the fact that EU income and the income of individual countries is enormously depressed by the extent of fraud, underpayment, under-collection of VAT and so on, which is reflected in the EU budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-13", "file": "debates2010-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "ca563f17bbd72ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "ary's contribution to the debate, which contrasted starkly with what we heard from Ministers in the previous Government. There is no suggestion that any one part of the coalition is directing another. It is especially unfair to suggest that the Liberal Democrats are not here for the long run. I fully understand that a Lib Dem is not just for Christmas-if you're lucky, there will be some left over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-13b.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.468.8", "colnum": "468", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, because we have discussed the matter-by the way, I pay tribute to her work in that field-just this week I met my counterpart from Bangladesh to discuss the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.468.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.483.6", "colnum": "483", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "g, which has quite rightly been raised by Members on both sides of the House. That is our first step, but as my hon. Friend has pointed out-and as my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr Davey) pointed out in his answer earlier-we are ensuring that we deal with domestic legislation first. We will then ensure that we look to include EU legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.483.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I have always enjoyed-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.486.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.511.6", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Minister on the speed with which he has taken forward the review and this activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.511.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "Very good, but let me say this to the Minister, who is obviously genuinely concerned about the issue, as all Ministers have been. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley said, there are always two or three big issues, and this is certainly one of them, so we wait to hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "I am not terribly interested in a statement in the Commons Library; I am interested in what is said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "I am not terribly interested in a statement in the Commons Library; I am interested in what is said- [ Interruption. ] I will tell hon. Members why: we have been through that already. It was clear what was said at questions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, £1 billion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": " Deputy Speaker. We are conducting a Back-Bench debate that is being coloured by a figure in an amendment that the Government have tabled, which has not been selected. It suggests that £3 billion would be the cost of what my motion proposes. If the exact figure is in the order of 1% of that, or £300 million, as I think the hon. Member for Bracknell (Dr Lee) , a medical doctor, suggested-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.570.4", "colnum": "570", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "No motion of the House is ever wholly correct. I have never voted for a motion with which I totally agree-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.570.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.570.4", "colnum": "570", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "No motion of the House is ever wholly correct. I have never voted for a motion with which I totally agree- [ Interruption. ] I hate to say it, but we are reverting to party politics on an issue that has nothing to do with it. No motion is ever perfect. As the hon. Gentleman knows, we are debating a principle. We should recognise that there should be much more compensation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.570.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-14", "file": "debates2010-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "92fde1c09020a5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "his awful trade to an end. I learnt much that year. I learnt about the many women in Britain who boycotted sugar in order to bring the trade to an end, and the many petitions and marches organised in cities such as Sheffield to say, \"Enough is enough\". It was an important year. Obviously it was an important year for me personally, because I stand here as the ancestor of those who found themselves-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-14b.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his position, although it would have been nice if he had risen at the Dispatch Box and first apologised for being part of a Government who left plans to cut the support to mortgage holders-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I must say that this remains a target for us, which is-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.634.4", "colnum": "634", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Thank you for that very generous compliment, Mr Speaker. I have been working closely with my colleagues from BIS. We have one joint Minister, who is my hon. Friend on the Front Bench-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.634.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " the amendments that he has tabled today depend on existing law in relation to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each of those territorial Offices intends to change the law for the combination of polls in the next few weeks-it was supposed to happen in mid-October, but none of the statutory instruments has been tabled yet. I see that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is in his place-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.651.4", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "the whole of the United Kingdom, should be the parliamentary constituency. The hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Nick Boles) obviously disagrees. As for the Government's other amendments, I am still not satisfied by the Minister's answers about whether the job has been done properly or not. He says that he would not want to do the job of the chief counting officer, but in fact the Bill makes-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.651.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "m keen to provide as much clarity as possible at this stage, quite simply because I believe that the Government are proceeding in the wrong order. First and foremost, we should have the legislation for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, to make it clear whether there will be three sets of elections in Northern Ireland-again, we still do not know, despite the fact that it is not many months ago-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ment are proceeding in the wrong order. First and foremost, we should have the legislation for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, to make it clear whether there will be three sets of elections in Northern Ireland-again, we still do not know, despite the fact that it is not many months ago- [ Interruption. ] I am sorry, but I am being corrected by the Northern Ireland Minister. Would he like to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.682.2", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": ", you were earlier this year.\" I suppose that is a version of the argument that Conservatives and Liberal Democrats use all the time. There is a serious point. Sometimes, when it comes to explaining voting systems, it is not so much that voters are not bright enough to understand, but simply that their eyes glaze over, because they think, \"Why on earth are you bothering to talk to me about this?\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.682.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am pregnant again with this issue. The hon. Gentleman should not confuse the views of a former Minister with the views of the Labour party. It sometimes seems that former Ministers hold all sorts of fascinating views that they did not hold when they were in office-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that; that was my joke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that; that was my joke. [ Interruption. ] All right, I will say it again in a moment. I am a former trustee of the UK Youth Parliament, honorary president of the British Youth Council, a former chair of the all-party group on youth affairs and-are hon. Members ready?-I speak as a former 16-year-old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Of course I want to encourage people to take up British citizenship, but our legislation is shaped as it is because of Mrs Thatcher. She introduced the British Nationality Act 1981, followed by the Representation of the People Act 1983, which guarantees citizens of Commonwealth countries the right to vote in this country. I very rarely say so, but on that occasion Mrs Thatcher got it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.707.5", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": ", Ms Primarolo. I do not understand why peers should be allowed to vote in a referendum on elections to the House of Commons. That seems slightly odd, because all the other provisions relate to those who are able to vote in elections to the House of Commons. Perhaps the Minister will be able to enlighten us. In particular-this may be down to my personal stupidity and inability to read legislation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I did say that it was perfectly normal in other countries, but my hon. Friend knows that this country is special-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "As far as I can see, the Minister's argument is that we should use the franchise used for parliamentary elections, but he makes one enormous exception, which is for the peers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-18", "file": "debates2010-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "e90f0dec6c1ab3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "preceding_text": "t (Mrs Laing) and I have tabled the amendments to seek clarification from the Minister about the provisions for a recount at national level in the event of a tight overall result. Although I am satisfied with the provisions in the Bill for counting in each voting area, or for a recount in each voting area, just as there are provisions at a general election count for a recount in each constituency-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-18a.750.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "I am providing good value for the taxpayer this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.781.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.788.2", "colnum": "788", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. Gentleman is not going to follow his predecessors in making a great policy point about a target for the number of people in prison, because there is no evidence that that does any good to anybody. We do have to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.793.5", "colnum": "793", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "What changes does the Secretary of State propose to make, and how much would-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.793.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ffectively with our key defence partners, the United States or France. They had failed to plan so carriers and planes would arrive at the same time. They ordered the more expensive and less capable version of the joint strike fighter to fly off the carriers. And they signed contracts, so we were left in a situation where even cancelling the second carrier would actually cost more than to build it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "s morning to terminate the defence training college at St Athan, which he personally promised would go ahead? Fifthly, there will be concerns that the review has failed to address strategically the important questions about the future of our nuclear deterrent. All parts of the House support the retention of the nuclear deterrent, alongside progress in multilateral disarmament talks, but can I say-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I really can reassure my-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.824.4", "colnum": "824", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "This is financial, not strategic. The defence academy in south Wales has been cancelled, the Royal Navy will be without carriers for the first time since world war two-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.824.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.825.4", "colnum": "825", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to disappoint some colleagues, but I have allowed the statement to run rather longer than is customarily the case for statements, in recognition of the enormous importance of the issue, but we must make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.825.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I think the Deputy Leader of the House is somewhat mistaken in his interpretation of what happened yesterday evening. I think there was a clear desire by many hon. Members not just to debate the particular issue of thresholds but actually to debate clause 6, which has not been debated at all in any shape or form in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.826.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.845.2", "colnum": "845", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Lord Plant is a very eminent and splendid man who has contributed much to the Labour party and to the movement, but I do not think that the policy that we advocated before the 1997 general election necessarily binds us in this evening's vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " come into force, but has he seen the carefully compiled scientific evidence that shows that alphabetical preferences do matter? The hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Austin Mitchell) is possibly joking-or perhaps not-about changing his name to A1 Austin. If that was his name on the ballot paper, and if I became Mrs Aardvark-nobody named Aardvark has so far asked me to marry them, but you never know-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "te. That is a simple fact, so in a sense, his argument is partly in favour of a change to the electoral system, which I am sure he supports, although I suspect he supports a fully proportional system rather than the one subject to the referendum. However, it is not true to suggest-as we read in some of the propaganda-that it takes fewer votes to elect a Labour MP than a Conservative or Liberal MP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.878.2", "colnum": "878", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Barwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Barwell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman made the point that, if we go for greater electoral equality, we will have seats that cross local authority boundaries, but there are already significant numbers of Members representing seats that cross local authority boundaries. Lots of London seats cross London borough boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.878.5", "colnum": "878", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am not sure who is giving way to whom now. The hon. Gentleman makes a point, and it sounds like he is happy with crossing those boundaries-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.878.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.878.7", "colnum": "878", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "le and those who live in rented accommodation are less likely to register, black and ethnic minorities are less likely to register and the young are less likely to register. That is a problem. I confess to the Committee, however, that Labour Members cannot preach overly on this issue because we failed to take some of the steps that could have been taken to change the electoral registration system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.878.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman visited my constituency, he would understand why people not only would not want to leave but would want to move there in great numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "in a cultural system that might not encourage that, and that might not be their fault. There is obviously individual responsibility to get educated but, in terms of the bias, it is clearly the case that the more money people have the more educated they and their children tend to be, and the more likely they are to be registered. If we consider the system overall, we have clearly moved to a system-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.898.6", "colnum": "898", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "I think that the House is at one with my hon. Friend on that particular point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.903.4", "colnum": "903", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " We have heard that argument put at length by the hon. Member for Croydon Central (Gavin Barwell) . It is true that the inequality in seats helps the Labour party and works against the Tory party, to which I would reply, in the classic words of Demosthenes, \"Ah, diddums. What a great shame\"! Various factors are relevant, including turnout, people taken off the register, which happens all the time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The position is actually slightly worse than it was portrayed by our friend from the SDLP, the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan) . In addition, the Minister will be able to lay the Order in Council on the basis of the Boundary Commission's report \"with or without modifications\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " they are to prevent themselves from being thrown out in the election following the redistribution, will be to throw out the Government and stop the redistribution. I estimate that the Liberal Democrats will belatedly begin to wake up to that fact in about 2013 or 2014, and then they will become a disruptive factor within the coalition. I am trying to prevent them from ending up in that situation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "from ending up in that situation- [Interruption.] No, my heart bleeds for them. I am very sympathetic because it is tragic watching them betray their principles one by one in order to cling on to power and to get bums into ministerial cars and on to ministerial Benches-but if that is what they want to do, let them. I am trying to help them by persuading them to vote for amendments 127, 341 and 38.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "debate, and he has just made an excellent speech, albeit from his point of view-I disagree with him of course, but he always makes excellent speeches-but I am glad that he gave the game away at the end of his contribution. While sitting through this lengthy debate, I have been wondering why so many Members have made illogical and inconsequential speeches. That is unusual for Members of this House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "not going to take up much of the Committee's time as we have heard many speeches on these subjects tonight and I have had the good fortune of being able to make many interventions in other Members' contributions. In counting the number of people who are represented by each Member of Parliament we should count on the basis of democracy and the workings of democracy, not on the basis of social work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Given the depressing statistics that he has related to the Committee this evening-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-19", "file": "debates2010-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "833f23f7bdaee3be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.912.3", "colnum": "912", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is still true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady had been present a few minutes ago, she would have heard that point made by one of her colleagues. I have heard it made before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-19a.912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.931.5", "colnum": "931", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "All regions and nations across the United Kingdom should be able to benefit from that aspiration. We are going to expose much more widely the tender documents that are available so that small businesses will find it much easier to take part in these sometimes quite intimidating processes that have excluded many of them in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.931.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.933.8", "colnum": "933", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": "inly give my hon. Friend that assurance, and those children will be more than encouraged. Involving people from all kinds of backgrounds is a central aim of the programme and a key part of its value. As part of the commissioning process, organisations bidding to deliver a pilot next summer have been asked to set out their specific plans to support the broadest range of young people to participate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.933.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "ludes new entrants to the market and adds wholly unnecessary cost. We intend that commissioning should be outcome-based, leaving much more scope for innovative providers from the social enterprise, voluntary, charitable and small business sectors to bid. Whenever possible, commissioning should be based on a payment-by-results model. On procurement, I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to Question 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.935.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.937.2", "colnum": "937", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "Procurement of basic commodities was carried out without any effort to leverage the scale and buying power of the whole Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.937.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.937.4", "colnum": "937", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "ther parts incurred. Allowing wasteful spending of that type to remain unreformed would mean that front-line services and the jobs of dedicated public servants would be more at risk. We are mandating that all Departments and public bodies should in future buy through supplier contracts negotiated on behalf of the whole of central Government. That will cut the costs of Government overheads by some-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.937.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister began by saying that it was a good question, then he said that it was irrelevant. Which is it? Let me give him another-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister began by saying that it was a good question, then he said that it was irrelevant. Which is it? Let me give him another- [ Interruption. ] I know that he is getting advice from the Chancellor; he can answer the questions himself. Let me try the Prime Minister on another question, because he did not answer that one. The Energy Secretary, who does not seem to be around-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.939.4", "colnum": "939", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "id about me and the Chancellor, I know that it is a novel concept, but in this Government the Prime Minister and the Chancellor speak to each other. On unemployment, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility-which we have established and which is fully independent-is forecasting that unemployment will fall next year, the year after and the year after that. It is forecasting that employment-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.939.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.940.3", "colnum": "940", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We all remember some catch phrases: \"No more boom and bust\"-remember that one?-and \"Prudence with a purpose\", which left us with the biggest budget deficit in the G20. We remember that, and who was the economic adviser at the Treasury at the time? He is sitting right there-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.940.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me give the right hon. Gentleman one simple piece of advice that I learned sitting in his seat for five years: if you have not got a plan, you cannot attack a plan. He has not got a plan, so he has got nothing to say-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.940.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.943.3", "colnum": "943", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my hon. Friend has been travelling and seeing the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.943.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " of the historic diamond jubilee, which the whole country is looking forward to celebrating, there will be a temporary additional facility of £1 million. After that, the royal household will receive a new sovereign support grant linked to a portion of the revenue of the Crown estate, so that my successors do not have to return to this issue as I often as I have had to. Central to this review-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.949.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " his Budget being progressive and fair. It took the Institute for Fiscal Studies only 48 hours to show that it was totally unfair, and that the burden of the emergency Budget fell two and half times more on the poorest than on the richest. We have seen today hon. Members cheering the deepest cuts to public spending in living memory. For some Government Members, that is their ideological objective-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "urs to show that it was totally unfair, and that the burden of the emergency Budget fell two and half times more on the poorest than on the richest. We have seen today hon. Members cheering the deepest cuts to public spending in living memory. For some Government Members, that is their ideological objective- [ Interruption. ] Not all of them, but for many, that is what they came into politics for-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "etary yesterday actually become the uncomfortable truth for many people and families throughout this country. We hear the chant on every occasion, but Government Members are deficit deceivers. They have peddled a whole series of myths to the British public. The most incredible myth of all is that the biggest global economic crisis since the great depression is the fault of the previous Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "der of the Opposition who had called for greater regulation of the banking industry. We need to get the facts right. The Chancellor described his emergency Budget in June as being unavoidable and fair. We know that it was unfair, because the IFS produced the statistics with devastating and forensic accuracy a few hours later, and we also know that it was avoidable. The deficit has to be paid down-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ast week that 1 million jobs were at stake because the impact on the private sector is just as severe. Is it not the case that at the same time as the Government are throwing people out of work, they are reducing the support to help people return to the workplace? I applaud the ideas and the efforts of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to do what we were seeking to do and make work pay-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ll but end capital funding for house building? Crime has fallen dramatically in the last 13 years. I heard what the Chancellor said about the report from Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary, but the Home Office is not a protected Department. As it deals with counter-terrorism and policing, the public will be worried that they will lose more police on the streets. Spending has to be reduced-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "nspectorate of constabulary, but the Home Office is not a protected Department. As it deals with counter-terrorism and policing, the public will be worried that they will lose more police on the streets. Spending has to be reduced- [ Interruption. ] Yes, spending has to be reduced, but the front-line services on which people rely must be protected. We support moves to ring-fence the health budget-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "hould share them with the House. Can the Chancellor confirm that the poorest will still bear a greater burden than the richest, with the middle squeezed even further, and that women will shoulder three quarters of the cuts? Does he still claim that these measures are progressive and fair? There is an alternative approach. The Chancellor finished by suggesting that their cuts were the same as ours-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "as in the Cabinet when Tony Blair was Prime Minister, and he has said: \"The danger now is this: if governments don't tackle deficits, the bill is footed by taxpayers, who fear that big deficits now mean big taxes in the future, the prospect of which reduces confidence, investment and purchasing power. This then increases the risk of prolonged slump\". The right hon. Gentleman used to be a Blairite-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "a Blairite- [ Interruption. ] Well, at least the right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) has been fighting Tony Blair all his career and says he is wrong, but the shadow Chancellor used to be a supporter. The right hon. Gentleman has dismissed all the leading businesses of Britain, all the international organisations and Tony Blair, but let me answer a couple of his specific questions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " in the space of about 10 minutes he asked three, so I will answer them. First, he asked about police numbers. Of course this is a challenge for the Home Office, but we believe that with the advice from the inspectorate of constabulary and Tom Winsor's report, there will be no reduction in the availability and visibility of policing. However, the right hon. Gentleman was asked during the election-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ree, so I will answer them. First, he asked about police numbers. Of course this is a challenge for the Home Office, but we believe that with the advice from the inspectorate of constabulary and Tom Winsor's report, there will be no reduction in the availability and visibility of policing. However, the right hon. Gentleman was asked during the election- [ Interruption. ] He was the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "numbers. Of course this is a challenge for the Home Office, but we believe that with the advice from the inspectorate of constabulary and Tom Winsor's report, there will be no reduction in the availability and visibility of policing. However, the right hon. Gentleman was asked during the election- [ Interruption. ] He was the Home Secretary. [ Interruption. ] The new Leader of the Opposition asks-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes you are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "s been rising at a very rapid pace and, frankly, anyone doing my job would have to address that bill. We have sought to do that in a way that is fair and that balances the needs of the taxpayer with the needs of those in receipt of housing benefit. There has been a lot of speculation about social tenants, but we are not changing the social tenancy agreements of people in existing social tenancies-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but it was the stated policy of the previous Government to increase social rents over time to approach the level of market rents-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. This country is spending £120 million a day on debt interest. So all the pet projects that Labour has suddenly discovered-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.978.7", "colnum": "978", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Lady is opposed to more freedom for local government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.978.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.978.7", "colnum": "978", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Lady is opposed to more freedom for local government- [Interruption.] Well, that is what my increment financing proposal means. Along with our other decisions about grants, it means more freedom for local government. As I have said, this is a challenging settlement for local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.978.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and he has considerable experience in this area. The problem with the graduate tax, which we honestly looked at and honestly considered-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Let me say to the right hon. Gentleman that, first, the 0.7% target is internationally monitored and so, having said we are going to hit it, we obviously do not want to find the international bodies saying that we have badged overseas aid in the wrong way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "f more than 400,000. It was accepted by Labour politicians during the election that there would be a head-count reduction and that there would be redundancies. This is what happens when a country loses control of its public finances. If we had been better managed over recent years-if the people doing my job before me had managed to avoid this record budget deficit, which is the largest in the G20-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "h that grew because of population changes and migration would necessarily have a nudging effect on contiguous boundaries and a domino effect all the way up the country, and that because it is likely that virtually every seat will change every five years during the 20-year period that my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield (Phil Wilson) mentioned, one's constituency might move around the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "n argument about the role of the Member of Parliament, which should be considered before reaching the precise matter of how the boundaries are drawn. The hon. Lady said that it would be good if we reduced the number of Members of Parliament and achieved equalisation of the electorate in each constituency, and that if a problem remained with casework, we could give Members of Parliament more staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "s have been tabled and will be considered on Monday, but we already know that some of them are inaccurate and will be modified when the Government bring forward territorial statutory instruments in relation to Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. I very much hope that the Minister will enlighten us as to whether those statutory instruments will be subject to the affirmative or negative procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "sional districts in Massachusetts that was drawn up by Governor Elbridge Gerry in the 19th century was shaped like a salamander-hence the term \"gerrymander\". In fact, it looked more like an eagle than a salamander. This provision, as constructed in the Bill, will specifically allow Ministers to gerrymander. It is entirely partisan. It will allow Ministers-indeed, it encourages them-to be partisan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ving heard the general arguments put this afternoon, including by the shadow Minister, I believe that it may have to be tightened up somewhat in its wording and technicalities. I am delighted that the Minister has indicated that the Government will look in more detail at the matter and undertaken to come back to the House with it. Given that assurance, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not this group. It is the next group.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "point of order, Mr Hoyle. The amendments selected in this group include some that are proposing special privileges-some might say gerrymandering-for certain constituencies, and these have been ruled to be in order, while others suggesting gerrymandering, such as my own, which suggests that the traditional rotten borough of Retford should be created, as it was in 1832, have been ruled out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1041.5", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The Minister has clearly lost his marbles-it was because it did not give us enough time. The way in which the Government have behaved over this Bill has been an absolute shoddy mistake. They have consistently refused to provide enough time for us to debate the issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1041.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1043.5", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "No, I am not saying that the task is insuperable. Of course it would be possible to draw up the constituencies in the way proposed, but why should one constituency then end up with 95% of the average electorate and another with 105%?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1043.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ieces of communication. I meant 250 letters a week; the letter, of course, is almost something from the past these days. The vast majority of the correspondence from my constituency comes in the form of a telephone call, text message, Facebook message or through some other means. Most members of the public expect a reply from the MP, not from some flunky or somebody working in the office for free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "dy is referring to her literature or her former party membership. This Parliament has survived because of some of the mavericks and eccentrics, and the diversity of Members that it has managed to bring in here. If we reduce the numbers from 650 to 600, it will be the mavericks and the independents who will be disappearing and we will have more of the party political placepeople. That is a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "rics, and the diversity of Members that it has managed to bring in here. If we reduce the numbers from 650 to 600, it will be the mavericks and the independents who will be disappearing and we will have more of the party political placepeople. That is a problem. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge) is saying, rather unkindly, that I am such a placeman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " come through this House have never been Ministers, and have never spoken from the Dispatch Box. Samuel Plimsoll, who was much excoriated by his party Whips and much hated, acted as an independent-but probably ended up saving more lives through the legislation that he drove through the House than many of us will ever be able to. I will just say-although I hate to get a small cheer-one final thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "That did not make it better, and it was larger in an era when the expectations of a Member of Parliament to be present and available were much reduced. There was a time when MPs, when they visited their constituencies-once a year-were greeted with a brass band. That is not true today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "I believe that the compromise was perhaps made to keep the Scottish nationalists happy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " they reconstitute the Executive to make them less strong proportionally in a reduced House? We have heard nothing on that. Secondly, the reduction would reduce the pool of talent from which to select Ministers and to make all the other contributions that MPs make. Heaven knows, the pool is not all that big now. We do not have all that much talent, and certainly not the level that we used to have-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I was hoping that the SNP would appoint me Fisheries Minister for Scotland, but that post would have been a little difficult to handle from Grimsby. I never even achieved the rank of PPS to the Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "the nature of democracy-that is how it has to be. We have to face the fact that the state is interacting with people and imposing things on them more than ever before. Let us look at the flood of problems that we have had with the Child Support Agency, and the fact that a special hotline has had to be created for MPs, so that they can get through to Belfast and have incomprehensible conversations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1055.4", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Some of us labour under the misfortune of being better looking than others-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1055.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1058.2", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "y boundary in the country will have to be significantly altered. What goes with that, of course, is the reselection of Members of Parliament, and what goes with that is more power for the Executive, through the party managers, to try to influence the reselection process. Although we know that, in fact, the most independent MPs got the best results in the last general election, it does not prevent-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1058.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point. It is extraordinary to have begun this process without thinking about the interrelationship between this place and the other place. One does not have to be a Newtonian to think that for every force there is an equal and opposite counter-force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "preceding_text": "nunciated, is the total absence of sentiment or feel for the nature of either the United Kingdom or the British constitution. The UK is not something to be placed under a slide rule and arbitrarily cut up on the basis of a figure of 76,000. There are interrelationships of complex formations between Wales, Scotland, England, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly and the historic Duchy of Scotland-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tristram Hunt) , who is my colleague on the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee. I disagreed with almost everything he said, but he almost had me persuaded when he talked of Benthamites and Cromwellian statism. I am not a Benthamite, and I am not a statist, but-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, we don't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "I cannot resist the hon. Gentleman's sedentary comment. I believe that there is something about 666, though I am not an adherent to that principle either-for me, it goes with Benthamism. I am therefore glad that we are not discussing 666, but why not 600? It is a reasonable, round number. We have to choose a number for Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "nse of marrying me in order to improve my electoral prospects. That would be gerrymandering and manipulation of the system beyond the call of duty. However, it was a helpful discussion. The real principle before us this evening is one vote, one value. That is what democracy is all about. Every Member who is elected to this House should be elected by an equal number of voters, at least potentially-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Why should it be 650? Why should it not be 700 or 542? Pick a number out of the hat, or do the lottery. Six hundred is a perfectly reasonable number and as good as any other number-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1071.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "otes, to ensure that they are proportionate, it can adjust the size of the Bundestag, sometimes by up to a dozen seats. However, the history of this country is that, by and large, we have allowed the Boundary Commission to go out and draw up the boundaries, and then to come back with numbers. However, what happens is that there is creep. Every time we have a boundary commission, the numbers go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. For historic reasons, it will depend on where any such changes might be made. This is one of the arguments that he will be able to put to the Boundary Commission when it brings forward its proposals-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. The system that is being brought in will provide for a 12-week period in which people will be allowed to make representations-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Barwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"To what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Barwell", "preceding_text": " speak only for myself and describe why I shall be voting for such a reduction. I was a candidate during the MPs' expenses scandal and I carried out a survey of every elector in my constituency. I put to them proposals from all three political parties about things that could be done to improve our political system and found that the second most popular was that the number of MPs should be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-20", "file": "debates2010-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d55e3753e4f79bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Police Terms and Conditions of Service (Redundancy)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "that so many of us do it, but that it would be impossible for electors in such constituencies to know who their MP was. We have heard that it would be impossible to have a career structure because anyone who had experience outside the House could not be elected if we had constituencies of 76,000. What an extraordinary proposition that is. The final proposition was that this is all a partisan move-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-20a.1083.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1117.6", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "We have been in discussions with the Local Government Association and we will have a code of conduct, which seems to me to be a sensible way of doing that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1117.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1124.7", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Boris!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "We have received many communications from various people who are interested in mayors, and it is our intention to introduce 12 mayors. We will also be introducing additional powers. I think the problem with mayors in the past is that they have been just another politician-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1124.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "As we all know, the previous Labour Government managed to build only 14,000 new social houses during their entire period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1128.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh not it's not.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "As we all know, the previous Labour Government managed to build only 14,000 new social houses during their entire period. [Interruption.] Oh yes it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "House prices will fluctuate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed by the outcome of yesterday's vote in the European Parliament, but that is not the end of the process. The UK will work hard in Council to oppose the imposition of a requirement for fully paid maternity leave, and we expect other member states to join us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "As I have outlined, and as is clear from the impact assessment provided by the Department, the most expensive option is the status quo. I am sure that my hon. Friends will make the point that in both Exeter and Norwich the local authorities are the driving engine for jobs and economic progress in their regions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "preceding_text": "That last comment is interesting, but I wanted to say that I was actually out on the streets in Norwich during a recent by-election there-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "The members from the hon. Gentleman's party in Norwich were pretty irrelevant, actually, to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "The members from the hon. Gentleman's party in Norwich were pretty irrelevant, actually, to-[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] They were irrelevant to the extent that they represent-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "No I will not give way; I am sorry, but I want to make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1186.3", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "No; I am going to carry on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cliché!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "oubt bluster, keep your head down, bluster a bit more and wave your arms around a bit.\" That is not so easy to achieve at my height, but if Members see something happening behind the Dispatch Box they will know that I have adopted it. This has been a rather short sharp debate, in more ways than one. I suppose it can be said that it has proved that it is possible for a dead cat bounce to have life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-21", "file": "debates2010-10-21b.xml", "sha256": "67cab7e7bf076063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1190.4", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Equality and Diversity (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "I know we have. I wanted to give the Minister another chance to answer the question. Were the Conservative Government wrong to create so many unitary councils in the 1990s, particularly when many were formed in the teeth of opposition from the county councils-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-21b.1190.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-22", "file": "debates2010-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1fd94c081ce1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Nuttall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Nuttall", "preceding_text": "as it was back in the 1980s, to Conservatives at Work. The name was changed to reflect the fact that the organisation accepted not only members of a trade union. Indeed, there were many other members who had never been member of a trade union, but who were nevertheless interested in industrial matters and industrial relations generally. I have never been a member of a trade union myself, although-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-22", "file": "debates2010-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1fd94c081ce1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1217.3", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Nuttall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Nuttall", "preceding_text": "e successful. It is rarely the case that an employer can be successful if their employees are withdrawing their labour. The result is invariably that the company and the employees both lose out, and in the long run that is of no great benefit to either. In the 16 years that I was running the firm, we never had any problems with the unions. To be fair, there was no unionisation, but they were free-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-22", "file": "debates2010-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1fd94c081ce1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1255.2", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "lfil their obligations under the law. In the BA v. Unite case, it is perfectly clear that the judge who granted the injunction felt that the errors were not accidental, that Unite should have known or did know about them, and that they should not be deemed minor. I will conclude to follow your will, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am afraid that the House will have to miss out on the rest of my contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-22", "file": "debates2010-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1fd94c081ce1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.37", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "essurised or coerced some individuals to vote in particular ways. Such behaviours are inexcusable, even if they were to occur on a small scale. They would undermine the democratic principles on which the current law is based. The Government cannot support a provision that could allow such democratic abuse to be excused. We have serious difficulties with the proposal to reverse the burden of proof-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.37"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-22", "file": "debates2010-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1fd94c081ce1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.50", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "marks of the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington and following up on those, as I now wish to follow up on the remarks made by my hon. Friend the Member for Bury North (Mr Nuttall) . His speech was in a fine tradition of the House. In the 19th century, speeches of two and a half hours were common. I do not know whether the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) was here for the Don Pacifico debate-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.50"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-10-22", "file": "debates2010-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1fd94c081ce1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.72", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "ELECTORAL LAW (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be read a Second time on Friday 14 January .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.71"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-10-22", "file": "debates2010-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1fd94c081ce1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.75", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY STANDARDS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be read a Second time on Friday 12 November .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.74"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-10-22", "file": "debates2010-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1fd94c081ce1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.78", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "SAFETY OF MEDICINES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be read a Second time on Friday 12 November .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-22a.1260.77"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.3.3", "colnum": "3", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So have you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "May I start by welcoming the hon. Lady to her position? She brings with her considerable showbiz panache-something that, despite his many other talents, the Under-Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Wantage (Mr Vaizey) tried but failed to do for many years when he was doing her job. The hon. Lady has only been doing the job a short while-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.3.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Oh come on, that was a semi-serious comment and it does not require a response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I agree, and indeed we did listen to the hon. Gentleman at length-I am just not sure that what he said would not have been improved had it been a little more brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.41.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.49.7", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "will mean, I am sure, that at the front of their minds, as they approach the elections and referendum on 5 May , they will be thinking hard about whether they will be around and able to vote in person, or whether they should apply for an absent vote. At least in Wales, therefore, what the hon. Member for Glasgow South (Mr Harris) suggests might happen is unlikely to do so. Now, where did I get to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.49.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "To be honest, I do not want the Minister to write to me, I want him to consult the respective Executives in-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "As I set out earlier in this debate, clearly it would not have been sensible for us to table changes to the Bill to reflect orders that had not yet been laid before the House, but they have been laid before the House today, so-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "cause of some grand constitutional principle but because of some naked partisan gerrymandering of a Bill. I am sure that if it had been published in pre-legislative form, so that a Committee of this House or a Joint Committee of both Houses had been able to consider it, that Committee would have said, right at the beginning, \"You shouldn't be spatchcocking together these two elements of the Bill\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is almost getting into Rhondda territory. I think there is only one parliamentary constituency in which both the Conservatives and the Liberals have lost their deposits in the past 10 years-the Rhondda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ight. Indeed, I was recently subjected to the complexity into which returning officers sometimes go. Westminster council has now sent me eight missives in relation to the postal vote in Westminster. I never exercise my vote in London because my vote is in the Rhondda, which is my home. However, I had to register in my property in London, which I rent. People have to return the form to say whether-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friend misunderstands the situation. The Government want a single register with the officer deciding how many elections a person may vote in. I am suggesting two registers, one for the referendum and one for all the other elections, because the franchise for the elections would be the same. That would provide greater clarity when people are voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " very much at home. We have also tabled some consequential amendments, such as amendment (h), and that brings us to amendment (i) to new schedule 2, which is entitled, \"Combination of Polls: England\". The amendment relates to who is able to attend the count. I accept that I have not consulted widely with returning officers on this matter, because my experience is that different returning officers-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.79.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.79.5", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am not quite so negative as my hon. Friend about returning officers, but the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Mrs Laing) had an excellent debate in Westminster Hall the other day-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.79.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.79.7", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " and buying more polling station equipment, or on keeping a swimming pool open. I understand the pressure on returning officers, who want clarity from Parliament, but sometimes, as my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow South (Mr Harris) said, they are wrong. There is remarkably little freedom in law to give out a ballot paper after 10 o'clock, as the Minister reminded us in a debate the other day-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.79.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.80.5", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "No, they will not be counted by local authority ward. The procedure is different in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland of course-just to make it easier for everybody. We tabled an amendment saying that it should be done in the same way throughout the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.80.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "In Dudley, which is not a separate nation yet, the procedure will be based on local authority boundaries. I cannot remember the provision in relation to Northern Ireland, but I am sure that the Minister will enlighten us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Yes, he delivered his remarks with a magisterial largesse-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.116.3", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "h the numbers of Ministers and PPSs having grown, there is already an unnecessary constraint on the real power of this House to do its job. We have talked about what happens on the Government Benches, but what also happens is that the Opposition feel that they have to match the ministerial team-and of course, the PPS team-man for man and woman for woman, so we end up not with 95 Ministers but 190.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.118.5", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Right, but he is not yet listed on any publicly available list of PPSs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.118.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "preparing his remarks, I hope that he will reflect on the fact that the very office of Deputy Leader of the House is, in itself, rather a modern invention. I think that it was invented during the previous Labour Government. I do not know whether it ever existed before-I look to my hon. Friend the Father of the House-because it had never been deemed necessary for there to be a deputy to the leader-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.126.4", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Whether or not it is germane is obviously for the Chair, not the hon. Gentleman, to decide, but I am grateful that he has given way. I am sure the hon. Gentleman would not want to mislead the House. He has suggested that Parliamentary Private Secretaries are listed on each of the websites-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.126.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Broxbourne seemed to give the clear impression that he personally would favour a separation of powers, meaning that there would not be this country's current parliamentary democratic system where we have Ministers drawn from this elected House. Rather, he would prefer Ministers to be drawn from the ranks of those outside the House, which is much more akin to a presidential democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ntary democratic system where we have Ministers drawn from this elected House. Rather, he would prefer Ministers to be drawn from the ranks of those outside the House, which is much more akin to a presidential democracy. [Interruption.] I may be misrepresenting the hon. Gentleman, and if so I apologise. However, if that is his view-and it is a perfectly respectable view-it is not one that I share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.129.11", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Well done!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "re not looking to extend their own influence, but believe on principle that power should be dispersed. Indeed, we will bring forward legislation very soon to disperse more power to local communities and local authorities, enabling them to do their job more effectively. I have difficulty in accepting that there is a need to put this new clause into this Bill at this time. It is now October of 2010-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.129.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.129.11", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "cal authorities, enabling them to do their job more effectively. I have difficulty in accepting that there is a need to put this new clause into this Bill at this time. It is now October of 2010-[Hon. Members: \"Well done!\"] It is good to know that Opposition Members are engaged in the serious constitutional debate. There are four and a half years until the provisions of this Bill will take effect-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.129.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "estion of how many Ministers should sit in the House of Commons is bound up with other questions-for example, considering the number of Ministers in the House of Lords. As the Committee is aware, my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister is chairing a Committee on reform of the House of Lords. The Committee comprises Members from all three major political parties, as well as from both Houses-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-25", "file": "debates2010-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "5369d0b99c319375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "s rather than full-time equivalents. That should perhaps be part of any consideration. For all those reasons, although I welcome the debate, the Government are not minded to accept the new clause. We shall reflect on the arguments made today and set out plans once we have achieved some consensus on the composition of the second Chamber, including the number of Ministers there. If it still appears-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-25a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.151.7", "colnum": "151", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.151.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.151.9", "colnum": "151", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I was not going to turn to the sensitive issue, at least in my household, of smoking. However, I agree with the hon. Gentleman that on this issue, as on so many others, the Labour party seems wholly inconsistent. It was silent-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.151.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.151.9", "colnum": "151", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "as not going to turn to the sensitive issue, at least in my household, of smoking. However, I agree with the hon. Gentleman that on this issue, as on so many others, the Labour party seems wholly inconsistent. It was silent- [Interruption.] They were silent on votes at 16 when in government, and now they are arch campaigners for a change that they never delivered when they had the chance to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.151.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "By allowing rents for new tenants, but not existing tenants, to be set closer to market rates-and by the way, rents for existing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "Dear, dear, it must be my ears again. I did not hear the hon. Lady mention the Leeds station southern access scheme, which has been approved-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, I am not able to give way during a ten-minute rule Bill. I am supposed to have 10 minutes, but I keep looking at the clock wondering how many minutes have expired-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sure that a number of Members will not be able to reach that moment soon enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "Well, other schemes are available to help women ensure that their diet is healthy. May I tell the hon. Lady what others have said about this one? Zoe Williams, writing in The Guardian in April 2009, said that this is \"a universal grant to mothers who may or may not need it, and may or may not spend it on vegetables that may or may not positively influence the health of their unborn children.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": " it, and may or may not spend it on vegetables that may or may not positively influence the health of their unborn children.\" [Interruption.] I am simply quoting from The Guardian -I did not realise just how much outrage that would cause in the House. Paul Waugh, writing in the London Evening Standard in June 2010, said: \"The Health in Pregnancy Grant is frequently not even spent on healthy food.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "As I was saying-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I will just say to the hon. Gentleman: record levels of the minimum wage, record support on Sure Start, record investment in education and tackling child poverty across the board. The Labour Government have a proud record of tackling inequality and trying those issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ld poverty across the board. The Labour Government have a proud record of tackling inequality and trying those issues. [Interruption.] The Financial Secretary says, \"Records of deficit\". I recognise, as does my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, that we need to tackle the deficit, and that is where the choice is today. The choice for the Financial Secretary is to cut deeper-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.218.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point. There was a thread running through the Labour Government's intentions to ensure help and support for children, help and support for those on low incomes to save, and help and support for families to save for their children's 18th birthday and beyond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "There are a range of measures that the Labour Government introduced and would have introduced in relation to deficit reduction. There are a range of measures that my right hon. and hon. Friends and I were elected to implement to reduce the deficit over a four-year period, including an additional banking levy and help and support for deficit reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Maynard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Maynard", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry, but I am not giving way to you, madam, so kindly take notice of that. Having a piggy bank-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.227.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady makes a brilliant and inspired point with which I completely agree, and it is therefore wise to ensure that such benefits as there are are directed to the people who need them, not wasted on people who do not need them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "I would have finished by now, but I have taken a number of interventions, which it is a privilege to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Dakin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was caused by Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Dakin", "preceding_text": "lies are trying to make ends meet, the Coalition Government has hit parents particularly hard. Cutting pregnancy and maternity grants, as well as child benefit and tax credits, will make it even more difficult for new parents or those wanting to start a family.\" The Bill is part of a pattern of penalising families and children for the economic problems caused by the meltdown of the global economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": ". There is a strong economic argument for saying that we did not get out of the recession until re-armament started before the second world war. It can also be argued that the UK went through a double-dip recession in the mid to late-1930s. Economists disagree, of course, but none of us should take such an absolutist position as to suggest that we are simply right. We have a view; you have a view-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "rust fund. I gather from his CV that he worked for Baring Asset Management; I suspect that a background of working for Barings is not the best qualification for advising other people on how to manage their assets. My hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Teresa Pearce) made an eloquent speech in defence of the child trust fund. I want to congratulate her on becoming a grandmother today-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-26", "file": "debates2010-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7c8cb5ebb174e926", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Parliament (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "for Barings is not the best qualification for advising other people on how to manage their assets. My hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Teresa Pearce) made an eloquent speech in defence of the child trust fund. I want to congratulate her on becoming a grandmother today- [Interruption.] Has it not arrived yet? Well, I hope mother and baby do very well when it does finally come along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-26a.274.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-27", "file": "debates2010-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0578cf1c8d764d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.305.7", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": "May I associate myself with the condolences expressed by my right hon. Friend? Does the Prime Minister agree that yesterday's excellent growth numbers show that the private sector is growing and will create the jobs that my constituents need?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.305.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-27", "file": "debates2010-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0578cf1c8d764d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " to work, and everyone knows that there is a problem when people claim jobseeker's allowance and maximum housing benefit for long periods of time, which creates a serious disincentive to work. That is why we are making this change, and that is why it is right. The key change that we are looking at is the £20,000 cap on maximum housing benefit claims. Is the right hon. Gentleman really saying-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.306.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-10-27", "file": "debates2010-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0578cf1c8d764d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.314.10", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "For instance, we would have chosen to tax the bankers more heavily in order to avoid the shameful attack yesterday on women and children in the form of the abolition of the child trust fund and the health in pregnancy grant. Does the Prime Minister agree with his Chancellor's choices continually to penalise women and children in that way? Please, Mr Speaker -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.314.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-27", "file": "debates2010-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0578cf1c8d764d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "(Urgent Question): I have an urgent question for the Prime Minister, which is being answered in the name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as to what negotiating position the Government intend to adopt on the conclusion of the taskforce on strengthening economic governance in the European Union that was presented to the European Council on 21 October with the claim that the endorsement-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-27", "file": "debates2010-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0578cf1c8d764d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.382.5", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Planning (Developer Bonds)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "d Royal Mail goes down that route, the pressure on the Government and regulators could be immense and could mean a substantial rise in postal costs to rural areas. It would be the ultimate irony if the Bill meant that a privatised Royal Mail was given an ability to compete against other privatised companies that it was denied when it was a public body. I should like to say more about post offices-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.382.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-27", "file": "debates2010-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0578cf1c8d764d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Planning (Developer Bonds)", "cue_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "preceding_text": "he post office network. My hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) highlighted a problem to do with sorting offices, as did other Members with sorting offices in their constituencies. They are concerned about the consequences of the Bill for sorting offices. We also had a brief interlude from the hon. Member for Woking (Jonathan Lord) , who made an enlightening and enjoyable maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-27", "file": "debates2010-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0578cf1c8d764d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Planning (Developer Bonds)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "jects for Royal Mail's equivalents in Taiwan, South Africa, Belgium and Sweden. Although I co-authored a report for the US Postal Service to put to Congress on the commercialisation and liberalisation of postal companies and markets around the world, I have to disappoint the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Gregg McClymont) ; I never worked on a privatisation programme-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-27", "file": "debates2010-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0578cf1c8d764d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Planning (Developer Bonds)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": " Africa, Belgium and Sweden. Although I co-authored a report for the US Postal Service to put to Congress on the commercialisation and liberalisation of postal companies and markets around the world, I have to disappoint the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Gregg McClymont) ; I never worked on a privatisation programme- [ Interruption. ] Regrettably. Back then, in 1997-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-27a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister misled the House yesterday-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that I was a tall man; I say to the hon. Gentleman that he is, at times, a verbose man. We have provided five days for the Committee stage of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, and two days for Report. I consider that to be a generous provision, and much of that time so far has been spent by the hon. Gentleman speaking at length from the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": " generous provision, and much of that time so far has been spent by the hon. Gentleman speaking at length from the Dispatch Box. [Interruption.] Moreover, some of the time was not used last week when the House rose early. The House has been given adequate notice of the issues on the Order Paper, and we shall have ample time next Monday and Tuesday to deal with the amendments that have been tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Lady to her place. I think that it is the first time we have had an exchange over the Dispatch Box, and I congratulate her on her appointment. Departments will set out their work force plans in due course. They are working on those things, and there are many things that they can do to avoid excessive redundancies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.504.5", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You're not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again, I am going to press on. The Chancellor's statement set out the level of departmental spending for the next four years. I will not repeat every decision now, but of course I am happy to take interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.504.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "rtunity through early years provision and schools, and it means that we look carefully at whether we are doing right by those who receive welfare and the working families whose taxes pay for it. Those are our tests and we have met them in full. First, we have published distributional analyses that clearly demonstrate that those on the highest incomes will contribute more towards the consolidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.506.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "The last quarter of growth-Opposition Members were hoping that things would be worse than they are, which is a pretty poor foundation for any sort of economic policy-took place since the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "The last quarter of growth-Opposition Members were hoping that things would be worse than they are, which is a pretty poor foundation for any sort of economic policy-took place since the Budget. [ Interruption. ] Of course the previous Chancellor deserves credit for that much of his work in office-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.510.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "Government is in ideological thrall to the discredited economic mantra that shrinking the state is always the right answer. They do not state it as provocatively as Mrs Thatcher once did in the 1980s, but they believe it just as firmly. The Orange Book Liberal Democrats, led by the Deputy Prime Minister with the Chief Secretary in tow, believe it too. Of course, the deficit has to be brought down-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "We entered the crisis with the second-lowest deficit in the G7. We were affected by the credit crunch because we have a very large financial services sector, which is why both sides in the House are talking about how we can rebalance our economy. We are too exposed to the kind of risks that crystallised when the credit crunch struck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.516.6", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it is depressing to see the huge ranks of men opposite talking about cuts that will affect-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.516.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.522.5", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Incredible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "If the Chief Secretary had answered my questions, I might answer his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.522.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "ing for. Despite modern times, and despite the rise of the dual worker family and the rise of women's rights, my guess would be that it is still mothers in most of our families who are responsible for juggling family budgets at different income levels. It is mums who make the judgment about whether the clothes and the shoes can be afforded, how to fund the school trips and the treats for children-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.541.2", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "cuts and their new proposals in the light of a few absolutely extortionate rents. They have spoken continuously about the cap and the fact that people should not be able to claim benefits to live in what they deem to be luxury accommodation. That is not something that affects the majority of housing benefit claimants in this country. When he sums up, will the Minister, who is not paying attention-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.541.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "preceding_text": "Not enough. The most important thing is that the cuts are made sensibly, and that the bloated management hierarchies of local government look at themselves and realise that this is a chance for much of the reduction in their field to come through management. Let me explain. In Hertfordshire county council-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.552.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-10-28", "file": "debates2010-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "f913fce3072022b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.576.6", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Comprehensive Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": " of us-on that programme for the future. In the coming weeks and months, we will promote that alternative vigorously, expose this Government's reckless policies and ensure that we stand up for the ordinary, squeezed, middle-class people of this country and the people on lower incomes. We will reject the cuts where it is appropriate to reject them and support efficiencies where they should be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-10-28b.576.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " at the European Council about the uncertainty in the world economy and how Europe plans to do its bit to ensure that economic demand is sustained? Thirdly, on the Cancun conference on climate change, I have to say-I think the Prime Minister will agree-that the prospects do not look bright for completing the unfinished work of Copenhagen. May I urge him on to show greater leadership on this issue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.616.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.659.2", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "e Government push ahead with their proposed 5% leniency either way rather than the 10% that we are advocating, they will have to split wards. Contrary to what the Deputy Leader of the House said last week, and what the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, the hon. Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper) has said, there is not a single ward in England that is split between constituencies-not one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.659.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": " as we can in Wales, to the preposterous anomalies that will result from the Government's policy if it is allowed to continue. There will be enormous constituencies in Wales, just as there will be in Scotland. One constituency might even stretch from the south Wales valleys to Wrexham. It would perhaps not take five hours to drive from one end to the other, but it would certainly take three hours-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.664.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I have not got time to give way, I am afraid. I also want-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I have not got time to give way, I am afraid. I also want- [Interruption.] I also want to make it plain that my right hon. Friend the Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Mr Kennedy) made-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member has said he will give way a little later. Let us be a little more patient. People want to hear what is being said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "latively short period. I wanted to address the issues raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber and my hon. Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso) -and I know that if my hon. Friend the Member for Argyll and Bute (Mr Reid) been able to contribute to the debate he would have said very much the same thing about the highlands of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.686.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.704.5", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not know how I voted-that is my business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.704.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.704.5", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not know how I voted-that is my business. [ Interruption. ] Well, I was not in the Lobby with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.704.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.704.5", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not know how I voted-that is my business. [ Interruption. ] Well, I was not in the Lobby with him. [ Interruption. ] It is hardly a secret, is it? The matters on which we have just voted were rather wider than that, and so I naturally loyally supported my Government-or part of my Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.704.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.705.2", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Well if he has, he has: I am sorry that I did not notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.705.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": " particular circumstances that he so ably outlined. I want to make a few general comments very briefly, then a couple that relate specifically to Northern Ireland. First, we have had a very good debate. Everyone who has spoken in this and the previous one spoke against the Bill and its provisions. I have not heard many speeches in support of it, other than from those on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.723.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "It is hardly a secret that we want a general election based on fair constituencies, and I do not think that is an unreasonable aspiration. The second reason why we are abolishing the public inquiries is that they do not achieve their purpose. They do not provide the boundary commissions with a good indication of local opinion to aid them in the process of drawing up constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.730.4", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "figure of the proportion that lead to change. The truth, as Professor Johnston told the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, is: \"Public inquiries often have no impact.\" The changes are frequently minor. For example, at the time of the fifth general review in England, only 2% of wards in counties where inquiries were held were moved between constituencies as a result. What the Bill does-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.730.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "AIRCRAFT CARRIERS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": " had thought would last half an hour. It lasted for three hours, and attracted an only slightly smaller audience than tonight's debate. Tonight we have had the privilege of being footnotes in parliamentary history. I am glad to be able to respond to the debate in, I hope, a constructive spirit. I am tempted to say some of the things that are on my mind, but I shall leave them for another occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.742.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-01", "file": "debates2010-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "cfa5990818011353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "AIRCRAFT CARRIERS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "l understand why no decisions have yet been-or could be-taken on this issue. That is why the reports in the Scottish media to which the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife referred must, by definition, be untrue. I suspect they may be guilty of over-interpreting certain remarks, but I can assure him that no decisions have been taken at this stage. I think I would know about them if they had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-01b.745.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.774.7", "colnum": "774", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that 60 years ago Britain signed up to the European convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.774.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman read that out very well, if I may say so. He will know that the Minister does not have a personal view; the Minister is here to speak on behalf of the Government. I have already set out very clearly the Government's view. The details about how we are going to implement the decision are still being considered-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.778.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, I think that that was probably the first very sensible question that we have had in this session-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am extremely grateful to the shadow Secretary of State. May I very gently say that the Secretary of State modestly exceeded his allotted time, and the right hon. Member for East Renfrewshire (Mr Murphy) has rather significantly exceeded his allocated time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ar (Mr MacNeil) , is about the costs of running the polls being met by the UK Government. The Minister is right to say that the costs are all met by the Consolidated Fund, but I presume that the hon. Gentleman's amendment has been tabled to make the point that he thinks that the responsibility for running the Scottish parliamentary elections should be the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "ecretary, Office of the Leader of the House of Commons-who have been handling a very sticky wicket quite well indeed. No time has been taken to consult the devolved Governments on the Bill. However, that was also a mistake of the Labour party in government when it delivered devolution to Scotland and Wales almost in direct correlation to the strengths of the nationalist parties in those countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "preceding_text": "r ahead of the rest of the UK. I can tell you that Scottish opinion was deeply offended, and we tried to tell the UK Government, \"Don't do this to Scotland, because we think you're maltreating us.\" The rest of the UK seemed not to listen and dismissed that, and to this day Scottish people are offended by how the UK Government behaved. I am telling you, you are in danger of making the same mistake-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Mark Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Williams", "preceding_text": "The capacity of the Welsh media to respond has been severely hampered, whether we look at the position of Sianel Pedwar Cymru or the loss of pluralism-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "I come from the west of Skye, but that is another story-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Mark Tami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Tami", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend foresee a situation in which two Labour supporters were campaigning for an Assembly candidate and a voter asked, \"What do you think about AV?\", and they had totally different viewpoints. They might get into an argument, which would help no one-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "s has already been given £1.9 million just for redrawing the boundaries, let alone for carrying out the work on the political machinery, which will be enormous. My hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) has simply made the point that those enormous costs will dwarf any prospective saving and that, in fact, there will probably be no saving at all. I will bring my comments to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He must be somewhere!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "d voted on by this House. Either way, it would be this House that had effectively decided on the machinery for our electoral arrangements. I hope that I have set that out clearly, even though I know that the hon. Gentleman does not agree with it. I listened carefully to the speech by the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) , who is no longer in his place, or, indeed, any other place-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "They are about different things; they are not linked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to confirm that. I will write to the hon. Member for Foyle, copy my reply to the hon. Member for Rhondda and place it in the Library for the benefit of all hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The difficulty about thresholds in the Labour movement is that, for instance, I suppose one could have said that there should be a threshold for the election of candidates for the Labour party-or, for that matter, for the leader of the Labour party. I think that that would be inappropriate. When we have an election, we in the Labour movement have always proceeded on the basis of alternative vote-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "g helpful in giving him the opportunity to debate it now. Alas, however, because very long speeches were made by Opposition Members earlier, we do not have long to debate this matter. The amendment that my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes South (Iain Stewart) and I submitted in Committee was for a turnout threshold not of 60%, as I have been derided in the press for suggesting, but of 50%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I do not think I have ever been quite so persuasive with any of my arguments as to persuade one of my hon. Friends not to press an amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman may know, two constituencies are treated differently from others. One is held by the Scottish National party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman may know, two constituencies are treated differently from others. One is held by the Scottish National party. [ Interruption . ] No, two. The other one is a Liberal Democrat constituency. Both constituencies have been recognised in previous regulations and legislation as having a unique status. I know that the hon. Gentleman has about 60,000 people in his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " to that this afternoon. Labour Members have produced all the little arguments they can possibly think of to try to preserve the current unfair imbalance in constituency structures that gives the Labour party an unfair electoral advantage. Every statistic shows that, and it cannot be argued against because it is a matter of simple arithmetic. It is not a matter of opinion; it is a matter of fact -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Lady-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "preceding_text": "b-region looks set to lose at least two parliamentary seats. That puts paid to the myth that lofty ideals, social conscience and progressive thinking underpin the Government's electoral reform agenda. Let me, if I may, jump on the number-crunching bandwagon for a couple of minutes. Currently, my constituency-Liverpool, Walton-has one MP for 89,732 citizens or 62,612 registered voters. In the year-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "electorate has expressed a view on it, and no one has even raised it with many of us during the course of the general election. I pay tribute to the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper) for carrying this Bill. I have never been present during deliberations on a Bill when its protagonist or originator does not deign to attend the Commons-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "e to the Executive. There is the Opposition, with their regiment of Whips and those who are expected to follow their own parties into the Lobby. There are very few independent souls in the House, and we have heard them in the course of the discussion of the Bill. That is the one good thing about the Bill. I do not recall a Minister who has so cavalierly dismissed his responsibilities to the House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.880.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "t agree with it, but, before we decide how we vote on Third Reading, we have to judge the extent to which the measures in the Bill make us less remote from the voters. Let us take three important issues that have not been addressed satisfactorily, if at all. First, what does the Bill do about the 3.5 million people who are not even on the register, and even though we know that they qualify for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.883.4", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Yes it does, compared with the current system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.883.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No you don't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "communities, but among political parties' paid officers. One argument that has been made is that we cannot reform one part of the constitution without reforming the others. I say gently to colleagues in the Labour party that unlike them, we will secure a predominantly elected House of Lords, which they did not do. Unlike them, we have on our agenda a reduction of the number of Ministers in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "that has been made is that we cannot reform one part of the constitution without reforming the others. I say gently to colleagues in the Labour party that unlike them, we will secure a predominantly elected House of Lords, which they did not do. Unlike them, we have on our agenda a reduction of the number of Ministers in future. [Hon. Members: \"No you don't.\"] Yes, we do. We have it on the agenda-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Louise Bagshawe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louise Bagshawe", "preceding_text": "As Opposition Members will know, I have sat through most of the debate, and I have been astonished at their cant and hypocrisy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-02", "file": "debates2010-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d14b62f5559b28f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Cheques", "cue_speaker": "Louise Bagshawe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louise Bagshawe", "preceding_text": "As Opposition Members will know, I have sat through most of the debate, and I have been astonished at their cant and hypocrisy- [ Interruption. ] Have they forgotten that among the nations-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-02a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "undertaking to the hon. Lady. In fact, if she writes to me with any details, I will be pleased to take it up with my colleagues. She should be aware, however, that I am talking to all the Departments right across Whitehall, as I did right at the beginning when I was first appointed, to suggest that Wales is a great place for them to relocate their expensive offices from other parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "These are matters on which the hon. Gentleman has had plenty of opportunity for debate on the Floor of the House, and he has made his full contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.915.4", "colnum": "915", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asks the questions because he has no answers to anything. Is this what his Opposition leadership is reduced to? Let me give the House this figure. The previous Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.915.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.915.4", "colnum": "915", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asks the questions because he has no answers to anything. Is this what his Opposition leadership is reduced to? Let me give the House this figure. The previous Government-[Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"] This is the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.915.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very good point. We do need a debate about how we tackle the welfare system and get it under control. One of the best places to start with housing benefit is the Labour manifesto, personally written by the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) . It said clearly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "tre to give people comfort and shelter. They have done a fabulous job. The costs of this event will be enormous and, like every other service, our council is facing significant reductions in its budget. Will the Prime Minister seriously consider what extra help he can give to those families to ensure that they are supported? My hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Size and costs. I remind the hon. Gentleman that his Vale of Clwyd constituency has just 55,968 people-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises yet another reason-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.938.7", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and the crucial thing is the number of young people who are anxious because they think that they somehow have to pay fees up-front, when that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.938.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-03", "file": "debates2010-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "b58e1b125a98992b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman will resume his seat. I am sorry but this is the second-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-03a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be pleased that we managed to protect the flood budget in the comprehensive spending review. The amount is reducing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I was expecting to move on to the main business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I hope that this is a very important matter on which you can offer some guidance. It seems to me that in this Parliament over the last 100 years, Governments and Prime Ministers have often dictated the terms and conditions for Members of Parliament, when in fact Parliament should be dictating the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": "ance. It seems to me that in this Parliament over the last 100 years, Governments and Prime Ministers have often dictated the terms and conditions for Members of Parliament, when in fact Parliament should be dictating the- [ Interruption. ] The point of order is this: is it right that the Government should be able to block Private Members' Bills that relate to the terms and conditions for Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1058.6", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is no uncertainty in my mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1059.4", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am happy to comment on that point of order. The hon. Gentleman draws the attention of the House to what is becoming a common practice. Responses from Ministers to questions should be as helpful and clear as possible. Simply referring an hon. Member to a website is, frankly, not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "ons of the state\". The document predicts future threats, which cannot be an exact science-we know that-but it lacks historical accuracy. The fact is that the UK did not exist in its current form 800 years ago. A document that aims to set out a process and to predict the nature of future threats does not even get its history right. Its assessment of our nation's past lacks real intellectual vigour-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "he said, he was very helpful when I was producing a Green Paper while I was a Minister, and his commitment to the armed forces is recognised by nearly everyone. I do not think it was entirely recognised by the sergeant-major who was responsible for his training at Sandhurst, if all the stories that he has told me are true, but everyone else recognises it-and, of course, his ancestry rivals my own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "very high opinion of his tenure of office as Secretary of State for Defence, and it is a pleasure to follow him. He spoke with his habitual integrity and persuasiveness. I also wish to welcome the shadow Secretary of State for Defence to his position. As he knows, I also have a very high opinion of him, to the extent that I was a bit surprised that he did not stand for the leadership of his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the question, but I will continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "the Queen asked how nobody had seen that it would happen, given that it was so big. The answer is that one body did foresee a global banking collapse being a major security threat to the UK. It was the advanced research and assessment group, based at Shrivenham, and I am afraid that in March the right hon. Member for Coventry North East as Defence Secretary closed it down, to save £1 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "o to help Yemen? We do not cut off all its freight, and we certainly do not want to stop people coming here from Yemen. Instead, we need to give Yemen the security equipment that we promised at the London conference in January. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a conference of the Friends of Yemen, who were given certain assurances, one of which was that equipment would be sent to San'a and Aden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-04", "file": "debates2010-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "0e5181787da1993e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Strategic Defence and Security Review", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That it stays at Marham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Salisbury (John Glen) and the hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Mr Davidson) on the subject of the Tornado. One thing that the defence review got right was the retention of the Tornado fleet, not least because of the role that that aircraft is performing in Afghanistan. I know that there is a discussion going on about the future base of the Tornado, and I want to suggest-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-04a.1133.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-08", "file": "debates2010-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d8b8f4749dfcd353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-08a.11.7", "colnum": "11", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I echo my hon. Friend's tribute to the Royal Engineers. Veterans receive a great deal of support in resettlement. Everybody trying to return to civilian life from the services now receives support, and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-08a.11.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-08", "file": "debates2010-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d8b8f4749dfcd353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-08a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "Regardless of what side of the House we are on, we are all very concerned about this weekend's reports of the smuggling of highly enriched uranium in Georgia and other parts of the Soviet Union-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-08a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-08", "file": "debates2010-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d8b8f4749dfcd353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-08a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": ", the money ran out. So, we have argued for a power shift that will take power away from Whitehall and put it into the hands of people and communities, rebalancing the relationship between the citizen and the state. We recognise that Britain can make progress only if the Government establish frameworks that help people to come together to make life better. We have also argued for an horizon shift-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-08a.25.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.132.4", "colnum": "132", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "No Minister has ever visited the island of St Helena.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.132.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to give statutory effect to certain aspects of Armed Forces personnel's and veterans' welfare provision; and for connected purposes. Let me begin by-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "I do, which is why I wish those on the Government Benches would spend less time reading our manifesto and more time changing their proposals. Let me deal with the substantive points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "I have great respect for the hon. Gentleman, but there is a difference between having a duty to act-and we support the case for reform in housing benefit-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.150.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "I have a clear view that if these proposals pass unamended, London will look very different in the years ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "h of the measures and set out our thinking, as I have done on a range of them today? We disagree fundamentally about the balance between the cuts that have to be borne by the poor and the vulnerable relative to the contribution that should be made by the banks. So we disagree about the deficit. We also disagree with measures such as the 10% cut in housing benefit relative to jobseeker's allowance-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "spite the major deficit that we have inherited, and despite the fact that housing benefit is running out of control, he did not say a thing about what he is planning to do. Opposition comes with responsibilities, and one of them is to have some policies before criticising, but the Labour party has none. The right hon. Gentleman is basically a reasonable man, and I look forward to dealing with him-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.161.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The realities of what we are bringing in around that will make the change happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "change in local housing allowance, as we can see from the graphs, fuelled an immediate increase-it was not just down to the recession, but down to two particular factors. In getting the calculations wrong about the median line and the capping, they ended up allowing LHA to rocket to provide landlords with excess amounts of money for providing housing that would have cost less. How do we know that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " important question. We know that for two good reasons. First, if we compare those who remained on what was there before-it did not change for them because it was new people who came on to LHA-we find that the differential between where they are now and where the LHA rate is amounts to 10%. LHA growth is thus 10% above where we might have been had the change not been made. That is the first thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.168.7", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not quite understand why the hon. Gentleman asks that question. I have been talking about the issue endlessly to Ministers from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.168.9", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "n still have not said whether they agree with it-is £400, the weekly equivalent of more than £20,000 a year. Let me remind the House what someone who was out there earning would have to earn to pay that £20,000. That person would have to earn £80,000. The Government left us an LHA rate of £104,000 a year. Someone would have to earn £250,000 a year to pay that in rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.168.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The reality is that the adviser said that before he even knew about how much we were using for the discretionary allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "There was nothing in the spending plans and Labour Members never had the courage to tell the general public what they were going to do. They fought an election on a false premise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "There was nothing in the spending plans and Labour Members never had the courage to tell the general public what they were going to do. They fought an election on a false premise. [Interruption.] They pretended-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " thing to the public and something else in its private discussions. I want to make one other important point. I recently appeared before the Select Committee and an Opposition Member put it to me that one reason the local housing allowance figures had risen so much was that there was not enough social housing. I agree, but who do we have to blame for that over the past 10 years? That is the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "preceding_text": "I have to confess that I am not au fait with every page on my website.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "Like me, the hon. Lady represents a seaside town. If Kosovo-style clear-outs do take place in the inner cities-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": " and flats that people can afford. The Government are cutting housing investment. In Camden, certainly, private rents are very high, and in the south of my constituency they are very, very high. However, the ordinary people living there did not set those extortionate rents; grasping landlords did, and then they gave some of it to fund the Tory party's election campaigns, election in, election out-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": "tituency they will see what we can do for our constituents. Enfield North has 7% unemployment, higher than average youth unemployment, and pockets of poverty, mainly in the eastern area. Those are issues that I want to conquer, and that requires reform. Doing nothing is not an option, but constructive suggestions have been notably lacking from the Opposition. Of course the decisions are difficult-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": " surgery only last week and told me that people are queuing up for jobs, but they want to work for only a limited number of hours for fear of losing their house? How absurd is that? Whatever the Labour party's good intentions when it was in government, its reforms produced a grotesque situation. What do I say to the people who come to my office and want to work, but are caught in the poverty trap-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.224.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, as I have nearly finished and many others are waiting to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. Lady for giving way. We have sat through her speech with varying degrees of incredulity. While we admire her histrionic performance, we are still at a loss as to what her position is on the cap. Does she think it is right that in her-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": " the reach of most people. Secondly, it is not to say that people are on welfare and that welfare is bad, as was said by one Government Member. Welfare is a safety net for people on low incomes. These are the people who will clean the Chamber long after we have left tonight, and these are the people whom we are letting down as a result of these proposals. So of course we stand against this motion-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.242.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "This has been a worthwhile debate. We have learned a number of things. Most of all, we have learned that no Labour MP actually read the manifesto on which they stood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-09", "file": "debates2010-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "41febf1523e5ff78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "n to do something about the situation. But when people might reasonably be expected to move, that, of course, is part of the equation. If everybody went on staying exactly where they were at the same rent, there would have been no point to the policy. On the basis of the debate so far, Mr Speaker, you would imagine that this year's £21.5 billion housing benefit budget was about to be slashed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-09a.251.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-11", "file": "debates2010-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "e49904a66ca10257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Colleague?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Not when I last checked. I am afraid there is a fundamental difference of approach between the coalition and my right hon. colleague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-11", "file": "debates2010-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "e49904a66ca10257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "e Government have no plans to allocate a day to debating IPSA, but it is open to him to go along at 4 o'clock and put his case for a debate on IPSA, as I think one of my hon. Friends has already done. I shall see the interim chief executive of IPSA later today, and I shall pass on the hon. Gentleman's concerns to him. It is the objective of IPSA to support Members of Parliament in the performance-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-11", "file": "debates2010-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "e49904a66ca10257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "eview 10; it is absolutely enough to get us to that point. I said to the right hon. Gentleman privately, and I say again publicly, that as we implement these measures over three years of this Parliament and a further two years of the next Parliament, more money will, of course, be required, and that is guaranteed, but we will come to that in the spending review for the next spending review period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-11", "file": "debates2010-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "e49904a66ca10257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "dened by the hon. Lady's question. She is wrong. First, the contributory principle still exists. The contributory benefits will run in parallel; we are not getting rid of those. Secondly, she said that we should only ever get people into jobs that their top qualification allows them to get. I think that getting people into work is the most important starting point, and from there they can move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.452.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-11", "file": "debates2010-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "e49904a66ca10257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.454.5", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The point about this system is that because it does not say that people can work for 16 hours-or whatever it is-they can go back into work. Because work pays in every hour they take, they will be able to look at 10 or 15-hour jobs-or whatever-that may be available. For each one, they can make an adjustment and say, \"Well, that would suit me. I'd be able to take that,\" whereas before-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.454.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-11", "file": "debates2010-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "e49904a66ca10257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Dugher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Dugher", "preceding_text": "have had to endure speeches from Government Members based on the Andy Coulson script. I am allowed to criticise the No. 10 scripts because I used to write them, which is probably just one of the reasons we lost the election. The script basically says that the deficit is the only thing that matters, and that the deficit was caused entirely by the profligacy, over a decade, of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-11", "file": "debates2010-11-11b.xml", "sha256": "e49904a66ca10257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": " place in 1990. He can look at the record thereafter, because the Thatcher Government did exactly what he said this Government will not do, so there are some examples of that. I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) for initiating the debate. It was good to work with him on obtaining it. The number of people who are speaking in it are clearly a vital part of the process-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-11b.492.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-15", "file": "debates2010-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "a540264e161ae86a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-15a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I do. My hon. Friend is entirely right, and that is why the Education Secretary, who was on such robust form earlier, was in China with me, signing an agreement with the Chinese Government on the teaching of English in China, but also the teaching of Mandarin in our schools. It is extremely-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-15a.657.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "What a trivial point, but I thought I had said the 19th century. I stand corrected if I did not, and I am sorry if I misinformed the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "What a trivial point, but I thought I had said the 19th century. I stand corrected if I did not, and I am sorry if I misinformed the Committee. [Interruption.] No, I do not think I was quoting at that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "ing that people are talking about or that is tripping off people's tongues, but that does not mean it is not important. It should be debated properly. Perhaps that is a partial response to the right hon. Lady's point. I have been staggered by some of the comments by Opposition Members-the feigned outrage about a five-year term. Many of them were in the previous Government over the last five years-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "in a perpetual state of elections, so that idea does not carry over completely. The other experience of more regular elections is that there tends to be a greater propensity on the part of the electorate to re-elect their incumbents. As I am now an incumbent, that is not necessarily something that I would take issue with. I suspect that all hon. Members would be happy to see incumbents re-elected-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "That is right, but that is a point in relation to clause 2 and at the moment we are dealing with clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Louise Bagshawe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louise Bagshawe", "preceding_text": "ain in office until 2015, they need do absolutely nothing, as they already have that within their power. Does not some of the weariness in Government to which he referred-a salient point-come from endless speculation about the date of the election, as in the previous Parliament, dating from 2007 when the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) ascended to the prime ministership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.807.7", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "t the previous century, we had two elections in 1910, elections in 1923, 1924, 1951, 1959, 1964 and 1966, and two elections in 1974. He cannot give us an argument based on an average. He needs to highlight the Parliaments that really mattered, most of which were Conservative ones, as opposed to trying to massage his argument by bringing in Parliaments of a few months or a bit more. Funnily enough-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.807.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Lee Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Scott", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman think, by that measure, that the European Parliament should not have five-year terms and that they should be reduced to four years? If so, why was it not done when Labour was in government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for sitting there in his rotund way-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.809.4", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is, in effect, making an argument against the whole of the Bill, because he is basically saying that we should not have fixed-term Parliaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " rule Bill was brought forward in the name of David Howarth, a very fine man who was then the Liberal Democrat Member for Cambridge. He argued very forcefully, on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, that there should be a fixed-term Parliament. The Liberal Democrats have long argued for fixed-term Parliaments, but fixed at four years and not five. Their policy paper 83 \"For the People By the People\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.818.5", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can wave it away, but he cannot change the fact that our country's economic situation is dire, and that is because of what his Government did in their last five-year Parliament. I wish it had not lasted five years, but that is another point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.818.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It does not say that. It says: \"One day the Don't knows will get in, and then where will we be?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " sure that we are going to change that this evening. However, she spoke with her usual vigour, vim and-in her way-logic. For those who do not know, she and I have always had an issue with some Members of this House who could never pronounce her name properly-that is, as we pronounce it in Scotland. I know that I am not allowed to mention names, but I am sure that she knows what I am talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "s House who could never pronounce her name properly-that is, as we pronounce it in Scotland. I know that I am not allowed to mention names, but I am sure that she knows what I am talking about. [Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"] In Scotland, we would pronounce the hon. Lady's name \"Lang\". I will leave hon. Members to work out the difference, because, without usurping the Chair, Miss Begg, we would normally-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "evening, I saw my hon. Friend the Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan) , my right hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Sadiq Khan) , my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) and hon. Members on the Government Benches, and I had a feeling of déjà vu. I felt that we had been here quite recently, and it occurred to me that that was so. We had a debate in Committee just three weeks ago-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Employment Retention", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr Hoyle. I want to speak only because the Minister made some announcements in his speech that are obviously significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.846.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "POWER OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR STANDARDS TO INITIATE INVESTIGATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of, unless the provisions of paragraph (3) apply. (2A) In determining whether to investigate a specific matter relating to the conduct of a Member the Commissioner shall have regard to whether in his view there is sufficient evidence that the Code of Conduct or the rules relating to registration or declaration of interests may have been breached to justify taking the matter further.\"- (Mr Barron.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.857.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-16", "file": "debates2010-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3e1c4a2e1f25a383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "SUMMERTIME (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the Gaelic is for \"coming at you out of left field\", but that intervention rather fits the description. On the hon. Gentleman's first proposal about moving summertime more and more hours forward, if he wishes to bring a Bill to that effect to this House, I will be happy to express my opinion. Inevitably, and rightly, there will be detractors-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-16a.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.873.6", "colnum": "873", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recognise that other countries look to the United Kingdom for leadership on HIV strategy? If so, does he agree that a strong UK contribution to the global fund will encourage other countries that have not yet made their financial contributions to step up to the plate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.873.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "o identify the fact that TB ravages countries, not least in conflict states. As we design programmes that will have an effect in conflict states, it is vital that TB is right there among the very top of interventions. As we go through our bilateral aid review and focus on hard-to-reach people in conflict states such as Somalia, we must ensure that TB is one of the pre-eminent issues to be tackled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It will be up to individual police forces-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "This is question has been asked of the right hon. and learned Lady's own former Home Secretary-now the shadow Chancellor-and this is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "This is question has been asked of the right hon. and learned Lady's own former Home Secretary-now the shadow Chancellor-and this is what he said. [Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] He was asked-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister's answers will be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.2", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. Andrew Neil asked the shadow Chancellor a very simple question: \"Can you guarantee if you form the next Government that police numbers won't fall? Alan Johnson: No.\" That is what Labour said. It can engage-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "We were absolutely clear in our manifesto, and the former Home Secretary was absolutely clear, that we would guarantee central Government funding to protect front-line services. No wonder the Prime Minister's Back Benchers are so silent: he is planning to cut their police forces by 20%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.4", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, let me answer the point the right hon. and learned Lady made about what Labour said after the election. The shadow Chancellor was asked about-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.4", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ifically about Greater Manchester. First, the chief constable of Greater Manchester has said that his plans are putting \"the maximum resources\" on front-line policing, and I am not surprised he is able to say that, because here are the figures for the employment levels in the back-office functions: human resources, 187 people for that force; fleet vehicle maintenance, 106 people; finance, 106; IT-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.878.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More, more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Even the jokes are lame this week. Let me tell you a few people we will not be employing. We will not have special advisers ordering around civil servants like Labour did. We will not be employing Damian McBride to smear the wives and families of politicians. We will not be employing Alastair Campbell to sex up dossiers to make the case for war. I have got a list-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "s an extremely important point. MPs of all parties in all parts of the House, and anyone who has ever tried to get a wheelchair for anybody, will know that the delays and the lack of choice and the lack of power people have is incredibly frustrating. It must be possible in this day and age to put more power in the hands of patients or parents to make sure we have better choice, faster wheelchairs-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now have an Urgent Question. I call Mr Peter Bone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.895.4", "colnum": "895", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "We have taken action in the UK to tackle our fiscal position to avoid a sovereign debt crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.895.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " me quote from a Library research paper, which confirms: \"Including the (social care) funding is critical to the description of the settlement as a 'real terms increase'; without it, funding for the NHS falls by £500 million-0.54% in real terms.\" There we have it-the facts in the figures. There is no real-terms rise in NHS funding, but a real-terms cut over this Parliament by this Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.915.5", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "We did know that at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way, so the hon. Lady must sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "preceding_text": " the RCN suggests that under the guise of 45% management cuts, the NHS will lose health care assistants, nurses and medical staff-front-line cuts by stealth. All this must be set in the context of what was said to be the lowest financial settlement since the 1950s, reputed to be 0.1%-as we heard today, that is already disputed-together with massive pressure on NHS budgets from increased VAT costs-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "preceding_text": "ssistants, nurses and medical staff-front-line cuts by stealth. All this must be set in the context of what was said to be the lowest financial settlement since the 1950s, reputed to be 0.1%-as we heard today, that is already disputed-together with massive pressure on NHS budgets from increased VAT costs- [Interruption.] -redundancy payments, budget short-falls and hospitals having tariffs frozen-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": " Central (Paul Blomfield) . We are all here to say, rightly, that we want the best from our NHS-dedication from our staff of professionals and creativity from front-line staff. Both the right hon. Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Frank Dobson) and the hon. Member for Sheffield Central talked about that, but I remind the right hon. Gentleman that the review of top-up tariffs started under Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " but, it would seem, true. Today I visited a secondary school in Walthamstow which, by any measure, faces some of the biggest challenges of any school. It has double the national average of pupils on free school meals and with special educational needs. It is very important that the House hears what the pupil premium might mean for them-might mean, because we do not know yet. The school estimates-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "nd ideology is toxic for our schools. The Government's preoccupation with structures risks a loss of focus on standards. Under Labour, school standards rose year on year, with some of the highest ever results at every stage and the best ever results this year in GCSEs and A-levels. In 1997, half of all schools fell below the basic benchmark of 30% of students getting five good GCSEs graded A to C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.964.6", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "fic improvement among groups who have traditionally under-achieved in post-16 education. The Government seem to be saying that this evidence is simply to be disregarded because a political decision has been made. At times, I get the feeling from this Government that if a reform was introduced by Labour, they just want to wipe it away, even if it was successful. They want to do something different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.964.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "he same time as we have fallen behind other countries, the gap between rich and poor, as my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) said, has grown wider. In the last year for which we have figures, the number of children who were eligible for free school meals, bearing in mind that every year 600,000 children attend state schools, was 80,000, of whom just 45 made it to Oxbridge-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Forty-seven!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "urate information on their progress at primary school, and that we end the damaging \"teaching to the test\" that has characterised those tests in the past. It is our Government, not theirs, who have given head teachers in all schools the degree of autonomy and independence for which they yearned for 13 years. So it is unsurprising that, in the 37 minutes of the right hon. Member for Leigh's speech-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "I find it quite extraordinary to hear the Education Secretary's comments about increasing the participation of people from deprived backgrounds, in the light of his reforms of higher education financing. Can he tell us how introducing tuition fees of up to £9,000 will increase the participation in higher education of people from deprived communities-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "or Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden) -who is no longer in his place-who backs the Browne reforms, or would it be the hon. Member for St Helens North (Mr Watts) , who opposes them? The truth is that, on higher education, there is a split in the Labour party as wide as the River Jordan between those who are genuinely progressive and back our reforms and those who are regressive and oppose them-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "or St Helens North (Mr Watts) , who opposes them? The truth is that, on higher education, there is a split in the Labour party as wide as the River Jordan between those who are genuinely progressive and back our reforms and those who are regressive and oppose them- [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members ask who introduced tuition fees. The Labour party did that, and in so doing, broke a manifesto promise-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.971.6", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " that I've seen coming from the UK and we're all working on the same issues and have the same challenges.\" He also said that the coalition Government were \"pushing in all the right areas\" on education policy. He said that I am \"working very, very hard, and I love his sense of urgency, I love his willingness to challenge the status quo when things are not working\". So we are backed by Barack Obama.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.971.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.971.6", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "tion Government were \"pushing in all the right areas\" on education policy. He said that I am \"working very, very hard, and I love his sense of urgency, I love his willingness to challenge the status quo when things are not working\". So we are backed by Barack Obama. [Interruption.] It was his Education Secretary, but we all know that he speaks for the President. Talking of international statesmen-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.971.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.971.6", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "as of domestic policy, the Tories will be at their best when they are allowed to get on with it-as with reforms in education.\" We shall come back to some striking things about the former Prime Minister's words. I remember when the right hon. Member for Leigh was a Blairite-although that was before he was promoted by the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) , but there we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.971.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be able to give the hon. Lady that assurance, and I can do so because the case for the pupil premium was made so passionately by her parliamentary colleague the right hon. Member for Yeovil, and because it was then delivered thanks to the hard work of the Minister of State, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and the Deputy Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "It is £2.5 billion on top of the cash settlement that schools have been given. It is a real-terms increase in schools spending and £3.6 billion overall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I appreciate that we are running on a somewhat reduced timetable, but I want to spend a little time metaphorically to reach across the Floor, if I may, and express some sympathy for the fact that Labour was the party that Opposition Members joined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.994.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.994.4", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "help most, there is the pupil premium, supplemented by the education endowment fund. Although it is right to debate how that formula works and how the transition to the pupil premium will work, I would love to hear any Labour Member challenge the principle of the pupil premium and say that it is the wrong way to go about funding education. There should be an amount per pupil and then a supplement-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Stormed out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "figures land on head teachers' desks across the country, it will take more than a few dodgy bar graphs from the hon. Lady and a few flowery flourishes from the Secretary of State to con professional school leaders into swallowing this nonsense. It is no wonder the hon. Member for Bradford East (Mr Ward) walked out when the Secretary of State admitted that this was simply an increase in cash terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-17", "file": "debates2010-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "7c4283295651bb5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "ing ignored. It is worth pointing out that, as the right hon. Member for Belfast North mentioned, local elections were held successfully alongside Westminster elections in Northern Ireland in both 2001 and 2005. The hon. Lady said that Northern Ireland has a sophisticated voting population, and it is up to the individual candidates to set fire in the minds and hearts of their potential electorate-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-17b.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "preceding_text": "I recently visited the Abington pharmacy in my constituency, where I switched on a robotic dispenser-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "We have learned this week from the papers that the Secretary of State is participating in the \"Strictly Come Dancing\" Christmas special.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "After 13 years of a Labour Government who left behind them a more unequal society with a widening gap between rich and poor, the idea that an exceptionally weak clause in an Act that has not been enacted or implemented was major legislation, when it contained only a duty to consider, is everything that is bad about politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "The Government's dilution of the previous Government's equality legislation is just one of a series of betrayals of women. They failed to undertake a gender impact assessment of the emergency Budget-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1060.8", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "All councils up and down the country that are worth their salt will already be considering the socio-economic duty in terms of all the money they spend. That is the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1060.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Backbench Business — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "r Majesty's Government to act on the overwhelming public concern about the present scale of immigration by taking firm measures to reduce immigration without excluding those individuals who are genuinely essential to economic recovery, on which so much else depends. It is with pleasure that I move the motion tabled in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex (Nicholas Soames) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Backbench Business — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "states to address the very issues that we have in Scotland. Surely if it works in Australia, it could work in the UK. The right hon. Gentleman is quite right that people do not choose to go to Scotland, so let us give them extra points in the points-based system to encourage them to think about coming to Scotland. There are solutions, so surely we should acknowledge them and try to implement them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Backbench Business — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "do so openly and without running the risk of being accused of racism. Clearly, the subject is of great concern to all our constituents, so we need to be able to talk about it maturely and openly, which is what I think we are doing today. I had wanted to tell the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mark Tami) that he made a nice try of splitting the coalition, but he will have to try a little harder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-18", "file": "debates2010-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "e25d20988028308a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1114.2", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Backbench Business — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "Yes, and that would imply the following policy: if a company says, \"No one in this country yet has expertise in-\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-18b.1114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-19", "file": "debates2010-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "bdb20c0a9dc03b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": ". Secondly, it is a celebration of entrepreneurship. Thirdly, we must understand that the Bill is an enabler of very positive things that can be done to promote the support and funding of our social goods. It is therefore an absolute pleasure to support my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington. On the point about the history of institutions, I shall avoid too much philosophical musing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-19", "file": "debates2010-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "bdb20c0a9dc03b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sam Gyimah", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Gyimah", "preceding_text": "I will be with you in a second.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-19", "file": "debates2010-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "bdb20c0a9dc03b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Harris", "preceding_text": ") for producing this excellent Bill and allowing the issues it deals with to be discussed. I am delighted to see so many Members here on a Friday to support the measure. I hope in two weeks' time to see as many Members supporting my own private Member's Bill on daylight saving, although I have to confess that there are one or two familiar Friday faces who I hope will stay at home on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-19", "file": "debates2010-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "bdb20c0a9dc03b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "preceding_text": "ion, the previous Government helped to create the environment in which 55,000 social enterprises came into existence. A case has to be made to explain why all the Government Members present are prepared to introduce new legislation, more red tape and more intervention in the market, when Labour showed that we could build the so-called big society-the good society-with no such statist intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-19", "file": "debates2010-11-19b.xml", "sha256": "bdb20c0a9dc03b96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "preceding_text": "It is for the Minister and the Government to go first and describe their conception of the big society. We want a strong society-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-19b.1208.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-22", "file": "debates2010-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "217041292e488bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "s, and how that package is composed should be a decision for them-provided, of course, that the international community is satisfied that it is credible, and I am absolutely sure that we will be satisfied. Finally, the right hon. Gentleman asked two questions, one about the future of the euro and so on. As I have said, we made lots of arguments about not joining the euro 10 years ago and I do not-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-22", "file": "debates2010-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "217041292e488bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I recognise that my right hon. Friend is dealing with some very serious and potentially disastrous economic circumstances, but when I say, \"I told you so\", it is not just about staying out of the euro; I am saying, \"I told you we shouldn't have ratified the Maastricht treaty.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-22", "file": "debates2010-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "217041292e488bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.53.7", "colnum": "53", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely the case. Back in May, the largest bond investor in the world said that sterling was sitting on a \"bed of nitroglycerine\". That was the kind of sentiment out there in the markets. We have taken-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.53.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-22", "file": "debates2010-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "217041292e488bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.54.5", "colnum": "54", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am absolutely committed to setting out our growth policies-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.54.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-22", "file": "debates2010-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "217041292e488bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Chancellor on doing the right thing in this instance-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-22", "file": "debates2010-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "217041292e488bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": " In 2010, 9,500 children in England were taken compulsorily into care and more children were put voluntarily into care by their parents under section 20 of the Children Act 1989. We identified in Committee that the administrative costs to the Government of running the machinery for the child trust funds were about £5 million a year-I think that the Financial Secretary can confirm that figure-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.63.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-22", "file": "debates2010-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "217041292e488bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ion to the first group of amendments, I am trying to be pragmatic. The Minister will note that amendment 13 seeks merely to delay the abolition of the saving gateway until 1 January 2014 to allow him and his officials a period of reflection in which they can examine whether abolition is required. The saving gateway, which was passed originally in the Saving Gateway Accounts Act 2009, is important-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-22", "file": "debates2010-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "217041292e488bf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. This debate is about how we help poorer people in society and save resources. Of course, that might not interest all hon. Members in the Chamber today, but that is another discussion-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-22b.86.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-23", "file": "debates2010-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "f4dcf8932af2936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "plain how committed he was. I am impressed that it was solely the opposition of Conservative Front Benchers that caused this five-year delay. I suspect that the right hon. Gentleman was having difficulty with Downing street and the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) and others in coming to any decision about anything, or doing anything about it, before the general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-23", "file": "debates2010-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "f4dcf8932af2936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When? By 2015?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman asked whether the UK Border Agency could manage the cuts and keep our borders secure with the changes in personnel that will be made, and the answer to that, unequivocally, is: yes, it can. Finally, the right hon. Gentleman asked me to confirm what I said in my statement, which is that we aim to reduce net migration from the hundreds of thousands back down to the tens of thousands-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-23", "file": "debates2010-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "f4dcf8932af2936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.182.2", "colnum": "182", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "We have been absolutely clear about our aim in regard to net migration, and we made it absolutely clear in the coalition agreement that we were committed to introducing an annual limit on non-EU economic migration. That is what we are doing today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.182.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-23", "file": "debates2010-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "f4dcf8932af2936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.199.4", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Grandparents (Access Rights)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "dment that has not been selected, but which would have declined to give a Second Reading to the Bill because of those exclusions. I sense that the hon. Members for Portsmouth North (Penny Mordaunt), for Meon Valley (George Hollingbery) and for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron), who spoke earlier, will have expressed their concerns about how the choices on the national insurance holiday were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-23", "file": "debates2010-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "f4dcf8932af2936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Grandparents (Access Rights)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ts many of our constituents throughout the country. Figures for jobseeker's allowance show that the rate of unemployment is currently higher in London than in the south-west, part of which is represented by the hon. Member for Central Devon, in North Wales, where my constituency is, or in Scotland, where it is 3.8%. Unemployment is also higher in London than in the east midlands or the north-west-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.202.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-23", "file": "debates2010-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "f4dcf8932af2936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Grandparents (Access Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": " could apply for the national insurance holiday but not get it because they have to swim for hours through treacle to get someone in the Treasury to pick up the phone. That could be a significant problem. The Minister gave a vague figure when asked how many people had applied since the scheme started in September. Very few people are aware that the scheme exists, and it has hardly been advertised-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.227.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-23", "file": "debates2010-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "f4dcf8932af2936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Grandparents (Access Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "n particular, the Government are not fully offsetting these changes for employers, which will be a surprise to many people. Before the election, the Conservative party gave the impression that it was fully against the 1% increase and that it would repeal it entirely. [Interruption.] Ministers seem to think that they were going to repeal it entirely. As I see the measures, the impression they gave-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-23c.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that the hon. Gentleman wants to be reassured that that will not be the case. We are grateful to him for so indicating -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.252.9", "colnum": "252", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " are doing. That is why we are publishing every contract for tender of over £10,000 on a website, enabling people to see the opportunities. It is also why we have put in every Department's business plan the requirement to report on the percentage by value of contracts they have let to small and medium-sized enterprises. We shall measure the extent to which Departments fulfil that requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.252.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's robust support for this Government's change in direction from that taken by the Government of whom he was a member. We believe that the incontinent use of consultants is demeaning for civil servants, who would, in many cases, like to be doing this work and are very capable of doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "[Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " underground explosion in New Zealand, including the two miners from Scotland. I know from my constituency the risks that miners take when working underground and our hearts go out to the miners' families and friends. I also thank the whole House for the good wishes on the birth of my second son, Samuel. In particular, I thank the Prime Minister and his wife Samantha for their very generous gifts-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "proach. We are taking a lot of the specific grants that were spent on specific subjects and putting them into basic school funding. That means that the schools budget is going to go up by £3.6 billion over this Parliament. I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that what we experienced over the last decade was a lot of money being put into school sport but without seeing a lot of progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.259.5", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What we do at our borders is incredibly important. I spent some time yesterday with the Home Secretary at Heathrow airport, meeting UK Border Agency staff. They do a fantastic job, and I want to help them go on doing it. I shall look carefully at what the hon. Gentleman says-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.259.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.260.5", "colnum": "260", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It will not surprise my hon. Friend to hear that I think he is wrong. Under the approach of a previous Government, we would have caved in when the European Parliament asked for a 6% budget increase. We have not, and we have fought that increase-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.261.6", "colnum": "261", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that he wants to contrast his record in the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.261.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.261.6", "colnum": "261", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that he wants to contrast his record in the Treasury. [Interruption.] Yes, let us remind people that when he was in the Treasury the Government built the biggest budget deficit of any G20 country. We had the biggest boom and the biggest bust. It was his Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.261.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.263.0", "colnum": "263", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "expansion of competitive sport in schools, and I feel absolutely passionately about the issue. The fact is the approach we have taken for the last decade has meant that only one in five-one in five; that is pathetic-of our children is playing competitive sport against other schools. There is a choice in politics: to go on with an approach that is failing, or to make a change and do it differently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "preceding_text": "The residents of Glossop and Tintwistle in my constituency have suffered for years due to excessive traffic. As we try to get the best we can from the meagre resources left by the Labour party-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.266.8", "colnum": "266", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.266.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The short answer is no. I am under the impression that Newham is an outer London borough and it will definitely benefit from the additional resources of the pupil premium. If it is in inner London, it will definitely benefit as well. The pupil premium will go-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Rob Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Wilson", "preceding_text": "May I welcome the White Paper, particularly the drive towards making schools independent entities? There has been a stampede towards academy status in my constituency, but will my right hon. Friend ensure a smooth transition to academy status in all areas of the country? I know that the shadow Secretary of State will be anxious to see his old school, St Aelred's, become an academy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.279.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Yes, it means that instead of the performance tables that were used under the Labour Government, in which only English and maths and then any mixture of GCSEs were taken into account, we will, in future, have English, maths-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I, too, have been fortunate enough to visit some of the outstanding schools in Sheffield, some of them supported by the outstanding leadership shown by the Liberal Democrat councillors on Sheffield council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I, too, have been fortunate enough to visit some of the outstanding schools in Sheffield, some of them supported by the outstanding leadership shown by the Liberal Democrat councillors on Sheffield council. [Interruption.] No, they have been very good actually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "We are working with the exams regulator, Ofqual, to make sure our exams are as rigorous as those in the world's most demanding education jurisdictions. It is vital that we encourage more people in this country to read fiction-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "t hon. Members should consider. As an alternative form, the amendment would have three advantages. First, it would avoid the risks involved in implementing the Government's proposal that a two thirds majority should be required for a vote to have effect. Secondly, it would avoid what the Committee described as the \"uncertain\" consequences of the provisions in the Bill on motions of no consequence-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I will repeat that because I know that my hon. Friend must have misheard it: \"Immediate legislation to...set the date of the next election for June 2014, and establish the principle of four-year fixed term Parliaments in future.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "eral Democrats, who were, as described by one of their members, a perpetual Opposition think-tank until they suddenly and unexpectedly found themselves in government, thinking up this wheeze on the basis that because it had happened in Scotland and, no doubt, in Latvia or Leichtenstein, it would work here. However, we have a more direct system of democracy; we may criticise, and I hope that we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has mentioned the 1979 example twice now. As I said, the Bill would not change the situation when there is a motion of no confidence in any way. If that position happened now-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "It is a delight to see the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Mrs Laing) back in her seat. She introduced a new concept of votes of no consequence. On the Opposition Benches, it often feels as though every vote is one of no consequence, but we hope that with more support in the coming days, we will manage to turn that around. The hon. Lady said one important thing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be familiar with the workings of this place, whereby a Prime Minister could simply use his Whips to whip his party and secure a simple majority. How is that circle to be squared? We could say that in one sense Parliament has the power, but in another sense it does not if the Prime Minister can use his Whips to dragoon his parliamentary party into having an election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.342.7", "colnum": "342", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I would not want the Minister inadvertently to mislead the Committee. He said that extra time has been provided, but he has not allowed any extra time; he has merely allowed the injury time for the three statements that interfered with the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.342.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.342.7", "colnum": "342", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I would not want the Minister inadvertently to mislead the Committee. He said that extra time has been provided, but he has not allowed any extra time; he has merely allowed the injury time for the three statements that interfered with the debate. [Interruption.] If the Deputy Leader of the House wants to make a speech, I am sure he will be able to catch your eye, Mr Hoyle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.342.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.345.6", "colnum": "345", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think so at all. At present, whether a motion is a motion of confidence is determined by the Prime Minister; it is determined by how they behave as a result of the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.345.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Excellent; that is an excellent step forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Mr Hoyle, you are pointing out that we can discuss this at length when we get on to a later group of amendments. My view on the hon. Gentleman's example is very clear: if the Prime Minister so wishes, he can cease being Prime Minister whenever he feels like it. The House could then see whether an alternative Government under a different leader could be formed-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.348.9", "colnum": "348", "heading": "FIXED-TERM PARLIAMENTS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": " is that it will then engage the other place, in which the Government do not have a majority-and in which we will still not have one when the new peers have been introduced. We think that putting the provision in legislation is preferable to putting it in Standing Orders because the Government then have to get the Bill through both Houses of Parliament, in one of which they do not have a majority-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.348.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "me that the vast majority-towards 100%-of people will understand these ballot papers, just as I cannot assume that the hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr Hamilton) would understand me if I started speaking in Gaelic. It might make sense to me, but countless others, including the hon. Gentleman, might be left in the dark. This is not the first time that the Scotland Office will have heard our concerns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr Hamilton) would understand me if I started speaking in Gaelic. It might make sense to me, but countless others, including the hon. Gentleman, might be left in the dark. This is not the first time that the Scotland Office will have heard our concerns. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman asks me to translate-he probably assumes that I am speaking in Gaelic already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-24", "file": "debates2010-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ffbcc0a97adefd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "him a speedy recovery, because I cannot think of any other reason why he would not want to take part in this debate. When the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland responds, I trust he will confirm that, unlike the Deputy Prime Minister, he has actually read the Gould report. Hon. Members will recall that, when the Deputy Prime Minister did on one occasion deign to turn up, he was forced to admit-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-24a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-25", "file": "debates2010-11-25b.xml", "sha256": "697f5368a8b167d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "ear that this country should not take unilateral action. We are following the advice of the person whom the previous Government commissioned. On tenancies, it is important that people do not go around saying that after two years people will be evicted. That is not the policy at all. We are suggesting that some tenancies be initially for two years, and the position reviewed. It is in the interests-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-25", "file": "debates2010-11-25b.xml", "sha256": "697f5368a8b167d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, you are the anecdote to verbal diarrhoea-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-25", "file": "debates2010-11-25b.xml", "sha256": "697f5368a8b167d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "our priority we are abandoning. For the record, the case for electrification of the midland mainline remains strong and we will consider it as a project for control period 5, which begins in 2014. The hon. Lady attacks me for describing the 1,300 rail carriages to which her predecessors apparently committed as a work of fiction. She is new to the job, I understand, and these are difficult numbers-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-25", "file": "debates2010-11-25b.xml", "sha256": "697f5368a8b167d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "I do know the geography of the hon. Gentleman's constituency; I enjoyed going there to campaign against him when he was elected at a by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-25", "file": "debates2010-11-25b.xml", "sha256": "697f5368a8b167d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The great eastern!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "There is not a franchisee on the east coast main line-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-25", "file": "debates2010-11-25b.xml", "sha256": "697f5368a8b167d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "UK VETERANS ADMINISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Ah, good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-25b.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.509.6", "colnum": "509", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that invitation, and I have indeed visited Ipswich on a number of occasions-and watched his football team win a couple of years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.509.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.509.8", "colnum": "509", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "I think it is fair to say that nobody who is involved in sports issues-as the right hon. Gentleman was in his previous job, of course-would want sports funding to be cut in any way, but we have to realise that this is a decision-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.509.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it hasn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "The short answer to that is yes of course I will. The key thing to remember is that the funding has, of course, been handed over to the schools-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.518.7", "colnum": "518", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "I receive regular representations from across the creative industries-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.518.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "not be part of the permanent bail-out mechanism, and that the European financial stability mechanism, which was agreed under the previous Government in May and of which we are part, will cease to exist when that permanent eurozone mechanism is put in place. When we came into office, Britain was in the financial danger zone. Our economy was unstable, our public finances out of control, our country-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.534.2", "colnum": "534", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "tell all those Back Benchers behind him-all those Tories who claim to their constituents that things are worse than they expected, and of course those who tell them that they have never had it so good-that they will have to find a new excuse? Nothing in his statement today can hide the fact that it was the balanced approach of my right hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.534.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Ah. Well, I am sure that Lord Drayson also had some interesting things to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Ah. Well, I am sure that Lord Drayson also had some interesting things to say. [Interruption.] I welcome, by the way-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I do of course think the spending review was fair, but as I said at the time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The point that I would make-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman cannot tell the difference between the economic situations in which Britain and Ireland find themselves today perhaps he should not turn up to these events. I just make this observation. This is an independent report, produced by Robert Chote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.590.7", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Backbench Business — [11th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "involved, but perhaps it is also important to have a debate about the responsibilities of consumers. That needs to be acknowledged. We need to revisit the question of fairness for the taxpayer, and for public service users, indirectly, as well. Unfortunately, we have heard too much back-pedalling on the banking levy and on the role that the banks need to play in repairing the public balance sheet-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.590.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Backbench Business — [11th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman. Nothing in the 15 minutes for which he spoke told us anything about the future direction of the Labour party on the regulation of the financial services sector, other than his vague attempt to justify their decision not to vote for the motion. The right hon. Member for Oldham West and Royton has been hung out to dry yet again by his Front Bench. It is vital that we learn and act upon-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-29", "file": "debates2010-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "1a125048a0cab358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Backbench Business — [11th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael McCann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael McCann", "preceding_text": "The debate might be in danger of becoming a love-in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-29b.609.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.648.5", "colnum": "648", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. and learned Lady does not want to discuss her policy or policy in general, let me illustrate what this means in real terms. A care worker who has graduated from university, starting on £21,000 and earning more over time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.648.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "just by the letter of tax law but by its spirit. That is why the Chancellor instructed Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in October to work with the banking sector to ensure that the remaining banks implemented the code by the end of this month, and I can today confirm that all the top 15 banks have now signed the code. That is an extra 11 banks in one month versus the four that signed previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I would be for a system that provided a fair settlement for students. As I said before, unlike the system that we inherited from the hon. Gentleman's party, ours will remove all up-front fees paid by students and will only ask graduates-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.655.4", "colnum": "655", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I can tell the House what it is above and beyond everything else. It is a contrast with the big state. That was the governing ethos of the previous Government: every problem, every dilemma and every question, it was felt by the previous Government, should be sorted out by officials in Whitehall and politicians in Westminster. We believe-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.655.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.694.5", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was not listening. I said that I would have accepted a reduction in funding to school sport partnerships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.694.5", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was not listening. I said that I would have accepted a reduction in funding to school sport partnerships. [Hon. Members: \"How much?\"] I said on the media a couple of weeks ago that I would have accepted a reduction proportionate to the reductions made around Government. It is for him to say how much would keep the school sport partnership system in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "One thing that is understood by Government Members is that £2.4 billion has been thrown at this issue, and we have not seen any results-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "One thing that is understood by Government Members is that £2.4 billion has been thrown at this issue, and we have not seen any results- [Interruption.] Let us consider the right hon. Gentleman's former Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "One thing that is understood by Government Members is that £2.4 billion has been thrown at this issue, and we have not seen any results- [Interruption.] Let us consider the right hon. Gentleman's former Department. [Interruption.] On hockey, rugby, netball and gymnastics, the statistics show-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.698.6", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "have looked up his school sports career. It did not take long. One article on him mentions it: \"In 1979, he won a scholarship to Robert Gordon's school in Aberdeen, where he spent the next seven years excelling in every subject, except sport.\" There was also a lovely quote from Mrs Gove, his mum: \"When he had finished all his school work, he would more or less revert to reading his encyclopaedia\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.698.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I reject that out of hand, because what happened was-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman spoke to those school sports co-ordinators, he will have found that they are pretty hurt and pretty angry. He just nodded at that, so is it not right that I reflect some of that feeling in this House this afternoon? Is it not right that I give a voice to those 3,200 people, who cannot stand here, and get over the passion that they feel about the young people with whom they are working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "the delivery mechanism, share something of the passion exhibited by the right hon. Gentleman in his speech. In responding to the right hon. Gentleman's strong case, I want to try to lower the temperature and to analyse the situation that we have inherited. Of course, we must consider the facts and the statistics against the backdrop of the difficult economic position that the Government inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am keen to make progress, but I shall be happy to give way to a number of hon. Gentlemen on both sides of the House in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "eview document, advocating the priorities of the partnership within wider strategic frameworks, establishing robust data-tracking and monitoring systems, and promoting the benefits and successes of the partnership. There is inadequate space in the job description for doing what the right hon. Member for Leigh did so well-making the case for improved participation in sport with fervour and passion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.711.5", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman once again reflects with passion the interests of his constituency, and as ever he brings to our debate an understanding of its landscape, but the thing I have to say-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.714.4", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "here coaches work alongside teaching staff...This will require no expenditure on centralised management and infrastructure.\" I have to take account of what it says. In the same way, I listen to Greenhouse, a charity that has done a fantastic job in encouraging more children, particularly from areas of deprivation, to take part in sports. One of the trustees of Greenhouse, David Meller, says to me-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.714.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "Very simply, your own Secretary-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "Very simply, your own Secretary-[Hon. Members: \"You?\"] I apologise. Would you accept-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "was it. Children did not get an opportunity to do any other sports, which left lots of people out of sport. Through the Youth Sport Trust, and through work with the governing bodies, we opened up opportunities to try archery, fencing and a wide range of sports. It was not a question of participation at elite level, but about the opportunity to take part. Many of my friends, and I still have a few-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I will come in a moment to the core issue that divides us. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the fees system that we introduced has no up-front fees -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to my hon. Friend-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "That last point is wrong. Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that this whole argument is a farrago of nonsense because it is based on a premise about the level of the BIS budget that is wrong, as has been set out clearly by my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.6", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is obviously having a difficult time answering questions about his policy in any detail. Let us try a straightforward question-yes or no. Is he going to vote for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.9", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I have made it absolutely clear in all the interviews that I have given today that my wish and strong inclination is to vote for a policy that I believe in passionately-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.9", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "at my wish and strong inclination is to vote for a policy that I believe in passionately- [Interruption.] This is a policy that I believe in. It is a significantly better policy than I inherited. It is right. The hon. Lady knows, because it operates in her party as well as in mine and in the Conservative party, that decisions on who votes are taken collectively. We will take a collective decision-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.9", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ly- [Interruption.] This is a policy that I believe in. It is a significantly better policy than I inherited. It is right. The hon. Lady knows, because it operates in her party as well as in mine and in the Conservative party, that decisions on who votes are taken collectively. We will take a collective decision- [Interruption.] The hon. Lady asked me a question. I am trying to give her an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.9", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "tion.] The hon. Lady asked me a question. I am trying to give her an answer. [Interruption.] Does the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner) want an answer or not? We will make a decision based upon the coalition agreement as it affects my colleagues and our Conservative coalition partners. That is how we will vote, and we will do it in a disciplined way, but my own views are clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.754.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "re committed to, and that is what they would have done. We know, because of the financial position of the country and the commitments made by the former Chancellor and by my predecessor, that there would have been deep cuts in this Department resulting in a very substantial reduction in the support for universities, the consequences of which were inevitable. It is sheer dishonesty and opportunism-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister know what Antony Gormley, Mary Quant, Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Sam Taylor-Wood have in common? They are all past students of Goldsmiths college in my constituency-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "cept what my right hon. Friend says-he is correct, and of course it is a disgrace. The Higher Education Funding Council cannot give these institutions the answers to those questions, and no doubt the Minister cannot tell them either-although I invite him to prove me wrong when he responds. These colleges' fees structures will need to be decided by March next year, which is a mere four months away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.765.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the draft National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) (Amendment) Order 2010, which was laid before this House on 25 October , be approved. This draft order amends the National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007, which makes provision for the conduct of elections to the National Assembly for Wales-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "I should like to comment on the point made by the hon. Member for Llanelli (Nia Griffith) . Plaid Cymru normally comes at the end of the list, following the British National party, the Conservatives, the Greens and everyone else. But, as the good book says, the first shall be last-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-11-30", "file": "debates2010-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "f254d462abb839d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "MOBILITY SCOOTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mike Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Wood", "preceding_text": "research for the Department. The NTA also accepted that it has no existing policy about scooters being transported and left it to the discretion of the driver, based, it said, on health and safety considerations. It appears to share the view of many in the trade that it is waiting for a lead from the Government. Perhaps the Minister will want to use this opportunity tonight to provide such a lead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-11-30b.795.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "HIV", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Secretary of State. I do not know what the hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr Campbell) had for breakfast this morning, but I am not sure that it has had the desired effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "HIV", "cue_speaker": "Frank Roy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Roy", "preceding_text": "For every job vacancy in Lanarkshire there are 10 people on jobseeker's allowance. Indeed, in Motherwell and Wishaw, that figure rises to 12 or 13. What priority will the Secretary of State give to the Lanarkshire economy to ensure that it gets back on track as quickly as possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "What I acknowledge is that the Labour Government left us with a deficit £12 billion larger than they had told us, and that if we do not tackle that deficit everyone in Scotland will be worse off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First of all, let me deal with VAT precisely. The former Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) said: \"VAT would have allowed you to pay off a sizeable chunk of the deficit.\" That is the policy that the last Chancellor supported. If we had followed over the last six months the advice of the Leader of the Opposition, we would be linked with Portugal, with Ireland-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "[Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Okay, Mr. Speaker-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Okay, Mr. Speaker-[[Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"] You can rewrite history for only so long. Let us be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Okay, Mr. Speaker-[[Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"] You can rewrite history for only so long. Let us be- [ Interruption. ] Let us be absolutely clear about this-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.6", "colnum": "813", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Not waving, but drowning. My mother is still with us, so she is able to testify that what the right hon. Gentleman has just claimed is not literally true, but let me say this: I would rather be a child of Thatcher than a son of Brown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.813.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "No, it does not. Let me take-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "No, this is a policy to make sure that we have a strong university sector in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I should like to secure advice on an answer that was provided to me yesterday during questions to the Attorney-General. In response to my question-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "rkets and at difficult times. We know from experience and we can see it from what happens in other countries. Therefore, the Government formation negotiations would want to be concluded and it would benefit the country, the Government and the House for the House to vote on that without inordinate delay. If there were a number of bank holidays or other holidays in the way, that could be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.832.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "The question is, that the amendment be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.835.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.845.3", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "There we are. Perhaps that is why the Opposition support the Bill. We have just had a Division in which 400 right hon. and hon. Members were in the No Lobby and only a handful of us in the Aye Lobby. That underlines the curious consensus in favour of certain principles of the Bill. I do not think either of the elected parties in the coalition was in favour of a written constitution-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "be added. Will the Minister elucidate the purpose of stopping short at the word \"purposes\" and not going on to be as explicit as possible? I ask that because historically, ouster clauses in administrative law have not been conspicuously successful. The courts have not paid very much attention to interpreting their duty to examine such issues, and often even where the ouster clause has been passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I think we have touched on that before. Once the Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, it cannot be changed purely by a majority vote in the House of Commons. The decision would have to be made by Parliament, which would also engage the other place, in which the Government do not have a majority. Even after-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-01", "file": "debates2010-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "4842f63434b7a66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "already written into the Standing Orders of the House, but in the past the House has also required a relative majority for reaching decision.\" My hon. Friend the Minister also dismissed the comments that I read from Mr Robert Rogers, the Clerk Assistant and Director General, who made it clear that we can not only write into our Standing Orders provisions requiring super-majorities, but entrench a-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-01b.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-02", "file": "debates2010-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "75b4da98ec5907ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "Maria Eagle) asked from the Front Bench. Let me give the exact figures. Local authorities have just under 1 million tonnes of stock for their own use. The Highways Agency has 225,000 tonnes of stock for its own use, and in addition it has ordered 250,000 tonnes for a strategic stockpile, of which 107,000 tonnes have been delivered. The remainder is expected to be delivered over the next six weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-02", "file": "debates2010-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "75b4da98ec5907ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "BACKBENCH BUSINESS — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "n the chairman and the interim chief executive. Let us now call a spade a spade and understand what we are talking about. The hon. Member for Walsall North (Mr Winnick) said it was up to those of us who have knocked around for a bit to speak up for the newer Members of the House. It will not have escaped your notice, Mr Deputy Speaker, that I am practically halfway through my parliamentary career-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-02", "file": "debates2010-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "75b4da98ec5907ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BACKBENCH BUSINESS — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read it! It doesn't say that. You can't read.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady supports the motion, she supports a break in the fundamental principle on which we legislated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-02", "file": "debates2010-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "75b4da98ec5907ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BACKBENCH BUSINESS — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Can't you read? Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady supports the motion, she supports a break in the fundamental principle on which we legislated. [Hon. Members: \"Read it! It doesn't say that. You can't read.\"] Would hon. Members like to listen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-02", "file": "debates2010-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "75b4da98ec5907ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "BACKBENCH BUSINESS — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"People are not saying that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": " Members to do their job properly is absurd. Legitimate criticisms can be made on grounds of both bureaucracy and expense, but we should not reverse the principles of a decision made so recently. I warn the House that if we do, the wrath of our constituents will rightfully fall on us, because we will be saying, \"The bad old days were not that bad. We will create the system that we want to fit us.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-02a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Harris", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should not have taken that intervention at this stage, as I shall cover that issue in great detail later, but all the evidence shows that there are three times as many accidents among children in the evening rush hour as there are in the morning, which is why all the road safety organisations very much support the measure. Previous debates have often generated more heat than daylight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "ngus MacNeil, I listened to you on BBC Radio 4's 'Costing the Earth' on Wednesday. Please do all you can to defeat the moves to bring in year round summer time. In 1968-71 I was a schoolchild and we detested it\"- the word \"detested\" is underlined- \"It was pitch black when going to school. (You may quote me on this detestation).\" I hope, Mr Roger Croston, that I have done you justice in doing that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1113.7", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": " difference between accident rates in Berlin and Paris, which are in the same time zone although, as one is further west, it presumably has lighter evenings. The accident rates in Paris and Berlin are 31.8 and 14 per million of population respectively, which shows that there are not necessarily fewer accidents where there are lighter evenings. When we compare the rate in Paris with that in London-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1113.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1115.5", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "rites in The Times or the Daily Express , or perhaps the Daily Mail . I have heard that Mr Peter Hitchens is involved, but I have had no contact with Mr Peter Hitchens, either positive or negative. Perhaps the word \"kamikaze\" could be attached to Mr Peter Hitchens; I have no idea. However, if Mr Peter Hitchens is on my side, I welcome that. What an eminently sensible man Mr Peter Hitchens must be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1115.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1115.5", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "eter Hitchens, either positive or negative. Perhaps the word \"kamikaze\" could be attached to Mr Peter Hitchens; I have no idea. However, if Mr Peter Hitchens is on my side, I welcome that. What an eminently sensible man Mr Peter Hitchens must be. [Interruption.] I have just been told my hon. Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan that I did not want to say that. Hansard, strike it from the record!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1115.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. He has been a passionate supporter of a clock change for some time. But let us get back to Peter Hitchens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. He has been a passionate supporter of a clock change for some time. But let us get back to Peter Hitchens. [Laughter.] He is one of the few voices that are against the daylight saving, but I believe that he now acts as a drag anchor against that great British newspaper the Sunday mail-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Churchill time!", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "nett and Victor Meldrew but without the jokes.\" He is a restless regressive: the King Canute of politics, fighting the tide of change. He will never lose sight of the past because he has chosen to walk backwards into the future. This is nothing to do with Berlin or wartime images. The only connection with the war is the fact that we first adopted a time change during the war because it was useful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Gentleman has spoken a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "preceding_text": "etween 1968 and 1971, when a similar proposal was trialled. Although it was slightly different, the impact was, perhaps, comparable. It might surprise Members to learn that I was 13 when those first trials took place, and they clearly had an effect on some people in Scotland. I am reminded of the event by footage that showed schoolchildren walking to school wearing headlamps and reflective sashes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I do hope to be able to get to my concluding remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "That is why I am keen to see extra research on the matter. At the moment, the evidence is not absolutely clear. I wish to discuss Scotland, which is a key issue in the debate. The Prime Minister has made it very clear that we need consensus, and that has clearly not been the case in the House tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1152.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-12-03", "file": "debates2010-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f5883fc3e8737481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1163.6", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY STANDARDS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be read a Second time on Thursday 16 December .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-03a.1163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "There is no simple link between police numbers and crime-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.8.8", "colnum": "8", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman was in the House when my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made that commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.8.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.9.6", "colnum": "9", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on! Get up!", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "What estimate she has made of the likely number of police community support officers at the end of the spending review period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.9.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.10.6", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What was that?", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that those are cuts-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.10.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Three years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "udget we did announce savings, including £300 million through rationalising the regional development agencies, but we clearly distinguished between those programmes that were not a priority and would therefore be scrapped and those, including the working neighbourhoods fund, to which we were committed but would look to find savings in. It was a three-year programme in which, in November 2009-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "o many years under the Tory Government, but to ensuring that there were ways and means for local councils, with other housing providers, to provide more homes. The National Housing Federation, I think I am correct in repeating, says that, once the homes that Labour funded in its last period in office have been built, under the coalition Government's plans, no more homes will be built. In relation-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Taxpayers' money\".", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "rrect in repeating, says that, once the homes that Labour funded in its last period in office have been built, under the coalition Government's plans, no more homes will be built. In relation- [ Interruption. ] The Minister for Housing and Local Government says \"nonsense\", but let us just wait and see, because even in a time of recession, it was Labour money that worked in partnership with others-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "It is actually worse than the '80s, because these cuts are deeper and faster, and they leave local government with very little choice. There are positive aspects to devolving power; we did a lot of it while we were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.34.5", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I have been very generous in taking interventions, and I am conscious of the number of Members who wish to speak in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.34.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. I will not hold the hon. Gentleman too harshly to account for what he said in the heat of the debate. We must recognise that the deficit has to be reduced-and we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "here are choices to be made, however, about how far and how deep the cuts should be. What does the hon. Member for Tamworth (Christopher Pincher) have to say to Baroness Margaret Eaton, Tory leader of the Local Government Association, who only last week issued a press release on the \"unprecedented\" levels of the cuts and the impact of front-loading? It is not just Labour people talking about this-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "n, and is taking an interest in the Department. Admittedly it seemed a weird time for her to do so, given that the settlement is just a few days away, but then it occurred to me: she has a plan. It is all about the business of the blank piece of paper. The right hon. Lady is actually going to write something down. She is going to give us some Labour policy. We are going to be told, in this debate-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Dave Watts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Watts", "preceding_text": "It is the 1960s that I want to talk about. The Secretary of State is trying to take us back to them. Can he explain why he is front-loading the cuts? Everyone knows that he is doing it because a general election is coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be wondering why he is sitting on that side of the House. We have had a general election. His party lost and we won, which is why we are on this side of the House. As for the front-loading-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "10 Labour manifesto, we were promised a cross-party commission on local government finance. Perhaps Labour just ran out of ideas and wanted to ask us. The final Labour initiative, with the third leader in three years, is the famous blank piece of paper. No wonder the shadow Housing Minister, the hon. Member for Plymouth, Moor View (Alison Seabeck) , has admitted \"we won't rush into policy making\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I do not believe the figures. If that is the case, we are beyond economic ruin, because our country has reached a point where we can no longer afford to level off spending. If the hon. Lady would like the United Kingdom to enter the world of Greece and our friends in Ireland-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady's council has just £1 million short of £60 million in reserve. The decision that has been taken is its own decision, and I would urge it now to look at other measures. I would urge the council to look towards a joint-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": ", but if it moves to local authorities it fills a hole. Conservative Members have been saying for years that there is a role for councils in public health, and we are backing that. I recall, at the Opposition Dispatch Box, asking the then Government for the kind of financial commitments that we are currently giving to deal with adult social care. Frankly, the right hon. Lady should be thanking us-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ees and charges that are set centrally, such as licensing fees, which have often been shown to be inadequate in covering the full cost of the related services and I ask the Government to deal with that across Government. There are many sub-issues with fees and charges. I hope, for example, we stop the nonsense of having differential fees for burials depending on which side of a boundary one lives-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "preceding_text": "I would love to ask the people of Great Yarmouth whether they would like some money with strings or no money at all. I think they would rather have money with strings than what you are proposing-cuts across the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "preceding_text": "is lower for Conservative controlled authorities than the average for authorities controlled by other parties.\" Tory-led West Oxfordshire district council, which is in the Prime Minister's constituency and is one of the least deprived in the country, can look forward to a budget increase of up to 37% over the four-year spending review period, while Labour-run Liverpool city council is set to lose-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "preceding_text": "ers, and to take budgets that were predicated on particular activities occurring in a certain way and use them differently. Various representations have been made to the Select Committee on Communities and Local Government, from people across the country and across many subjects, but I was particularly struck by one contribution-I think it was about Birmingham; it could have been about Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "f giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Nowhere was that more clear than in the best value process, which required us to measure 100 to 200 different things and report back to central Government. One of our best value performance indicators was to measure how many of our park benches had arms. I am sorry, but when I go drinking in the Dog and Duck, or in my real pub, the Percy Arms-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Barwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Barwell", "preceding_text": "pool. At the other end of the scale, we see that Blackpool received an increase of nearly 11%, Telford and the Wrekin 13.3%, Torbay 15.7%, Blackburn 16.7% and Rutland an incredible 25.8%. It is very difficult, I think, to discern a pattern between those authorities. I would like the shadow Minister to explain in her summing-up speech why Croydon gets a 3% real cut, but Rutland gets a 25% increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.99.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Here he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "t the distribution mechanism used by the Government is flawed and generates perverse and unfair outcomes. The Government could mitigate the impact of the changes by setting funding floors at the highest possible level, and we urge them to do so. The hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes) , who is not in his place, supported setting funding floors at the highest possible level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.127.3", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman gets it right. Seemingly none of us knows what Labour's plan was and the Leader of the Opposition does not know either. I assume that the hon. Gentleman will progress rapidly to the Front Bench, as he is as vague on policy as the leader of his party. If that is the best the hon. Gentleman can do by way of intervention, I suggest he saves his knees the trouble in future. May I just-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.127.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-06", "file": "debates2010-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "b2cab98717905817", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.135.8", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Objection taken. [ Interruption. ] Order. The Government Chief Whip has absolutely no business whatsoever shouting from a sedentary position. He- [ Interruption. ] Order. The right hon. Gentleman will remain in the Chamber. He has absolutely no business scurrying out of the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-06a.135.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-07", "file": "debates2010-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "b40706ac37a69487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I do not know the particular circumstances in Gosport, but I shall happily write to my hon. Friend. Nationally, we have more midwives than we have ever had-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-07", "file": "debates2010-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "b40706ac37a69487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " went. The Labour Government spent money on a colossal scale, but it did not go into the objectives that this Government now advocate. Otherwise, to be fair, the hon. Lady makes a valid point. The House should understand that achieving the results that we want will take time. We are dealing with difficult problems, such as mentally ill prisoners, which are incapable of instant, overnight solution-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.181.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-07", "file": "debates2010-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "b40706ac37a69487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not think that they will make any difference, really-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-07", "file": "debates2010-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "b40706ac37a69487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Safe Standing (Football Stadia)", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "The public are right, and my arguments are the same as they were on the Lisbon treaty-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-07", "file": "debates2010-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "b40706ac37a69487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Safe Standing (Football Stadia)", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "That may be true, but the British Government want Turkey in. I am not unfavourable; I am just saying that its admission will be a fundamental change in Europe and that the Bill will not give the British people a say over any of these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.239.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-07", "file": "debates2010-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "b40706ac37a69487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Safe Standing (Football Stadia)", "cue_speaker": "Neil Parish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Parish", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary's Bill. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris) , I spent 10 years in the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.261.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-07", "file": "debates2010-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "b40706ac37a69487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION BILL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "James Duddridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Duddridge", "preceding_text": "Not moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-07", "file": "debates2010-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "b40706ac37a69487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.279.7", "colnum": "279", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION BILL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "are proposing to give Members on Thursday to debate the biggest change in tuition fees and support for higher education that we have ever seen. Since the House is being treated with contempt by the Government, may we now have a statement from the Leader of the House to tell us what on earth is going on? Will he indicate how much time we will have on Thursday to debate the increase in tuition fees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-07b.279.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " veterans. We all congratulate him heartily. I assure him that I fully support electrifying the great western main line, but the process is not simple and a range of factors must be considered. If he thinks it is such an easy matter, he should ask the people he sits on the same side of the House with why not a single centimetre of line was electrified in Wales under the previous Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The reason these contributions are going up is because we were left a completely unsustainable situation. That is why, before the last election, the Labour Government put in place the Browne commission, and why the Conservative party backed it. One party has had the courage of its convictions to see this through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.299.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the right hon. Gentleman what has happened in terms of social mobility. Last year, there were 80,000 students on free school meals; only 40 of them went to Oxford and Cambridge. That is the situation with social mobility. What we are introducing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.300.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.303.7", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady stood for election on a manifesto that supported the Browne commission-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.303.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.303.7", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady stood for election on a manifesto that supported the Browne commission- [Interruption.] She did; she can deny it now, but that is what the manifesto written by the Leader of the Opposition said. The fact is that we have to make a decision. Is it right for taxpayers to continue providing the predominant support for university education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.303.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Dromey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Dromey", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that Parliament may have been infiltrated by an imposter? The Deputy Prime Minister- [Interruption.] The Deputy Prime Minister has said he will vote to treble tuition fees and abolish the education maintenance allowance. Before the general election the leader of the Liberal Democrats said he would vote to abolish tuition fees and keep the EMA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Dromey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Dromey", "preceding_text": "Minister aware that Parliament may have been infiltrated by an imposter? The Deputy Prime Minister- [Interruption.] The Deputy Prime Minister has said he will vote to treble tuition fees and abolish the education maintenance allowance. Before the general election the leader of the Liberal Democrats said he would vote to abolish tuition fees and keep the EMA. [Interruption.] Can the Prime Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "on. They will be asking how they will make ends meet following these changes. What advice would the Minister give to people who will be worse off year in and year out as a result of his decisions today? Let us look at the detail. The Minister has outlined the Government's commitment to continue Labour's policy of restoring the earnings link for the basic state pension with a triple-lock guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Richard Drax", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Drax", "preceding_text": "me, but if the crime is committed the police officer can respond immediately. That boosts confidence in the community and helps a raft of other things, not least tourism, which brings in much-needed cash to South Dorset. As the Minister will announce the figures imminently-I believe at the end of this week-may I ask him, most humbly, and with the Olympics in mind, please to consider Dorset police-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Reckless", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Reckless", "preceding_text": "he decision will be taken locally as to what the level of precept will be. Kent's new chief constable, whom we brought in from Norfolk, where he had been deputy chief constable and had done fantastic work in improving public confidence, making significant savings and restructuring the force, said that he sees these grant reductions as an opportunity to deliver a more efficient and effective force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Graham Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Evans", "preceding_text": "Yes, we were laughing about that on Friday night. The Kent accents were particularly distinct and we had a laugh about it. There are still plenty of snowmen in Cheshire-at least there were when I left on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "e numbers. I know that that is a totemic issue for the Opposition, and it is easy to understand why, because the Labour Government, in their 13 years in office, were very successful at one thing: persuading this country that only by pouring more money in can we get better results out. That is why the debate about policing has always focused on the number of police rather than what they do all day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "ped it. There is a straightforward reason: forces do not raise all their money from central Government-on average, they raise getting on for a third of their money from central Government, or nearly £1 in every £3-and the money that they raise locally is not being cut. As has been pointed out, that means that if we assume both the OBR forecast of reasonable rises in the precept based on-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.360.4", "colnum": "360", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "f exactly the same magnitude. Indeed, the shadow Chancellor-when he was shadow Home Secretary-told the House on 8 September that as Home Secretary he had set out savings of £1.3 billion over the next four years, or about 12% of the Home Office budget. He also said that the HMIC report confirmed that, with a lot of effort, it would be possible to save 12% without affecting front-line services-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "et this morning-will forgive me. The hon. Member for Gedling referred to the letter that the Association of Police Authorities sent me asking for a re-profiling of the cuts. I note that it did not ask us to revisit the overall level of the cuts. I am afraid that it is not possible to revisit the spending review. The settlement, which did not presume that the deepest cut would be in the first year-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.364.5", "colnum": "364", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "No, the Audit Commission and HMIC said that the savings that could be made available to police officers were more than £1 billion a year-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.364.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.364.5", "colnum": "364", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "No, the Audit Commission and HMIC said that the savings that could be made available to police officers were more than £1 billion a year- [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood is in no position to criticise anyone for misquoting people-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.364.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "I think that there will be an election next year, and the international community needs to prepare for an election next year. I believe that other countries need to put observers in place now, rather than a month or two before the election, to report on what is happening on the ground, and that those observers need to come from Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "nity needs to prepare for an election next year. I believe that other countries need to put observers in place now, rather than a month or two before the election, to report on what is happening on the ground, and that those observers need to come from Africa. [Interruption.] I hear my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) protesting, but I still think that they need to come from Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.387.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.424.5", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is in urgent need of a history lesson because I do not recognise what he is describing. There is a profound difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.424.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.424.9", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "itions. In the case of the Liberal Democrats, four different positions, at the last count, will have to be explained. There is huge public interest in the matter and, in the light of that, the time proposed is wholly inadequate. I want to quote what Lord Browne had to say in his foreword to the report, \"Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education,\" which runs to 64 pages. Lord Browne wrote-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.424.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "e based on written and oral evidence drawn from students, teachers, academics, employers and regulators. We have looked...at every aspect of implementing them - financial, practical and educational - to ensure that the recommendations we are making are realistic for the long term.\" The most important words in that quotation are these: \"Over the last year, we have consulted widely and intensively.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.425.4", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "As I said, the quote from Lord Browne is: \"Over the last year, we have consulted widely and intensively.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I can be held responsible for many things, but I am afraid that the use of fire alarms at the university of Reading is not one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that my hon. Friend makes a powerful case. I would gladly give way to the Leader of the House for an explanation. He did not explain in his speech why so little time has been allocated, so perhaps he would like to explain that now. No, he is not inclined to take that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "Will we have an opportunity, in such a limited time, to raise issues that constituents have raised with us, particularly the withdrawal of funds in July next year from the excellent Aimhigher programme, which will pull up the ladder of opportunity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Taunton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "Will we have an opportunity, in such a limited time, to raise issues that constituents have raised with us, particularly the withdrawal of funds in July next year from the excellent Aimhigher programme, which will pull up the ladder of opportunity? [Interruption.] Perhaps the hon. Member for Tipton, who is shouting derisory comments-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much indeed, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was about to respond to the intervention made by my hon. Friend the Member for City of Durham. Yes, many people in the country have watched the video that the Deputy Prime Minister made in which he uttered the pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.440.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. First, there is the issue of scope. Secondly, I know that the hon. Gentleman, who is a very well-behaved man, would not seek to make a speech when he is supposed to be making an intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.454.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.459.5", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether my hon. Friend has got good eyesight or was reading my mind, because that was exactly the point that I was going to make next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.459.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.463.8", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "All Members, including those in the Chair, should exercise a self-denying ordinance in these matters. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that it would be good if the decibel level went down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.463.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.463.8", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "All Members, including those in the Chair, should exercise a self-denying ordinance in these matters. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that it would be good if the decibel level went down. [Interruption.] Order. Mr Ruane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.463.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.467.10", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is making a strong point. The Leader of the House has been here throughout the debate, and he is very courteous and usually very helpful. He could clear the matter up by coming to the Dispatch Box and explaining to us why we have a 5.30 pm cut-off. I am dismayed that he has not taken up the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.467.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made that point eloquently for the third time. I know that repetition is important, but I do not want to repeat points that have already been made well. It is true that we still have not had an explanation for the finishing time from the Leader of the House. In conclusion-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.470.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "My apologies. It is good to see the hon. Gentleman in his place; he has been a little bit on and off over the past few hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.477.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.488.6", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. What was novel about the motion that we have just passed was not that it timetabled business-of course, that does happen-but that it timetabled business to come to an end half an hour before the moment of interruption. I cannot remember another occasion on which that has happened, but hon. Members might tell me that I am wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.488.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-08", "file": "debates2010-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b7f58dfd8cdbd9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.488.6", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Business of the House (Thursday)", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "her occasion on which that has happened, but hon. Members might tell me that I am wrong. [ Interruption. ] I am sure that if the right hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Mr Randall) wants to say something further to my point of order, he will get to his feet in a minute. Will you advise me, Mr Speaker, on the best way to take this matter forward? Is it to write to the Procedure Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-08a.488.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Maradona?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "I have met, and do meet, the ABI, and we do talk about such matters. I need do no more than recommend one of the great legends, Mary Dhonau-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.516.2", "colnum": "516", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, you have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should have listened to earlier answers. We have not announced that we are selling a single hectare yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.516.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.540.6", "colnum": "540", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I will take interventions later. You have asked, Mr Speaker, that both Front Benchers should keep their introductions brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.540.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.540.6", "colnum": "540", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I will take interventions later. You have asked, Mr Speaker, that both Front Benchers should keep their introductions brief. [Interruption.] As hon. Members know, I am very happy to take interventions, but I will take them when I have developed an argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.540.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.546.5", "colnum": "546", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members who follow these arguments closely have often made the following argument. \"We acknowledge,\" they say, \"that universities will continue to have high levels of income, but you're replacing public funding with private funding, and this is\"-in some sense-\"ideological.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.546.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.546.5", "colnum": "546", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": " in future, roughly 40% of university funding will come from the public sector and 60% will come from the private sector. I am keen to encourage more private funding of universities, which is why I have spoken to the director general of the CBI. He is approaching all his members to ensure that we have a significantly higher level of employer support for apprenticeships, sandwich courses and other-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.546.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.548.3", "colnum": "548", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is not giving way at the moment and must be allowed to continue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.548.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ly 40 made it to Oxbridge -40 out of 80,000. That is fewer than from some of the leading independent schools. That is a shameful inheritance from people who claim to be concerned about disadvantaged backgrounds-and we intend to rectify it. Let me conclude in this way. I do not pretend-none of us pretends-that this is an easy subject. Of course it is not. We have had to make very difficult choices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.548.9", "colnum": "548", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "cut student maintenance; we could have cut the funding to universities, without replacing it. Instead, we have opted for a set of policies that provides a strong base for university funding and makes a major contribution to introducing the deficit, while introducing a significantly more progressive system of graduate payments than we inherited. I am proud to put forward that measure to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.548.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [Interruption.] Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "Being at the Dispatch Box is an interesting experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "ly payments.\" We all know what is wrong with those advertisements. People are charged higher rates of interest, and end up paying much more. That is exactly what the Prime Minister is proposing today. We all know what is wrong with the Prime Minister's claims. Let us now have a look at the Government's claims. Labour Members do not accept the Government's comparisons between their scheme and ours-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "ould speak about the objections of the British Medical Association, the teaching organisations and the fact that the universities that train teachers have no idea how they will be funded. Let me end by saying a few words to those Ministers and Back Benchers who are struggling, even now, to reconcile party loyalty with a desire to do the right thing and support future students and our universities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "he objections of the British Medical Association, the teaching organisations and the fact that the universities that train teachers have no idea how they will be funded. Let me end by saying a few words to those Ministers and Back Benchers who are struggling, even now, to reconcile party loyalty with a desire to do the right thing and support future students and our universities. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "e second criterion is that students need an improvement in the student experience if fees are to go up. They should get more tutorials, lectures, careers advice and so on. Currently, student experience is very varied; many have complained to me about the poor service they have received at university. There has to be an improvement in the quality of student experience-students want value for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": ". Time is short in this debate, because so many hon. Members wish to participate, but I must say that the disadvantages of the graduate tax are many and varied, and we should cast it into the dustbin, as the Government have done. Members on both sides of the House must accept that things need to change. We do not like change sometimes, but it is necessary and this is an example of its importance -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "This reform package will offer more support to those on lower incomes, and will put higher education funding on a fairer and sustainable footing. It will be fair to students, taxpayers and universities-we must not forget that all those people have an interest and are involved. The Government's proposals go a long way to achieving all that, because they are progressive and will aid social mobility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "e for universities to reject students when they charge more than £6,000. In other words, the higher-level universities will end up rejecting students from poorer backgrounds-the exact opposite of what has been argued this afternoon. The position is very clear: the scheme is designed to change the architecture of higher education in this country. It is ideologically based, not logically based-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sam Gyimah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Gyimah", "preceding_text": "If any lie has been perpetrated in this debate, it is that working class children who want to university cannot get there-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I have one minute left, so I will not give way. We will hear from the right hon. Gentleman later-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.581.4", "colnum": "581", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Steve Brine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Brine", "preceding_text": "he answer to both those questions is no. The current funding model for higher education is simply not providing enough money to support the growing number of students who want to go on to higher education. As it stands, we turned away just under 200,000 young people this year. Funding per student is now lower in real terms than it was 20 years ago. As someone once said, \"We can't go on like this.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.581.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "ocrats. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should have a word with the Deputy Prime Minister about political opportunism. I am conscious that I do not have much time to speak in this debate, which is a great pity. Yesterday we debated, at insufficient length, how much time we would have for today's debate but, yet again, a Liberal henchman moved the closure motion at the behest of his Tory string-pullers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.589.7", "colnum": "589", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "es to £7,000 a year, let alone £9,000 a year, would cut the number who do so by nearly two thirds. This is a shamefully short debate, because hon. Members should have had a proper opportunity to take part. I would have taken interventions had the Government not shamefully curtailed the time available. This debate will rage on outside this place among the disgusted people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.589.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.591.5", "colnum": "591", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": "lation were not passed this evening. They said: \"If the vote on Thursday fails, the alternative is likely to be a reduction in students numbers that would be enormously damaging to social mobility and would seriously hamper Britain's ability to adapt to the economic needs of the future. We urge MPs and peers to support the Governments proposals.\" Are the proposals being discussed today fair? Well-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.591.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.595.2", "colnum": "595", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Boles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Boles", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is, as ever, way ahead of me and exactly right. The reverse of what one might have expected is true. In Germany, 63% of the student population-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "cue_text": "hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "preceding_text": "he quality of education. The previous Government's policy of 50% going to university was wrong and misplaced. Instead, they should have ensured more vocational qualifications and apprenticeships because we all have different abilities and talents, and they must all be nurtured. In essence, we have to look at the reason for being in this mess: the previous Government's mismanagement of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.622.9", "colnum": "622", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "enting our proposals. In fact, that was the Opposition's main point-they want more time for a review and a Green Paper. I should explain to the House that the proposals emerge from Lord Browne's review, which was set up by the Labour Government more than a year ago. The inquiry took evidence in public and received evidence from Members of all parties. We believe that we are implementing proposals-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.622.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "st students. Taxpayers will provide students with the money to pay the fees. That will ensure that universities can continue to enjoy the levels of income that they enjoy at the moment. That money will not be handed out from Whitehall; it will come from the choices of students. We believe that those students will continue to choose arts and humanities. There is no bias against arts and humanities-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "Because our proposals-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "PETITION — Bus Service (Walsall)", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "rose-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-09", "file": "debates2010-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "7722fee748996f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY (MENTALLY ILL)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "Member whose constituency I should have looked up. Is somebody going to tell me Ivan Lewis's constituency? I am not the only who is stumped. That is the first time I have known Mr Speaker's encyclopaedic memory to let him down. Sorry about that, Mr Speaker. Anyway, I wrote to the hon. Gentleman and said that my main reason for doing so was to focus on two main issues relating to what had happened-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-09b.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.646.6", "colnum": "646", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to echo the hon. Lady's words in paying tribute to all who have served with the Harrier, in both the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, and in complimenting the Harrier itself, which, in its day, was a much-admired and, indeed, groundbreaking piece of engineering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.646.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that reply. Does he agree that in a long line of procurement failures from the previous Government, the £38 billion overspend in the defence budget takes the biscuit? Will he reassure the House on what steps will be taken so that that level of commercial failure will be, like the idea of a Labour Government, a thing of the past?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.656.10", "colnum": "656", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "There was a story in the News of the World which was not entirely correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.656.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.668.2", "colnum": "668", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) separately. We will do that to ensure that he knows the figure. He mentioned resources, but I have to say to him that, as someone who worked closely with the Chancellor and the Prime Minister under the previous Labour Government, and who has made something of a name for himself on the issue of figures, he really needs to pay a little more attention to the figures-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.668.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.668.6", "colnum": "668", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " it tells us quite a lot about his and his colleagues' attitude to funding. That £600 million has been protected; he said that it had not been, but it has. It has been possible, through efficiencies, to look at the amount we currently consider it might be necessary to spend, and we go on to say that we are confident that we can deliver this for around £475 million, but we are protecting-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.668.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "Even Baroness Eaton, a Conservative peer and the chair of the Local Government Association has admitted: \"These cuts will hurt. We know this means there will be fewer libraries, more potholes going unrepaired, parks shutting earlier and youth clubs closing.\" This is not about whether or not local government funding should be reduced. Across the House, we all accept that the deficit needs reducing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong. Bolsover will receive the full protection of the 8.9% cap in terms of its total spending power. That is a substantial difference-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.694.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "The fast-start finance is being paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.710.7", "colnum": "710", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I am not going to be tempted down the route of saying that he is too blond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.710.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "On consultation with the Association of Police Authorities, there is a letter in The Guardian today-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.711.5", "colnum": "711", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.713.5", "colnum": "713", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " to the right hon. Gentleman, who seems to think that the issue has suddenly arisen in the last minute, that the document that summarises the consultation responses to \"Policing in the 21 (st) century\" states clearly on page 13, at paragraph 2.12: \"Whilst the PCC will be able to appoint staff to advise and assist them, all staff must be appointed on merit and will be politically restricted posts.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.713.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "tion to the excellent House of Commons research report on the Bill, which makes it absolutely clear, in terms, that the then Home Secretary rejected that proposal because it would lead to the politicisation of our police, which is exactly why we are opposing these measures. Look at the storm that is now gathering around the Home Secretary. Over the past few days, we have seen the events in Sweden-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.731.6", "colnum": "731", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. Israel breaches international law and the Geneva convention-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.731.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.737.4", "colnum": "737", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Karl Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karl Turner", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. The Government's proposals inevitably restrict the range of candidates to either those who are sufficiently rich or those with party political backing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "der the issue of minimum pricing. Tonight's speeches reflect the fact that there is concern not necessarily about the pubs and clubs in our town centres, but about the supermarkets. If one goes to Asda or Morrisons-I am not suggesting that hon. Members on either side of the House may choose to do this; the Chamber may be about to empty-one can get 36 cans of lager for £18, or about 50p a can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "For all Labour's objections, one could be forgiven for forgetting that the previous Government twice proposed to democratise police authorities. So what happened? They backed down, twice. That is the difference between the previous Government and the coalition. The Opposition retreated from reform at the first whiff of opposition and we are determined to see it through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-13", "file": "debates2010-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "a1206b271c3207a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.771.5", "colnum": "771", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "On point after point, Labour Members get it wrong. They say that the constituencies-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-13a.771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-14", "file": "debates2010-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "35746ed671cb5efe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-14a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "The United States has been very supportive of the conclusions of our strategic defence and security review-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-14a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.897.10", "colnum": "897", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for his answer, and endorse the point he makes about an air transport strategy and framework being essential to our economic recovery, particularly in respect of tourism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.897.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.897.10", "colnum": "897", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "being essential to our economic recovery, particularly in respect of tourism. [Interruption.] Can he assure me, however, that he will do all in his power to work with those responsible-both the Secretary of State for Transport and the Department for Regional Development in Northern Ireland-to ensure that we get a functioning strategy that provides air links to Europe, Canada and the United States?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.897.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.898.6", "colnum": "898", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for that question. Co-operation with the Republic of Ireland on this issue is at an unprecedented level. I pay tribute to the outgoing commissioner, Fachtna Murphy, who has done a tremendous job, and I am delighted that Martin Callinan has been appointed as his successor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.898.6", "colnum": "898", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "n with the Republic of Ireland on this issue is at an unprecedented level. I pay tribute to the outgoing commissioner, Fachtna Murphy, who has done a tremendous job, and I am delighted that Martin Callinan has been appointed as his successor. [ Interruption. ] A symbol of that was the cross-border strategy announced this week, showing the unprecedented collaboration between the PSNI and the Garda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "he front end of the pantomime horse took some responsibility. I want to ask the Prime Minister about another broken promise, on the education maintenance allowances. Why does he not go a couple of miles away from here-I know that he does not talk to students, or only to those in China-to Southwark college and talk to the students and teachers there? The business teacher there wrote to me and said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I will very happily look at the distribution of jobcentres, but the fact is that, through local government and other spending, we put a lot more money into deprived areas in our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.906.4", "colnum": "906", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "This has been a momentous week, with the trebling of tuition fees for students and the average decrease of 10% in grants for local councils. We have also been told this week that the Chancellor has to build up a war chest of £50 billion just in time for the general election-paid for by working people and their families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.906.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "y and it showed that nine out of 10 of those people receiving education maintenance allowance would have stayed on at school anyway. This is why the Labour party landed us in such a mess over the economy. We have to ask the question about value for money and whether we are spending money in the correct way. We are not abolishing EMAs: we are replacing EMAs with something more effective. At a time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.910.5", "colnum": "910", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come now to the 10-minute rule motion. I call Nadhim Zahawi.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.910.5", "colnum": "910", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come now to the 10-minute rule motion. I call Nadhim Zahawi. [ Interruption. ] If the hon. Gentleman would just wait for a moment, may I, as always, appeal to right hon. and hon. Members who are leaving the Chamber to do so quickly and quietly so that the same courtesy is extended to the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon as they would want to be extended to them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.916.7", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Loans to Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "I have a lot of respect for the Minister; he is one of the most able in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.916.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Loans to Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "overnment have put us in a Catch-22 situation, which the previous Government used to put us in too: time for debating guillotine motions is taken out of time on Second Reading. That never used to happen; it was something that the previous Government got into the habit of doing. That means that all these people on the Government Benches want me to shut up, so that we can get on with Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Loans to Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "nd board to meet and agree the assistance package, the eurozone to sign off on its contribution, and the Irish Parliament to accept the international help that is offered. Let me say this to hon. Members in reference to the previous debate. I actually have the authority to make, under common law, a loan to Ireland and to seek at a much later date retrospective authority from Parliament. I decided-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.947.9", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Loans to Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "cellor said that it was okay to set austerity aside in order to make a loan to Ireland because of the promise of repayment. He said that this loan \"adds to our debt\" but \"We're getting back a very important asset which is a commitment from the Irish government to pay us back with interest.\" What puzzles me is which part of that definition of a sensible loan did not apply to Sheffield Forgemasters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.947.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Loans to Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that clarification; we will look at that very carefully. What the Chancellor is saying is that France and Germany, through their IMF contribution-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-15", "file": "debates2010-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "7faba3cdcc9656f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.983.2", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Loans to Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "preceding_text": " we charge our friend. The explanatory notes have, I think, been issued so that we believe that they are close to what amendment 6 suggests. We are asking for something that is not a million miles away from the explanatory notes, so why not formalise the arrangements? Why not require the approval of an order under the affirmative procedure in the House? We have only the explanatory notes to go on-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-15a.983.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-16", "file": "debates2010-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "570589c9b8a50190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "as been giving over the past few business questions-he digs deep into his sack each time. He has promised higher spending on child benefit and housing benefit, lower VAT in the new year and more university funding. We all applaud him on his festive generosity, but until the Labour party comes up with a credible way of paying for it all, it will have no more credibility than Santa Claus. I ask him-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-16", "file": "debates2010-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "570589c9b8a50190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "ng lending to help decarbonise the economy over the long haul, so I would much rather get it right than do it early and get it wrong. I take on board the hon. Lady's point about the need to deliver. I shall not rub salt in the Opposition's wounds about the 13 years they were in power, but I remind her that we have inherited the position of being 25th out of 27 EU member states on renewable energy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-16", "file": "debates2010-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "570589c9b8a50190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "There are two parts to the hon. Gentleman's question. The first was whether the proposals are a subsidy for nuclear. I could not be clearer: this is a subsidy for low-carbon sources of energy generation. There is no subsidy specifically to nuclear. That is fundamental.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1070.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-16", "file": "debates2010-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "570589c9b8a50190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Backbench Business — [14(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "urely between myself and the person who purchases it, although I appreciate that it happens to be parked on somebody else's land. I am pleased to see that my neighbour, the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Mr O'Brien) , has just arrived. Following the boundary changes, he inherited a good park home site, although he has an interesting relationship with one of the tenants. I shall say no more about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-16", "file": "debates2010-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "570589c9b8a50190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Backbench Business — [14(th) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "ys tells me that he knows a bit about Scotland, but I must tell him that, although Edinburgh and Stirling have castles, Stirling has by far the best, and it, as opposed to Edinburgh, has me as its MP. I forgive him, however, because I admire the skill and tenacity that he brings to the Committee, and he is a role model for us all. I am not a new Member, but as someone who has been here since 1957-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-16b.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "Of course, I know Nottingham very well-rather better, I might say, than the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1160.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that display of mental arithmetic, which means that Carol Vorderman's place on Countdown can easily be succeeded by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "de, because I also want to visit south Tyneside to congratulate a school in Whitburn that has opted to become an academy. I have to remind the House that the number of schools that have opted to become academies under this Government has dramatically increased. Ninety-four schools have converted, 40 more will convert in January, and 333 have applied to convert, including 64 in the last week alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "itten judgment. I am happy to confirm that, as the Home Secretary has said, it is still our target to bring immigration down from its uncontrolled, unsustainable level under the previous Government. As for the idea of publishing all legal advice given to Ministers, the right hon. Gentleman will be aware that this is a not a practice that was ever followed by the Government of whom he was a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1186.8", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "This is the third time I have been asked that question, and I will give the same answer for the third time. Until we get the details of the judgment we do not even know whether we will appeal against it, so until then it is impossible to discuss sensibly the status of those who applied and were turned down between July and now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1186.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That's an alliance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "re and more and more through the European Union. At this Council, I wanted to keep up the momentum on the EU budget by forging an alliance with like-minded partners and starting to work towards securing a tougher settlement for future budgets. At the weekend Chancellor Merkel, President Sarkozy and I, together with the Prime Ministers of Finland and the Netherlands, sent a letter to the President-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1198.4", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry-I will do my best. It is extremely difficult when there is a mechanism, a facility, and article 122, which used to be article 100 before it was changed by QMV in the Nice treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1199.2", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend; I am glad that Royal Mail is working effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1199.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "May I say that we want very short questions? Obviously, it would be helpful-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1224.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1228.4", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "\". Will my right hon. Friend clarify the snow code he has introduced to ensure that we do not succumb to these ambulance-chasers? There are people in Britain who have that get-up-and-go attitude and who want to get out there and clean the streets, but who are worried about being sued under legislation and the direction of travel introduced by Labour, with health and safety getting such precedence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1228.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-20", "file": "debates2010-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "41d440f305dc0b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1284.2", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "MOBILE PHONES (HEALTH EFFECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "one of only a handful of people ever to have managed it. How many people even know that radio frequency exposure comes from the phone's antenna? Not many, I suspect. How many people know that this exposure is stronger when a phone is kept in clothing, which weakens the signal, causing the power to increase? How many people know that it is recommended, if mobiles are carried on belts or in pockets-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-20a.1284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-21", "file": "debates2010-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9a58e223ba77d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Responsibility for our manufacturing sector rests, of course, with the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, who had some interesting things to say this morning about the \"Maoist\" nature of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1298.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-21", "file": "debates2010-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9a58e223ba77d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1300.7", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "What we are doing is taking the report commissioned by the Labour Government and improving on it so that it is more progressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1300.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-21", "file": "debates2010-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9a58e223ba77d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1315.5", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We said in the Budget that we were looking at the case for a financial activities tax, which is one of the two taxes that the International Monetary Fund-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1315.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-21", "file": "debates2010-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9a58e223ba77d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Lady on raising a subject that I consider to be tremendously important. I particularly endorse what she has said about Christians Against Poverty and the citizens advice bureaux, which operate in my constituency. Does she share my huge disappointment that there is no Treasury Minister present to respond-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1369.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-21", "file": "debates2010-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9a58e223ba77d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1398.2", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "GENERAL MATTERS", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "myself when I have worked out which side the petrol cap is on. However, when I look at the reviews of such tyres, I find real evidence that they are safer and much better. One such tyre is the Goodyear UltraGrip 7 +, and it is interesting if we compare tyre performance on braking distances. I declare an interest, because that tyre is produced by Goodyear Dunlop Tyres, which is based in Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1398.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-21", "file": "debates2010-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9a58e223ba77d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "GENERAL MATTERS", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "try. Many of those people and organisations support me because I am an unambiguous supporter of the racing industry. The industry contributes to the economy across the country, making £3 billion and employing 100,000 people. The future of the sport is tied intimately to gambling and the people who place bets on races-that includes many Members of this Chamber. We know that people love to bet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2010-12-21", "file": "debates2010-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9a58e223ba77d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1415.0", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "GENERAL MATTERS", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Lord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Lord", "preceding_text": "I congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on bringing some festive cheer to this Adjournment debate with your red socks with green flashes. I am not sure whether those are holly leaves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2010-12-21a.1415.0"}