{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.5.6", "colnum": "5", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. Over the past nine months, we have seen a huge increase in part-time work with more than 400,000 new jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.5.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I announced just after Christmas the \"catch it, bin it, kill it\" campaign. I had not -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.59.2", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "and civil servant experts, was established as an independent monitor of the Government's implementation of the service Command Paper. This was vital in ensuring public confidence in our commitment to issues that transcend party politics. It is peculiar and puzzling that the Government, who are committed to cuts in spending in defence, now seem to have embarked on cuts in accountability in defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.59.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.59.2", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "ar and puzzling that the Government, who are committed to cuts in spending in defence, now seem to have embarked on cuts in accountability in defence. [Interruption.] It is essential that the reports are independent, expert-led and above party politics. The Secretary of State is chuntering from a sedentary position. As he knows, the Royal British Legion has already raised concerns about the issue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.59.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.62.5", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has got to his feet again and failed again. All I am asking today is that the Government listen to the arguments being made by the Royal British Legion, Help for Heroes and the families' federations, and think again about the policy. I acknowledge that I was partisan about the other issue of scrutiny-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.62.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State shakes his head. I invite him to correct the record if he wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State shakes his head. I invite him to correct the record if he wishes. [Interruption.] He says from a sedentary position that he has plenty of time to do so. I give him the time today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lancaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lancaster", "preceding_text": "erve on the Select Committee on Defence under the chairmanship of my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Hampshire (Mr Arbuthnot) , when we looked at the issue of the education of service families. I am delighted that the Government have introduced some of our recommendations and we should continue to consider that matter. I am pleased that an annual report will be presented to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.71.6", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Yes, but if I remember rightly, the methodology of that particular report was somewhat questionable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.71.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Byles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Byles", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that a common thread running through his speech is the problem of tracking and identifying veterans, whether by the police, the probation service or GPs? For example, many mental health issues arise because GPs do not necessarily know that someone is a veteran 10 years after that person has left the forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Byles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Byles", "preceding_text": " whether by the police, the probation service or GPs? For example, many mental health issues arise because GPs do not necessarily know that someone is a veteran 10 years after that person has left the forces. [Interruption.] I am married to a GP, and I can assure the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) that the system might work at the top, but it does not by the time things get to the bottom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Surely not\".", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "und this Chamber, but he made a very fair point about the importance of the reserve forces. I know from my constituency that they are an important part of the contribution that is made. The hon. Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) was absolutely right to say that it would make more sense to stick with the term \"military covenant\". I am often more pedantic than is good for my friendships-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.86.2", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Menzies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Menzies", "preceding_text": "nd was £700 and if we are asking the wives of Fijian soldiers to pay £700 to be in this country and to be with their husbands, who are serving our country, that makes me feel deeply uneasy. Immigration is another matter, but if we can be hospitable to other people then, my goodness, we need to be hospitable to the wives of Commonwealth soldiers. I hope we can consider that at some point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.86.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.88.0", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "May I begin, Mr Deputy Speaker, by wishing you and the whole House a very happy new year? [ Interruption. ] I am just disappointed that it is Opposition Members who have all the festive cheer at this time of year-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.88.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "ll members of the armed forces wherever they are serving in the world. It was a significant piece of legislation. The Bill that we are considering today is much smaller, and a lot of it was implemented under the previous Government. We are, in fact, pursuing the policies that the previous Government introduced, so I was particularly saddened by the shadow Secretary of State's extraordinary speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "so mentioned reservists. I agree with him entirely that support for such servicemen who return from operational tours is difficult. I pay tribute to those whose day job is not serving in the armed forces but who go out on operational tours and do excellent work helping our regular armed forces, and I pay tribute to their families, too. Turning to the hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd) -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.117.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-10", "file": "debates2011-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "5167797dfe8352a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "After that extremely long intervention, I notice that the right hon. Gentleman did not answer the question. He says that we are taking money away from people. We are doing nothing of the kind. That is scare-mongering. We are changing the indexation going forward, as he is well aware. We must address the huge debt left behind by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-10b.121.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.134.6", "colnum": "134", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "We have taken legal advice on what is necessary. [ Interruption. ] No doubt the previous Government did so when they consulted and suggested a four-year margin themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.134.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I agree with all of that. We want to see bonus restraint; we want to see bonuses lower this year -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.158.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "That was about the time when the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) , the then Prime Minister, said: \"The day of big bonuses is over.\" That is the kind of rhetorical-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ce's deportation of Roma immigrants, for example; no action was taken-but there is non-compliance on a massive scale. We know all about that, with the stability and growth pact. There has also been the more recent failure to comply even with EU law itself in respect of the financial stability mechanism. Anybody with two brains to rub together would know that article 122 could not possibly justify-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend on that extremely perceptive remark. I entirely agree with him. If that were the case, we would not be where we are now. That is part of the lesson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.186.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "I am just coming to the amendment that we are proposing, which would allow an opportunity for the issues raised by the hon. Member for Stone and others to be considered in a rational and thoughtful way. In the spirit of generosity, we accept that others may have genuine doubts. That is why we tabled amendment 52, which would ensure that the Secretary of State made an annual report-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go down that route, but I think that point has already been dealt with very well. We did not do what we are being accused of having done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "I am sure, however, that some Conservative Members would have such a referendum if they could-although I would not like to challenge some of them to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-11", "file": "debates2011-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "7baedc24e891ac31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.219.5", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "Most of my speech has consisted of accepting interventions from right hon. and hon. Friends and colleagues. With your permission, Mr Evans, I shall now sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-11a.219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State regularly discusses international climate issues with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and his ministerial colleagues. We welcome the agreement at Cancun to establish a green climate fund, but no decisions have yet been taken on a financial contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.276.5", "colnum": "276", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "to that issue, and we hope that it will help to identify the best way forward. Action to tackle tax evasion through more transparency and the exchange of information, instigated by the G20 and led by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, has already produced good results, such as a big increase in the number of bilateral tax information exchange agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.277.8", "colnum": "277", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "The review has a specific focus on rapid onset humanitarian emergencies, which can either be natural disasters or sudden outbreaks of conflict. The urgent international response to disasters is often confused and unco-ordinated. Today is the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and what happened there will play an essential part in our review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.277.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What I would say is this-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "e him the numbers. The bank bonus tax raised a net £2.3 billion, and the author of that tax, the former Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) , who is sitting on the Back Benches, says that you cannot go on introducing this tax year after year, and very sensible that is too. The bank levy will raise £2.5 billion each year once it is fully up and running-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "That was such a long question that I think it is the right hon. Gentleman who should be thinking about the television career, and he should get his brother to run the Labour party-that is probably a better way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ent to the Treasury Select Committee before Christmas and said, \"If the Walker Report\" -a report that the Labour Government commissioned, which made the recommendation- \"were to be implemented for the whole industry, I'm not arguing against it. I have no great problem with the issue of transparency and would have no difficulty.\" The Prime Minister has had eight months to hold the banks to account-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "osition, who let them get away with absolute murder. Who set up the bank regulation that completely failed? Who bailed out the banks and got nothing in return? Who agreed a Royal Bank of Scotland contract with nothing in it about bonuses for this year? By the way, the right hon. Gentleman was at the Treasury all the way through that. He was there when the previous Government knighted Fred Goodwin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I do; I have considerable sympathy with what my hon. Friend says, and I have put a number of questions to the Ministry of Defence and will go on doing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I want to see crime come down, because I want to see us get the police out on the beat. The fact is that only 11% of police officers at any one time are out on the beat. I have the figures for North Wales police, and yes, of course there are some spending reductions being made-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We have looked at a rebate for rural areas, and some progress was made in the Budget on that issue. On the fair fuel stabiliser, yes, the Treasury is looking at it, because clearly there is a case for saying that if it can be shown that the Treasury benefits from extra revenue as the oil price rises, there should be a way of sharing that with the motorist who is suffering from high prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We agree with the programme-which was started not by the last Government, but by several previous Governments-of trying to diversify and spread jobs out of Whitehall and into the regions, and we should continue with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.286.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-12", "file": "debates2011-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "124cb33f89ac9203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "EDUCATION MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE (WALSALL NORTH)", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "or Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes) in his role as advocate for access to education for the most disadvantaged young people. We shall not dictate to schools and colleges how they should use the fund. It is discretionary, and schools and colleges will have the flexibility to allocate it in ways that best meet the needs of their students-for example, on how much young people will receive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-12a.406.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-13", "file": "debates2011-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "da5ae06895b96f30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-13a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "preceding_text": "We have expensive houses in High Peak-I have seen something on my BlackBerry today about house prices being expensive. We have issues, but it is not grim up north. Speaking as someone who is technically the Member for Royston Vasey, as the programme concerned was filmed in my constituency, I implore all southern MPs to come to High Peak. It is not grim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-13a.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-13", "file": "debates2011-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "da5ae06895b96f30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-13a.494.0", "colnum": "494", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "on Second Reading in November. I hoped at that time that the Government would come forward with some changes to their proposals. I hoped that they would listen to the logic, but they did not. We have already had Committee stage and Report brings us to today. The Thames Gateway Partnership for London, Kent and South Essex recently wrote to Members, urging us to make representations to the Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-13a.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-17", "file": "debates2011-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "cd9814b3daf34af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-17b.529.6", "colnum": "529", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, a number of other Departments have taken that initiative. I look forward to seeing the whole Government follow where councils lead-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-17b.529.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-17", "file": "debates2011-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "cd9814b3daf34af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-17b.529.7", "colnum": "529", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "Does not the Secretary of State realise that that is an absurd bureaucratic regulation? Durham county council has calculated that it will take two full-time officers to fulfil that requirement, at the same time as the Secretary of State is cutting £100 million from the budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-17b.529.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-17", "file": "debates2011-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "cd9814b3daf34af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-17b.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Localism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "Yes. Despite the best efforts of the Secretary of State and his Ministers to transfer powers from the many to the few, even they have not got everything wrong. Some of the Bill's measures are a continuation of policies introduced by the previous Labour Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-17b.569.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-17", "file": "debates2011-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "cd9814b3daf34af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-17b.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Localism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": " minds. The right hon. Member for Salford and Eccles (Hazel Blears) said that there was a schism in the Government. Far from it! We are emphatic about the need for the Bill. However, there is a schism in the Labour party because it is advancing two arguments: that the Bill is secret centralisation and that the powers that the Secretary of State is taking represent a covert attempt to recentralise-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-17b.654.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The only party in this House that wants to cut the NHS budget is the Labour party. The coalition Government have increased spending on the NHS. We recognise that if we want to preserve the very best of the NHS, it needs to be reformed in the years ahead. Crucially, we need a people's NHS-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.685.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "It went up because many people in Oldham East and Saddleworth and elsewhere recognise that we are doing a very difficult job in difficult circumstances. Why? Because we inherited the most unholy mess from the previous Labour Government, who have now forced us-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "n realised that for the King's Government to carry on, reform had to take place. After he put metal shutters in Apsley house because of the riots that had occurred, he knew that reform had to take place. In 1911 even Lord Curzon eventually decided that the reform Bill had to go through, rather than having the House of Lords flooded with a whole new batch of peers who would have pushed it through -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "I think that I am defending just as much the interests of the socialists of Great Grimsby and other places, because it is not in the interest of the voters of Great Grimsby to have Governments who come in and play fast and loose with the constitution; that is a really bad idea. The hon. Gentleman has been a most distinguished advocate of less European intrusion in our affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman corrects me by saying that it is proper scrutiny. The Committee stated: \"Whilst acknowledging the case made by the Deputy Prime Minister for a five year term\"- it is so nice when the authors of such reports use expressions like \"whilst acknowledging the case\" and \"with respect to\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.719.2", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ll be stoutly defending not the Government but the cause of freedom and democracy-I am sure he will be. I wish to sound a slight note of caution to the hon. Gentleman. I have long supported an elected second Chamber, but over the past few years the Second Chamber has become far more partisan, because a higher proportion of its Members now take a party Whip. That applies in all parts of that House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "cisions ourselves, rather than leave them to judges to take for us, because we are elected. However, the history of English common law and the way in which it has developed is such that judges have, by the precedents they have set, elaborated on that law. We have sometimes then decided to incorporate those interpretations into statute law, so there has been a constant relationship between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Indeed, Mr Deputy Speaker, although I am not sure that we really have got to the edge of your knowledge; I think your knowledge is boundless, and consequently I agree with you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ty is in charge and it is unlikely that a lot of the predecessor's policies would be overthrown. One or two things usually change, but generally there is continuity. We are considering, however, the possibility of a change of Administration involving a different party. We know that the Labour party attempted to form some kind of rainbow coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the last election-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ministration over the centuries under the existing arrangements, not least in the first and second world wars. Having a fixed-term Parliament does not in itself mean what the hon. Gentleman has described will happen. It is perfectly possible that we will win a significant number of by-elections over the coming years, or that some Liberal Democrats or others may change their party affiliation, and-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I hoped that my words supported the very argument that the hon. Gentleman is making. I would, in addition, invoke Cato the Younger, who by speaking until dusk, made sure that Caesar did not always get his way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "sis and difficult decisions have to be made. The people of this country are having to make difficult decisions on how to restore economic competence, balance budgets and all the rest of it. We have spent a lot of time on the first matter, so I will now come to the real new clause, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Stone, which I will undoubtedly vote for. His brevity today was extraordinary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "wer of revival is the cunning disguise in which the new clause is wrapped. My hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Mr Jenkin) described clause 2 as a fig leaf. I do not agree with that characterisation, but even if the House agreed with it, I am not sure that hon. Members would be as keen to remove the fig leaf as my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex appeared to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "n. Friend is right in saying that if a proportional system were introduced, a succession of hung Parliaments would be more likely. Consensus would rule the day and coalition Governments would be formed on a fairly regular basis. That is not absolutely certain, as it has not happened in some countries that have proportional representation. However, the alternative vote, which I shall be voting for-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "er, the alternative vote, which I shall be voting for- [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty) shouts out, \"Shame\", but it expressly points out in \"Erskine May\" that shouting \"Shame\" is unparliamentary. I would not want to excoriate him on that basis. I am not quite sure on which page it says that, but I am sure he will find it, if he looks for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "and, to use a \"Valleys'\" word-as in the south Wales Valleys-it would be tidy. Unfortunately however, Hansard rendered that as to use a \"valet's\" word. We do not have many valets in the Valleys, but I would still assert-I hope that the Hansard reporters are noting this-that the proposal I have just mentioned would be more coherent, more consistent, and that, to use a Valleys word, it would be tidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Boles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Boles", "preceding_text": "explore which arrangement was the most stable and to form the Government who had the most chance of lasting. Surely where a party in government has lost a vote of confidence in this House and no longer commands a stable majority here it would be an absolutely integral part of the sovereign's constitutional role to invite the other party leaders to explore whether they could form a stable majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Much as I like the other hon. Gentleman, whose name I do not know-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Dan Byles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Byles", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.760.9", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Dan Byles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Byles", "preceding_text": "o be taken into account? Is it not difficult to add \"within 15 working days\" in such specific terms, when \"working days\" could mean something entirely different in another part of the United Kingdom? In particular, why is Labour adamant about 15 working days? Is there any rationale or logic behind this number? Why not 14 days or 16 days? If we believe in evidence-based policy making in this place-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.760.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I understand what he is saying. However, in purely practical terms, it is difficult for the House to receive advice from any quarter on what would be an appropriate date. The House as a whole would find it difficult to take the sort of advice that the Prime Minister, as an individual, could easily assemble. In the politically charged atmosphere of a vote of no confidence, it is hard to understand-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " accused me of being far too tidy. Nobody has ever accused me of that before. He thinks that trying to tidy up legislation is a socialist endeavour, but surely that is what we do. The constant process that we are engaged in-the constant iteration of legislation-means looking at the common law and regularly updating it in statute. For instance, I do not know whether he knows what a brothel is, but-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "r-might divide opinion and might create synthetic objections from those on the Labour Benches, but it is none the less secondary to the principle of giving the House greater power over the Executive. That is what the Bill establishes. Personally, I would not fetishise about 12 months one way or another in a term of four or five years. We have decided in the coalition agreement and as a Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "No, I won't. Not to you. The Liberal Democrats' policy was for four-year fixed-term Parliaments, but unfortunately the coalition has hijacked a sensible and progressive idea, amended it for its own means and tried to rush through legislation preventing a proper, wide-ranging debate on an important -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should explain why he has changed his mind in relation to his predecessor's Bill. He will recall that there was insufficient time to allow the Bill introduced by his predecessor-a very good and honourable man-to receive proper debate in the House of Commons. The question that should be asked is why the hon. Gentleman has done a U-turn on that Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-18", "file": "debates2011-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "e1efbb65f4fd847e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Succession to the Crown", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " us to be kept us a shorter leash, and shorter Parliaments provide the most effective way of ensuring that that happens. They ensure that we remain accountable, that we present ourselves to the electorate, and that we are open to re-election. I think that a three-year Parliament, like that adopted by Australia and New Zealand, would be far more sensible, and would accord more with the public mood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-18a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "in taxes, and the evidence is now very clear: those measures would have increased fly-tipping and burning at home and have had counter-productive effects. The comparison with the RecycleBank initiative that Windsor and Maidenhead council and others are taking up, which nudges people into successfully recycling, is very striking. My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the fact that we can do-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "There is no question mark at all over the continued existence of S4C, which plays a valuable part in the life of the Principality. I will convey my hon. Friend's concerns to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. However, S4C appears in the Public Bodies Bill in the schedule to do with funding arrangements, and that has nothing to do with its continued existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Leaked figures that I have managed to get hold of show-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.832.4", "colnum": "832", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ext for all this is the vast budget deficit that we were left and the huge mess that we have to clear up. I have the figures for the South Wales police force. Next year, it must find a 5% cut. That will take it back not to some figure of the 1980s, but to the spending it had in 2007-08. Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary has said that it is quite possible to make those sorts of reductions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.832.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.833.6", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We want waiting times and waiting lists to come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.833.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.833.6", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We want waiting times and waiting lists to come down. [Interruption.] The whole aim of these NHS reforms is to make sure we get the value for the money we put in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.833.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.833.6", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We want waiting times and waiting lists to come down. [Interruption.] The whole aim of these NHS reforms is to make sure we get the value for the money we put in. [Interruption.] I have to ask the right hon. Gentleman this: it is clear now that Labour-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.833.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me remind the hon. Lady that her own shadow Chancellor said that there is \"no logic\" -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me make two points to the hon. Gentleman. First, there is the point that the fuel duty increases were all part of the previous Labour Government's Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": " that, without the bus service operator grant, there could be a 6.5% increase in fares and consequently a 6.7% fall in bus usage? He should be aware of it, because he signed off the parliamentary answer that gave the figures. Does the hon. Gentleman realise that, by hiking rail fares by more than 30% across the spending review period, he is driving people off the railways and back on to the roads?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "preceding_text": "cedures under the 2002 Act, but that is time-consuming, costly and rarely used. When scams originate from outside the EU, it is down to the authorities in that country to take action against the perpetrators. The level of co-operation will obviously vary from country to country and is fraught with difficulty. I have met Hampshire trading standards, which has been proactive in tackling the problem-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.857.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.861.6", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that there are 650,000 or so EMA claimants, but he must also know that only about 12% of those people-66,000-say that they would not go into A-level education if they did not have it. EMA costs £564 million. Does he not think there are better and less expensive ways of targeting money on the kids who really need the help?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.861.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "We will leave those kinds of points to Back Benchers; we do not expect them from the Chair of the Select Committee. The fundamental point that the Government are missing is that participation is only part-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "Either that is a school sixth form or the answer that the Secretary of State's Department issued was wrong, but it is an appalling state of affairs if he has barely ever managed to take himself along to a sixth-form college to speak to the staff and students who will be affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ze. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is all to the good.\" How genuine is his commitment to those people who want to get in to Oxbridge? I have worries about the Secretary of State's elitist instincts, but I read in The Times last week another interesting piece-from Mrs Gove-which contains insights from home that raise further questions about whether he is living in the same world as the rest of us-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " six, to make sure every child is decoding fluently, and will be literate by the time they leave primary school? Is he in favour of that, or against? Does he oppose or support our position on GCSEs? Does he believe it is right or wrong to get rid of modules in order to make them more rigorous? Does he back or oppose the English baccalaureate? Does he believe it is right to encourage more students-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.877.6", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady knows that I am a fan of her and her policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.877.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "iscuss one big factor that is referred to in our amendment and lies behind our position, but which the right hon. Member for Leigh completely ignored: the elephant in the room is the dire economic situation that we inherited from his Government. I know that various Labour Members-not all, because some of them are reasonable-will say, \"EMA, EMA\", as though they were on the benches at Goodison Park-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.879.7", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Not yet. That may just be coincidence, but what was deliberate was that instead of getting control of public expenditure -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.879.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.879.9", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Sit down. It is rank hypocrisy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.879.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "ts so well, a significant number would be in receipt of EMA. Nearly half of students receive EMA. I put that to the right hon. Member for Leigh, but I received no reply. He grudgingly acknowledges, under questioning from Government Members, that there is a case for reform-so far, so good-but when put to the test and asked what sort of reform, what numbers, what tests and on what basis, he did not-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Member for Leigh, but I received no reply. He grudgingly acknowledges, under questioning from Government Members, that there is a case for reform-so far, so good-but when put to the test and asked what sort of reform, what numbers, what tests and on what basis, he did not- [Interruption.] Is he now retracting? Free bus travel is mentioned, but has the cost to the Exchequer been taken into account?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am happy to give way to my hon. Friend the Member for-Nuneaton, I believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.888.5", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I suspect they won't if a Labour council takes power, but if people are wise enough to vote Liberal Democrat at the next local election in Hull-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.888.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Nadhim Zahawi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadhim Zahawi", "preceding_text": "I echo the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford East (Mr Ward) and thank the Opposition for this debate on EMA. Historically, they have been vexed about how to pay for the scheme. If we are to have a credible debate today-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "s when they were in government. The issue of teachers' qualifications is important, but the UK has one of the largest gaps between the qualifications of those teaching low-income pupils and the qualifications of those teaching high-income pupils, particularly in mathematics. We have less qualified teachers teaching those from low-income backgrounds compared with those from high-income backgrounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.932.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "as also a push towards equivalence of qualifications, and people from low-income backgrounds ended up taking fewer academic qualifications. There was a reduction in the percentage of students taking modern foreign languages from 79% in 2000 to 44% in 2008. That had a commensurate effect on the ability to enter top universities in our country. Labour's record on social mobility was not good either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "ounds to study subjects that will help them to get to university. That is a good thing. I shall finish by talking about the record of the previous Government in getting low-income students to university. Nineteen per cent. of students going into higher education were from families in the lowest income quintile, compared with 30% in Australia and 50% in the United States. That is a shameful record-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "finish by talking about the record of the previous Government in getting low-income students to university. Nineteen per cent. of students going into higher education were from families in the lowest income quintile, compared with 30% in Australia and 50% in the United States. That is a shameful record- [ Interruption. ] Members will note that both those countries have a proper tuition fee system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-19", "file": "debates2011-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "796c278a80ae33f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am enjoying the hon. Gentleman's speech-I am loving it-but in the four minutes remaining to him, will he answer the question that the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) conspicuously failed to answer? If he acknowledges that fewer people should receive EMA and that less money should be spent, will he say how many fewer people and how much less money? Until he can answer those questions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-19b.949.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-20", "file": "debates2011-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "415c6ef6d5f400ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " of having the Government make an announcement in response to an urgent question on a vital matter of national security. I shall return to that issue at the end of my comments. First, I agree with the Minister that keeping the public safe and striking the right balance between security and the protection of liberties is a vital task facing any Government. That is why when I became Home Secretary -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-20", "file": "debates2011-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "415c6ef6d5f400ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I shot the shadow Home Secretary's fox before he stood up with what was clearly a pre-written statement that did not bother with anything I actually announced-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-20", "file": "debates2011-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "415c6ef6d5f400ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I should emphasise that it will be a draft Bill, only to be used in emergency circumstances, which the House would have to approve at the time. It is not a question of in any way leaving 28 days on the statute book. On the issue of leaks, I will certainly take lectures from the hon. Gentleman. I do find it just a tad hypocritical to hear those on the Labour Front Bench and new Labour apparatchiks-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-20", "file": "debates2011-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "415c6ef6d5f400ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Backbench Business — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this debate. I am not an expert in this area, although I have been contacted by representatives of Aintree race course, home of the world famous Grand National, which backs on to my back garden-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-20", "file": "debates2011-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "415c6ef6d5f400ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Backbench Business — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What do you think?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "I shall come to our views shortly. Our role at this point, four and a half years away from an election, is to listen to all sides of the argument, as in this debate, and to interested parties outside, and that is what I want to do. Then, at some point, we will arrive at a view. The Government are going to make this decision in the next few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-20", "file": "debates2011-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "415c6ef6d5f400ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Backbench Business — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Craig Whittaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Craig Whittaker", "preceding_text": "o 7%-a great achievement but, sadly, not enough. The new Government need to do more to give those children, who have had a diabolical start in life, a better outcome. The status quo is unacceptable. The results from the Munro review will, we hope, start to address some of the underlying causes and early interventions needed. The hon. Member for Upper Bann (David Simpson) is no longer in his place-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-20", "file": "debates2011-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "415c6ef6d5f400ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Backbench Business — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "May I also draw attention to the fact that, not only has there been this wonderful change, but it must be the first Parliament in which more Members want to debate this than the horse racing levy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-20", "file": "debates2011-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "415c6ef6d5f400ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Backbench Business — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Lefroy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Lefroy", "preceding_text": "entres are welcoming, inclusive, socially mixed and non-stigmatising, but aim to target services towards those who can benefit from them most.\" I urge the Government to take note of that, and I am sure that they will. My third point regards television and media. I take up a point made by the hon. Member for Upper Bann (David Simpson) , who is no longer in his place, about Staffordshire university-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-20a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-21", "file": "debates2011-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4767f51f03cd88a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-21a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "clearly states on the back that it must not be resold, makes six or eight times more than the charity. The artists, who have given their time freely, intend that any money that comes on the back of their time and from the ticket should go to the charity. I find it quite shameful that the hon. Gentleman can say that such a practice is fair when the charity intends to help teenage victims of cancer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-21a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-21", "file": "debates2011-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4767f51f03cd88a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-21a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "se periods-a certain amount of time in which purchases can be returned. I met Rugby Football Union representatives, and that body accepts returns of all its tickets; the same is true of most tickets from the All England Lawn Tennis Club for Wimbledon finals. Most of these places will happily accept the tickets back and give a full refund, because they know that the tickets are highly sought after.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-21a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-21", "file": "debates2011-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "4767f51f03cd88a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-21a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "Of course such things are illegal, but they are happening. We should examine-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-21a.1182.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.6.7", "colnum": "6", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "preceding_text": "The chief constable of North Wales says that it will be impossible to protect front-line services with cuts of £22.6 million over the next four years. Will the Prime Minister please tell us-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.6.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "What is the exact reduction that the Secretary of State will achieve in the net migration figures this year and in each year up to 2015 to fulfil the firm pledge, which she appears to have again relegated to the status of an aim, to cut net migration to the tens of thousands by 2015?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.10.5", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "May I first welcome the right hon. Lady to her post? I look forward to debating these issues with her, although I hope she will not follow the poor example of her successor-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.10.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Greater Manchester\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will pay more attention to what the chief constable of the Greater Midlands", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.23.3", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to do so. We will place draft emergency legislation in the Library of the House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.23.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.24.4", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "I said that it was-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "European Union Bill (Programme)(No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "preceding_text": "or the record, my Whip did not ask me to take part in the debate; he simply asked me whether I intended to rebel-I think he had some interest in that matter. As my hon. Friend probably realises, when we discuss in/out referendums, one is slightly off-piste in the context of the general approach of both major parties. Nevertheless, the House should have time to discuss the matter at greater length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "European Union Bill (Programme)(No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "This party does not make promises which it breaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "European Union Bill (Programme)(No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "overnment would want to change the Lisbon treaty, are this Government serious about introducing some of the changes that they claim they want to introduce? Are they seriously suggesting that we should have a referendum on the voting system for introducing a European patent, for example? Are they seriously suggesting that we would have a referendum on how judges are appointed to the European Court?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "European Union Bill (Programme)(No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "t is not helpful. I am also concerned about the role that new clause 9 would give the House of Lords, given the events of the past few weeks. We need to put that down as a marker when considering how the Bill would unfold if new clause 9 were accepted. My hon. Friend the Member for South Swindon (Mr Buckland) is concerned about timing. He is absolutely right. He is a lawyer, and lawyers love time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-24", "file": "debates2011-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "f5993eca18958b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "European Union Bill (Programme)(No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "preceding_text": "ion of involving a committee is erroneous and on the wrong track entirely. I am also anxious that other amendments do not weaken the Bill. Amendments tabled by my hon. Friends might have the opposite effect from that which is intended. By creating too strong a test as to what is substantial, and requiring a referendum on almost any issue, we might bring European Union institutions to a standstill-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-24a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the hon. Lady sees a conflict where, to GPs, there is none. It is their responsibility-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": " me begin by congratulating my, in fact, right hon. Friend the Member for Charnwood on the report that his Committee produced. The Government will give a full response to it in due course, as is usual. What I would tell the hon. Lady is that what happened in the Bill and the White Paper was what we and our coalition colleagues, the Liberal Democrats, had outlined in our election manifestos, which-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "what we and our coalition colleagues, the Liberal Democrats, had outlined in our election manifestos, which- [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members may say that, but I suggest that they look at pages 45 to 47 of the Conservative manifesto, which probably very few of them have bothered to do. GP commissioning, along with \"any willing provider\" et al, are there, and if one looks at the Liberal Democrat one-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.176.2", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Nuttall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Nuttall", "preceding_text": "I have no idea what each individual thinks-that is up to them. All I am saying is that those who promote the EU project, which states the need for ever-closer union-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.180.7", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The protocol on broadcasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.180.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.180.8", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Member for Europe?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "There we are: when we need an anorak, there is always one from Rhondda. I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I respect the Member for Europe, for whom there is a great deal of affection among those of us in the House who are first-class Euro-bores. The Member for Europe-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.180.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman and every other hon. Member had remained seated, rather than jumping up and insisting on making interventions, I would have sat down about 10 minutes ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": " it proposes to set up a broad oversight committee, which might indeed be a rival to the Committee of the hon. Member for Stone (Mr Cash) . I do not think that the proposal will make much progress, however. The worry for me is that, at least among the majority party on the Government Benches, we have a Eurosceptic majority. We have to accept that. There are also many Eurosceptics on these Benches-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-25", "file": "debates2011-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "424829b2969c1044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Firearms (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " the cost will be borne by the UK. I think the Minister would be happy with the agreement that I eventually signed at that time. He is studiously ignoring me and not listening, but I think he, too, would have been happy to sign up to that agreement, notwithstanding the fact that the Conservatives did not originally want the EAS to come into existence because they were opposed to the Lisbon treaty-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-25a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "Higher education in Scotland is devolved. The UK Government are taking account of the impact of their policies in Scotland, but I tend to agree with Sir Andrew Cubie when he said that the Scottish Government were behind the curve in responding to the Browne report and bringing forward their own proposals. They are followers, not leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.281.5", "colnum": "281", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "preceding_text": "tate for his answer. Does he agree that investment worth £6 million in Scottish companies by the largest energy consumer in the world will provide a perfect showcase for the benefits of green technology? Does not the fact that Edinburgh seems set to see the creation of a renewable energy cluster in Leith docks further the case for the city to be the location for the new green investment bank?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.281.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.282.5", "colnum": "282", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "The Calman commission looked at these issues across the full spectrum and determined that there was no need to make any changes in respect of agriculture, other than in respect of certain aspects of animal health funding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.282.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "w Chancellor, why did the right hon. Gentleman not appoint him in the first place? Let me just make the point that the absolute key for this country and our economy is two things: we have to deal with our deficit; and we have to help deliver growth from our private sector. I think that the right hon. Gentleman should listen to what the Governor of the Bank of England said last night in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.287.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "onstrate that these are targeted, temporary measures and not to be used simply as a means of parking difficult cases indefinitely. The measures will have to meet the evidential test of \"reasonable belief\" that a person is or has been engaged in terrorism. This is higher than the test of \"reasonable suspicion\" under the current regime. Curfews will be replaced by an overnight residence requirement-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.319.4", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is obviously particularly concerned about the civil liberties aspects of the proposals. I believe that the package that I have announced contains a series of measures that will enable us to protect the public and maintain our national security, while at the same time reducing our civil liberties-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "What if the House is in recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Lord Carlile!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "No, I do not recall the previous Government ever doing something like that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENT", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I am expressing the view of academics who have studied this matter, perhaps more than the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENT", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I accept that. That complexity does exist, and part of the difficulty with the whole issue of human rights, whether in relation to accession, the charter or the jurisdiction of the Courts, is shown in the comments of the Lord Chief Justice in his Judicial Studies Board lecture. He said to the entire judiciary, \"Brothers and sisters\", referring to the other judges-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.351.4", "colnum": "351", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I did not intend to speak, but as the Minister refused to give way-it was the first time I had ever seen a Minister do that in Committee-I wanted to make one very brief point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.351.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.404.3", "colnum": "404", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "llor of the Exchequer has taken the public statement by Gerry Adams that he is resigning from Parliament as a request to be appointed as steward and bailiff of the Manor of Northstead and granted him that office. As a result, there arises a question about in what circumstances the Chancellor may take a statement or other indication of resignation as an excuse or reason to make such an appointment-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.404.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-26", "file": "debates2011-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "f4f5921d8bd454ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.407.6", "colnum": "407", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "ity of the matters to the House of Commons. The hon. Gentleman is as articulate a spokesman for his point of view as can be found, and he has given further evidence of that this evening. We are grateful to him for that, and he might even wish to join in making representations to the Procedure Committee. That is a matter for him. I really do feel that these matters have been exhausted this evening-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-26a.407.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "There are two separate lights at the end of the tunnel-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I am only sorry that my hon. Friend was not in his place an hour ago, when we had Transport questions. He might have been able to catch Mr Speaker's eye and ask the Secretary of State that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I say to my hon. Friend that I honestly think I have provided enough time for the House to debate matters related to the EU. I see that a high proportion of the time that we have made available has been occupied by him-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is usually fair, and I should hate him to miss the opportunity to be fair on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "time when the SNP Government used every capital building programme as an opportunity to fight at Westminster, rather than as an opportunity to fight for Scotland. SNP Members have still to tell us whether they will vote for the Bill or seek to wreck it today. They have an opportunity to see Scotland move forward, but they appear to be unwilling even now to rise to give us clarity on that question-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "Gentleman is bored, he could make the debate more interesting by intervening to answer that question, but he remains silent. The SNP has argued for full fiscal autonomy for Scotland, but that is not what Scotland needs. Scotland needs the security that is offered by remaining part of the Union, which is what the Bill gives it. What would the SNP have done with the banks in an independent Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian (Fiona O'Donnell) on her excellent and entertaining contribution. I would also like to congratulate her-on behalf of the whole House, I am sure-on it being her birthday. She tells me that she is 21. That is 21 plus VAT at a rate of 30%-do the math!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "t he is one of the few people who understand, and have carried out an in-depth study of, the relationship between United Kingdom and Scottish finance. He is being modest about his book, but I need not be modest on his behalf. It is an excellent publication, which I have consulted on many occasions. May I ask him to show the House his book and tell us its title, so that every Member in the Chamber-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Warrington South (David Mowat) . I also enjoyed the contribution of the hon. Member for Milton Keynes South (Iain Stewart) . I have not read his book and, having listened to his speech, I do not think that I will buy it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman sounds very reasonable, but I do not believe he is being reasonable, and I shall explain why-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.525.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "We are 10 years into devolution. We have a Scottish Parliament, of which everyone speaks highly. The Bill purports to devolve some significant powers and give additional responsibility, which is good. However, those powers are not good enough. If all Labour can do is snipe, \"They didnae do that, they didnae do this\", rather than consider the substantive issues-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-27", "file": "debates2011-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "804ea22ad8051224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.545.3", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. People in my constituency tell me that their biggest concerns are about jobs. There are reports that there could be 1,700 local redundancies-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-27a.545.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "The Government remain committed, including in the coalition agreement, to the renewal of our nuclear deterrent. As I am sure my hon. Friend would expect, I will be campaigning to ensure that the next Parliament is not a hung Parliament, but one in which we have a minority-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "In a moment. I have just answered one question. Why did spending more not deliver better results? We know why that is-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.607.5", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ients. In her role on the Public Accounts Committee, she should understand that right across the public services, one of the consequences of dealing with the deficit is that we will have to reduce the costs of bureaucracy and administration. We will do that in the NHS as much as anywhere else, but we will not do it in the way that the Labour party pressed us to do, which was to cut the NHS budget-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.607.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but 57 Members wish to speak, as you have rightly told us, Mr Speaker. I will give way as often as I can, but more than one intervention for each Member is excessive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "n the Labour party are now changing their view on what was pursued by that Government, but it was that Government who introduced and encouraged a policy of \"any willing provider\". In 2003, Alan Milburn said: \"If I can get a private-sector hospital to treat an NHS patient, then for me the person remains an NHS patient.\" Everybody in the NHS who provides NHS services will be accountable through the-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "In a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "more than 28 million patients. More than half the population are already benefiting from the clinical leadership of their local health professionals. I have met some of the pioneers, such as in Redbridge, where they are pioneering bringing ophthalmology and dermatology services out into the community, and in Bexley, where they have pioneered better access to cardiology services for their patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "Characteristically, my right hon. Friend is absolutely right. These changes to the NHS and the Bill-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.621.4", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "I am more interested in what we will be facing in future. I am more interested in the claim by the Health Secretary that there will not be, as he describes it, a rigged market in future, but a level playing field for all providers. However, my hon. Friend-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.621.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "That is one of the things that worries experts and those in the health service the most. It is also one of the things that the right hon. Member for Charnwood (Mr Dorrell) and his Health Committee were most concerned about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman try to understand-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "emocratic involvement by ensuring that the full council decides on whether to refer proposals to the NHS commissioning board or the Secretary of State. The people of Burnley had no say at all in what happened to our children's ward. The Bill will strengthen the important function of scrutiny and recognise the new enhanced leadership of local authorities in health and social care. It is about time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that savings should not be made. Indeed, the Select Committee in the last Parliament took evidence from the chief executive of the NHS on that particular point. The case that I make is about the type of reorganisation. Not only has nobody in the public sector ever been able to get 4% a year in savings, but nobody in the private sector has, in the time scale being predicted now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": " and the way in which treatment is commissioned. For those with some knowledge of how the system works, it is clear that the problems lie with one of the three organisations that serve Worcestershire-the acute hospitals trust, the primary care trust and the mental health partnership-and the way in which they interface with each other. However, what my constituents never complain about is their GP-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "ts from the then shadow Secretary of State for Health, now the Secretary of State. I wanted him to come to Kidderminster to hear at first hand how angry local residents were at not being listened to. He came on many occasions and listened to the staff, to patient groups, to doctors and to nurses. Indeed, he has come so often that he is now on first name terms with the two matrons at Kidderminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "cted as the Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth in the recent by-election-the first woman MP for Oldham. The circumstances for the by-election were indeed unusual, and it is only right to mention that many constituents and colleagues from across the House have remarked on my predecessor Phil Woolas's intellect, his incredible attention to detail and the kindness he showed to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "aried as my constituency is, what I care most about are the remarkable people. During the by-election, I met thousands of constituents from all walks of life, some of whom supported me and some of whom did not. Regardless of their political affiliation, however, they were invariably polite. Of course, there were one or two who chased me down their garden paths, but, fair dos, it was Christmas day!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "s one of the few remaining powers to be held by the Secretary of State, but he will have nothing to back it up. There is also no protection for the taxpayer from exorbitant and excessive behaviour by the consortia, an issue raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Blyth Valley (Mr Campbell) . It is possible that we will see banker-style bonuses and the import of private sector pay into health care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "they endorse patient involvement in the decision-making process. As a result of the \"any willing provider\" provisions, there will be a genuinely wider choice of care options available to the GP and the patient. I would like to rebut the argument that the private sector will come in and undercut the NHS. That is complete nonsense. There will be no undercutting of the NHS whatever. Services will be-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "ce management costs and to hold doctors to account for their clinical outcomes. Indeed, the objectives are very similar to many of those of the former Labour Government. The problem, however, is that the Bill will undermine many of those good aspirations. Health spending is, as we know, falling because the amount by which the Government increased the NHS budget is lower than the rate of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.663.3", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "Members can just sit there and listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.663.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.663.3", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "Members can just sit there and listen. [Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"] They put this ridiculous Bill up-they can sit there and listen. The comparisons that we have had from the Government about performance on heart disease and cancer involve the selective use of statistics to try to prove their point. The Appleby review clearly states that on current trends, by 2012-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.663.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "s? How will patients be involved in commissioning? Will they be part of the commissioning body? Moreover, will GP commissioners meet in public, like primary care trusts? If not, why not? Where is the accountability? If a patient wishes to complain about services, to whom do they complain-to their own GP, who does the commissioning? Where is the patient's complaint procedure in all that? This Bill-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "he accountability? If a patient wishes to complain about services, to whom do they complain-to their own GP, who does the commissioning? Where is the patient's complaint procedure in all that? This Bill- [ Interruption. ] There is no point in the Minister just whispering at me. We have a winding-up procedure, whereby serious questions can be answered- I would hope-rather seriously by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "r as they could be identified, were much less. Similarly, it is pretty obvious that the something like 15 structural reorganisations, particularly in primary and secondary care in the health service, were not successful either. We only have to read through them. Kieran Walshe has described the bewildering array of forms and structures put in place to run primary care and commission secondary care-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "...could damage local services in the north-east.\" Those are not my words. They are the words of those we as a nation trust to take care of the people who send us here. To rubbish them, like Government Members have done tonight, as the voices of conservatism means just one thing: arrogance. It shows that they are not prepared to listen to the people who take our people forward and look after them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-01-31", "file": "debates2011-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "7652c6bd80c036cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": " Member for Croydon North (Malcolm Wicks) , who, sadly, is not in his place, and the hon. Member for West Lancashire (Rosie Cooper) expressed concerns that the mechanisms would not be robust, but I refer them to clause 170, on independent advocacy services, and to clause 175, which emphasises the scrutiny role of the local health authorities, not to mention the local representation of councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-01-31b.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "nowned for their language skills. That is why I was very disappointed when the Government whom the right hon. Gentleman supported closed the Foreign Office language school two years ago. It is a difficult thing to put back together. I am now looking not so much at putting it back together but at increasing the learning of hard languages in the Foreign Office. I will be allocating additional funds-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to say-though, thank goodness, oral amendments are not allowed in Committee of the whole House-that the increase in MEPs at the heart of this part of the Bill could be allocated to representatives from national Parliaments at some future date. I am just stretching the limits of order-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.746.8", "colnum": "746", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "e makings of a fruitful debate in the months and years to come. Let me now deal with the various detailed points made by, in particular, the hon. Member for Wolverhampton North East. While I am tempted to deal at length on differences between the Sainte-Laguë and d'Hondt methods, that would probably reduce the number of Members attending the debate even further. I am happy to offer a seminar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.746.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": " have chosen. The second option would be to hold a by-election. In this case, that would mean holding a by-election in the west midlands region for a single MEP at an estimated cost of perhaps £10 million. The third option would be for member states to appoint temporarily one of their national parliamentarians to become the new MEP for the remainder of the current European parliamentary term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has essentially made my point for me again. As you are looking quizzical, Mr Hoyle, there is no need for me to detain the House longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.778.6", "colnum": "778", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "There are some elements of EU membership that could be put into such a calculus, but we cannot measure, in the way my hon. Friend wishes, things such as the diplomatic leverage that we obtain by being able to work in partnership with other European countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.778.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.787.5", "colnum": "787", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " keen to get the message across that it produced car stickers to support it. They were about a foot long, in Tory blue and had a picture of a loud hailer. In huge, bold letters, they said, \"Give us a referendum.\" For the convenience of the Committee, I have removed mine from the back of my car, where it has remained since the last European elections, and I have it with me for the Committee to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "as had to explain that three times, because I am afraid that he lost me in the first sentence. I do not think that what he said is logical at all. I understand what the Government are trying to do. The Minister is here, and I know that the hon. Member for Rochester and Strood said that he had met him a few years ago at a dinner party. I first met the Minister for Europe when I was 18 years of age-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that, but I feel very insecure every time my hon. Friend mentions the hon. Member for North East Somerset, because he is an intellectual powerhouse on these and other issues. I shall therefore stick to whether such a referendum would take place before or after. My hon. Friend will have to excuse me, because she is obviously also an expert on-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.800.2", "colnum": "800", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Put that on the record.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "We would rather lose with principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.800.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.800.4", "colnum": "800", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that the Conservative party did not win the last general election with a sufficient number to form a majority. As for his other point, I know that many Government Members are very interested in this subject, but they may have noticed that not many Opposition Members are present. The simple fact is-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-01", "file": "debates2011-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "70c899c3c9b33491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.801.6", "colnum": "801", "heading": "NHS Acute Medical and Surgical Services (Working Time Directive)", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman has reduced my argument to absurdity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-01a.801.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "how growth had been achieved and how neoclassical endogenous growth theory had been translated into reality. It all came to a shuddering halt, however, because of a combination of massive personal debt, a housing bubble, a structural deficit in the budget and an overweight banking system that collapsed. If we want judgments on the experience, which we have now inherited and are trying to sort out-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "us growth theory had been translated into reality. It all came to a shuddering halt, however, because of a combination of massive personal debt, a housing bubble, a structural deficit in the budget and an overweight banking system that collapsed. If we want judgments on the experience, which we have now inherited and are trying to sort out- [ Interruption. ] I am not looking for political comment-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.871.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.873.5", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I will come on to manufacturing in a moment. We are trying to recover from a position in which there was active de-industrialisation for the best part of a decade-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.877.5", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, because he referred to me personally in this connection. I think that he is missing the point. Part of the business of being a Minister, or a Secretary of State, is sorting out problems that arise-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.877.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "preceding_text": "I would love to talk about tax policy such as the VAT rise that is cutting demand, particularly in the construction industry, in which 7,500 people are going to be made unemployed as a number of businesses go down. I could go on for a very long time about the Government's tax policy. Corporation tax cuts will benefit the rich-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.883.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "0 billion of investment being pumped into our transport infrastructure, or the fact that the regional growth fund is bringing £1.4 billion into the economy to pump-prime projects such as those being considered at MIRA-the Motor Industry Research Association-on the A5 on the edge of my constituency, which will bring in £250 million of private sector investment and could create 2,000 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.910.3", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting perspective, and I obviously have great respect for the learned people that the hon. Lady has mentioned-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.910.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "o my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden) , who summed up the Department's current problem succinctly. Its problem is that it focuses on commentary and has no focus on delivery. It is a backward-looking Department. Something obviously happened to the Secretary of State, once a great champion of intervention, during his transmogrification as he took public office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes a point about the future-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.926.7", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "The Minister asks how many acres of ancient trees we have. The answer is that he does not know, because I met Forestry Commission officials this morning, and they told me that the mapping tool that the Government are using has excluded sites of special scientific interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.926.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "lot of warm words in it about communities instead of the Forestry Commission managing forests, yet on page 33 there is a harsh reality: \"Any sale would be at the open market value\". Forests currently sell for between £3,000 and £6,000 a hectare. I will give way to any Government Member whose community can afford to compete with the private sector to buy up thousands of acres of woodland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "Literally hundreds of my constituents have written to me saying that something must be done to stop the sale. On Saturday week I am holding a public meeting to discuss-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "I am interested that the Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary-who has been writing some interesting blogs about strawberry jam and other matters-is perhaps feeling the pressure from his local community on this issue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.930.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "sessment, which says: \"The co-ordinated approach to implementing adaptation measures across the public forest estate would be put at risk through large-scale changes in ownership.\" However, we need to step back from the Public Bodies Bill and the full sell-off and look at what is happening in England's forests right now. Ministers can sell off 15% of English woodland without any change to the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.931.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.933.5", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend's point goes to the heart of the matter. The only legally enforceable rights are public access rights guaranteed under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. The introduction of further \"higher rights\" would require changes to primary legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.933.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.934.4", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "properly attributed them in the context of the events that they addressed. She referred to the current Chief Secretary to the Treasury, but is she not aware that what he said was in response to the then Scottish Government's proposals? Is she not aware that we are proposing not 75-year leases, but 150-year leases? Most importantly, is she not aware that under the Scottish national land use scheme-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.934.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "m nature of Government consultations. Let us not forget that we are talking about less than 18% of England's woodland cover. Members will know that the vast majority of our woodlands are not in state ownership, but are still offering outstanding recreational and environmental value. Some are community woodlands. Some are held by organisations such as the National Trust. Some are held by charities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.940.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "I think I have said this, but for the avoidance of doubt, public access and other public benefits will be improved and enhanced as a result of the proposals that we set out in our consultation document. Having exposed the fact that the previous Government indeed looked at disposal of the public forest estate, I would like the Opposition to hear-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Soulsby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Soulsby", "preceding_text": "such certification will be a requirement for those who might take over its ownership and management. He has described that as being something that will be optional for them, which means, of course, something that they will not wish to subscribe to. Throughout this debate, we have struggled to understand the reason for what the Government are doing. The first reason given by the Secretary of State-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "take 10 years. It is not, as one Member suggested, a fire sale; it is a long and transitional but dramatic change in the ownership and management of Britain's farms and woodlands. If we are not satisfied with any offer that comes forward, there will be no deal on the forest in question. I am afraid that the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) demonstrated a considerable lack of true knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.967.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-02", "file": "debates2011-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "33356771c2b75fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "ace-ensuring that once the decision has been taken on that money it gets spent in the way that was intended-we are not fulfilling what we need to fulfil. That means we are not getting value for taxpayers' money, and that is why this debate is so critical. The hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Mr Davidson) asks how we can make a difference. I hope the fact that I am an accountant will bring some-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-02a.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-03", "file": "debates2011-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "057a1e6668396291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1018.5", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "The criteria for the planned sales are set out in the public domain on the Forestry Commission website. They are a continuation of a programme of sales that have taken place over the past three decades. As the hon. Lady knows, her party's Government sold off 25,000 acres-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1018.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-03", "file": "debates2011-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "057a1e6668396291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1020.2", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "I ought to declare an interest as one of the few practising farmers in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1020.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-03", "file": "debates2011-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "057a1e6668396291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ly cannot persuade the House-is it any wonder that the public are not buying them? Will the Leader of the House ensure that we have enough time in Committee properly to consider the Bill, because, to judge from the Second Reading debate, there are still far more questions than there are answers? May we have a debate on one of the greatest achievements of the previous Labour Government: Sure Start?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-03", "file": "debates2011-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "057a1e6668396291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Backbench Business — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Duncan Hames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Duncan Hames", "preceding_text": "ral imperative for action, as well as to the practical case for certain caps on the total cost of borrowing. Back at the hustings meeting at which I was first selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Chippenham, I was asked this popular and well worn question: \"If you could make any new law, what would it be?\" I said that I would cap the cost of consumer lending. I am not generally inclined-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-03", "file": "debates2011-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "057a1e6668396291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1122.5", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Backbench Business — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "Good point, well made, if I may say so, Mr Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1122.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-03", "file": "debates2011-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "057a1e6668396291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1122.5", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Backbench Business — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "Good point, well made, if I may say so, Mr Deputy Speaker. [ Interruption. ] Sorry, did I say Mr Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1122.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-03", "file": "debates2011-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "057a1e6668396291", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Backbench Business — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "izens advice bureaux and law centres are often extraordinarily dedicated, I deprecate the tendency of Governments of all colours-my Government were just as bad-to talk about legal aid just in terms of the money going to lawyers. On the tendency to slide into talking about fat cat lawyers, I can say with confidence that, since the Carter reforms, nobody has made a fortune in legal aid law practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-03a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-04", "file": "debates2011-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c06ce68521c46508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-04a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "oes so in a largely responsible way. Once or twice I have taken issue with the editor, perhaps when a photograph has been a little insensitive, but broadly speaking I am very much in support of my local newspaper's work. An interesting debate recently occurred in the paper about whether the names of young people who have been made subject to interim antisocial behaviour orders should be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-04a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-04", "file": "debates2011-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "c06ce68521c46508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-04a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Nuttall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Nuttall", "preceding_text": "that they will \"become treasured mementos of the biggest sporting event to happen on UK shores for over half a century and we hope will encourage a new generation of collectors.\" I am sure that they will. His view was backed up by an Olympic gold medallist, Rebecca Adlington OBE, who, when launching the \"Countdown to 2012\" commemorative coins, said that the Olympic games is just around the coiner-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-04a.1222.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-07", "file": "debates2011-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "7d689aa09b955e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for the moderate and considered way in which the hon. Gentleman puts his point-I know how passionate he is about further education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-07", "file": "debates2011-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "7d689aa09b955e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "have been contacted by the Retail Motor Industry Federation, which tells me that it has written to the Chancellor and Prime Minister four times about the matter recently, with no response at all. It has stated that the Government have \"made no attempt to engage with industry\" and that it wants the policy of a stabiliser to be dropped, because it would be \"costly and a huge administrative burden\".-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-07", "file": "debates2011-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "7d689aa09b955e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "ve been heading towards £70 billion a year. I repeat these figures because they need repeating to those on the Labour Benches. It ill behoves a serious party of government to come to the House, as those on the Labour Front Bench did today, and show no recognition of its part in causing this fiscal crisis. Labour Members have made no serious analysis of the rural economy and rural communities-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-07", "file": "debates2011-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "7d689aa09b955e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "es that are strangled by rising fuel prices. Businesses will not survive for much longer if the price continues to rise as it has recently. I think it was the hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Stephen Phillips) who talked about the Barnett formula. Frankly, that is completely irrelevant to this argument. If we had a fuel duty stabiliser, it would apply throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-07", "file": "debates2011-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "7d689aa09b955e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "es, I note that he has referred to matters that are in motion 3. I make no complaint about that, but it leads me to think that, for the purposes of his speech, he is conflating the two separate motions. As I say, I make no complaint about that. No request was made that the motions be taken together, but if it is for the convenience of the House, the Chair is very happy that they be taken together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.99.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-07", "file": "debates2011-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "7d689aa09b955e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " something-after speaking at a meal, for example-whether to the value of £400, £500 or whatever should be considered in exactly the same way. However, that is not the proposition before us this evening. The proposition is that a gift should be registered if it has a value in excess of 1% of salary, and that remuneration should be registered if it has a value in excess of one tenth of 1%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-07", "file": "debates2011-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "7d689aa09b955e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "it would be better to specify 0.2% or 0.3% of the parliamentary salary. A long time ago, when I was a Minister, I visited a country in south-east Asia and was presented with a tin bowl. I saw the same bowl in a shop priced at the equivalent of £130 in local currency, so I gave it to my private secretary. At the airport on my way home, I saw it again priced at £65, so I asked for it back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-07b.119.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.139.8", "colnum": "139", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Two things: first, I want to hear both questions and answers; secondly, can I-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.139.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.147.9", "colnum": "147", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I assume that the hon. Gentleman is referring to the request for additional support for the security situation in Northern Ireland. It is a request that I have taken very seriously, and we are interrogating the request properly-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.147.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.160.8", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "the Government and not for the Chair. I note what both of them have said about what they regard as the inadequacy of the handling of the matter. Their opinion has been placed firmly on the record. I say two things in conclusion to them. First, the Leader of the House is present. He will have heard what they have said-he is entitled to respond, but he is under no obligation to do so this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.160.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "by having a well-educated, capable and highly skilled work force that we can deal with the economic crisis generated by the right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition Front Bench. We had a structural deficit for seven years before the banking crisis began. When we entered that period of unprecedented global turbulence, our economy had been undermined by the actions of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "nking crisis began. When we entered that period of unprecedented global turbulence, our economy had been undermined by the actions of the previous Government. [ Interruption. ] I know that Opposition Members find that difficult and that it is painful to be reminded of the desperate position in which they left the country, but the need for urgent reform is underlined by the terrible mess they made-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.173.6", "colnum": "173", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "aff Negotiating Body, the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, Becta and the Children's Workforce Development Council in their current forms, or do we want the money that is spent on them spent on our teachers? Let us take the QCDA-just one of those organisations -which has 393 employees. Can any Member of the House tell me how many of those work in the QCDA communications department?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.173.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's own saintly behaviour while he has been in the House of Commons is an advertisement not only for religious education but for the religious education offered by the Roman Catholic Church, of which he is such a distinguished ornament-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "uch a distinguished ornament- [ Laughter. ] He is certainly venerable, and he might be blessed and, one day, perhaps, saintly, but at the moment we will settle for ornamental. He is both ornament and use. He is formidably well informed; I know from our previous exchanges in Committee that he knows every single member of the Aberdeen team that won the European cup winners cup in Gothenburg in 1982-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "ly venerable, and he might be blessed and, one day, perhaps, saintly, but at the moment we will settle for ornamental. He is both ornament and use. He is formidably well informed; I know from our previous exchanges in Committee that he knows every single member of the Aberdeen team that won the European cup winners cup in Gothenburg in 1982- [ Interruption. ] My dad was there, as a matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "e 50% of young people who are unlikely to go to university. That is further strengthened by clause 29, which lifts the requirement on local authorities to ensure young people have access to studying for the diploma. Both the Association of Colleges and the Association of School and College Leaders have expressed concerns that that sends the \"wrong message about the future of vocational education.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " yesterday, but let me quote from the review. Paragraph 3.6 states: \"Music is an important academic subject in the secondary school curriculum. When its constituent parts are next reviewed, I believe that Music should be included as one of the subjects that go to make up the new English Baccalaureate.\" So, experts commissioned by him are telling him that his choices are too narrow and restrictive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "As I said to the Secretary of State yesterday, the programme for international student assessment research says that the systems that give the most autonomy in choice are the most successful. Is the Secretary of State saying that they all replicate his English baccalaureate? I do not think so. They have a better mix of academic and vocational qualifications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.186.5", "colnum": "186", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "No I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I have answered the Secretary of State's question-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I have answered the Secretary of State's question- [ Interruption. ] - and have I put it to him that an expert whom he commissioned is saying to him, \"Keep music as an option in the English baccalaureate,\" and answer there was none about what he is going to do with that recommendation. The Secretary of State has not convinced the experts and he is not even convincing his own side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is not even convincing his own activists. On ConservativeHome today, there was an article by Ed Watkins, a music teacher in south London and the deputy chairman of Dulwich and West Norwood Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.187.6", "colnum": "187", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. My point-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow such a vivid speech, describing-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Chapman", "preceding_text": " student in higher education. I can report with great pride that that is no longer the case. Teenage pregnancies are reducing and participation in higher education in those wards is improving. That needs to be taken into account when we discuss social mobility in the House. It is not right to portray Labour as the party that resists academies and is against them. Academies are a Labour initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.224.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "sing power grab? It is not just power for power's sake, it is part of his vision of education. In their mind's eye, the Secretary of State and the Minister of State see serried ranks of schoolchildren sitting at individual desks, preferably wearing short trousers, chanting after their teacher their conjugated Latin verbs and copying down the dates of the kings and queens of England from the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-08", "file": "debates2011-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "a8ee4f1ead56a646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "ry of State finally gets round to saying something about vocational education, which he seems fundamentally to believe is for people who do not do well academically, he should remember that medicine is a vocational training that he ought to support. His problem is that he sees the English baccalaureate as the premiership and any league table of vocational qualifications as the Beazer Homes league-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-08b.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.286.4", "colnum": "286", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his congratulations to my right hon. Friend. He is not quite right about the request-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear! Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is far too much noise in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "n charities and voluntary bodies to encourage them to play a strong part. We are putting £470 million into charities and voluntary bodies across this spending review. We are also establishing a £100 million transition fund to help charities that are affected by cuts. I can today tell the right hon. Gentleman for the first time that because of our deal with the banks the big society bank-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " of the banks and putting it into the big society. The right hon. Gentleman asks specifically about Sure Start and the Daycare Trust. I must say that, not for the first time, he has not done his homework, because the chief executive of the Daycare Trust, Anand Shukla, said: \"The Government has allocated sufficient funding for the existing network of Sure Start Children's Centres to be maintained\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. These exchanges are excessively rowdy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. These exchanges are excessively rowdy- [ Interruption. ] Order. Again, I must ask Members on both sides to consider what the public think of this sort of behaviour. The Prime Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me just deal with the right hon. Gentleman's question on Sure Start. I know he got that wrong-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me just deal with the right hon. Gentleman's question on Sure Start. I know he got that wrong- [ Interruption. ] We will come to libraries in a minute. On Sure Start, the budget is going from £2.212 million to £2.297 million. That budget is going up. That is what is happening. The right hon. Gentleman gave a particular example, so let me put one to him-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.293.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have to say to my hon. Friend that we have not had thresholds in previous referendums, but I do not think that he should be so down on this. I am sure-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister's answer must be heard. All this noise is-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.298.4", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me say to the hon. Lady and to all hon. Members who I know are very interested in this subject that we are having a consultation; we are listening to people's views. Let me make a couple of things clear. First, we will not do what happened under the last Government, which was the sale of forests with absolutely no guarantees of access.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.298.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I remember a time when the hon. Gentleman used to write the last Prime Minister's questions. Given what he has said, I think that the last Prime Minister is writing his questions. The fact is that Labour left us the most indebted households, the most bust banks, and a deficit-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.307.2", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and I met yesterday and I explained to him the complexities of the scheme, which is not going ahead in the current proposals, but will, I am sure, in future. The scheme requires further work and consideration about areas where it can be provided and give better value for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Given that this statement was not on the Order Paper, I thank the Chancellor for the eight minutes' advance notice he gave me of it. Yesterday, he confirmed in his \"Today\" programme mini-Budget that he is cutting taxes for the banks this year, compared to last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "on. ] Today we find out what the Chancellor has got in return from the banks, after weeks and months of negotiations with the UK banking industry, culminating in the complete shambles of the past 24 hours, and the result is: precious little. From a Chancellor who talked so tough in opposition and who even yesterday continued to promise much, this is a pitiful outcome and an embarrassing climbdown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "as City Minister. He does not mention the fact that he invented the system of City regulation that failed so spectacularly. He might have forgotten what he did not do in government; we will not. Let me deal specifically with some of the right hon. Gentleman's questions. He asks how the lending targets will be monitored. I told him in the statement that the Bank of England is going to monitor them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ers-to get the sums wrong on the bank payroll tax and bank levy. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs confirmed that there is a £2.3 billion net receipt from the bank payroll tax, and that is spelled out in the March 2010 Budget book, which the Labour Government published. We are raising £2.5 billion every year from a bank levy that he opposes- right?-unless he has changed his mind on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I just pointed out that a Lehman Brothers executive was one of the biggest donors to the shadow Chancellor's campaign, and I think the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) shouted at that point, \"Well, I didn't vote for him.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am confident about saying that the situation for small and medium-sized businesses in the hon. Gentleman's constituency and elsewhere will improve. The situation is not going to be transformed overnight-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.321.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.324.6", "colnum": "324", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am certainly happy to raise the issue about representation that the hon. Lady mentions, but-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.324.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I am certainly talking to my colleagues in the Home Office and making exactly the case that the right hon. Gentleman has just made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Last time we discussed this, the hon. Gentleman made some interesting suggestions about the level of the business rate with regard to the surplus. I am happy to confirm to him what I said last time: that the process of distribution from the Government is based largely on the uniform business rate, and any surplus-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite right to correct me; I beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon. He is indeed a very distinguished gentleman, and of course he knows a lot more than a lot of people in this House, including, I suspect, the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.385.4", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Secretary of State. Nobody disputes that savings have to be made by local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will forgive me for correcting him: it is not 8.9%; it is 8.8%. We have put some additional sums into the process-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady suggests that cuts in executive pay constitute a mere pinprick in the savings required. Yet according to a press release from Hampshire county council that I received yesterday, the council expects to save some £7 million in executive pay in the current year. That is just shy of 20%-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "ired. Yet according to a press release from Hampshire county council that I received yesterday, the council expects to save some £7 million in executive pay in the current year. That is just shy of 20%- [Interruption.] Opposition Members suggest, in sedentary interventions, that £7 million in a single year may be an unlikely figure, and that may be so, but even if it is over three years-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "s intervention, because it is a good example of the grandstanding that has been going on. I should love the hon. Gentleman to send me the figures from Hampshire county council. Seven million pounds a year? I should very much like to see those figures, because I am not sure that they relate only to senior executive pay. I have made it clear that I am not standing up for those who pay over the odds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.394.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ad \"let down poorer areas\". Perhaps that is why David Faulkner, the Liberal Democrat leader of Newcastle council-the Liberal Democrats' flagship council in the north-east-agreed that the Secretary of State is \"the worst Secretary of State we have had\". Perhaps that is why, in a private e-mail sent to Liberal Democrat councillors from the Local Government Association just last week, we learnt that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "s received legal advice on the matter from Bevan Brittan solicitors, which states that in this instance the Secretary of State has not set the distributable amount as a sum equal to the difference, but has chosen to budget for a surplus and set the distributable amount some £100 million lower at £19,000 million. That is simply unlawful, and that is the legal opinion the LGA has received-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "I understand that revenues from business rates go up and down, so when they go up more should be distributed to local authorities as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "m and distant future-no detail was provided-this would save about £34 million between the three councils. That is already only a third of the sum that was claimed some two to three months ago. The actual quantified savings for next year, between the three councils, was less than £3 million, and the actual sum for Hammersmith and Fulham council was £500,000. That is the big new idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "cal authorities are feather-bedded and treated with kid gloves. This political decision of his is an outrage because in cities such as mine it will be the most vulnerable people who suffer, as my right hon. Friends the Members for Wythenshawe and Sale East (Paul Goggins) and for Salford and Eccles (Hazel Blears) and my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Steve Rotheram) have pointed out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": " the children who will lose the life chances that people in his constituency will take for granted. What we have had from him and his Ministers is a campaign of ridiculous disinformation such as the nonsense that has been repeated by Tory Members today about £150,000 going on statues in Manchester or about the Twitter tsar who was an invention of the Minister for Housing and Local Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": " of ridiculous disinformation such as the nonsense that has been repeated by Tory Members today about £150,000 going on statues in Manchester or about the Twitter tsar who was an invention of the Minister for Housing and Local Government. [ Interruption. ] The Minister says something from a sedentary position that I cannot hear, but I am happy to give way to him if he wants to make his point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ompetence in new technologies such as Twitter and is equivalent to a number of people in the Minister's Department who have the same role, the same salary band and the same competences. His Twitter tsars massively outgun Manchester's ability to communicate. He should think very carefully, because trading insults at this level does nothing for the people who are going to lose adult social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-09", "file": "debates2011-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "08395660297707e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Former Metal Mines", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the grant formula-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-09a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.466.3", "colnum": "466", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "I remember well the debates on the introduction of feed-in tariffs. It was the force of Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour votes-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "There are ongoing discussions between Ministers-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.471.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "There is no mechanism to enforce-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.517.4", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Does the Attorney-General accept that, in being a lawyer, he has the problem of over-complicating matters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.517.5", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The object of lawyers is to take people's concepts and to try to navigate them to their correct destination, if at all possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.517.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "o assert that we have a blanket ban in the UK. As has already been said by several speakers, we do not ban those on remand, or those who are in prison by virtue of contempt of court or for fines. It is therefore not a blanket ban, and I think the Court should have taken that into consideration. I want now to refer briefly to the Government's record, as they have hardly covered themselves in glory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.524.5", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "s genuinely available to us. He seems to have suggested today that one area that was insisted on in Frodl v. Austria-namely that judges should have to be able to make an individual decision on each person for that to be valid-is no longer necessary for us, although that was in the ministerial statement issued by the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, on the day before we broke for Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman does not mind if I do not give way, because others want to speak and I ought to be drawing my comments to a close. Would it be sufficient for the Government to present proposals -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "hat no one elects judges. That is true, but at least in the case of English judges, British public opinion can be, and often is, brought to bear on them when they take decisions that are completely out of tune with it. Take the case of Lord Denning, who in effect was told to resign and retire early when he made what were judged inappropriate comments. Pressure is brought to bear on British judges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-10", "file": "debates2011-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "60af56abd9fa43df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Backbench Business — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "ole decision. That would be a very sensible step forward. Despite my concerns about the wording of the motion, I think I am going to vote for it, for the following reason. It is important that the House sends a strong political message to the Court. If the Court has never been criticised in the Council, perhaps there has never been a parliamentary vote that pushes back on its particular proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-10b.552.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-11", "file": "debates2011-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b70f247a31c6062f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. and learned, and very old, Friend for giving way-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-11", "file": "debates2011-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b70f247a31c6062f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "May I drag my right hon. and learned Friend back to a point he made earlier in his eloquent speech? He said that he did not wish to create two classes of MP. Indeed, there is only one class of MP in this place. However, do we not already have two classes of MPs in our constituencies, because the work load of English MPs is far higher than that of Members in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-11", "file": "debates2011-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b70f247a31c6062f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Was it Socrates-I cannot remember-who said that a small book was always a bad book? Sometimes a simple and innocuous-looking piece of legislation can do the most pernicious damage. I will come on to whether I think it is innocuous later. It is always great to hear the right hon. and learned-and gallant, and doubtless many other things besides-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-11", "file": "debates2011-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b70f247a31c6062f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I shall deal later with an issue that relates directly to the point of the Bill, and I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will then understand why I believe there is a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-11", "file": "debates2011-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b70f247a31c6062f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Although I am sure that you would not mind, Mr Speaker. It is not a libel. It is not like being called an English Member when you are not an English Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-11", "file": "debates2011-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b70f247a31c6062f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.624.4", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "of State for Justice. The double-lock system is an elegant solution to the problem, where the whole House would vote on Second Reading and Third Reading, but only English MPs would be allowed to vote in Committee and on Report. The great advantage of that system is that it would force people to negotiate. If, as a side effect, there were slightly less legislation, it would not be such a bad thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.624.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-11", "file": "debates2011-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "b70f247a31c6062f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "ant that we address this problem. I am sure now, too, that that the problem will be helped by some sort of solution, such as that suggested by my right hon., learned and former Friend the Member for Kensington (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) , who is not in his position, but whom I shall make it up with. Before you were here, Madam Deputy Speaker, I called him \"old friend\", and he said, \"Not as old as you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-11a.626.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-15", "file": "debates2011-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "21dfbb507cc865c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "k to agreeing with the Government; he is much more impressive on such occasions. What is sad today is not just the opportunism but the utter lack of humility, because we would not have had to reduce the armed forces or the civil service to such a degree if we had not inherited from the Labour Government a black hole in the MOD budget of £38 billion and a national deficit of £158 billion-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-15", "file": "debates2011-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "21dfbb507cc865c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "is not just the opportunism but the utter lack of humility, because we would not have had to reduce the armed forces or the civil service to such a degree if we had not inherited from the Labour Government a black hole in the MOD budget of £38 billion and a national deficit of £158 billion- [ Interruption. ] So before Opposition Front Benchers go about pointing fingers, they should look-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.816.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-15", "file": "debates2011-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "21dfbb507cc865c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "t pursue a particular course. I must say, however, that there is very little evidence of any desire in the country at large to have a referendum on what sort of system should be used for electing Members of Parliament. How many letters have we received? How many e-mails? Do people come to our surgeries and tell us that this is one of the most important, crucial issues of the day? The answer is no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-15", "file": "debates2011-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "21dfbb507cc865c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.839.6", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY VOTING SYSTEM AND CONSTITUENCIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "et out their effect and the Government's overall approach briefly to make the best use of time available for debate. The Government have been consistently clear about the fact that we are prepared to make changes to the Bill where we believe they will make genuine improvements and will not undermine the key principles underpinning the Bill. Those principles are clear and we believe they are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.839.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-15", "file": "debates2011-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "21dfbb507cc865c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY VOTING SYSTEM AND CONSTITUENCIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Large parts of the Bill are not sufficiently precise, and the Opposition have tabled amendments to improve the quality of the legislation. She is a member of the Select Committee on Political and Constitutional Reform, but I am not sure whether she heard Professor Johnston's evidence last week-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.851.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-15", "file": "debates2011-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "21dfbb507cc865c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.851.5", "colnum": "851", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY VOTING SYSTEM AND CONSTITUENCIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "he matter to which the Minister referred in his swift run-through of minor amendments made: the issue of postal voters raised when we discussed the matter in Committee of the whole House. If someone is registered for a postal vote for an election in Scotland, England, Wales or Northern Ireland, will they automatically get a postal vote for the referendum? As I understand it, that is now to happen-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.851.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-15", "file": "debates2011-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "21dfbb507cc865c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY VOTING SYSTEM AND CONSTITUENCIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I did not quite understand my hon. Friend's point. We debated and voted on his proposal on thresholds in this House, and it was defeated by 549 votes to 31-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-15a.898.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "The unemployment figures are getting worse, not better. This morning I heard the Minister quibble on the BBC that somehow unemployment in our country was stabilising, but the truth of today's figures is that private sector employment is dead flat, and the number of announced redundancies is growing by the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "he young people of this country feel that they face a lottery, and the Minister is selling the tickets. Five people now compete for every job opening, and this morning we heard that things are not getting better. According to the Library, in more than 120 of our constituencies, there are more than 10 people competing for every job. Those people would yearn for a ticket to the black and white ball.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "So there we have it-one more broken promise. Next year, in 2011, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that the claimant count will be 1.5 million, the same as this year-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.982.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "preceding_text": "No!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": "t they will seriously consider whether it would be better to lose that employee immediately, before the rules kick in and cause difficulties in future, than to invest more time in him. That is a trade-off governed by excessively burdensome regulation. Such a restriction is not acceptable, and I am pleased that the Government are loosening it to provide flexibility for both employers and employees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "trick is to find sectors in which there is the coincidence of a high-value, attractive growth market and something that Britain is uniquely well-placed to take advantage of, such as advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, the creative industries, financial services, higher education and tourism. Let me say a word on tourism, because my background is in the hospitality, leisure and tourism sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "oung people and employers to understand, increasing the number of young people who get into work. It is important that we do not have a one-size-fits-all policy for such young people. As the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central and others have mentioned, things are not as they used to be: sons do not follow their fathers down the pit, or into the car factories as used to be the case in Coventry-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his keen sense of anticipation for my interesting speech. I have already said that, on reflection, we should have gone further towards taking the covenant out of the cut and thrust of party politics-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "The fact is that prior to the financial collapse across the world and the banking crisis, we had pared down the debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Gentleman understands that it is not for me to give a legal definition of the military covenant at the Dispatch Box. It is for the Government to define the principles of it in a legal sense, along with the armed forces and their families in public consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "I want to concentrate on a more serious issue, which I would like the Secretary of State to-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1043.9", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "Those who suffer traumatic amputations, and often multiple traumatic amputations, increasingly get very high-quality care in this country, both from what the military and the NHS are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1043.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": " writing to Members of Parliament to ask that the military covenant be endorsed in law? This is a matter of trust, but I do not think that we demonstrate a tremendous amount of trust when we descend into making party political points about the military covenant. I am sorry to say that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have already become the parties of broken promises and broken commitments-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1049.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-16", "file": "debates2011-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "410f5ac12bb9a51f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISONS", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "Government amendment in lieu is a load of rubbish. It is important to get across what is really going on here. In the context of the referendum, the Conservative party is being led like a lamb to the slaughter. The reality is that the referendum is entirely to do with Liberal party aspirations as expressed in the coalition agreement. I have here an extract from the right hon. Member for Deauville-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-16b.1081.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-17", "file": "debates2011-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d1ea5f83a534651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "inly the disability and carers' benefits, were the subject of what my notes call a bewildering fudge-I think that roughly sums it up. In the end, disability and carers' benefits last year were increased by 1.5%, but on the proviso that the pre-election-sorry, that word slipped out again-increase in 2010 would be clawed back in 2011. In other words, that would have happened this year in this order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-17", "file": "debates2011-02-17b.xml", "sha256": "e1ff2da9aab003a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "As you know, Mr Speaker, the future jobs fund is not within my ministerial purview-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-17", "file": "debates2011-02-17b.xml", "sha256": "e1ff2da9aab003a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for coming to answer this urgent question himself, and for bringing his ministerial team. Does he agree that a wind of change is blowing through the Arab world-first Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen, and now Libya, Algeria and the terrible news of deaths and hospitals filled with the wounded as the autocrats of Bahrain seek to crush their people's hopes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-17", "file": "debates2011-02-17b.xml", "sha256": "e1ff2da9aab003a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "getting this so very wrong. I am sure that the past 48 hours have not been easy for her. Last night the Government announced that they would withdraw the forestry clauses from the Public Bodies Bill, which is now in the other place, and scrap the consultation on the sell-off of England's forests. Again, MPs heard about a major Government U-turn on the television, rather than hearing it here first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-17", "file": "debates2011-02-17b.xml", "sha256": "e1ff2da9aab003a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "As I have said, I have no difficulty in life in being frank when I have got something wrong; I have come to the House and said as much. As regards the many people up and down the country whose love for their forests is quite apparent from the responses I received, I would like to reassure them that it was never the Government's intention to sell off the forests to the highest bidder-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1159.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-17", "file": "debates2011-02-17b.xml", "sha256": "e1ff2da9aab003a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Business without Debate — ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "he right thing. It is true that, on average, the CPI tends to be lower-not always, but generally. I have looked at the past 20 years, and in five of those the RPI has been lower than the CPI. That improves the situation in a difficult financial position; I would not pretend that it does not. However, our job is to have an appropriate, stable measure of inflation, and that is what the CPI achieves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1175.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-02-17", "file": "debates2011-02-17b.xml", "sha256": "e1ff2da9aab003a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1186.5", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Business without Debate — ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is putting a different gloss on this from the one that the Pensions Minister put on it. I asked the Minister directly whether this change was intended to be permanent, and he confirmed that. The Secretary of State suggests that it would be only for this Parliament-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-02-17b.1186.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "01a886f4bb6fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.787.8", "colnum": "787", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "Right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.787.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "01a886f4bb6fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.787.8", "colnum": "787", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Stone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "Right. [ Laughter. ] That is longer than Stroud. That is an important point to end on, because I do not think that everyone does read everything they should, and we have come across that in the past. The European Scrutiny Committee is under the excellent chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.787.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "01a886f4bb6fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.793.4", "colnum": "793", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "The Danish Parliament is very different. The last time there was a majority Government in Denmark was 1909. Actually, perhaps that will not be such an unusual thing even for our own legislature in the years to come-let us wait and see how this century unfolds, especially if the people are so foolish as to adopt that ludicrous alternative vote nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.793.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "01a886f4bb6fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.796.9", "colnum": "796", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "Indeed, and I took an intervention from the right hon. Gentleman, if he remembers. However, I have listened to the argument, and it is the same argument that he makes most of the time. Although repetition does inform one, it sometimes becomes like a woodpecker on the brain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.796.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "01a886f4bb6fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I believe so, because there is a matter of the most profound trust involved. When Ministers speak at the Dispatch Box, we trust that they are telling the truth. That is one of the rules and we must hold them to it-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "01a886f4bb6fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "preceding_text": "I completely agree, and I was about to turn to that argument. The new clause is important in prompting a debate that should be had-and might previously have been had-about the relationship between this House and the Executive in respect of our negotiations in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "01a886f4bb6fe5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.845.5", "colnum": "845", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "adow Foreign Office Minister, impressed the whole House with her first speech from the Dispatch Box, which is no easy thing to do. She showed herself to be one of the Leader of the Opposition's new generation with a bright future. As I understand it, his \"new generation\" is a sufficiently elastic term to encompass the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr David) , the shadow Minister for Europe, as well-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08b.845.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "8d537b0a6e9427be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.766.9", "colnum": "766", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the establishment of the cancer drugs fund will help the UK to raise its cancer survival rate from among the worst in Europe to potentially one of the very best?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.766.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "8d537b0a6e9427be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.787.8", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Charitable Healthcare Providers (Value Added Tax Relief)", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon Members: “Stone.”", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "Right. [ Laughter. ] That is longer than Stroud. That is an important point to end on, because I do not think that everyone does read everything they should, and we have come across that in the past. The European Scrutiny Committee is under the excellent chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.787.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "8d537b0a6e9427be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.788.8", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Charitable Healthcare Providers (Value Added Tax Relief)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "Can I make just a wee bit of progress?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.788.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "8d537b0a6e9427be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.793.4", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Charitable Healthcare Providers (Value Added Tax Relief)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "The Danish Parliament is very different. The last time there was a majority Government in Denmark was 1909. Actually, perhaps that will not be such an unusual thing even for our own legislature in the years to come—let us wait and see how this century unfolds, especially if the people are so foolish as to adopt that ludicrous alternative vote nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.793.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-08", "file": "debates2011-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "8d537b0a6e9427be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Charitable Healthcare Providers (Value Added Tax Relief)", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I believe so, because there is a matter of the most profound trust involved. When Ministers speak at the Dispatch Box, we trust that they are telling the truth. That is one of the rules and we must hold them to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-08c.797.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, the right hon. Gentleman raises the issue of the Foreign Secretary. Let me tell him: I think we have an excellent Foreign Secretary. When it comes to it, there is only one person around here I can remember knifing a Foreign Secretary, and I think I am looking at him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I think the leader of the Labour party is getting a little bit touchy about this issue. The point that I would make is that if we listen to what chief constables are saying about what they want to do-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.901.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.902.2", "colnum": "902", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The usual pre-scripted questions that he dreamt up earlier. The question is: has he got a reform plan for the NHS? [Hon. Members: \"No!\"] Has he got a police reform plan? [Hon. Members: \"No!\"] Has he got a plan to cut the deficit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.903.5", "colnum": "903", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "The coalition Government's principal objective is to cut the eye-watering deficit that we inherited from the previous Government, yet we want to support people on low and middle incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.903.5", "colnum": "903", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "The coalition Government's principal objective is to cut the eye-watering deficit that we inherited from the previous Government, yet we want to support people on low and middle incomes. [ Interruption. ] Can the Prime Minister confirm how many people will see their incomes-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.903.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "thing to do, but disagreed about the period-in this case, a year, whereas he was talking about two years. However, that is not clear in the amendment to the motion, so I wonder whether he could clarify the position. The amendment opposes the limit altogether, rather than the number of years. I would happy to accept an intervention from the right hon. Gentleman if he wished to clarify the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "some cases, it may be entirely self-evident that the individual's condition has not changed and there is not much to be done; in other cases, an assessment may be required because their condition has changed quite fundamentally. I do not understand why the need to see somebody who may be in receipt of a benefit should be such an issue for people. It should not be worrying; it is part of a process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.932.7", "colnum": "932", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I say to the right hon. Gentleman, despite his best intentions, that the mess that the previous Government got into over incapacity benefit-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.932.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's figures are incorrect. When universal credit comes in, the figure is more than likely to be no higher than about 100,000-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.941.6", "colnum": "941", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the Secretary of State has still not provided an answer to my question-he still cannot tell us how he will encourage people to save. Tuition fees have trebled, and people in my constituency are asking, \"How on earth do we encourage our young people to go to college, and how on earth can we afford to get our young people into university?\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Secretary of State can tell the House this afternoon when those proposals will be ready for us to look at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-09", "file": "debates2011-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "50441bf3200b4ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "n what the Government have in mind for the future of DLA, especially as we know that the Chancellor is determined to take £1 billion off the bill and then ask what kind of reform will be necessary to deliver his sums. Not for him the subtleties of asking what kind of reform might make sense. This is what the Multiple Sclerosis Society had to say about the measure: \"We share serious concerns\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-09a.944.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-10", "file": "debates2011-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "82dd0b2ffe6c5355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-10b.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " joking aside, I never say that women can do everything that men can do. I will be careful in my remarks, Mr Deputy Speaker, to respect the rules on parliamentary language. As I heard Jenni Murray, the excellent presenter of “Woman’s Hour” on the BBC, say earlier this week, “I will be very sparing in my use of the F-word. I will try very hard not to mention feminism.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-10b.1083.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-10", "file": "debates2011-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "82dd0b2ffe6c5355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-10b.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " speeches in a serious debate on a serious motion that actually means something. For the sake of time, I will not refer to any speeches in particular, except for that from my hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham (Bob Stewart) . It is important that we tell him that he is absolutely right; it is true that women are impossible, and it is entirely deliberate. We are also determined and never give up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-10b.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-10", "file": "debates2011-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "82dd0b2ffe6c5355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-10b.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I believe that, in accordance with Parliament-speak, this Adjournment debate has been entitled something like “The Interception of Mobile Telephony”, but in case anybody is in any doubt, it is about phone hacking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-10b.1168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-10", "file": "debates2011-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "82dd0b2ffe6c5355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-10b.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "accordance with Parliament-speak, this Adjournment debate has been entitled something like “The Interception of Mobile Telephony”, but in case anybody is in any doubt, it is about phone hacking. [Interruption.] That term covers a multitude of sins: tapping a telephone call or line; hacking into a phone’s operating system to access e-mails, text messages, contact details or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-10b.1168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "9938a6291e1e3540", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary has already set out the circumstances in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.5.6", "colnum": "5", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "It grieves me that the right hon. Gentleman, whom I hold in considerable regard and esteem, should ask such a question after the monstrous slashing of the science budget under the previous Government. Last year alone, £100 million was taken from the science budget by his party and his Government. I am glad to tell him that the science budget has been largely protected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.5.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary has already set out the circumstances in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.18.7", "colnum": "18", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to the work done by the MOD police, and the protection of military bases is of course essential. However, we are constrained by the lack of funds left behind by the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.18.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "Decisions on the footprint of the United Kingdom’s armed forces are made primarily on the basis of military effectiveness. However, notwithstanding the level of cuts that must be made in order to balance the books, I personally ascribe great importance to maintaining a footprint throughout the Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Come on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "No, I would like to make some progress and actually talk about the amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "I certainly think that improving the provisions of the Bill that relate to capital borrowing would strengthen the Scottish Government’s ability to do the right thing, whoever was in power. If we want to have a debate about the relative merits of independence versus the Union, I am happy to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.116.6", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "limit is very modest and the cumulative amount is less than the amount spent on capital in recent years. That strikes me as inappropriate when we are seeking to stimulate the economy and do all the things that the hon. Gentleman and I both want to see happen. As we can have revenue streams coming in to offset some of this, I do not want to put a limit on it, but the code of practice would do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.116.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Hoyle. According to the votes, eight nationalists have been voting on all these things, and now they are down to seven. Has somebody been kidnapped?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-14", "file": "debates2011-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "236cae875593721a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.131.4", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Scotland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": "a company coming into my constituency. That is wrong, and there must be accountability, but the list Member is not accountable to constituents as I am to mine. That must be fundamentally wrong. No hon. Member can tell me whether the list Members have any accountability within the structures of their political parties. That is the problem. There is no accountability whatever for list Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-14b.131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "54fde741182680f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I will make a point of hoping never to discover what motivates the right hon. Gentleman, and never to partake of any of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "54fde741182680f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": "Well, I got one out of three, so I did not do too badly. I bet that if I asked the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) to name his seven list Members-or even the 24 in my constituency-he would be lucky to name three of them. But I will give way, if he is going to reel them off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "54fde741182680f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I am no longer the Chief Whip, but I thank the hon. Gentleman for promoting me back to that distinguished role. I look forward to the outcome of a free vote in the Labour party. It will be fascinating. We will pay keen attention to who supports the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire in all this. I hope they are true to their convictions-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "54fde741182680f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "n both sides of the House take such a passionate and keen interest in Scotland's railway services. We have had a great deal of support for the measure from the trade unions in Scotland. This is a simple, technical new clause. Most people think that the Scottish Parliament already has the ability to decide what the model of the franchise will be, and I am keen that the situation should be resolved-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "54fde741182680f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "ive. The Airdrie to Bathgate line and the Larkhall to Milngavie line are two obvious examples. It is disappointing that the SNP Government saw fit to cancel the Glasgow airport rail link; that is a blot on their track record, if the Committee will pardon my rather poor pun. The new clause would not change the health and safety rules for the railways. It is absolutely right that we have a standard-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15a.222.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "765baee50bc22b16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I will make a point of hoping never to discover what motivates the right hon. Gentleman, and never to partake of any of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "765baee50bc22b16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Financial Services (Regulation of Derivatives)", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": "Well, I got one out of three, so I did not do too badly. I bet that if I asked the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) to name his seven list Members—or even the 24 in my constituency—he would be lucky to name three of them. But I will give way, if he is going to reel them off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "765baee50bc22b16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Financial Services (Regulation of Derivatives)", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I am no longer the Chief Whip, but I thank the hon. Gentleman for promoting me back to that distinguished role. I look forward to the outcome of a free vote in the Labour party. It will be fascinating. We will pay keen attention to who supports the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire in all this. I hope they are true to their convictions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "765baee50bc22b16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.193.7", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Financial Services (Regulation of Derivatives)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "The electorate in a constituency that I will not name had a way of telling the country what they thought of the Liberals. I think that that was important. We are much better and wiser for knowing that. I will not say the position in which the Liberals came, and I will not say what would have happened if the Democratic Unionist party, the Scottish National party or the Welsh nationalists had stood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.193.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-15", "file": "debates2011-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "765baee50bc22b16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Financial Services (Regulation of Derivatives)", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "he Airdrie to Bathgate line and the Larkhall to Milngavie line are two obvious examples. It is disappointing that the SNP Government saw fit to cancel the Glasgow airport rail link; that is a blot on their track record, if the Committee will pardon my rather poor pun. The new clause would not change the health and safety rules for the railways. It is absolutely right that we have a standard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-15b.222.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister really must get away from these pre-scripted answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.292.4", "colnum": "292", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We are not reorganising the bureaucracy of the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have to say that the right hon. Gentleman is beginning to sound like the last leader of the Labour party. If he will not listen to the adviser to the Labour Government, perhaps he will listen to his own health spokesman, who said this: \"\"No-one in the House of Commons knows more about\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Opposition are the party that rigged the system so there was cherry-picking by the NHS. The point I would make is this: at the last election Opposition Members all stood on a manifesto that said-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.293.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I am not willing to give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.313.8", "colnum": "313", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"RIP?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "ition on-I think-fuel duty. I am not sure because on ITV's \"Daybreak\" the shadow Chancellor said: \"We're saying today, as well as the duty thing, which I'll think you'll freeze\"-I presume that he was not saying that explicitly to Christine Bleakley-\"I think you should reverse the VAT rise.\" Specifically on the \"duty thing\", is the shadow Chancellor talking about freezing the 1p rise, the RIP rise-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.313.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.313.8", "colnum": "313", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "e shadow Chancellor said: \"We're saying today, as well as the duty thing, which I'll think you'll freeze\"-I presume that he was not saying that explicitly to Christine Bleakley-\"I think you should reverse the VAT rise.\" Specifically on the \"duty thing\", is the shadow Chancellor talking about freezing the 1p rise, the RIP rise-[Hon. Members: \"RIP?\"] Sorry, I mean the RPI plus one rise. Which is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.313.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I am trying to get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.321.8", "colnum": "321", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Minister. I said to the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) a few minutes ago that he was making an excessive noise-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.321.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "s that it is outrageous for the Labour party to cry crocodile tears about tax increases that it had planned-it is disingenuous in the extreme, and shows that it has no credibility and no leadership on the issues that matter to people, such as motoring, which we are debating today. The audacity of the motion is stunning. Let me turn-as I was about to-to the Opposition's proposal to cut VAT on fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "long those lines. As I said to my hon. Friend the Member for Gillingham and Rainham (Rehman Chishti) , the shadow Chancellor is quite wrong to say that we can reverse the VAT rise on fuel, because doing so would be illegal under the EU VAT directive. However, if the right hon. Gentleman thinks that the UK operates under a different VAT directive, perhaps he would like to intervene on me right now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "T rise on fuel, because doing so would be illegal under the EU VAT directive. However, if the right hon. Gentleman thinks that the UK operates under a different VAT directive, perhaps he would like to intervene on me right now. [ Interruption. ] I think we have established that there is only one EU VAT directive, and his proposal is illegal under that directive. The other big flaw in his argument-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I do not think the right hon. Gentleman even believes that himself. The bottom line is that he wants-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "preceding_text": ". What makes that all so much worse is that while the Government are choking off help for hard-working families and recklessly cutting jobs and services, they have given the banks a huge tax cut this year. I know my constituents find it hard to understand how that can be squared with the Prime Minister's claim that we are all in it together-a frankly laughable claim from a Cabinet of millionaires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "questions about the Government's attitude to fuel, to living standards and to the economy more widely. First, do the Government understand the squeeze on working families? Secondly, do the Government understand the need for a political economy that puts growth and jobs at the heart of everything government do? Thirdly, are they a Government who put the interests of the many above those of the few?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "We were doing what the manifesto said before the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "Shall I finish what I have to say? Then I will give way. If the Health Secretary has not told the Prime Minister, he certainly has not told the public or this House, so let me spell it out-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Yes. My hon. Friend will know that we have already arrived at the point where 177 GP groups, representing 35 million patients all over England, have volunteered as pathfinders to show how they can demonstrate such work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way to the hon. Gentleman before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.387.4", "colnum": "387", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "e view that looks at the NHS, public health and social care. He complains about the commercial insolvency regime, but Labour introduced that under the legislation that set up the foundation trusts eight years ago. He said that our plans introduce EU competition law. No. EU competition law already exists and the Bill does nothing to change that-it does not extend the application of competition law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.387.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No. We will hold the NHS to account-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Evans", "preceding_text": "I am new to the House, but I seem to recall the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) , who was then the Secretary of State for Health, saying that we should \"celebrate the role of the private sector in the NHS.\" What has changed for Labour Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.391.10", "colnum": "391", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "preceding_text": "ortillo could not have been more clear that the Government intended to misrepresent their position and to mislead voters. I believe very clearly that you are playing Russian roulette with people's futures, but the gallery is empty and you are on your own. I still believe that you have no mandate for these ill-advised reforms. You do not have that support, and it seems to me you do not have a clue-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.391.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry, I want to make some progress-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "Not only are the founding principles of the NHS in danger of being wiped out, but its culture-the reason that most of its employees work for the NHS-will go as well. The whole ethos of the NHS will change. It will now be driven by competition and consumer interests-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "In the devastation that followed the second world war, this country had the courage and the vision to realise the dream of a health service available to all in times of need. If the Government's plans go ahead, that dream will die.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.409.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "e314c9f199cbb11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "That is no secret. It is a matter of public record that we would have preferred a complete freeze on the 2011 budget, and we voted for that in the Council of Ministers. I regret that we were one country short of achieving the blocking minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16a.430.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have to say that the right hon. Gentleman is beginning to sound like the last leader of the Labour party. If he will not listen to the adviser to the Labour Government, perhaps he will listen to his own health spokesman, who said this: “\"No-one in the House of Commons knows more about”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Opposition are the party that rigged the system so there was cherry-picking by the NHS. The point I would make is this: at the last election Opposition Members all stood on a manifesto that said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.293.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.313.8", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": ", which I’ll think you’ll freeze”—I presume that he was not saying that explicitly to Christine Bleakley—“I think you should reverse the VAT rise.” Specifically on the “duty thing”, is the shadow Chancellor talking about freezing the 1p rise, the RIP rise—[Hon. Members: “RIP?”] Sorry, I mean the RPI plus one rise. Which is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.313.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.316.6", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": " after. What the Government gain from higher oil tax revenues, they lose from the effects of higher prices on consumption and the requirement to spend more on indexing pensions and benefits. A permanent rise causes permanent losses to the public finances. The Prime Minister has to stop pretending that there is a windfall in rising oil prices that he can share out, because it simply does not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.321.8", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Minister. I said to the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) a few minutes ago that he was making an excessive noise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.321.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "for the Labour party to cry crocodile tears about tax increases that it had planned—it is disingenuous in the extreme, and shows that it has no credibility and no leadership on the issues that matter to people, such as motoring, which we are debating today. The audacity of the motion is stunning. Let me turn—as I was about to—to the Opposition’s proposal to cut VAT on fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "long those lines. As I said to my hon. Friend the Member for Gillingham and Rainham (Rehman Chishti) , the shadow Chancellor is quite wrong to say that we can reverse the VAT rise on fuel, because doing so would be illegal under the EU VAT directive. However, if the right hon. Gentleman thinks that the UK operates under a different VAT directive, perhaps he would like to intervene on me right now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": " on fuel, because doing so would be illegal under the EU VAT directive. However, if the right hon. Gentleman thinks that the UK operates under a different VAT directive, perhaps he would like to intervene on me right now. [ Interruption. ] I think we have established that there is only one EU VAT directive, and his proposal is illegal under that directive. The other big flaw in his argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.324.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Opposition Day — [13th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I do not think the right hon. Gentleman even believes that himself. The bottom line is that he wants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "preceding_text": " that all so much worse is that while the Government are choking off help for hard-working families and recklessly cutting jobs and services, they have given the banks a huge tax cut this year. I know my constituents find it hard to understand how that can be squared with the Prime Minister’s claim that we are all in it together—a frankly laughable claim from a Cabinet of millionaires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes.”", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "ons about the Government’s attitude to fuel, to living standards and to the economy more widely. First, do the Government understand the squeeze on working families? Secondly, do the Government understand the need for a political economy that puts growth and jobs at the heart of everything government do? Thirdly, are they a Government who put the interests of the many above those of the few?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "We were doing what the manifesto said before the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "Shall I finish what I have to say? Then I will give way. If the Health Secretary has not told the Prime Minister, he certainly has not told the public or this House, so let me spell it out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Yes. My hon. Friend will know that we have already arrived at the point where 177 GP groups, representing 35 million patients all over England, have volunteered as pathfinders to show how they can demonstrate such work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.386.4", "colnum": "386", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way to the hon. Gentleman before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.386.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.387.4", "colnum": "387", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " that looks at the NHS, public health and social care. He complains about the commercial insolvency regime, but Labour introduced that under the legislation that set up the foundation trusts eight years ago. He said that our plans introduce EU competition law. No. EU competition law already exists and the Bill does nothing to change that—it does not extend the application of competition law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.387.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No. We will hold the NHS to account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.389.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "Not only are the founding principles of the NHS in danger of being wiped out, but its culture—the reason that most of its employees work for the NHS—will go as well. The whole ethos of the NHS will change. It will now be driven by competition and consumer interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-16", "file": "debates2011-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "56aedd989bea2729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "In the devastation that followed the second world war, this country had the courage and the vision to realise the dream of a health service available to all in times of need. If the Government’s plans go ahead, that dream will die.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-16b.409.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-18", "file": "debates2011-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8a545ec6e632966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-18a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "as cost the British economy and British business alone £124 billion. This is absolute madness. We are talking about over-regulation and unnecessary regulation, the manner in which it is passed and whether, on the basis of what the Government say-I would be fascinated to know how the Minister will respond to this-there is any intention whatever of following the precept that the Prime Minister-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-18a.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-18", "file": "debates2011-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "f8a545ec6e632966", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-18a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "y regulation, the manner in which it is passed and whether, on the basis of what the Government say-I would be fascinated to know how the Minister will respond to this-there is any intention whatever of following the precept that the Prime Minister- [ Interruption. ] If I can detach the Minister from his colleague, I would like to draw his attention to a point to which I would like him to respond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-18a.637.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) and I discussed this matter at length at Hillsborough the other night. We talked until after midnight. He knows that we are proposing a consultation. If the power is then devolved, it will be up to him and his colleagues to decide the manner in which that is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I yield to no one in blaming the last Government for all sorts of ills, but I think even I would probably draw the line at blaming them for the level of salt in food-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "cessor, the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) , did when he introduced it. I have said before that now would not be the right time to remove it when we are asking others in our society on much lower incomes to make sacrifices, for we are all in this together, but I think it is sensible to see how much revenue it actually raises. I have asked Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ee contributions by an average of 3%. Indeed, the new discount rate could be used to justify further contribution rises. As part of the wider reforms, I am not proposing to ask for more than the 3% average. John Hutton has now completed his final report, which looks at the pension benefit. I am sure that Members in all parts of this House will want to thank him for a very impressive piece of work-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " business; an investing, exporting, greener, manufacturing and more balanced economy; a better educated work force; a fairer pensions system. These are our ambitions for Britain, with the measures to match. Let me now turn to personal taxes and duties, and let me start by noting that a society should not just be judged by the strength of its economy alone, but also by the compassion of its people-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "\"Judge me on the figures.\" Well, judge him we will. Every time he comes to the House, growth is downgraded. Last June, 2011 growth was down from 2.6% to 2.3%. In November, it was down again. In January, what did the Prime Minister say? His three priorities for the year were growth, growth, growth. And what has happened in this Budget? Growth is down, down, down. Taking account of all the measures-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.967.5", "colnum": "967", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I suppose it was the right type of snow for a ski-ing holiday; it was just the wrong kind of snow for our economy. What is it about the British snow? There was worse snow in Germany, a big freeze in France, and in the United States the worst blizzards for decades. Despite all that, those country's economies grew in the fourth quarter. While our growth forecasts have worsened, theirs have improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.967.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.967.5", "colnum": "967", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "o grow more strongly than last year, and so is that of the United States. Growth in the world economy has been revised upwards. Which is the major country that is downgrading its growth forecasts? The United Kingdom. It is not the wrong type of snow that is to blame, but the wrong type of Chancellor-the wrong type of Chancellor in the wrong type of government with the wrong priorities for Britain-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.967.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " decision on VAT. Same old taxes, same old Tories. The Chancellor promised us falling unemployment too, and what has happened since he delivered his first Budget? Over 60,000 more people are now looking for work. To this Tory Government, just like those of the past, unemployment is a price worth paying. People who heard the Chancellor's Budget speech today will wonder what world he was describing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "ill go up each year, to children from the poorest families, whose schools will receive the pupil premium, this Government are delivering for all sectors of society. These are fair measures that meet the concerns of ordinary Britons, the people who, according to the term that my party leader, the Deputy Prime Minister, has recently injected into the political debate, wake up to alarm clock Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "e Minister's questions, Labour stupidly sold off our gold reserves. I will go further: in all his Budgets the then Chancellor of the Exchequer would make announcements about spending in terms not of millions but billions, and we in opposition used to wonder how it could be funded. We now know that it could not be funded and that we were spending money we never had. I will never forgive Tony Blair-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1009.4", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "I was not at the Select Committee this morning-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1009.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "I would love to say that it was a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Southend West (Mr Amess) , but instead I will restrict myself to saying that I agree with him entirely that the hon. Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis) made a very good maiden speech indeed. It is certainly a pleasure to follow him, if not the hon. Member for Southend West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jo Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"71%.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Johnson", "preceding_text": "There are problems when a country has a stock of debt as massive as ours. Even with the Government's plans for fiscal consolidation, it will not start declining for some years to come. Under the Labour Government our stock of debt would have peaked at about 80% of gross domestic product, but under the current Government's plans it will peak somewhere below 70%-69%, I think I recall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "preceding_text": "d to take on an apprentice mean that many of the young people cannot get into the workplace. They may be with a training provider, but actually finding an apprenticeship with a business is proving very difficult. I do not know where these 250,000 apprenticeships are going to come from. If the Government can do this, I say \"Excellent, we are all supportive,\" but to be honest, you are in la-la land-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "That is one viewpoint from one group of people. Others, such as Baker Tilly, the tax accountants, say that it is an excellent Budget. So do the CBI, the OECD, other industry groups, house builders and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "I find that hard to stomach, coming from the right hon. Gentleman, because he is giving succour to the proposals before us, which could damage the north-east economy more severely than even those in Thatcher's day. He is looking both ways, as a Liberal saying one thing in the region, and then coming here and supporting and voting for a Conservative Government who are putting the proposals forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "b00dfcb7373551d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "iving way, I am afraid, because certain Members have taken far too long in the debate, thereby stifling others. I am delighted that the personal tax allowance has been increased to more than £8,000 this coming year. It is vital that we free people from the shackles of tax, particularly those on lower incomes. It is excellent that 1.1 million people will be lifted out of income tax altogether-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23b.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "An order to extend the current confidentiality arrangements for political donations in Northern Ireland was debated and approved by both Houses last month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "An order to extend the current confidentiality arrangements for political donations in Northern Ireland was debated and approved by both Houses last month. [Interruption.] This order came into effect only from 1 March , so I have not had discussions on this issue with ministerial colleagues since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) and I discussed this matter at length at Hillsborough the other night. We talked until after midnight. He knows that we are proposing a consultation. If the power is then devolved, it will be up to him and his colleagues to decide the manner in which that is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "Can the Secretary of State give us any advice on steps that the Northern Ireland economy might take to become more productive and efficient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh, go on.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I yield to no one in blaming the last Government for all sorts of ills, but I think even I would probably draw the line at blaming them for the level of salt in food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) , did when he introduced it. I have said before that now would not be the right time to remove it when we are asking others in our society on much lower incomes to make sacrifices, for we are all in this together, but I think it is sensible to see how much revenue it actually raises. I have asked Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.951.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " the figures.” Well, judge him we will. Every time he comes to the House, growth is downgraded. Last June, 2011 growth was down from 2.6% to 2.3%. In November, it was down again. In January, what did the Prime Minister say? His three priorities for the year were growth, growth, growth. And what has happened in this Budget? Growth is down, down, down. Taking account of all the measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.967.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.967.5", "colnum": "967", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "strongly than last year, and so is that of the United States. Growth in the world economy has been revised upwards. Which is the major country that is downgrading its growth forecasts? The United Kingdom. It is not the wrong type of snow that is to blame, but the wrong type of Chancellor—the wrong type of Chancellor in the wrong type of government with the wrong priorities for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.967.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "8217;s questions, Labour stupidly sold off our gold reserves. I will go further: in all his Budgets the then Chancellor of the Exchequer would make announcements about spending in terms not of millions but billions, and we in opposition used to wonder how it could be funded. We now know that it could not be funded and that we were spending money we never had. I will never forgive Tony Blair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1009.4", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "I was not at the Select Committee this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1009.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "I would love to say that it was a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Southend West (Mr Amess) , but instead I will restrict myself to saying that I agree with him entirely that the hon. Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis) made a very good maiden speech indeed. It is certainly a pleasure to follow him, if not the hon. Member for Southend West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Jo Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “71%.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Johnson", "preceding_text": "re are problems when a country has a stock of debt as massive as ours. Even with the Government’s plans for fiscal consolidation, it will not start declining for some years to come. Under the Labour Government our stock of debt would have peaked at about 80% of gross domestic product, but under the current Government’s plans it will peak somewhere below 70%—69%, I think I recall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "preceding_text": "prentice mean that many of the young people cannot get into the workplace. They may be with a training provider, but actually finding an apprenticeship with a business is proving very difficult. I do not know where these 250,000 apprenticeships are going to come from. If the Government can do this, I say “Excellent, we are all supportive,” but to be honest, you are in la-la land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "That is one viewpoint from one group of people. Others, such as Baker Tilly, the tax accountants, say that it is an excellent Budget. So do the CBI, the OECD, other industry groups, house builders and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": " that hard to stomach, coming from the right hon. Gentleman, because he is giving succour to the proposals before us, which could damage the north-east economy more severely than even those in Thatcher’s day. He is looking both ways, as a Liberal saying one thing in the region, and then coming here and supporting and voting for a Conservative Government who are putting the proposals forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-23", "file": "debates2011-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "932fe56973b089d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "way, I am afraid, because certain Members have taken far too long in the debate, thereby stifling others. I am delighted that the personal tax allowance has been increased to more than £8,000 this coming year. It is vital that we free people from the shackles of tax, particularly those on lower incomes. It is excellent that 1.1 million people will be lifted out of income tax altogether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-23c.1040.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1069.4", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Not for the first time, the hon. Gentleman has his numbers wrong: it is not 5 GW, but 5 MW-and 5 MW is still the equivalent of heating 1,500 homes. The fact of the matter is that the scheme we inherited from the previous Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1069.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "Earlier, the Secretary of State said that in the long term, the costs of unrestrained climate change will exceed the costs of doing something about it. Surely he is aware that the Stern report states that over the whole of this century, the costs of the programme that he is advocating exceed any benefits from reducing climate change, so that-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "On the latest figures, the British economy was not growing at all-in fact, it had contracted by 0.6%. I see the hon. Gentleman's press releases regularly. They come across my desk two or three times a day. I want to give him some support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "or it, which is being blocked by a Tory council. I am with him. He has campaigned to keep his local library open. I am right behind him on that one. He wants to keep Thetford forest safe. Yes, I am with him on that one. He asks how we can deal with the pressures on the voluntary sector. I have to say, I think that he is in the wrong party. Under Labour's plan, the economy was set to grow strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Because a year ago unemployment was falling, and now it is rising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Because a year ago unemployment was falling, and now it is rising. [Interruption.] The Chancellor sits on the Front Bench and says, \"This is so bad.\" Does he mean growth being downgraded? Unemployment going up? I will take his intervention at any point he wants, but if he does not want to make interventions from the Dispatch Box, maybe he should not be doing it from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows the answer. We went into the downturn with a deficit that was low and covered our borrowing for investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The reality was that we had a long period of sustained growth and low inflation, and we reversed the high unemployment of the 1980s and 1990s. We put behind us the instability of the Tory years by making-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1138.4", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I have studied the Chancellor's new fiscal mandate. He says that he wants to get the national debt on a downward trend by the end of the Parliament. We had national debt on a downward trend in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. Before the financial crisis hit, our national debt was lower than the debt we inherited from the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I will gladly share our plan. First, the economy was strengthening and unemployment was falling-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "e done the same, given the level of world oil prices. However, the rise in VAT was a complete own goal. It pushed up inflation and prices and cut family budgets. It was a mistake. It was the wrong tax at the wrong time. The Chancellor should just admit that he got it wrong, go to his European partners and say, \"Can I reverse this mistake before it's too late?\" That is our plan, and the Chancellor-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1142.6", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I think the rise in VAT was a mistake, and I think the hon. Gentleman used to agree. I think that spending cuts this year are a mistake, and I think he used to agree with that too. I would halve the deficit over four years, and borrowing would have come in £20 billion lower-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1142.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1143.5", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Central Bank, the European Commission, the IMF and the OECD. They have also won the approval of the international markets.\" That is the financial statement of 9 December 2009 from the Irish Finance Minister. He is no longer in office, because he had OECD and IMF approval for a policy that drove unemployment up, growth down, confidence down and the deficit up. Does that not sound somewhat familiar?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1150.4", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ur party needs to be \"explicit about cuts... The public expects us to at least give a broad direction-but I think they are worried that we haven't been as clear as we ought to be\". Another senior Labour Member of Parliament-who, perhaps wisely, remained anonymous-told the Financial Times : \"It can't be that hard for us to say what we would cut, or at least give a few examples, for goodness' sake.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1154.3", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ent of cuts, by 75,000 over the spending review period and in this Budget we have added another 50,000. The problems of training are massive. Let us remind ourselves that we inherited a system in which 14% of the adult population have poor literacy skills-we are talking about the reading age of a 12-year-old-and 19% have grossly inadequate mathematical skills. That is the base from which we start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sam Gyimah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Gyimah", "preceding_text": "d not make it into the debate-as it wore on today I felt that the same thing was going to happen-and secondly because of the arguments from the Opposition, especially those put forward by the right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) . If we were to listen to him and completely ignore the fact that we had a general election in which they lost and we won and formed a coalition Government-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1175.2", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Pat McFadden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pat McFadden", "preceding_text": " the economy that needs to invest in new plant and machinery-pay for a tax cut for the parts of the economy less reliant on such investment. This is not, as he claimed yesterday, a conversion to support for making things; this is the Chancellor applying a dressing to a wound that he created last year. What he has given back in the measures on short-term assets is a lot less than he took last year-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d7cf86705f52616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": " amount of refinancing we have to do over the next two or three years, that implies additional borrowing of some £10 billion. If one has any doubts about this issue, one need only look at Portugal, which is close to economic meltdown. Finally, we have the shadow Chancellor's denial, which we heard again today, that any deficit ever existed. As they say, \"De Nile is not just a river in Egypt.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "447be4954c7578ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1069.4", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Not for the first time, the hon. Gentleman has his numbers wrong: it is not 5 GW, but 5 MW—and 5 MW is still the equivalent of heating 1,500 homes. The fact of the matter is that the scheme we inherited from the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1069.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "447be4954c7578ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "Earlier, the Secretary of State said that in the long term, the costs of unrestrained climate change will exceed the costs of doing something about it. Surely he is aware that the Stern report states that over the whole of this century, the costs of the programme that he is advocating exceed any benefits from reducing climate change, so that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1087.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "447be4954c7578ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "On the latest figures, the British economy was not growing at all—in fact, it had contracted by 0.6%. I see the hon. Gentleman’s press releases regularly. They come across my desk two or three times a day. I want to give him some support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1134.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "447be4954c7578ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "cause a year ago unemployment was falling, and now it is rising. [Interruption.] The Chancellor sits on the Front Bench and says, “This is so bad.” Does he mean growth being downgraded? Unemployment going up? I will take his intervention at any point he wants, but if he does not want to make interventions from the Dispatch Box, maybe he should not be doing it from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1136.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-03-24", "file": "debates2011-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "447be4954c7578ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1138.4", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I have studied the Chancellor’s new fiscal mandate. He says that he wants to get the national debt on a downward trend by the end of the Parliament. We had national debt on a downward trend in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. Before the financial crisis hit, our national debt was lower than the debt we inherited from the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-03-24b.1138.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05b.xml", "sha256": "ba633ddcbb75a0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05b.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "ld have some force. As I explained earlier, our replacement fund of £180 billion actually increases the amount of money-the equivalent of £38 a week for the most vulnerable youngsters in the education system- and provides significant funds- [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position that I am lying, so let me write to him to clarify exactly how the £180-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05b.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05b.xml", "sha256": "ba633ddcbb75a0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05b.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "in local elections and European elections. However, someone who is a long-standing resident of the United Kingdom who happens to be Norwegian, Swiss, American, Mexican or Filipino, and who is married to a British citizen, has children born in this country and is paying taxes, can have no right to take any role within our democratic process. Those anomalies and inconsistencies need to be addressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05b.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05b.xml", "sha256": "ba633ddcbb75a0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05b.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " the more thinking Members of the House, but it is unwise for politicians to ignore it. Its headline today is \"Don't you know there are 2 bloody wars on?\" That is a retake of a headline it published on 28 August 2009 as an attack on Gordon Brown: \"Don't you know there's a bloody war on?\" Who are the rebels? We talk about them as though they were jolly members of Sevenoaks Conservative association-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05b.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "It is no secret that the two coalition parties in this Government do not see eye to eye on this issue. That is why we have formed a commission that is composed of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.876.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.882.4", "colnum": "882", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "This is a very difficult issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.882.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Let us just look at some of the things that have been happening. Last Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.884.4", "colnum": "884", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come to questions to the Attorney-General. I call Jack Dromey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.884.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.897.2", "colnum": "897", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "r heard Martin Luther King say, “I have a dream: we need cuts, but a little less and more slowly than the other lot want.” We have got to engage in this seriously. This is a long-term project which requires a long-term approach. On the education maintenance allowance, let me repeat the clarification I gave earlier: we are replacing the untargeted EMA with a targeted bursary fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.897.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.897.2", "colnum": "897", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " £180 million for 12,000 of the most vulnerable young people, which is equivalent to about £38 a week. More money will go to 12,000 students, including young people who are in care or who have left care, those living independently, those whose parents have died, those with disabilities and teenage parents. That is our commitment to targeting help at those who most need it. On fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.897.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.898.5", "colnum": "898", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Lady and all those others who have been involved in the Speaker’s excellent initiative; it is a small beginning but very significant. Of course I agree with her principle that internships should be not only advertised openly and transparently, so that there is a meritocracy in who applies for and secures internships, but properly remunerated. I can confirm that, as of today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.898.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.903.6", "colnum": "903", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The welfare reforms, including universal credit, will massively benefit women who want to take up a little bit of work, a few hours a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.903.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can. As a teenager, yes, I did receive an internship, as, I suspect, did many people around the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "our attention, takes a long time. We have now set aside money to introduce a new cohort study, so that we do not continue to rely on information that is, in some cases, decades out of date. I believe that the tax changes that we have introduced, taking a lot of people on low income out of paying tax, the closing of some of the loopholes at the top, the increasing of capital gains tax by 10%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "If we had got rid of EMA and not replaced it with anything, that allegation would have some force. As I explained earlier, our replacement fund of £180 billion actually increases the amount of money—the equivalent of £38 a week for the most vulnerable youngsters in the education system— and provides significant funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " explained earlier, our replacement fund of £180 billion actually increases the amount of money—the equivalent of £38 a week for the most vulnerable youngsters in the education system— and provides significant funds— [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position that I am lying, so let me write to him to clarify exactly how the £180—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "in local elections and European elections. However, someone who is a long-standing resident of the United Kingdom who happens to be Norwegian, Swiss, American, Mexican or Filipino, and who is married to a British citizen, has children born in this country and is paying taxes, can have no right to take any role within our democratic process. Those anomalies and inconsistencies need to be addressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-05", "file": "debates2011-04-05c.xml", "sha256": "c88d6c49238812f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "is unwise for politicians to ignore it. Its headline today is “Don’t you know there are 2 bloody wars on?” That is a retake of a headline it published on 28 August 2009 as an attack on Gordon Brown: “Don’t you know there’s a bloody war on?” Who are the rebels? We talk about them as though they were jolly members of Sevenoaks Conservative association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-05c.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Wrong Pitt!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am very comfortable knowing a great deal more about Pitt than I did when I first took this role, having read some excellent books about him over the past few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "Should Colonel Gaddafi be deposed, or go by whatever means, would he be subject to the 1970 human rights Act-I am sorry, not human rights-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": " perks, annual bonuses and the right to retire at 50. Despite a massive expansion of health and safety regulation, employment law and various other social protections, Britain is still episodically held hostage by a vocal minority led by militant union bosses. The damage to the British economy and jobs is immense. In 2002 and 2007, we lost more than 1 million working days because of strike action-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "voting-for strike action in the emergency services and the transport sector to be lawful. Let me be absolutely clear: the Bill would have stopped not the majority of recent strikes, but just those not supported by a majority of union members. Some will say, \"Yes, but politicians are elected only by those who turn out to vote,\" but strike ballots and political elections are fundamentally different-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "ellow worker who crossed the picket line to work. It speaks volumes that the RMT leadership backed Hedley over the victim of that assault. This kind of bullying is bad enough in any circumstances, but it is particularly reprehensible during strikes that cannot command a majority of support among a union's own members. Why should a militant minority coerce, intimidate and bully the silent majority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I rise to oppose the Bill. Let me be honest: it was not just the sight of the salivating rants of Tory MPs and their Lib Dem friends that got me to my feet; it was probably this sense of déjà vu, this groundhog day. I was looking round for Lord Tebbit-I have been in the House a long time-because this proposal is cast very much in the mould of what we have seen before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": ", absenteeism, sickness and, of course, the capacity of the work force to think about taking industrial action. The other thing that the hon. Gentleman did not mention is the fact that in many disputes the turnout would pass his threshold-a threshold that I do not think he managed to pass in his general election results. He did not get 50% of eligible voters voting for him in the general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "entleman did not mention is the fact that in many disputes the turnout would pass his threshold-a threshold that I do not think he managed to pass in his general election results. He did not get 50% of eligible voters voting for him in the general election. [ Interruption. ] I am told that he did. Could all Government Members who got the support of 50% of those eligible to vote put their hands up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I have looked at those principles. The Government will, of course, respond to the Committee's report-along with other reports-in the usual way, but the principles seem very sensible. In fact, this is among the Finance Bills on which there has been the most consultation in advance. I believe that 260 of its 390-odd pages were published in draft some months before its publication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.76.4", "colnum": "76", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "dibility as Chancellor\"-that is just what the Energy Secretary is saying about him. The Chancellor is clearly also a founder member of the enemy faction identified by the Deputy Prime Minister in his interview with The Independent over the weekend as \"a right-wing elite, a right-wing clique who want to keep things the way they are\". Perhaps the Chancellor could tell us, if he bothered to turn up -", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.76.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "That is essentially the insight that Keynes developed from his experience as a practising economist. We ignore his insights at our peril-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "it unfolds. A third aspect of the Bill that I want to mention briefly is the introduction of something that has been talked about for some time over the past year-the bank levy; it is almost hard to believe that a statutory basis for it did not exist until now. The detailed provisions governing how it will operate are in schedule 19, which I am still trying to plough my way through and understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": "Yes, probably! I am in a rotund position to say this, and I certainly speak with a certain authority on these matters, but it is never easy to lose weight, as indeed I can testify. I am getting married in a month's time-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "90b6ca8ba25111c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "The tax system needs to be simpler. Simplicity reduces the burdens on businesses-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26b.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Hon Members: “Wrong Pitt!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am very comfortable knowing a great deal more about Pitt than I did when I first took this role, having read some excellent books about him over the past few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Those Libyan banknotes are held in this country as part of the asset freeze, and since they are held as part of the asset freeze they remain frozen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "Should Colonel Gaddafi be deposed, or go by whatever means, would he be subject to the 1970 human rights Act—I am sorry, not human rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": ", annual bonuses and the right to retire at 50. Despite a massive expansion of health and safety regulation, employment law and various other social protections, Britain is still episodically held hostage by a vocal minority led by militant union bosses. The damage to the British economy and jobs is immense. In 2002 and 2007, we lost more than 1 million working days because of strike action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "action in the emergency services and the transport sector to be lawful. Let me be absolutely clear: the Bill would have stopped not the majority of recent strikes, but just those not supported by a majority of union members. Some will say, “Yes, but politicians are elected only by those who turn out to vote,” but strike ballots and political elections are fundamentally different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "worker who crossed the picket line to work. It speaks volumes that the RMT leadership backed Hedley over the victim of that assault. This kind of bullying is bad enough in any circumstances, but it is particularly reprehensible during strikes that cannot command a majority of support among a union’s own members. Why should a militant minority coerce, intimidate and bully the silent majority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "iously, I rise to oppose the Bill. Let me be honest: it was not just the sight of the salivating rants of Tory MPs and their Lib Dem friends that got me to my feet; it was probably this sense of déjà vu, this groundhog day. I was looking round for Lord Tebbit—I have been in the House a long time—because this proposal is cast very much in the mould of what we have seen before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "nteeism, sickness and, of course, the capacity of the work force to think about taking industrial action. The other thing that the hon. Gentleman did not mention is the fact that in many disputes the turnout would pass his threshold—a threshold that I do not think he managed to pass in his general election results. He did not get 50% of eligible voters voting for him in the general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "man did not mention is the fact that in many disputes the turnout would pass his threshold—a threshold that I do not think he managed to pass in his general election results. He did not get 50% of eligible voters voting for him in the general election. [ Interruption. ] I am told that he did. Will all Government Members who got the support of 50% of those eligible to vote put their hands up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I have looked at those principles. The Government will, of course, respond to the Committee’s report—along with other reports—in the usual way, but the principles seem very sensible. In fact, this is among the Finance Bills on which there has been the most consultation in advance. I believe that 260 of its 390-odd pages were published in draft some months before its publication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.76.4", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "#8212;that is just what the Energy Secretary is saying about him. The Chancellor is clearly also a founder member of the enemy faction identified by the Deputy Prime Minister in his interview with The Independent over the weekend as “a right-wing elite, a right-wing clique who want to keep things the way they are”. Perhaps the Chancellor could tell us, if he bothered to turn up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.76.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "That is essentially the insight that Keynes developed from his experience as a practising economist. We ignore his insights at our peril—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "olds. A third aspect of the Bill that I want to mention briefly is the introduction of something that has been talked about for some time over the past year—the bank levy; it is almost hard to believe that a statutory basis for it did not exist until now. The detailed provisions governing how it will operate are in schedule 19, which I am still trying to plough my way through and understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend moves on to that, does he agree that the carbon issue, as well as the issues of air passenger duty and corporation tax for Northern Ireland, arises because Northern Ireland has a land frontier with the Irish Republic, which is a unique circumstance within the United Kingdom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": "Yes, probably! I am in a rotund position to say this, and I certainly speak with a certain authority on these matters, but it is never easy to lose weight, as indeed I can testify. I am getting married in a month’s time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-26", "file": "debates2011-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "97e84e1d3bdf956b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Industrial Relations (Voting Procedures)", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "The tax system needs to be simpler. Simplicity reduces the burdens on businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-26d.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": "The short answer is yes. More than ever, the country needs to get behind its entrepreneurs. My hon. Friend's local initiative sounds like an excellent one, and I would be delighted to meet him-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Health Secretary does an excellent job. Let me draw a little contrast-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.169.6", "colnum": "169", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asks me to listen to doctors, so here is one doctor I am definitely going to listen to. I hope Opposition Members will remember Howard Stoate, who was the Member of Parliament for Dartford. He is no longer an MP because he lost the election-because of the Conservative candidate, I am afraid. He is now a GP-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.169.6", "colnum": "169", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " going to listen to. I hope Opposition Members will remember Howard Stoate, who was the Member of Parliament for Dartford. He is no longer an MP because he lost the election-because of the Conservative candidate, I am afraid. He is now a GP- [Interruption.] Calm down, dear. Listen to the doctor. Howard Stoate, GP, says: \"My... discussions with fellow GPs... reveal overwhelming enthusiasm for the\"-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.169.6", "colnum": "169", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "t for Dartford. He is no longer an MP because he lost the election-because of the Conservative candidate, I am afraid. He is now a GP- [Interruption.] Calm down, dear. Listen to the doctor. Howard Stoate, GP, says: \"My... discussions with fellow GPs... reveal overwhelming enthusiasm for the\"- [Interruption.] I said calm down. Calm down, dear-and I will say it to the shadow Chancellor, if he likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Well, I have to say to my hon. Friend that that shows that some of the loony left is still alive and well in our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " Chelmsford (Mr Burns) , to discuss the concerns, and they are in agreement that issues need to be resolved swiftly. The Department of Health is working closely with the local NHS to produce proposals to redevelop the hospital. That is what is going to happen: investment will be going into the NHS because of the commitments we have made, whereas, sadly, I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman's party-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "atives because I thought there was going to be more help for the NHS. Now they are cutting that off and locally they are cutting off the Sure Start centres which single parents like myself rely on.\" We have been very pleased to welcome Kelly into the Labour party because she sees that in these tough times only Labour will be the voice of people and stand up for the services on which people depend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "You do. So the Liberal Democrats all think that that is a correct representation and stand by it. Let us consider Kingston upon Hull, where there is a 50% cut in the Sure Start budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ue. Perhaps somebody has more up-to-date information and will beg to differ. Kingston upon Thames is another interesting and revealing example. Channel 4 FactCheck picked up the suggestion from the Deputy Prime Minister that the Lib Dems were not closing any centres and Cathy Newman went to Kingston upon Thames to look at whether any centres were being closed. Indeed, one was being closed in Hook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "early close to his heart, as he said when he set the budget. I am delighted that it is working to keep all its centres open. Perhaps our calling this debate has led some people at local level to have a change of heart. Perhaps it has led to some U-turns at local level, of the kind we have become familiar with from the Government. The hon. Member for Gosport (Caroline Dinenage) mentioned Hampshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.192.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruptio n.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "QPR, as it happens, but I admire Liverpool, and particularly Kenny Dalglish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) almost acknowledged, not only are all the existing Sure Start children's centres being protected but a new one is being built. There is an increase in the number of Sure Start children's centres in Hammersmith and Fulham. The right hon. Member for Leigh told us halfway through his speech that Hampshire was going to close all its children's centres. Sadly, that slur-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.195.2", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "Before we leave this matter, let us get to the bottom of the point about Hampshire. There was clearly a change of heart yesterday-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I envisage Sure Start as a universal service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.211.5", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": ". I have mentioned the local election campaign and what people are seeing happening, and I say this: a week tomorrow we in Manchester will be able to pass our verdict on the Liberal Democrats. There is no point in our passing our verdict on the Conservatives because we do not have any of them on the council, but we will be able to pass our verdict on what they have connived at in the abolition of-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.211.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I am going to make a little more progress, because I am aware of Madam Deputy Speaker's strictures about time and I need to draw to a close very quickly. Let me complete the point I was making about the unfairness that is being introduced into the access system. Labour's progress on social mobility must be maintained-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.245.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "those circumstances-almost in the same month, incidentally, that we had the plan from the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) for large reductions in public spending. After considering Lord Browne's report, which took him a year to produce and in which time he took a large amount of evidence, the coalition has adopted a strategy that, although not in every respect his strategy-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "e Browne review. Lord Mandelson, the former Business Secretary, now says that when the previous Government instigated the review in 2009, he assumed, as the Treasury did, that the outcome would have to include a significant further increase in tuition fees. Whether that was Labour party policy at the time, you have to acknowledge that the Labour party gave the Browne review its terms of reference-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.276.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": "This is crux of the matter: we are publishing documents tonight to pass back to the EU that show that the UK is in compliance with the rules. Those rules mean that we could qualify for the euro. People have often asked, \"With the pound so close to parity with the euro, why don't we join?\" but we will not join because we will not fudge the figures just to get into the euro-not that we want to join-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27c.xml", "sha256": "73e4ee691c29c257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "he deficit has to be done by generating growth. After the banking crisis, the Labour Government did exactly the right thing. They pushed demand into the economy by printing money, reducing interest rates almost to zero and recapitalising the banks, all of which had to be done. In fact, the Conservative Government, in their first six months, were living on the growth generated by Labour's policies-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27c.303.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27f.xml", "sha256": "55ae8eca474dc57d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Sure Start Children’s Centres", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I am going to make a little more progress, because I am aware of Madam Deputy Speaker’s strictures about time and I need to draw to a close very quickly. Let me complete the point I was making about the unfairness that is being introduced into the access system. Labour’s progress on social mobility must be maintained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.245.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27f.xml", "sha256": "55ae8eca474dc57d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Sure Start Children’s Centres", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "s—almost in the same month, incidentally, that we had the plan from the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) for large reductions in public spending. After considering Lord Browne’s report, which took him a year to produce and in which time he took a large amount of evidence, the coalition has adopted a strategy that, although not in every respect his strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27f.xml", "sha256": "55ae8eca474dc57d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Sure Start Children’s Centres", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You?”", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "ne review. Lord Mandelson, the former Business Secretary, now says that when the previous Government instigated the review in 2009, he assumed, as the Treasury did, that the outcome would have to include a significant further increase in tuition fees. Whether that was Labour party policy at the time, you have to acknowledge that the Labour party gave the Browne review its terms of reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27f.xml", "sha256": "55ae8eca474dc57d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Sure Start Children’s Centres", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "bour central office have now found one. Ethiopia has a graduate tax, but it is thinking of ditching it, just as Labour has decided to take the idea on board. As for the charge that variable fees will deter working-class students, we heard the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tristram Hunt) speak with authority on the subject. I know that he is a close student of working-class culture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27f.xml", "sha256": "55ae8eca474dc57d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Sure Start Children’s Centres", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": " are publishing documents tonight to pass back to the EU that show that the UK is in compliance with the rules. Those rules mean that we could qualify for the euro. People have often asked, “With the pound so close to parity with the euro, why don’t we join?” but we will not join because we will not fudge the figures just to get into the euro—not that we want to join—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27f.xml", "sha256": "55ae8eca474dc57d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Sure Start Children’s Centres", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "as to be done by generating growth. After the banking crisis, the Labour Government did exactly the right thing. They pushed demand into the economy by printing money, reducing interest rates almost to zero and recapitalising the banks, all of which had to be done. In fact, the Conservative Government, in their first six months, were living on the growth generated by Labour’s policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.303.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-27", "file": "debates2011-04-27f.xml", "sha256": "55ae8eca474dc57d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Sure Start Children’s Centres", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": " Given the limited time available, I will be very brief, but let me say that I feel that far too little effort has been made to explain some of these imbalances through monetary factors. Printing money has been mentioned. The problem with printing money is that it creates patterns of economic activity that can last only as long as that supply of new money. When the new money comes to an end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-27f.308.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-04-28", "file": "debates2011-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "6fc94f6a3d2ae8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-28d.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend made similar points in the debate at the beginning of April, and again I hope that he has reaped the rewards. That debate was also an important opportunity to congratulate him on his then forthcoming nuptials, although I am not on top of them enough to know whether they have now occurred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-04-28d.338.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.516.7", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": " institutions in such a way that there was a precipitation of the collapse of the credit that could flow through the financial institutions, which infected all the other companies in the stock exchange. That is how the situation became a global crisis. In addressing the analysis that the amendment asks the Government to engage in, I urge them to take seriously the regulatory failings at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.516.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that if we had listened to those on the Conservative Front Bench, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who did not want to intervene in Northern Rock and wanted to let banks go bust, the banking crisis in this country would have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that if we had listened to those on the Conservative Front Bench, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who did not want to intervene in Northern Rock and wanted to let banks go bust, the banking crisis in this country would have— [ Interruption. ] The Economic Secretary chunters from a sedentary position, but what I am saying was said by the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "tough time at the moment, and not just in the public sector. A number of private sector companies are closing in Darlington as a direct result of the fiscal straitjacket that this coalition Government have put on the north-east region. Before the election the Prime Minister said that there would be a “day of reckoning” for bankers, but if this is a “day of reckoning”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "rs rather than just listening to the hollow words and rhetoric of the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister in the run-up to the general election. The beauty of being in government is that politicians can actually do things. I know it has come as a big shock to many Liberal Democrats that they are in a position of responsibility whereby they can actually affect the lives of ordinary people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": " of the bank levy. The steps show how the allowance of £20 billion is to be applied and how the bank levy charge is calculated for long and short chargeable periods. Part 6 of the Schedule provides details of how to identify the entity responsible for payment of the bank levy.” I have asked why the figure is £20 billion and not £5 billion, £10 billion or £50 billion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Hoyle. The Chief Whip really needs to take a breath and perhaps calm down for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "ust rising fuel prices that are hitting people. Rises in fuel prices feed through to higher food prices and higher energy prices for household bills. Despite a recent up-tick, the OECD estimates that food prices in the first quarter of this year were nearly 6% higher than they were last year, and energy prices more than 9% higher. As real incomes fall, spending on basic items, such as food —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point, which I will come on to in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "s when they go to the shops or fill up their cars—as my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) correctly said, food prices are partly driven by fuel prices—yet their wages are held down, so at the same time, they face higher prices in the shops and less in their pay packets every month. That means a falling quality of life for the average person in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "d prices are partly driven by fuel prices—yet their wages are held down, so at the same time, they face higher prices in the shops and less in their pay packets every month. That means a falling quality of life for the average person in this country— [ Interruption. ] Some in the House clearly think that that is a laughing matter, and I will let my constituents know that they do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.571.6", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "n the United Kingdom. The haulage industry based on the other side of the channel therefore has a competitive advantage. The great lorries with Polish and other countries’ number plates that we see bringing goods into this country have a competitive advantage over those of our own haulage industry. We need to look at these matters. I have to say that I think the Liberal Democrats were right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.571.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.572.4", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "at there should be some elasticity in demand. The Government say that they want to be the greenest ever, so they ought to consider the carbon emission consequences of changes to fuel duty and VAT on fuel. I hope that Treasury Ministers have taken advice on that from both the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Department for Transport. They ought to have done, if they really are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.572.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "I have not read it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.574.5", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "Is it the Government’s policy, then, to use fiscal measures to reduce carbon emissions? Is that what brought about the carbon variation of 1.4 megatonnes—is that what the hon. Lady said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "The fact that I am moving the amendment makes fairly clear what I think and what I am trying to do. What I am saying to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "At this stage, I am not here to attribute responsibility for the decision. My concern is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "The evidence suggests that sudden step changes to taxes have been made by successive Governments and they have had the same effect: a drop in investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Smith", "preceding_text": "Those hon. Members may have chosen to speak in other ways; they can raise matters with Ministers directly or in correspondence. There are all sorts of ways of trying to influence Ministers. I am using probing amendments and this debate to try to do so. If I may say so, it is rather sad that the Committee has chosen to focus on such a major industry for the UK economy at 1.30 am, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": " the autumn. We want to ensure that the Exchequer obtains a fair share of the value of our natural resource wealth while ensuring that the tax regime does not impede the development of the basin’s potential. The impacts of the measure are understood, so no further assessment is required, and I urge the Opposition not to press the amendment. It is impossible not to note that they voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": ". and learned Gentleman may say that, but this is an argument about corporation tax and if Members wish to participate in the debate I am very happy to stay here for as long as they wish to, because we can discuss this matter in some detail. It is very important that we discuss the circumstances in which we need to ensure that the growth in the private sector is undertaken by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ument about corporation tax and if Members wish to participate in the debate I am very happy to stay here for as long as they wish to, because we can discuss this matter in some detail. It is very important that we discuss the circumstances in which we need to ensure that the growth in the private sector is undertaken by the Government— [ Interruption. ] I mean that the growth is encouraged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.635.5", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend’s region, the north-east, faces the highest unemployment in the whole United Kingdom, as I have mentioned, at 10.2%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.635.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "Well, we need to look at the impact of that particular cut, and I will say it eight times for the hon. Gentleman: we need to look at the impact of that cut. Let me, for example, look at the issue in relation to how the corporation tax cut will affect the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.637.6", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might like to take the issue more seriously than he is doing, because it is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.637.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-03", "file": "debates2011-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "cbf4f1077ff3fc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Planning (Green Belt Protection)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I will give way to my hon. Friend, but I want to finish in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-03c.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "59509bc2ed1d45a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ware that there was extensive discussion in the Labour Government about those matters, and that under the leadership of my right hon. Friend the Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, they settled on limiting child care relief to basic rate relief, with the purpose of funding an expansion of child care places for two-year-olds. I would like clarification from the Exchequer Secretary today on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State and I are in regular contact with the banks operating in Scotland to ensure that Merlin goes forward as envisaged. We are also willing to take up individual cases such as the one that my hon. Friend mentions, which, if he refers it to us, we will refer directly to the banks in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "What meaningful discussions has the Secretary of State had with the Scottish Government on this vital issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The fact is that we will have to wait until July, when the access regulator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " tax, cap immigration, lift a million people out of income tax, introduce a pupil premium, link the pension back to earnings, cut corporation tax, and set up more academies in 10 months than the last Government set up in 10 years. At the council elections tomorrow, people should remember the mess that Labour left us in, and resolve not to let Labour do to their councils what it did to our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Applause .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "ve worked closely, for your trust and for the camaraderie we have enjoyed together which has greatly lightened what can be serious and sometimes difficult moments. Yours sincerely, Malcolm Jack Members will wish to know that I have put in place a competition for the appointment of the Clerk’s successor. There will be an opportunity to pay the traditional tribute to the Clerk at a later date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Sex Education (Required Content)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "in recent years. Drug use has decreased over the past decade—some 7% of youngsters between the ages of 16 and 24 have used a class A drug. Contrary to what hon. Members will read in the national newspapers, drinking among 15-year-olds has decreased quite dramatically. Ten years ago, 58% of boys said that they drank alcohol; the figure is now 36%. The figure for girls is down from 54% to 30%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Sex Education (Required Content)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "To be honest, I do not know. I was not a Treasury Minister in the last Labour Government. I spent my time in Northern Ireland, in prisons, in probation and in the Home Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Sex Education (Required Content)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ware that there was extensive discussion in the Labour Government about those matters, and that under the leadership of my right hon. Friend the Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, they settled on limiting child care relief to basic rate relief, with the purpose of funding an expansion of child care places for two-year-olds. I would like clarification from the Exchequer Secretary today on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.717.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-04", "file": "debates2011-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "3e8e015ec03b6652", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Sex Education (Required Content)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "d Wanstead (John Cryer) for their contributions. They have highlighted the concerns that we have expressed by asking for the clause to be debated today. Those concerns were summarised in the points that we made at the beginning. The Minister has not really answered those points to our satisfaction, although I will not press the clause to a vote today, because as I have said to him, whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-04c.746.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-10", "file": "debates2011-05-10c.xml", "sha256": "32b2209555970c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "8217;s plans—it said there would have been weaker economic growth—but its director general has also said: “We are rock solid behind the chancellor’s plans to eliminate the structural deficit within a parliament”, which are an “essential part of putting the economy back on a stable footing”. That is the voice of British business’s view of the deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-10", "file": "debates2011-05-10c.xml", "sha256": "32b2209555970c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "As I am sure the right hon. Gentleman knows, there are very significant global headwinds of the high oil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-10", "file": "debates2011-05-10c.xml", "sha256": "32b2209555970c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1035.8", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "This policy has been referred to in speeches by me and the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1035.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-10", "file": "debates2011-05-10c.xml", "sha256": "32b2209555970c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "mployers can sponsor. I very much value the advice of the right hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes) —who, if I might say so, made a powerful intervention in a previous debate in this House on higher education, only last week or the week before, about how our student finance reforms will work, which was exactly the right way forward for student finance in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-10", "file": "debates2011-05-10c.xml", "sha256": "32b2209555970c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Lip-reading", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You are the Opposition!”", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "The Opposition seem to misunderstand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-10", "file": "debates2011-05-10c.xml", "sha256": "32b2209555970c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1067.6", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Lip-reading", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "oke, and that is simply not good enough. At the very least, the Secretary of State should concede the need for evidence sessions for the Bill, so we can shed some light on its murkier aspects, but he has refused to do so. As a result, Members will not have a single opportunity to discuss the Bill outside Committee. Today, the longer the Secretary of State’s answers were, the less we learned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1067.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-10", "file": "debates2011-05-10c.xml", "sha256": "32b2209555970c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Lip-reading", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "y big challenges, but the green deal, as it stands, does not step up to deliver on them. When the Secretary of State talks about success that will be determined by word of mouth, we know he has a great plan that will certainly deliver the results he sets out. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] Clearly Government Members do not understand irony. Thirdly, and most shamefully, the Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-10", "file": "debates2011-05-10c.xml", "sha256": "32b2209555970c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Lip-reading", "cue_speaker": "Luciana Berger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luciana Berger", "preceding_text": " House of Lords, which was rejected. I sincerely hope that the Government will revisit it in Committee. My hon. Friend the Member for Brent North asked what might happen if a new householder or tenant arrived and the energy savings arrangement changed as a result. The Secretary of State made a joke about a Brazilian wife, but my hon. Friend had asked a serious question that needs to be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-10c.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "15357021fa35fb49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11b.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "ntions “reasoned opinion”, “subsidiarity and proportionality” and so forth, but if passed it would not actually instruct the House of Commons to reject the directive as drafted. I suspect—on this point I was thinking of intervening on the hon. Lady, but I thought I would let her finish—that it might be more to do with the Liberal Democrat position on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11b.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "15357021fa35fb49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11b.1297.5", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "hen I accept the Minister’s position. I must confess that it is a reassurance to those of us on the Eurosceptic wing of the party that it is the Minister who will be conducting the negotiations, because at least we know that it is not, as some on the Opposition Benches would have said, a woolly Liberal negotiating. It is somebody who wields a handbag in as fine a way as the great lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11b.1297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11d.xml", "sha256": "58730d30515b75d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1153.10", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "That is an easy question for me to answer.I welcome the work that has been done to enable Wylfa to continue generating low-carbon electricity for a further two years, and I am delighted that the site has been chosen as a future new site for generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1153.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11d.xml", "sha256": "58730d30515b75d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point I would make to the hon. Gentleman is that not only are exports growing and manufacturing growing, but we have 400,000 more people in work than there were a year ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11d.xml", "sha256": "58730d30515b75d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1171.3", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "hat it would have been all the stronger had he not found it necessary to parody and seek comprehensively to trash the record of the previous Government? I accept that the budget under the previous Government was insufficient. I also accept, and thought at the time, that the Treasury’s decision in 2007 to impose this foreign exchange regulator was utterly irrational, verging on the mad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11d.xml", "sha256": "58730d30515b75d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " February. The Prime Minister intends to visit Russia later in the year. Both sides have been working at improvements in relations, but I do not think that we are at the point yet where we can reverse decisions that were taken under the previous Government about this. I make no criticism of the previous Administration on this issue, because the difficult relations with Russia were not their fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11d.xml", "sha256": "58730d30515b75d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1175.0", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s reference to the great work of our embassy in Japan. At the UKTI strategy launch last night I met someone from a very innovative new business who was immensely enthusiastic about the support that it had received from our embassy in Japan, so I can absolutely confirm what my hon. Friend says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1175.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11d.xml", "sha256": "58730d30515b75d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Planning (Grade 1 Agricultural Land Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "ntions “reasoned opinion”, “subsidiarity and proportionality” and so forth, but if passed it would not actually instruct the House of Commons to reject the directive as drafted. I suspect—on this point I was considering intervening on the hon. Lady, but I thought I would let her finish—that it might be more to do with the Liberal Democrat position on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-11", "file": "debates2011-05-11d.xml", "sha256": "58730d30515b75d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1288.4", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Planning (Grade 1 Agricultural Land Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "That is very helpful, and it means that the Liberal Democrats must have undergone a de facto change of opinion. I suppose that we can ask the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-11d.1288.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-12", "file": "debates2011-05-12d.xml", "sha256": "027a401c44d3b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-12d.1333.8", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "Given that the South West Devon Waste Partnership has decided that Plymouth is the right place for its energy-from-waste facility, will the Secretary of State please try to persuade Devon county council, in its forthcoming consideration of an application for a commercial waste incinerator in south Devon, that we certainly do not need two incinerators so close to each other in the area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-12d.1333.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-12", "file": "debates2011-05-12d.xml", "sha256": "027a401c44d3b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-12d.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "The reason that I pause is that I am not sure whether responsibility for salmon is a devolved matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-12d.1365.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-12", "file": "debates2011-05-12d.xml", "sha256": "027a401c44d3b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-12d.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "That is a very good point. It is rather a shame that the view of some Labour Members—which is not shared by my hon. Friend—is that working-class children cannot achieve academic excellence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-12d.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-12", "file": "debates2011-05-12d.xml", "sha256": "027a401c44d3b22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-12d.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Backbench Business — [27th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Whale!”", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "erests in that regard. The Minister has co-operated with the GLOBE commission, and I am delighted that he will respond to the debate. I am sure that he will wish to be constructive, as always. Last night I attended the launch of Project Ocean at Selfridges. The Prince of Wales opened proceedings, followed by a private party attended by Elle Macpherson, the folk rock band Noah and the Whales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-12d.1441.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-16", "file": "debates2011-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "a350688dbb1e8db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16b.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "t—I do not criticise the report; I am sure that we will pass it and move on—but it is for the authorities and the Committees in this House to ensure that one simple procedure applies to everybody. As the Chair of the Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr Barron) , has said, this matter is now under investigation by the police because somebody has referred it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16b.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-16", "file": "debates2011-05-16b.xml", "sha256": "a350688dbb1e8db6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16b.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "ble to move forward after 2013 and allow Suffolk to form more co-operatives, so that funding can be diverted towards water storage. That would be good for farmers, for consumers and for the environment, and I am sure the Minister will put his mind to it. I know that the farming community has great confidence in our Minister. He is a Suffolk man who was born in my constituency, and he was a farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16b.130.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-16", "file": "debates2011-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "a46c6eaf0b4f7635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16c.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a useful point. We have, of course, been trialling our new website and are looking at examinations at the point when personnel leave the armed forces. One issue that I failed to mention and ought to have done is the need to get better information to GPs. I remember practising as a GP and having absolutely no education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16c.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-16", "file": "debates2011-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "a46c6eaf0b4f7635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16c.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": " by the rent. In addition, he dealt with the separate matter of wrong claims for phone bills, which, as Members who have been here for some time will know, were not claimable under the additional costs allowance. I think it fair to remind the House that the commissioner reached his conclusions based on the standards expected at the time, and not under a retrospective reinterpretation of the rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16c.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-16", "file": "debates2011-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "a46c6eaf0b4f7635", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16c.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "t—I do not criticise the report; I am sure that we will pass it and move on—but it is for the authorities and the Committees in this House to ensure that one simple procedure applies to everybody. As the Chair of the Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr Barron) , has said, this matter is now under investigation by the police because somebody has referred it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-16c.51.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-17", "file": "debates2011-05-17c.xml", "sha256": "7a7ace746ff52e2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-17c.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "LOCALISM BILL (WAYS AND MEANS)", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": " : “She seems to be suggesting that we would somehow impose mayors on those 12 cities, but of course we will not-that is completely out of the question. The proposals will be subject to referendums. Once we know the views of the people in those 12 cities, we will move on to the election of a mayor if people vote for that.”—[ Official Report , 21 October 2010; Vol. 516, c. 1117 .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-17c.214.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "f the Opposition saying at his party conference, about Ken Clarke: “I’m not going to say he’s soft on crime.” Well, that pledge did not last very long. One of these days the Labour party is going to realise that opposition is about more than just jumping on a bandwagon and picking up an issue; it is about putting forward a serious alternative and making some serious points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.335.7", "colnum": "335", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Simon Kirby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Kirby", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister join me in sending a message of support to Tony Blair’s former speechwriter, Peter Hyman, who is seeking to set up one of the coalition’s excellent new free schools in east London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.335.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "he billionaires have gone up by 20—an increase of 37%—in the first year of this Tory rule, while in the real world inflation is going through the roof and thousands of blind people are having to march through the streets of London to hang on to their disability living allowance? What a savage indictment of this lousy, rotten Tory Government, propped up by these pathetic Liberals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I can see that the hon. Gentleman enjoyed that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.341.6", "colnum": "341", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes it is!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point is that what the hon. Lady says is not what we are proposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.341.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No he doesn’t!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an important point. [Hon. Members: “No he doesn’t!”] It is interesting that whenever someone raises a point about union funding they get shouted down by the Labour party, because Labour Members do not want any examination of what trade unions do, or how much money they give to the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to clear this up. When I read about Mr Britnell being my adviser, I was slightly puzzled, because I have never heard of this person in my life, and he is not my adviser. However, I did a little research, and it turned out that he was an adviser to the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.342.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.342.5", "colnum": "342", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.342.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will make a statement on the implications of the Weightman report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will be aware, even after only a year in the House, that it is not the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "I will when I finish the sentence, if that is all right. The tenure standard will prescribe what local housing authorities can and cannot include in their housing strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.406.4", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You do!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "Fortunately, I do not have to take responsibility for the actions of that body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "preceding_text": "with young children, confidence that they have a home for their family for the future. That is why we need to focus on the fact that social housing is meant to be not for short-term crisis accommodation but for family homes. I should preface my remarks by saying that I absolutely accept that my hon. Friend the Minister’s intention is to tackle the waiting list problem, which is a huge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "or very good-humoured and good-tempered scrutiny. I think that I speak for every member of the Committee when I say that we have enjoyed scrutinising the Bill in Committee and in the House. It is fair to say that there was never a dull moment. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey) , sadly, is not in his place—perhaps he has gone ahead of us to the funeral I mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-18", "file": "debates2011-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "141d2aa66cadce7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Road Safety", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": ", I think we acknowledged. He had a flair for simile, we noted, comparing Ministers and the Secretary of State to everyone from Draco to Henry VIII to Dr Pangloss and everyone in between. A phrase that might have gained his approval is one that we were not able to offer as frequently as he would have wished—“I agree with Nick.” Perhaps, there will be other opportunities for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-18c.455.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-19", "file": "debates2011-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "2d9f7049308126e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19b.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "ere the market will not deliver. We have already announced four pilot areas, including the one represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border—it was more than life was worth not to have his constituency as one of the pilot areas, although it was, of course, I emphasise, an independent decision—along with North Yorkshire, Herefordshire and the highlands and islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19b.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-19", "file": "debates2011-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "4f5087a19f0940d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.497.2", "colnum": "497", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "ght have caused. This does not, however, affect our policy to introduce a tough licensing regime. The very strong legal advice that we have received, which is consistent with the case being prepared against Austria, is that a total ban on wild animals in circuses might well be seen as disproportionate action under the European Union services directive and under our own Human Rights Act 1998—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-19", "file": "debates2011-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "4f5087a19f0940d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.499.4", "colnum": "499", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for North Thanet (Mr Gale) is wrong. In 2009, when I was Minister of State at DEFRA, we initiated a consultation, in response to which 94.5 % of people said that they wanted the use of wild animals in circuses to be banned. We gave a commitment that we would do that if we were returned to office. The Minister is also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.499.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-19", "file": "debates2011-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "4f5087a19f0940d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Backbench Business — [27th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "railways, canals and so on is lacking so far in that critical aspect of our infrastructure needs. The target of 2 megabits per second, as I am sure most hon. Members know, is staggeringly unambitious. Next year, Norway will roll out to 98% of its inhabitants 100 megabits per second, and the EU digital agenda is for 30 megabits per second by 2020. I admit that Singapore is not entirely rural—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-19", "file": "debates2011-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "4f5087a19f0940d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Backbench Business — [27th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stephenson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stephenson", "preceding_text": "Mr Smith works from home for a company based overseas. Without extending broadband coverage to our rural areas, it would simply not be possible to perform jobs such as his. In Higham, Arthur Stuttard says that the maximum speed at his property is 1.2 megabits and constantly dropping. The connection was once down for six weeks because of corroded lines. The same is reported by Bernard Ingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-19", "file": "debates2011-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "4f5087a19f0940d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Backbench Business — [27th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Trainspotter!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "preceding_text": ", that locating a business is governed by various criteria. Thirty years ago, one of them was the STD code. I risk being intervened on at this point, but I used to have a very good knowledge of STD codes throughout the country, because I knew where companies were. The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (John Woodcock) has left the Chamber, but I happen to know that the code for that area is 01229.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-19", "file": "debates2011-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "4f5087a19f0940d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.582.4", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Backbench Business — [27th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "preceding_text": " and our businesses. I welcome the Government’s stated intention and the money they are putting into this endeavour, and I refer the Minister to the letter I wrote to him on 25 March regarding Derbyshire county council’s bid for the next wave of funding for digital roll-out. I hope he will acknowledge that, and I also hope the bid is successful. He has momentarily moved from his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.582.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-19", "file": "debates2011-05-19c.xml", "sha256": "4f5087a19f0940d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Backbench Business — [27th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "ere the market will not deliver. We have already announced four pilot areas, including the one represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border—it was more than life was worth not to have his constituency as one of the pilot areas, although it was, of course, I emphasise, an independent decision—along with North Yorkshire, Herefordshire and the highlands and islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-19c.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "dd7a381eca977b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He didn’t say that.”", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State and I differ. He seems to think it perfectly reasonable for somebody to get eight years in prison and only serve two, but I think that it is unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "dd7a381eca977b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No, he didn’t say that.”", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": " differ. He seems to think it perfectly reasonable for somebody to get eight years in prison and only serve two, but I think that it is unacceptable. [Hon. Members: “He didn’t say that.”] I am disappointed he thinks that somebody who is given an eight-year sentence should be given a 50% discount for an early plea, reducing the sentence to four years, and so be released after two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "dd7a381eca977b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "No, there is not time. But that is what the Secretary of State is proposing. That is what happened to Gabrielle Browne, who sparked the debate when she questioned the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "dd7a381eca977b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Name them.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "ugher prison sentences, of making them longer for certain crimes and of taking away the televisions and the PlayStations in favour of making prisoners do hard work during the day, learn a skill and work towards being creative members of society on coming out of prison. The problem with the case of Labour Members, some of whom have made an alliance with some of the more extreme Conservative Members", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "dd7a381eca977b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "and the PlayStations in favour of making prisoners do hard work during the day, learn a skill and work towards being creative members of society on coming out of prison. The problem with the case of Labour Members, some of whom have made an alliance with some of the more extreme Conservative Members [Hon. Members: “Name them.”] No, they know who they are! It is an interesting alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "dd7a381eca977b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Karl Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karl Turner", "preceding_text": "t choose his words very well. Indeed, to be honest, when I heard, and listened back to, his comments, I understood the point he was trying to make. The reality, however, is that some sentences that are currently on the statute book are too low. In an earlier intervention, I made a point about convictions and sentences for the offence of causing death by careless driving while over the limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "dd7a381eca977b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "g choice. We have seen it all before. Under the Tories last time, crime doubled; under Labour, crime went down 40%. Not only are we seeing the means of tackling crime reduced by cuts in police, DNA services, CCTV and ASBOs, by making sentences easier and by giving the wrong signals to rapists; we are increasing demand by cutting education, cutting jobs and increasing drug-taking essentially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "o play in a publicly funded playground? Children there play together regardless of income or background, and for many local children the playground is their back garden, because they live in high-rise flats. Is this localism in action, or will the Secretary of State assure the House that the Government will press councils to ensure that this is not a slippery slope towards a price tag on playtime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Even in a collective Government, one does not analyse what happens in Cabinet Committees before coming to one’s final conclusions. I am not going to disclose the contents of the Cabinet Committee’s proceedings for at least 20 years. The right hon. Gentleman will not be surprised to know that we do go to Cabinet Committees, but we have not yet finished our consultation process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "preceding_text": "atters. Thinking about what the Lord Chancellor said, it seems to me that we need a rethink. This is not about who runs the prisons, but about how they are run. We need to establish the value of short custodial sentences. What does a 10-week sentence set out to achieve? More importantly, we need to know, as he acknowledged, why it is easier to get drugs and other contraband in prison than outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He didn’t say that.”", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State and I differ. He seems to think it perfectly reasonable for somebody to get eight years in prison and serve only two, but I think that it is unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No, he didn’t say that.”", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": " differ. He seems to think it perfectly reasonable for somebody to get eight years in prison and serve only two, but I think that it is unacceptable. [Hon. Members: “He didn’t say that.”] I am disappointed he thinks that somebody who is given an eight-year sentence should be given a 50% discount for an early plea, reducing the sentence to four years, and so be released after two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "No, there is not time. That is what the Secretary of State is proposing. That is what happened to Gabrielle Browne, who sparked the debate when she questioned the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Name them.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "ugher prison sentences, of making them longer for certain crimes and of taking away the televisions and the PlayStations in favour of making prisoners do hard work during the day, learn a skill and work towards being creative members of society on coming out of prison. The problem with the case of Labour Members, some of whom have made an alliance with some of the more extreme Conservative Members", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "and the PlayStations in favour of making prisoners do hard work during the day, learn a skill and work towards being creative members of society on coming out of prison. The problem with the case of Labour Members, some of whom have made an alliance with some of the more extreme Conservative Members [Hon. Members: “Name them.”] No, they know who they are! It is an interesting alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It was 10%.”", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to the hon. Lady, whom I congratulate on the work that she did in enabling not just women but children to come forward and give evidence, and indeed improving sentencing. On the issue of men, she gave the statistic of 1%. I am always a bit cynical about statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Karl Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karl Turner", "preceding_text": "t choose his words very well. Indeed, to be honest, when I heard, and listened back to, his comments, I understood the point he was trying to make. The reality, however, is that some sentences that are currently on the statute book are too low. In an earlier intervention, I made a point about convictions and sentences for the offence of causing death by careless driving while over the limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Order. Would Members leaving the Chamber do so quickly and quietly, please, so that we can start the next debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.704.8", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "We have been here before. We have had this debate before. There is a clear difference between our plans and the Government’s. We said yes, there would be reductions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.704.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.704.8", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": " before. We have had this debate before. There is a clear difference between our plans and the Government’s. We said yes, there would be reductions— [Interruption.]— and that that would mean being able to maintain the number of police officers and police community support officers across the country and being able to maintain, as HMIC said, front-line services across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.704.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " and the best model of policing in the world. I believe that the British model of policing is one that we should welcome, support and applaud. However, if she thinks that there is time for a royal commission, she should consider why, as a member of the Labour party, she allowed it, when in government, to get the finances of this country into such a state that we need to take the action that we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "se, although not as much as the figures often quoted suggest—and afterwards we have to spend money trying to deport them if their countries will take them. The Home Secretary should take some of the money that is meant for the third world in the third world, and use it on people from the third world who are over here breaking the law—not all of them are, of course, but some of them do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "Let me start by saying how offensive I found some of the remarks that the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies) made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "preceding_text": "The debate is on policing, but I shall touch on the economics of the situation, which are raised so often by Government Members. The Opposition are not in denial about the deficit, but we do not accept that we caused it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "g choice. We have seen it all before. Under the Tories last time, crime doubled; under Labour, crime went down 40%. Not only are we seeing the means of tackling crime reduced by cuts in police, DNA services, CCTV and ASBOs, by making sentences easier and by giving the wrong signals to rapists; we are increasing demand by cutting education, cutting jobs and increasing drug-taking essentially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "ould be blamed, but the Home Secretary and her Ministers. As well as police numbers being cut—some of the most experienced officers have already gone—the front line will be affected. I guarantee to all Government Members that if they speak to police officers in their constituencies, they will say that it is impossible for what is happening in their area not to impact on the front line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-23", "file": "debates2011-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "a61384ae0b07b0ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "Those forces talk about a single dog unit. Does the right hon. Lady think they are just cutting the number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-23b.743.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-24", "file": "debates2011-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4404da928d2f773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-24b.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman raised this matter at business questions. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House drew it to my attention, as I am the Minister responsible for that policy area, and I replied as quickly as possible and gave the right hon. Gentleman a full answer. If he wishes to raise it with me again and ask me anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-24b.761.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-24", "file": "debates2011-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4404da928d2f773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-24b.809.6", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Autism (Quality Standards)", "cue_speaker": "Jo Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Johnson", "preceding_text": " The temporary bail-out mechanism, which runs until 2013, was agreed on 10 May 2010 by European Finance Ministers at ECOFIN—after the general election, but before the coalition Government were formed. As the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) admitted in Parliament, the Chancellor opposed the mechanism at the time, as was clearly recorded in Hansard on 15 December 2010 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-24b.809.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-05-24", "file": "debates2011-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "e4404da928d2f773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-24b.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "the Treasury. The explanatory memorandum that she signed on 15 July 2010 in her own fair hand—Justine Greening, Economic Secretary—says those words: “cross-party consensus had been gained.” I know it is convenient for Ministers and some hon. Members to rewrite history and to give a partial account of what happened and about these important facts, but there it is in writing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-05-24b.832.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-07", "file": "debates2011-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "ec8c0b8c9d255955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-07c.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "This has been a long-running constitutional issue in the United States of America between various Presidents and Congress, and I probably have enough on without wading into American constitutional theory. We are assured by the US Administration that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-07c.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-07", "file": "debates2011-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "ec8c0b8c9d255955", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-07c.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend again makes his point with great care. Of course, these are exceptional powers that should be used sparingly. We have all this apparatus in relation to control orders to ensure that the suspect’s interests can be protected. That is why we have special advocates who can consider the information and argue on behalf of the suspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-07c.87.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-13", "file": "debates2011-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "8558f78146f6b3b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13a.550.3", "colnum": "550", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "ld be made by a Government who have so much to say about their wanting to encourage people to get back on their own feet, to be self-reliant and to save for their future. It is very easy just to say that the average amount of savings of a person of working age is only £300—and that is frightening and appalling for our society if it is true. However, for those people who currently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13a.550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-13", "file": "debates2011-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "b248011fe8ad94a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "As I have said, we are not changing the policy. What my noble Friend Lord Freud was referring to was what we are already doing: making discretionary payments to ensure that the policy is eased in properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-13", "file": "debates2011-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "b248011fe8ad94a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, if you would permit me to go off the subject for a moment, I think it would be appropriate to mark, as you did just now, the recent honour received by the Clerk. I am sure that Members in all parts of the House send him our congratulations and best wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-13", "file": "debates2011-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "b248011fe8ad94a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.550.3", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "ld be made by a Government who have so much to say about their wanting to encourage people to get back on their own feet, to be self-reliant and to save for their future. It is very easy just to say that the average amount of savings of a person of working age is only £300—and that is frightening and appalling for our society if it is true. However, for those people who currently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-13", "file": "debates2011-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "b248011fe8ad94a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Uppal", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Uppal", "preceding_text": "8217;s point, but I go back to the corrosive effect that that is having on society. There are people living cheek by jowl with the 20,000 families that she has mentioned, who are aware of the situation. A constituent spoke to me who comes from one of the handful of families on her road who actually work. The rest of the families on her street have made a conscious life choice to live off benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-13", "file": "debates2011-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "b248011fe8ad94a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Karen Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Buck", "preceding_text": "To be absolutely clear to the hon. Lady, I am not talking about the overall benefit cap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-13", "file": "debates2011-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "b248011fe8ad94a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.595.6", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady said that she thought that there was no earthly chance of somebody with a similar level of disability needing a property that had become available. I am sure that, like me, she must have an awful lot of people coming to her constituency surgery who have disabilities and have been waiting a very long time for adapted homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-13", "file": "debates2011-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "b248011fe8ad94a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her question. I shall be happy to write to her with the full details, and to remind her that the proportion is only 40% on average; as I said, it is 70% in some coastal areas. That is a significant issue that helps to determine the rental rates that many people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-13b.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "0eb46a23b50de297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Opposition Front-Bench team should not be yelling at the Secretary of State when he is answering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "0eb46a23b50de297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "For those who have arrived recently, it would be discourteous of me to not respond to those who have raised points, such as the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd. I have yet to achieve the same length of speech as the right hon. Gentleman or the hon. Member for West Dunbartonshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "0eb46a23b50de297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "y are brought together in the external reference group, and I can assure the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd that they are not slow in coming forward. We have stated that we will publish their observations alongside the annual report. I now turn to the official Opposition’s amendments. I know that Opposition Members who have just come in will be particularly keen to hear about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "0eb46a23b50de297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "ded to do, and we are not minded to accept it. The Government will continue to work with public bodies and local authorities to implement our commitments, and we will encourage them to help to remove the disadvantage faced by service people and afford them special treatment where appropriate. The ombudsmen have a vital role to play, but it is not the one described in the new clause. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.712.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "0eb46a23b50de297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "each year in the UK are caused by diet-related ill health. One simple thing that the Government could do to tackle that problem is to ensure that the food served to patients in hospital is nutritious. That sounds simple but the issue is how it will be done. It is also important that the Government prioritise the role of public health. I also want to mention the dignity and nutrition reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14b.752.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2e286ccc0a63b447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ies of clinical commissioning groups should not normally cross those of local authorities. If they do, clinical commissioning groups will need to demonstrate to the NHS commissioning board a clear rationale for doing so in terms of benefit to patients. I have always said that I want there to be “no decision about me, without me” for patients when it comes to their care. The same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.644.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2e286ccc0a63b447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Not true.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "My constituent Rosie Edwards suffers from a rare congenital heart condition, known as Fallot’s tetralogy. Fortunately, for all her life, both as a child and now as an adult, she has had to have all her treatment at the Royal Brompton hospital in London. Unfortunately, the Government are proposing that that paediatric cardiac service is terminated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.661.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2e286ccc0a63b447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Well, the hon. Gentlemen obviously got parachutes, which might not be my intention for one or two other people. I take on board the hon. Gentleman’s serious concerns about housing, which is an ongoing problem that we wish to improve. We inherited a bad situation, but I do not question the good faith of the previous Administration because it is a difficult matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.703.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2e286ccc0a63b447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.704.7", "colnum": "704", "heading": "ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "n custody support programme, which provides tailored support for former personnel in the criminal justice system. None of that required a charter setting out legal requirements. New clause 4 also focuses on support in the prison and probation systems. I note that the right hon. Gentleman feels deeply about this issue and has raised it on many occasions. I must tell him that his proposal for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.704.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-14", "file": "debates2011-06-14c.xml", "sha256": "2e286ccc0a63b447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "For those who have arrived recently, it would be discourteous of me to not respond to those who have raised points, such as the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd. I have yet to achieve the same length of speech as the right hon. Gentleman or the hon. Member for West Dunbartonshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-14c.709.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-15", "file": "debates2011-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "8b5a33626b72dbfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-15b.879.5", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Remembrance Day (Bank Holiday)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Not if they are on income-related benefit. Of course they will absolutely continue to get the income-related support. The point is that this— [ Interruption. ] Wait a minute. The right hon. Gentleman knows very well—he should stop playing silly games—that we have asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-15b.879.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-15", "file": "debates2011-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "8b5a33626b72dbfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-15b.886.2", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Remembrance Day (Bank Holiday)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr Rob Wilson, you have just toddled into the Chamber, do not shout across the Chamber in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-15b.886.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "44c1ab918ef915e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20b.81.5", "colnum": "81", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "system that is in line with, and goes with the grain of people’s lives. It does not seem fair to many people. I meet many people from professional classes—politicians, business people, think tankers and broadcasters—who dread retirement. They want to keep working. They are hale and hearty and often at the top of their game. They want to carry on working, and that is a good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20b.81.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that we should withdraw our membership of the IMF—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ns benefits. I know that the House will be very worried that this might be too tough on members of the judiciary, but I will resist any pressure to reduce this provision. Judges currently pay nothing towards the cost of their own pensions, while the taxpayer makes a contribution equivalent to about 32% of judges’ gross salaries, which we think is both unaffordable and unfair to the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "As a coalition, we are, and continue to be, bound by the agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State rightly acknowledges that we have put forward proposals that would save £20 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.57.11", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Surely not!”", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for finally giving way. I speak with a lot of interest in this matter, as a woman in her 50s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.57.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Of course. The hon. Lady makes an extremely fair point, and that is why, after the Turner commission met and the Pensions Act 2007 went through this House, a clear timetable was set for how the state pension age should increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “She is still alive.”", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "ive way again but, with all due respect to him, I am comparing the fact of what was delivered by one Government over 13 years with the fact of what has been delivered by this new Government within one year. The Gloucestershire Pensioners Forum, which was created by members of his own party precisely to campaign against the de-linkage made by the late Mrs Thatcher when she was Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.59.4", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "se on 10 March , “is estimated to be 40%.”—[ Official Report , 10 March 2011; Vol. 524, c. 1266W .] What on earth are those women supposed to do with the measures in the Bill? On 4 February he admitted that the median pension saving of a 56-year-old woman is six times lower than that of a man, yet he tells us not to worry because he has a plan. He has a word of reassurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.59.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Evans", "preceding_text": "ifficulties in this regard is to do with the first change, to which almost all e-mails refer: that women were getting the pension at 60 and that that is now gradually being moved up to 65. The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill referred to his family being affected. Well, my wife is affected by these changes, but we in this House were aware of them because we legislated for them in 1995.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.63.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Evans", "preceding_text": "nd in my view that is necessary. It is perfectly clear that a significant saving will be made. The Secretary of State made a typically sensitive address, which was well received on both sides of the House, and not only because he said he was prepared to listen. I am staggered that any Minister who says they are prepared to listen to an argument is treated with contempt from the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Evans", "preceding_text": " matching that saving and making far greater savings elsewhere. Lord Freud responded to the debate by pointing out the gender equality legislation—the equality provisions of European law—that might make this a difficult proposition. However, I am not persuaded that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State’s Department lacks minds sufficiently sharp to overcome this difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "preceding_text": "However, like the hon. Member for Aberdeen South, I am afraid that I will do what I am sure everyone in the debate will do and raise the concerns about the proposals on the women’s state pension age. I am sure that you, Madam Deputy Speaker, will be sick to the back teeth of people complaining about the women’s state pension age by the end of the debate, as I am sure will the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "ger people will not be able to have a pension of the size that their parents and grandparents have come to expect, because of the horrendous deficit and the enormous debt that we have been left by the previous Government—larger than those of almost all our competitors around the world. As a result of that debt, we will have less to spend on education, training and infrastructure improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "to pay for if we do not address these big issues now. We will be lying to future generations and forcing upon them a generational theft if we are not straight with them now about the reality that confronts them. That is my generation, as much as it is that of the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) . We will be expected to save considerably more and receive considerably less from the state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.79.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-20", "file": "debates2011-06-20c.xml", "sha256": "86922c2794d8c197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " Gentleman for making the point. My hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Ben Gummer) gets the prize for making the sharpest intervention. He pointed out to the shadow Secretary of State the legal advice and comments made by my noble Friend Lord Freud in the House of Lords on 30 March . I know that my hon. Friend reads little else and I am grateful to him for drawing those comments to our attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-20c.125.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "14d7c0f486088677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) , who I understand has reached a memorable birthday, spoke to new clauses on the Barnett formula, and the hon. Member for Milton Keynes South and others pertinently said that there is no easy solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "14d7c0f486088677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.268.4", "colnum": "268", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Well, that is a hard one, isn’t it! Yes, clearly the way to improve the Scottish economy is to create jobs, and as far as I am aware not even the Conservatives are against that. The arguments to which the hon. Lady refers were so complex that it seemed at some points that even “Hughes” and “Hallett” were disagreeing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.268.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "14d7c0f486088677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Scottish Parliament are likely to result in pressures for decisions in areas that did not previously have to be addressed. Hard choices are going to have to be made, so it is therefore again essential that the necessary information and arguments are put forward. We must also be clear about what the verdict of the Scottish people was. Some 50% of the people in Scotland did not vote in the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "14d7c0f486088677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "that did not previously have to be addressed. Hard choices are going to have to be made, so it is therefore again essential that the necessary information and arguments are put forward. We must also be clear about what the verdict of the Scottish people was. Some 50% of the people in Scotland did not vote in the election. [Interruption.] Of those who did vote, fewer than half voted for separation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "14d7c0f486088677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "rruption.] We must remember that more people voted for my right hon. Friend the Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) to be Prime Minister than voted for Alex Salmond to be First Minister. Not everything the Scottish National party proposes is accepted, therefore. We must remember that Alex Salmond called clearly for a yes vote in the alternative vote referendum and was roundly defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21a.293.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) , who I understand has reached a memorable birthday, spoke to new clauses on the Barnett formula, and the hon. Member for Milton Keynes South and others pertinently said that there is no easy solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "d to cut funding to many Scottish colleges—for example, James Watt college in Greenock faces a cut of £5 million. They have cut regeneration funds in many of the most deprived areas, including a 71% cut in the Inverclyde regeneration fund. The test that the Scots will apply is not how many powers anybody has vis-à-vis someone else but how they use them for Scotland’s benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.256.7", "colnum": "256", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "If the First Minister had anything sensible to say, I would, but as yet, I have not heard it. It is a bit like the corporation tax issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.256.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "ns I have asked if they are to decide that that is a good idea. The SNP is reluctant to say whether it thinks Scotland should be a high-tax nation or a low-tax nation. Does it believe in high-quality, good value public services, or does it want a lower public expenditure base, which would mean fewer nurses, doctors and police? There are consequences to that. Does it want an increase in income tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.258.7", "colnum": "258", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann McKechin", "preceding_text": "The Scottish Government have to make those choices, and like my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian (Fiona O'Donnell) , I would like to get on with the businesses of discussing how they are going to use their powers, what they intend to do with them and how they will benefit people. Instead, the SNP has obsessed over process for an indeterminate period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.258.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "ation available. It is essential that we try to raise the tone in these debates rather than lower it. Our debates should be based on argument and figures rather than on the yah-boo politics that we see too often in the Chamber between Scottish Members on these issues. Some Members may remember the “magic bullet” theory. Professors Hughes Hallett and Scott—all three of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.268.4", "colnum": "268", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Well, that is a hard one, isn’t it! Yes, clearly the way to improve the Scottish economy is to create jobs, and as far as I am aware not even the Conservatives are against that. The arguments to which the hon. Lady refers were so complex that it seemed at some points that even Hughes and Hallett were disagreeing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.268.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that, if amendments come forward from the Scottish Government that the UK Government accept and which go through the Lords, we will have proper time to discuss them in this House? We do not want three or four amendments coming here for one hour’s discussion during ping-pong. Can we get a guarantee of time to discuss any amendments that come forward?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Scottish Parliament are likely to result in pressures for decisions in areas that did not previously have to be addressed. Hard choices are going to have to be made, so it is therefore again essential that the necessary information and arguments are put forward. We must also be clear about what the verdict of the Scottish people was. Some 50% of the people in Scotland did not vote in the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "that did not previously have to be addressed. Hard choices are going to have to be made, so it is therefore again essential that the necessary information and arguments are put forward. We must also be clear about what the verdict of the Scottish people was. Some 50% of the people in Scotland did not vote in the election. [Interruption.] Of those who did vote, fewer than half voted for separation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-21", "file": "debates2011-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "f695472fda574ad0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "rruption.] We must remember that more people voted for my right hon. Friend the Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) to be Prime Minister than voted for Alex Salmond to be First Minister. Not everything the Scottish National party proposes is accepted, therefore. We must remember that Alex Salmond called clearly for a yes vote in the alternative vote referendum and was roundly defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-21b.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "preceding_text": "he benefits will be tremendous. Given the significant health impact on children, who are unable to remove themselves from such cars, the Government should not dismiss calls for a ban. Some will say that the car is a private space in which the Government should not intervene, but is the space in the back of a car not the child’s private space? Some adults invade it with dangerous smoke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.357.4", "colnum": "357", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We are engaged in those negotiations, which the Chief Secretary and the Minister for the Cabinet Office are leading for our side. I have asked a very simple question: does the labour party back public sector pension reform as set out by John Hutton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.359.14", "colnum": "359", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Of course, I welcome the hon. Lady to her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.359.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.359.14", "colnum": "359", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "rivate secretary to someone who never comes to Parliament is not a very onerous job, but that is good, because she can think up important questions to ask me. Our judgment, with which the hon. Lady is entitled to disagree, is this: what was missing from the tripartite system was an ability to assess systemic risks throughout the economy. No one was looking at overall debt or leverage levels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.359.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "ys a negative balancing out the positive in all these areas. If we take inflation, for example, it has gone through the roof at 4.5%. Manufacturing output has been a good effort up until the last quarter, but it is now down again. It is not surprising that an intake of jobs in the private manufacturing sector has supported that output, built on the back of the previous Government’s policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "No, it is part of the lamentable legacy of the Labour party. We are cleaning up the mess; you are just talking about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "ntrollable spending. Labour seems to believe that return to growth is an automatic certainty or a God-given right. One year on, it has completely failed to articulate a credible alternative to explain how it would address the economic crisis. It is as though it has taken a leaf out of the Tommy Cooper school of economics and believes that growth will return magically, “Just like that.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.399.3", "colnum": "399", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "ons, for reasons of time. We have seen a small increase over the past year in the number of jobseeker’s allowance claimants. I want to compare two different constituencies in the north-west: my own, and another one just down the road, called Tatton. In Liverpool, West Derby, we have seen the number of JSA claimants rise over the past year by almost 5%. In Tatton, the number has fallen by 4%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.415.0", "colnum": "415", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": "I want to start by putting an end to the myth that the Government have no mandate for the action they have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "b42a3ce6d4f3e215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": " of those policies. The Chancellor might be failing to get our economy growing, but the same cannot be said of unemployment. Government Members are celebrating, as we all do, the fact that unemployment is down in the last month, but unemployment over the course of the Conservative-Lib Dem Government will go up. Youth unemployment is up. The OBR forecast is that unemployment will rise––", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22b.418.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.310.11", "colnum": "310", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I should have hoped that the hon. Gentleman, like his colleague, Jim Sillars, the former deputy leader of the Scottish National party, would have sought to disassociate himself from the appalling comments that the First Minister has made about Lord Hope, which Jim Sillars described as “foolish” and “juvenile”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.310.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mary Glindon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Glindon", "preceding_text": "Given the number of U-turns the Prime Minister has made, including on sentencing, NHS reform, the forestry sell-off and school sports, it is a wonder that he knows which way he is facing, but will he now have the front to ensure that relief measures are put in place for those women who are hardest hit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.316.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.317.6", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "It is a bit late to be looking at the proposal; it is in the House of Commons and about to have its Report stage. Let me explain to the Prime Minister his own policy. Around 5,000 people each year are arrested on suspicion of rape but not charged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.317.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ome worry that in this Government we actually talk to each other. That is clearly not the case— [ Interruption. ] The shadow Chancellor has raised this issue, but it is perfectly clear that he and the leader of the Labour party do not speak to each other at all. I have the proof, because this week the shadow Chancellor made a huge announcement on a massive VAT cut, and yet it was only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.318.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.318.9", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "As a parent, I am appalled that the Labour party advocates burdening our children with ever more unsolicited debts, which it is putting forward with its reckless raft of unfunded tax cuts and spending commitments, of which the VAT cut is the latest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.318.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I seek your guidance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Smoking in Private Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "preceding_text": "he benefits will be tremendous. Given the significant health impact on children, who are unable to remove themselves from such cars, the Government should not dismiss calls for a ban. Some will say that the car is a private space in which the Government should not intervene, but is the space in the back of a car not the child’s private space? Some adults invade it with dangerous smoke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.333.4", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "No; perhaps I need to say this to the hon. Gentleman again. I will take his intervention after I have established my argument. The Chancellor ignored the fact that we were not in the euro, and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.333.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The former Labour Chancellor is not in the shadow Cabinet, as the hon. Gentleman will know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.335.5", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ruption .] Look, just shouting does not get people to listen; the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Nadhim Zahawi) has got to learn that. The shadow Cabinet decided that the Opposition would oppose the VAT rise. In January, the Leader of the Opposition said it should be reversed. Last week, two days before I made my speech, I discussed the matter in detail with the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.335.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.335.9", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I do my politics on the record. I am not going to comment on that kind of trash.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.335.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Not again. I will make a little more progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "A Greek tragedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "t that the Prime Minister is just as annoying as me, it turned out that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is more annoying than me, and it turned out that the Deputy Prime Minister is more annoying than all of us. But who is the most annoying person in British politics today? It is still Lord Mandelson, the Chancellor’s yachting partner. I know Lord Mandelson well. He is a good friend of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ntly, that the recovery would be choppy. How could it be anything other than choppy, when we are recovering from the greatest recession since the 1930s, the biggest banking crisis in our history, landed with the biggest budget deficit in peacetime? That is the inheritance that the Government has had, and yes, there have been other factors—international headwinds, such as the oil price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.347.5", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You didn’t.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We fought the 2005 election and, sadly, lost it, saying that Labour’s plans were unaffordable. In 2008, we made it clear that we were coming off Labour’s spending plans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.347.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer the question.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should get better handouts if he is one of the shadow Chancellor’s close advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Bank of England independence, he has completely written out of the script the then Prime Minister and Chancellor. He now takes sole credit for keeping Britain out of the euro, although, as far as I am aware—I am happy to take an intervention—the Labour party’s official policy is still that we join the euro in principle. Is that right? I do not know whether the policy has changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He doesn’t.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "12;I am happy to take an intervention—the Labour party’s official policy is still that we join the euro in principle. Is that right? I do not know whether the policy has changed. [ Interruption. ] We have heard quite a lot from the Labour party in the past couple of hours about being on top of the detail. Surely, the shadow Chancellor knows what his party’s policy is on the euro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ts, including the crucial fact that we had a structural deficit before the crisis struck. The OECD and the International Monetary Fund estimate that before the crisis Britain had the largest structural deficit of all the G7 countries. Tony Blair states in his memoirs that “from 2005 onwards Labour was insufficiently vigorous in limiting or eliminating the potential structural deficit.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I have already been asked that question three times, and I have answered it, explaining that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " is that it has been made more difficult by the accumulation of all the red tape over the past few years. It is remarkable that when we propose important changes—although not changes that go as far as we would like—to employment tribunal law, Labour opposes them. Those are basic changes that would enable more people to be hired and to be in work, but they are opposed by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.356.6", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We have extended the mortgage interest relief scheme—I inherited a plan for it, too, to end—and of course are trying to avoid repossessions, but there was a large number of repossessions under the Labour Government, and that is because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.356.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.357.4", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We are engaged in those negotiations, which the Chief Secretary and the Minister for the Cabinet Office are leading for our side. I have asked a very simple question: does the Labour party back public sector pension reform as set out by John Hutton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.357.6", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Will he answer my question? No? I am not taking an intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.357.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.357.11", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "It is his report, Labour’s former Work and Pensions Secretary, and I want to know whether the Labour party backs it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.357.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.359.14", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Of course, I welcome the hon. Lady to her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.359.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.359.14", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "rivate Secretary to someone who never comes to Parliament is not a very onerous job, but that is good, because she can think up important questions to ask me. Our judgment, with which the hon. Lady is entitled to disagree, is this: what was missing from the tripartite system was an ability to assess systemic risks throughout the economy. No one was looking at overall debt or leverage levels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.359.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "ys a negative balancing out the positive in all these areas. If we take inflation, for example, it has gone through the roof at 4.5%. Manufacturing output has been a good effort up until the last quarter, but it is now down again. It is not surprising that an intake of jobs in the private manufacturing sector has supported that output, built on the back of the previous Government’s policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "No, it is part of the lamentable legacy of the Labour party. We are cleaning up the mess; you are just talking about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "ntrollable spending. Labour seems to believe that return to growth is an automatic certainty or a God-given right. One year on, it has completely failed to articulate a credible alternative to explain how it would address the economic crisis. It is as though it has taken a leaf out of the Tommy Cooper school of economics and believes that growth will return magically, “Just like that.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.393.6", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "t projects lower growth than it did last time, lower in fact than in its last three projections. It projects increased unemployment, with 200,000 more people unemployed by the end of this Parliament. Most critically and damningly of all, it projects ballooning borrowing, with £50 billion extra in borrowing in this Parliament as a result of the dreadful mistakes that the Government are making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "I was not expecting to be called so early in this debate, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I am very grateful. It is easy in this environment and this highly partisan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.396.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.399.3", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "ons, for reasons of time. We have seen a small increase over the past year in the number of jobseeker’s allowance claimants. I want to compare two different constituencies in the north-west: my own, and another one just down the road, called Tatton. In Liverpool, West Derby, we have seen the number of JSA claimants rise over the past year by almost 5%. In Tatton, the number has fallen by 4%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "I have taken one intervention; I will not take any more. I am afraid that the Opposition are falling down already with their motion, but let us go on to the next phrase: “in the last month retail sales fell by 1.4 per cent.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.406.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.415.0", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": "I want to start by putting an end to the myth that the Government have no mandate for the action they have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. It is a salutary lesson in the history of British politics that it has taken two parties to come together to deal with the mess that that lot left behind. Labour Members say that there is no mandate, but nobody in this country was in any doubt about what the Conservative party would do in government, and they voted for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": " of those policies. The Chancellor might be failing to get our economy growing, but the same cannot be said of unemployment. Government Members are celebrating, as we all do, the fact that unemployment is down in the last month, but unemployment over the course of the Conservative-Lib Dem Government will go up. Youth unemployment is up. The OBR forecast is that unemployment will rise––", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.418.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "se policies are going to work. That is what Government Members say, but what if they do not? I suspect the Chancellor would say, “Not my fault, guv. It was the snow.” It could be hailstones next time or perhaps it will even be too sunny. I imagine that his plan B is quantitative easing. It is all very well printing money, but the key to it is spending. We have to prove to people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.430.7", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way, especially not to the hon. Gentleman, who has not even deigned to be present in the House until now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.430.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Abandoned.”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "h. The Chancellor badly needs to change course. It is not as though the Government are not used to retreating, backsliding, U-turning and executing 180° handbrake turns. They have had enough practice recently. The list is long and growing: decimating school sport in the run-up to the Olympics—abandoned; flogging off our forests—abandoned; ensuring anonymity for rape victims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Abandoned.”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "are not used to retreating, backsliding, U-turning and executing 180° handbrake turns. They have had enough practice recently. The list is long and growing: decimating school sport in the run-up to the Olympics—abandoned; flogging off our forests—abandoned; ensuring anonymity for rape victims—[Hon. Members: “Abandoned.”]; reinstating weekly bin collections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-22", "file": "debates2011-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "e8967af75571e124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "This has been an important and excellent debate, with good contributions from both sides of the House. The best Opposition contributions were made by newly elected Labour Members, and I have no doubt that they will look back on this period as the dark days of deficit denial by the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-22c.432.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-23", "file": "debates2011-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2e33be8eab63424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Backbench Business — [29th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": ", but by deciding that the “four hours” will apply to the newly remote Isle of Wight. It may be possible to generate scenarios in which an ambulance from Bristol or London can get to the island in four hours. I can generate some scenarios in which I become Prime Minister. Neither possibility can be entirely ruled out, but they do not reflect what is likely to happen in real life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23a.519.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-23", "file": "debates2011-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "27e1eb38efcff33b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23b.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Backbench Business — [29th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Lady. It is important to get this right, rather than to rush. Clearly there are concerns. I know that the Minister is a sensible soul and will respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23b.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-23", "file": "debates2011-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "27e1eb38efcff33b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23b.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Backbench Business — [29th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Skipton and Ripon (Julian Smith) in his recent intervention, have also raised the issue of documents not being made available in a sufficiently wide range of languages, thereby excluding those who speak those languages from the consultation process. The relevant documents have for several weeks been available in 10 different languages, including Urdu, Arabic, Farsi and Punjabi.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23b.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-23", "file": "debates2011-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "27e1eb38efcff33b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23b.548.8", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Backbench Business — [29th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": " interesting past few days. On Monday, in return for amending my motion, dropping it or not calling a vote on it—and we are not talking about a major defence issue, an economic issue or public sector reform; we are talking about the ban on wild animals in circuses—I was offered a reward, an incentive. If I had amended my motion and not called for a ban, I would have been offered a job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23b.548.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-23", "file": "debates2011-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "27e1eb38efcff33b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23b.555.4", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Backbench Business — [29th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": "May I make some progress before I give way? Instead of basing my views purely on what the newspapers or the opinion polls say, I looked into the matter. The truth is that in this country only a small number of animals are in circuses: 39 in total. They are not captured from the jungle and dragged to the circus; many have been born and bred in circuses for generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-23b.555.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "57844d4dd868bc79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "preceding_text": "hould focus on the issues that matter to our voters. I return to the original point: we are here today to debate the future of another place. Fundamentally, we should be asking ourselves what we want it to do. What is there for? Fundamentally, it is there to improve the legislation that we put before it. It is there to polish—I remember the phrase, “You can’t polish”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27a.674.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "of the proposals—I, of course, welcome that debate. These are significant constitutional changes and so demand proper and full scrutiny. As the debate unfolds, however, it important for us to step back for a moment and remind ourselves why we are doing this. First, very few people seriously believe that the status quo—an unelected second Chamber—makes sense in a modern democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "in due course. The Government’s plan is then to introduce a Bill next year in order to hold the first elections to the reformed House in 2015. There is clearly a lot of detail to be hammered out between now and then, and I hope that both sides of this House and of the other place will work together constructively as we move forward. The truth is that no one seriously supports the status quo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.652.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "212;we can point to Lord Heseltine, but I can think of other people who have gone from this place to the Lords, such as Lord Boswell, who is a member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, and others who do a very good job. The mix in the Lords is something that would never be invented, with all those landed aristocrats mixing with the bishops, a dose of Labour trade union leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ld focus on the issues that matter to our voters. I return to the original point: we are here today to debate the future of another place. Fundamentally, we should be asking ourselves what we want it to do. What is it there for? Fundamentally, it is there to improve the legislation that we put before it. It is there to polish—I remember the phrase, “You can’t polish”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "as entirely his own. It is not the position of the Labour party, and only when the Labour party comes out with its review at the end of the year will its position be clear. Otherwise, what is the purpose of the review? Why have it and waste one’s time. Why have a review on a policy when we already have one? How can that be? The lack of logic on the part of my Front-Bench team is astonishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.675.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "We have to be careful about free votes, because one does not know where they will end up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I certainly voted for an 80% elected Upper Chamber, but never on the basis of proportional representation—never! A number of votes were taken on that occasion, but Members who were present at the time know that they were no more than wrecking votes or wrecking amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I certainly voted for an 80% elected Upper Chamber, but never on the basis of proportional representation—never! A number of votes were taken on that occasion, but Members who were present at the time know that they were no more than wrecking votes or wrecking amendments. [Interruption.] My right hon. Friend the Member for Tooting voted for every motion put to the House that night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "that it passes by the prerogative of the Whips, who cannot control how this House will vote when it comes to the abolition of a third of Parliament, as we understand it. Parliament, as we understand it, consists of the monarch, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. If we talk about democratic deficits for the Lords, when are we going to get around to the democratic deficits for the monarch?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "hen it comes to the abolition of a third of Parliament, as we understand it. Parliament, as we understand it, consists of the monarch, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. If we talk about democratic deficits for the Lords, when are we going to get around to the democratic deficits for the monarch? [Interruption.] If the Liberals wish to debate the democratic deficits of the monarch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "I want to make some progress. It seems that we are being required to duplicate the mandate of this House, but why should we do that, particularly when it would lead to confusion and conflict? As night follows day, elected Members of an upper Chamber would be able to claim as much legitimacy as Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.679.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.693.4", "colnum": "693", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "preceding_text": "12;the legitimacy of being able to look people in the eye, having stood for election, and hold the mandate of being elected. Equally, there is an issue of accountability. If the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone) were here, I am sure he would stand up and say that the most accountability and legitimacy he would have would be with Mrs Bone, because he has a particular one-to-one relationship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "William Bain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He’s an expert!”", "preceding_speaker": "William Bain", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to be called to speak in this debate and to follow an extremely fine speech by the hon. Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) . I agreed with practically every word. Prior to being elected to this House, I was a lecturer in constitutional law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Eustice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Eustice", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Carlisle (John Stevenson) has said that the average age of Members in the other place is 69. The hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) was also rather scathing about the advanced years of some Members in the other place and the quality of the debate. However, the House of Lords is the forum that we provide for debate for the older generation and people who have experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.699.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "e not paying attention to what we are debating. Nobody will be paying attention if Andy Murray is still playing. The rest of the country knows what is going on at Wimbledon; only those of us in the Chamber do not have a clue because we are concentrating on the debate—[Hon. Members: “He’s through!”] That is wonderful news! A Scotsman is on his way to winning Wimbledon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-27", "file": "debates2011-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "df289be64d04f6d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "James Wharton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Wharton", "preceding_text": ", place them towards the end of the alphabet. I declare an interest, having a surname that places me at the end of the alphabet. When people are asked to rank in an STV system, many of them vote by party, as we know. The good, right-thinking people of the north-east would look for the Conservative candidates and rank them 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the order in which they appeared on the ballot paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-27b.705.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "Because we need to restrict the availability of custodial sentences on remand when there is no real prospect of the defendant being sentenced to imprisonment if convicted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister was not advocating state-sponsored revenge, nor is anybody else. What we are doing is clarifying in statute the basis upon which people can use reasonable force to defend themselves in their property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.751.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.766.6", "colnum": "766", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very good point. One of my concerns —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.766.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.779.5", "colnum": "779", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "I will happily share with the House the arithmetic on which we have made an estimate, although nobody can know the exact figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.779.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Bail (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful socialist speech, which is nice to hear in this Chamber. Is he not wrong about the new clause, however, because we would not be subsiding from the taxpayer? Anyone who takes out new private medical insurance because of the subsidy would be saving money for the NHS and so more money could be spent on the people who wish to use the NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Bail (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "Let us turn to a bit of history. When the previous scheme was introduced, neither the Department of Health nor the Treasury made any calculation whatever of what it would cost the taxpayer. It was a decision flying blind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Bail (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": " Members tried hard to cover up their anti-health service rhetoric, but every now and again it seeped out in their speeches. The national health service is an institution that Labour Members are proud of. It is the greatest achievement in 100 years of the Labour movement. It has transformed our country’s health. As you know, Mr Deputy Speaker, I am doing an Open university degree in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.810.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Bail (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "gain—it was meant to be a platform on which the Conservatives sought election—but the truth is that there is not a real-terms increase in spending on the NHS. When inflation is taken into account, there is actually a cut in NHS spending, and it is time that the Government owned up to that. I am under pressure to finish my speech and allow those on the Government Front Bench to come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Bail (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "It is. To be fair to the hon. Member for Gainsborough, he did say that being a lone parent does not make someone a bad or unfit parent. My hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne) had three children before he got married, but that does not make him a bad parent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.839.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Bail (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Bruce", "preceding_text": "The transferable allowance would help to reduce those costs, and would therefore be an investment very well made. The £550 million cost of the partially transferable allowance proposed by the Conservatives prior to the general election represents just 1.3% of the direct costs of family breakdown, as calculated by the Relationships Foundation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.853.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Bail (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot get away from the fact that he has imposed a VAT rise on businesses, families and hard-working people in Vale of Glamorgan and elsewhere in the UK, and he could have avoided that tax in different ways. On the same evening that the Conservative party has proposed tax relief on support for private medical insurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-28", "file": "debates2011-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c02ad026c7861ec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Bail (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": " Lady will know that we have tabled several amendments to the Finance Bill. Mr Speaker chose not to select new clause 16, but he did select new clause 10, which calls for a review of the impact of VAT on things that are important to my hon. Friends’ constituents and hers: family incomes, businesses and jobs. If she looks at what the leader of her party said during the general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-28a.892.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-29", "file": "debates2011-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b667c819d41a3188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ring him up to date on Operation Target, which is currently running in the Metropolitan police: on average, 1,200 officers are deployed every day; there have been 4,000 different activities and 2,000 arrests; and it is early days, but there has been a drop in offences from week to week for the most serious offences such as violence with injury, knife crime, street robbery and residential burglary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-29", "file": "debates2011-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b667c819d41a3188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Adoption (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Before I call the Lord Chancellor, I should say that this Second Reading debate is well subscribed. There is an eight-minute limit on Back-Bench contributions. I ask Front Benchers from both sides to use their restraint, so that more Back Benchers can speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.984.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-29", "file": "debates2011-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b667c819d41a3188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Adoption (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "he areas he was targeting. He has not done so. As a result, the weight of opposition to the proposals remains huge. He is damned by the numerous campaigning groups representing some of the most vulnerable people in society, the 31 charities that wrote last week to The Times in protest, the Law Society, the Bar Council and other members of the judiciary, and yet he has ignored their concerns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.998.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-29", "file": "debates2011-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b667c819d41a3188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Adoption (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "preceding_text": "ble. I wonder whether the cuts as currently set out fall too harshly in an area that has as its sole objective the support for people who are least able to speak up for themselves. As the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner) said, that area is not replete with fat cat lawyers; it is mostly populated by men and women who are committed to helping the most needy in their communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-29", "file": "debates2011-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b667c819d41a3188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.1052.9", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Adoption (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "for Sunderland Central (Julie Elliott) who said that she detected a theme in the contributions from coalition Members: I detect a theme in the contributions of Opposition Members. They criticise the Government for the action that we are taking, acknowledge that they would have done something about legal aid funding themselves, but completely fail to articulate what that alternative would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.1052.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-29", "file": "debates2011-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b667c819d41a3188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.1052.9", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Adoption (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "so that we can assess the impact. We need to keep these matters under review, especially in relation to litigants in person—an issue that the NSPCC raised with me, as I am sure that it and other organisations have raised it with many other hon. Members. In a debate in the Justice Committee, the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd) raised the issue of litigants in person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.1052.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-29", "file": "debates2011-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "b667c819d41a3188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Adoption (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "at. I thought that the hon. and learned Gentleman had slightly more perception. He should look at the Green Paper that was published on 22 March 2010 , entitled “Restructuring the Delivery of Criminal Defence Services”. That is the document to which my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor and I referred. How many more times do we have to explain it to the hon. and learned Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-29a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1087.5", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr Speaker, I will answer this question with Question 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1087.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": " the Finance and Services Committee, and Sheila Drew Smith, an independent assessor. The unanimous recommendation of the panel was that Mr Robert Rogers, at present Clerk Assistant, should succeed Sir Malcolm Jack. I am glad to be able to tell the House that Her Majesty the Queen has approved the appointment. I am sure that the House will join me in congratulating Robert Rogers on his appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " being taken round the back of the bike sheds for a good hiding, as one colleague has apparently suggested? I assume that he did not mean it—perhaps it was just a job application to be a Tory Whip. Finally, as yet another policy bites the dust, does this not all reveal the fundamental truth about the current occupant of No. 10 Downing street? Unlike his much more resolute predecessor —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1125.3", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "is double claiming for the same item. He will know that there is a liaison group between the House and IPSA. A number of my hon. Friends sit on it, and he may like to raise the matter with them. The House has just approved the estimates for IPSA for the current year. If he looks at the suggestions that were made alongside that, he will see that SCIPSA, the committee that gives money to IPSA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Civil List", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ed to crawl over the accounts, it will find a first-rate, modern institution. It is unfortunate that up to now the Committee has been able to deal only with royal travel and palaces and not with the rest. That seemed a strange state of affairs. We managed to save the royal train, by the way, which is, in terms of modern accountability, a fantastically wasteful but noble instrument of royal travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Civil List", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "came to the Advance Manufacturing Centre in Catcliffe with Prince Philip last November and stood for an hour asking good questions. I was amazed at her stamina and her presence; the visit really cheered up all the people there. This just goes to show that 85 really is the new 55. None the less, how does one justify 159 butlers, valets, cooks, dressers, housekeepers and the rest for Prince Charles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1167.5", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Civil List", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I said that I accept your ruling fully, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I will not say another word, save that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1167.7", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Civil List", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "rld war, we find that the EU’s monarchies generally have a much better record than the EU’s republics. The royal families, however, are also much cheaper there. In Spain, with its King, Queen and wonderful royal palace where I had the privilege and honour of having dinner with the Crown Prince of the Asturias and the lovely Princess—and Prince Charles—a few weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Civil List", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "rown Estate that came with William the Conqueror and from the dissolution of the monasteries. St James’s palace started as a leper colony founded by Queen Margaret in, I think, 1118. It was then part of the endowment of Eton college, which was, very tactfully, given back to the Crown by Eton when Henry VIII said, “If you don’t give it back, I’m going to dissolve you.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-06-30", "file": "debates2011-06-30b.xml", "sha256": "28690daa231a8f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Civil List", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " money and not the Crown’s money, but it really is the Crown’s money because, on becoming King, the Prince of Wales or any other sovereign could simply rescind the agreement and claim it back. The Crown Estate is the sovereign’s property, which the sovereign gives to Parliament to help to pay for the costs of the nation; it is not taxpayers’ money that is being handed over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-06-30b.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "As you will understand, Mr Speaker, this is not a question of passing the buck: the Ministry of Justice is responsible for the coroners department. This has been the subject of much consultation, and the MOJ must answer on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1224.4", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ur of joining Armed Forces day celebrations and, in my case, they were at Bulkington in my constituency. Does my right hon. Friend agree that this annual event not only raises public awareness of the contribution made to our country by those who serve and have served in the armed forces but gives the opportunity for the entire country to show its support for all the men who make up that community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1224.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1254.3", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Finance (No. 3) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "tomer-charging debt management plan providers. Charging customers rather than looking to the creditor to cover the administrative costs is an unacceptable business model in this day and age. The practice should be phased out and I hope the Minister agrees. Unfortunately, the consumer credit regulation changes the Government propose still involve too much confusion. There is still no clarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Finance (No. 3) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "st confess, somewhat ashamedly, that I have also seen Jeremy Kyle’s show and the advertisements that accompany it. I want to pick up on the fact that Labour Members do not feel it appropriate to meet short-term loan companies. I do not tweet, but it is my understanding that the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) says that Wonga has refused to meet her. That is not the case, however.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Finance (No. 3) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Ashworth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Ashworth", "preceding_text": " , in particular, and by some Members on the Government Benches. Early on, I want to pick up on one point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow in her speech and at business questions last week, which is the suggestion that some funny business is going on and that the Government are deliberately delaying making a decision to help the Deputy Prime Minister at the party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Finance (No. 3) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Ashworth", "preceding_text": "the Deputy Prime Minister at the party conference—[Hon. Members: “Rubbish!] Some hon. Members are shouting from a sedentary position, so I would be grateful if the Financial Secretary, who will, I presume, respond to the debate, could guarantee that the Deputy Prime Minister will not make an announcement on this matter in his conference speech. That would help Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1278.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Finance (No. 3) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "t trespass on the House’s good will for too long. I want to start where the hon. Member for Makerfield (Yvonne Fovargue) did by making the point that if a child of people on low incomes or on benefits needs a pair of trainers or some piece of equipment is broken, it is often a disaster and the money is needed right away. That is the background to this issue. The social fund does a good deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1289.2", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Finance (No. 3) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "There is of course wide acceptance across the House that some regulation is needed in this area, but why should it be about taxation? A Finance Bill obviously provides an opportunity to raise the issue, but does the hon. Gentleman not agree that there is a risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Finance (No. 3) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "-cost credit lenders. It would require each tax measure in the Budget to be assessed to see whether it is applicable. I listened carefully to the speeches of the hon. Members for Nottingham East and for Walthamstow—she is probably tweeting about this as we speak—to find out what tax measures they had in mind. I did not hear a single tax proposal being put forward by Opposition Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-04", "file": "debates2011-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "becc6fd4a31c24d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "preceding_text": "ganisation, the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance, and the final one was the clinical advice from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Those four reports led to an excellent debate in Westminster Hall on 19 January 2010 at column 1WH of the Official Report. I advise the Minister to take a look at that hour and a half debate in which many more points were made than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-04a.1342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Michael Brown!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I agree that it cannot be healthy in a democracy if any political party is over-reliant on one source of funding to the exclusion of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is right to raise his concerns about the effect of that closure, given that ChildLine exists precisely to help the most vulnerable children. I am more than happy to establish meetings for him, and I would also suggest that meetings take place in Edinburgh with the Scottish Government, whose responsibilities have a bearing on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1357.5", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what case the hon. Lady is referring to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1362.6", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He didn’t!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "We cannot just do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1362.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1373.0", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman— [ Interruption. ] Order. The hon. Gentleman has the leave of the House. Members may resume their seats. He has the leave of the House to move his motion. As required by the Standing Order, I announce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Police (detention and bail) bill", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Police (detention and bail) bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The problem is that we should have not either/or, but both. The bank levy and the banker bonus tax would be a fair contribution from the banking sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1385.5", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Police (detention and bail) bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "blic and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery.”—[ Official Report , 15 June 2011; Vol. 529, c. 801W .] My hon. Friends will be used to getting that kind of answer to written questions. We must therefore take it that there have been no meetings whatever with the Minister’s European counterparts to get agreement on transparency on bonuses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1385.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Police (detention and bail) bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Withdraw!”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "I was not aware of the continuation of that quote. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1396.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1433.5", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Police (detention and bail) bill", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": " industry in the immediate future, yet it seems likely to fail to reduce carbon emissions. We have to wonder why the Government decided to implement it. The obvious explanation is that they got it wrong, again. It would not be the only tax that they have bungled in this Finance Bill. I have already mentioned the difficulties over the fuel duty stabiliser and the North sea oil tax, which was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-05", "file": "debates2011-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "53849d19d9f2fb45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Police (detention and bail) bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "what the Government plan to do to support the high-energy users. The Humber economy is very much based around high-energy use, so this policy could impact on us disproportionately. I know that the Government are considering that point, but the sooner we can get some certainty the better. As I mentioned, much has already been said, and in the interests of brevity I do not propose to go over it all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-05a.1441.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-06", "file": "debates2011-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "d21c7b14068ddd73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-06b.1508.2", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We have banned the Tehrik-e-Taliban—we have taken action. As my right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor will hastily testify, it is endlessly frustrating that we are subject to so many legal requirements, but I am afraid that we have to be a Government under the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-06b.1508.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.15.8", "colnum": "15", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "That was an awful lot of waffle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.15.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.15.8", "colnum": "15", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "That was an awful lot of waffle. [Interruption.] I will have to wait till everybody stops yelling because I have not got enough voice to yell over everybody else today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.15.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "It is a source of considerable pride to me that the number of students studying Latin in comprehensives is the highest ever. We are presiding over the greatest renaissance in Latin learning since Julius Caesar invaded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "out measures to liberate public sector bodies from red tape. To encourage employee ownership within the public services, the White Paper sets out the measures that we are taking to promote mutualisation and employee co-operatives. To ensure that services continue if particular service providers fail, it sets out the principles for the continuity regimes that we are establishing service by service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.33.7", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "As I said in my opening remarks, Southern Cross is a clear case of a legacy failure from the last Government, because the arrangements under which Southern Cross operated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.33.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, my right hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Mr Maude) , is taking a series of steps not just to enable, but to promote mutualisation and co-operatives across the whole range of public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is absolutely right. Consumers, patients, pupils and all the other users of services cannot possibly be expected to make the choices we are going to enable them to make on an informed basis unless there are standardised data. That is why we are going to produce standardised satisfaction data in each public service so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "May I start by apologising to the Leader of the Opposition for the fact that he has only just received a copy of this statement? As he will find out, there was a development only about a half an hour ago that dramatically changed the contents of this statement—I have only just received my own copy—which is why we were not able to get him a copy in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " undertakings in lieu. On 25 January , I said I was minded to refer News Corporation’s proposed merger with BSkyB to the Competition Commission in the absence of any specific undertakings in lieu. As a result of News Corporation’s announcement this afternoon, I am now going to refer this to the Competition Commission with immediate effect and will be writing to it this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ree and independent media is the most sacred responsibility I have as Culture Secretary. Irresponsible, illegal and callous behaviour damages that freedom by weakening public support for the self-regulation on which it has thrived. By dealing decisively with the abuses of power we have seen, hopefully on a cross-party basis, the Government intend to strengthen and not diminish press freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Secretary a series of questions. First, on the subject the judge-led inquiry, as soon as an inquiry is established, tampering with or the destruction of any documents becomes a criminal offence. We already know that is relevant to the offices of the News of the World . It may also be relevant to any documents in No. 10 Downing street and Conservative headquarters. Will the Culture Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "she should go, and on Friday all he offered were weasel words. Will the Culture Secretary say what the Prime Minster refused to—that Rebekah Brooks should take responsibility for what happened on her watch and resign from her post? Fourthly, given the role of Andy Coulson in relation to phone hacking and other allegations of illegality, will the Culture Secretary clarify the following—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the Leader of the Opposition about what the Prime Minister has done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "use at every stage I have asked for independent advice from the expert media regulator, Ofcom, and after careful consideration at every stage I have followed that advice. Let me say gently to the right hon. Gentleman that he needs to show some humility in this matter. He attended Rupert Murdoch’s summer party and failed to bring up the matter of phone hacking. He was part of a Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.43.4", "colnum": "43", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that we have the monkey at the Dispatch Box and not the organ grinder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.43.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " absent Prime Minister has been able to dodge the real questions—what did he know about criminal activities from Murdoch, when did he know it, and is it not time, based upon the British public’s reaction, that we sent this non-tax-paying Murdoch back from whence he came and, for the final humiliation, got the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to drive him to the airport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.51.6", "colnum": "51", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has said that he has not spoken to Andy Coulson since he resigned his position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.51.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.51.7", "colnum": "51", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House has heard what has been said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.51.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "nd we are therefore unable to pursue someone for perjury if they have lied to a Select Committee. There is now, however, going to be a judge-led inquiry in which the witnesses will have to give evidence on oath. Mr Speaker, can you ensure that it is perfectly possible for that inquiry to look at the issue of whether lies were told to Parliament, which might otherwise be covered by privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "european union bill (programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ct 1972”. The Government’s amendment addresses these issues, but it would be much better not to state the principle at all; the amendment fails to deal with the trap that has been set. I know Lord Mackay of Clashfern to be a distinguished and canny Scots lawyer, and he understands exactly what he intends. He has, by the most clever sleight of hand, reinserted into the provision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-11", "file": "debates2011-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bd922c166876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "european union bill (programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is a long time since I have taken part in a debate on the Floor of the House on any European subject that was completely free of any controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-11b.127.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-12", "file": "debates2011-07-12c.xml", "sha256": "4c0f7a77c9dcc081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They are!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "As we said in the NHS constitution, we do not intend patients to be waiting for more than 18 weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-12", "file": "debates2011-07-12c.xml", "sha256": "4c0f7a77c9dcc081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.168.6", "colnum": "168", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "I do not know the particulars of the homes to which the hon. Lady refers, but if she would like to write to me with more details, I will certainly look at that matter. Many of the homes that Southern Cross owns have been specifically built and designed to provide residential care for older people, and there is therefore no other purpose for which they could usefully be converted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.168.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-12", "file": "debates2011-07-12c.xml", "sha256": "4c0f7a77c9dcc081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a persistent and indefatigable fellow, but I need to say two things to him. First, that is not the way we go about the confirmation of business in this place. Secondly, although it is extraordinarily generous of the hon. Gentleman to refer me to the PoliticsHome website, I am not among those who browse it with any frequency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-12", "file": "debates2011-07-12c.xml", "sha256": "4c0f7a77c9dcc081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.218.9", "colnum": "218", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "The functions will continue to exist, but there will be a rationalisation of the landscape of the bodies. A single competition authority will be created. A number of the consumer advocate functions will be given to citizens advice bureaux, which will strengthen their role and bring welcome additional funding to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.218.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-12", "file": "debates2011-07-12c.xml", "sha256": "4c0f7a77c9dcc081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "l administration, and even that figure has now come under scrutiny. In written evidence submitted to the Public Administration Committee, the Minister’s own Department admitted that only £1.6 billion of cumulative administrative savings can be found. Perhaps the Minister would like to explain to the House where the other £1 billion of administrative savings are likely to come from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-12", "file": "debates2011-07-12c.xml", "sha256": "4c0f7a77c9dcc081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I want to make it absolutely clear, as I have done before, that these are cumulative administrative savings over the spending review period of £2.6 billion, and that they are net of restructuring costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-12c.225.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is in some sense right, although the tunnels are in Egypt, not at the normal crossings from Israel. The volume of goods and mostly people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Yesterday I met the family of Milly Dowler, who have shown incredible bravery and strength in speaking out about what happened to them, the hacking of their daughter’s phone, and their terrible treatment at the hands of the News of the World . I am sure the whole House will want to pay tribute to their courage and bravery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "deed, if this information is so significant, why have I been asked not one question about it at a press conference or in this House? The reason is that it did not add anything to the assurances that I was given. Let me say once more that if I was lied to, if the police were lied to, or if the Select Committee was lied to, it would be a matter of deep regret and a matter for a criminal prosecution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Anybody might think that orchestrated noise is taking place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "hat was it that happened in the last decade? When was the police investigation that did not work? Where was the public inquiry over the last 10 years? We have now got a full-on police investigation that will see proper prosecutions and, I hope, proper convictions, and we will have a public inquiry run by a judge to get to the bottom of this issue. That is the leadership I am determined to provide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.303.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr David— [ Interruption. ] Order. Mr David—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.304.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is intolerable behaviour as far as the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "As I said, perhaps before the hon. Lady wrote her question—or had it written—of course I sought assurances from Andy Coulson and those assurances were given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "be aware, that is of great concern throughout the House, and with 20,000 manufacturing jobs at risk, it is right that it should be. Will he confirm that no contract has yet been signed, and indeed that no contract can be let or signed until the funding package is determined? That is a complicated process. This is the heart of my question to the Prime Minister: given that the funding package—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He said that!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "as been broadened to include the relationship between politicians and the press. On the specifics of that—the relationship between politicians and the press, and the relationship between the police and the press—can the Prime Minister assure the House that these aspects of the inquiry will be very much judge led, and that those who appear as witnesses to the inquiry will be under oath?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "rnment’s forthcoming communications Act? May I suggest that it would be wise for him to bring that Act forward from its currently planned date of 2015? Finally, I welcome the Prime Minister’s proposals about transparency. I hope and expect he will ensure that that proposal is implemented in a retrospective way back to the last general election, so he will publish all the details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.328.3", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ry. I think there are difficulties here. The reason for the statutory regulation of television is that you are dealing with a previously limited spectrum that was a privilege to own and statutory regulation came with it. The reason for not having the statutory regulation of newspapers is that in a free society you should be free to set up a newspaper, to distribute opinions and information —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Youth Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that I want to conjure up visions of Cabinet Ministers throwing themselves in front of prime ministerial cars, which is not a happy thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Youth Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "ided to legislate to set up the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly, it did not think that it was right to have variable terms; it decided that it was sensible to have fixed terms. If this House thought that that was good enough for them, it should be good enough for us. Let me finish by reading out the following quote from the right hon. Member for Blackburn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.370.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Youth Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "at clause 2 is particularly significant because it contains all the provisions for early elections, in the context either of two thirds of the House choosing to hold one or of a vote of no confidence. It is therefore worth explaining to the House what we are proposing. Lords amendment 4 deals with the powers in the Bill for the Prime Minister to alter the date of an election in an emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.383.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day—Half Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where’s Cameron?”", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "May I begin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.397.7", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day—Half Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "t on the run, the Opposition in pursuit and a headline in The Sun saying, “Brown wrong”, another example of my very close relationship with News International. It is like the old days, but with one exception: if I had not come to the House when I was Prime Minister, in a debate in which the Prime Minister has been implicated, I hesitate to think what hon. Members would have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.397.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.398.4", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day—Half Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the right hon. Gentleman. Mr Stuart, I am going to say it to you once and once only: you are far too excitable. Be quiet and calm down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.398.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-13", "file": "debates2011-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "1755e57777418d7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day—Half Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I notice that the hon. Gentleman asks for a time limit; perhaps what he ought to do is listen to the facts. If we do not act now on what we now know, and if we do not act forcefully and with clarity, friends around the world who admire our liberties will ask what kind of country we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-13b.402.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shameful!”", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "cility simply to demonstrate that my hon. Friend the shipping Minister is leaving no stone unturned in trying to help the maritime community around Liverpool, but the decision has been properly made, after a full assessment. The station at Holyhead will provide proper cover for the maritime areas that were previously by Crosby. To suggest that there is some kind of party political advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.521.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Cycles (protective Headgear for Children) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " since the accession of King George III in 1760. I read through the Hansard record of the contributions made in recent decades by my hon. Friend, so I thought that I should read the pre- Hansard record of the debate and resolution in this House on 25 November 1760 , when the then Government set out clearly their view that the use of the revenues of the Crown Estate was for Parliament to determine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Cycles (protective Headgear for Children) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "e substance of what my right hon. Friend the Chancellor is trying to do today, but I hope that he will accept a couple of bits of advice or warnings. The constitutional position of the monarch and Back Benchers is rather similar: we warn and we advise. The difference is that the Queen does so in private and is listened to and we do so in public and were never listened to, but we will try our best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.548.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Cycles (protective Headgear for Children) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Honourable.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "in that way. Her Majesty is our sovereign, full stop. She is one person, indivisible. She is not the trinity—Her Majesty the Queen, Her Majesty Mrs Windsor and Her Majesty the third party of the trinity. It does not work like that. She is one sovereign individual. The next point that I want to make is one on which I agree, as I often do, actually, with the right hon. Member for North Durham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Cycles (protective Headgear for Children) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " Public Accounts Committee could spend time looking at the £35 million spent on the sovereign grant rather than at the £6 billion that was wasted by the Ministry of Defence. We really do not want to get into a situation in which the PAC concentrates on something that is de minimis in the broader scheme of things because that is more appealing in terms of publicity. Let me conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.560.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Cycles (protective Headgear for Children) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "he near future. That is where I have been, and I missed all these wonderful contributions on the Queen’s new allowance—her winter heating allowance, or whatever it is. I remember well, way back in 1971, being joined by a lot of people in the House who were on the left wing at the time in voting against the Queen’s money. Quite a number of them are now in the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Cycles (protective Headgear for Children) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Name them!", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": ". That is where I have been, and I missed all these wonderful contributions on the Queen’s new allowance—her winter heating allowance, or whatever it is. I remember well, way back in 1971, being joined by a lot of people in the House who were on the left wing at the time in voting against the Queen’s money. Quite a number of them are now in the House of Lords— [ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Cycles (protective Headgear for Children) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " or a telephone. I said to a mate of mine, “You’d never believe the bumf that they’ve sent—all these different things for the royal garden party.” He said, “What did you do with it?” and I said, “I chucked it in t’dustbin.” I said, “There were even a thing to put in your car.” He says, “What colour were it?”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-14", "file": "debates2011-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "5604fa242a9ff6f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Cycles (protective Headgear for Children) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yeah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "o one, although they tell me that Willie Hamilton did. I don’t know about that. I’ll tell you one thing though. Despite all the security, they are still using the same car passes now. So we have had the IRA, Islamic fundamentalism, 9/11, bombs on the underground and buses, and they are still using the same passes on the Mall—so they tell me. Anyway, to get back to the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-14b.582.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-18", "file": "debates2011-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "857e9c41fca1d6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-18b.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Metropolitan Police Service", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " absent and doing absolutely nothing and in the other breath saying that I am doing everything she asked for. She cannot simultaneously claim that I am doing nothing and doing something—that is the have-your-cake-and-eat-it opportunism of Opposition politics to which I note that both she and the shadow Chancellor belong. Finally, let me remind the shadow Home Secretary of a few things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-18b.625.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-18", "file": "debates2011-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "857e9c41fca1d6f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-18b.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Metropolitan Police Service", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who is distinguished in these matters—I am rather hoping that the Communities and Local Government Committee, which he chairs, might consider holding a special hearing on it—is entirely wrong. The levy system is there to pick up various authorities that will enjoy extra growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-18b.668.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-19", "file": "debates2011-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b1bb9773c6ead252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "Given what the Foreign Secretary has said and the fact that the French are now dropping arms to the Liberal rebels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-19", "file": "debates2011-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b1bb9773c6ead252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Campaigning on the alternative vote might be more successful with a Kalashnikov.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-19", "file": "debates2011-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b1bb9773c6ead252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "School Funding Reform", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend’s focus on special schools will be particularly welcome to the Ridgeway, St John’s and—oh my goodness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-19", "file": "debates2011-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b1bb9773c6ead252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Betting Shops", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House has considered matters to be raised before the forthcoming adjournment. Thank you for calling me, Mr Deputy Speaker; I thought that this moment would never arrive. A total of 66 Members want to participate in the debate, including our newest Member—my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde (Mr McKenzie) —who is hoping to make his maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-19", "file": "debates2011-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "b1bb9773c6ead252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Betting Shops", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "to support the industry and blending over there. It is not aimed at undercutting UK bioethanol production. A number of countries in the European Union, such as France and Germany, have already categorised those imports differently, and I ask the Minister whether the UK will consider doing that. I am conscious of the time, so it is difficult to go into all the details of this important issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-19a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "hat I will not fall short. My responsibilities are for hiring him and for the work he did in Downing street. On the work he did, I repeat, perhaps not for the last time, that his work at Downing street has not been the subject of any serious complaint and, of course, he left months ago. On the decision to hire him, I believe that I have answered every question about that. It was my decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "e work he did in Downing street. On the work he did, I repeat, perhaps not for the last time, that his work at Downing street has not been the subject of any serious complaint and, of course, he left months ago. On the decision to hire him, I believe that I have answered every question about that. It was my decision— [ Interruption. ] Hold on. It was my decision; I take responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " from Rupert Murdoch and the withdrawal of the BSkyB bid. It is why we respect the decision by Sir Paul Stephenson to stand down so that, going forward, the leadership of the Met can focus on the vital work that is necessary. So we are beginning to see answers given and responsibility taken, and that is right, but the Prime Minister knows that he must do the same if the country is to move forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ion by Sir Paul Stephenson to stand down so that, going forward, the leadership of the Met can focus on the vital work that is necessary. So we are beginning to see answers given and responsibility taken, and that is right, but the Prime Minister knows that he must do the same if the country is to move forward. [ Interruption. ] I have a number of questions for him. He said in his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I said a few moments ago that the remainder of the Prime Minister’s statement should be heard in silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "larm bells to ring in the Prime Minister’s mind, yet apparently he did nothing. Then in October the Prime Minister’s chief of staff was approached again by The Guardian about the serious evidence that it had about Mr Coulson’s behaviour. Once more, nothing was done. This cannot be put down to gross incompetence. It was a deliberate attempt to hide from the facts about Mr Coulson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I say to the right hon. Gentleman: stop hunting for feeble conspiracy theories and start rising to events. Most of his remarks were just a tissue of totally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "s to setting out meetings with News Corporation, I should point out that I have set out every single meeting since the last election. The right hon. Gentleman published a list this morning, but it did not go back to the last election. Indeed, when are we going to see the transparency from Tony Blair and Gordon Brown? Secondly, on the right hon. Gentleman’s questions about Andy Coulson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "already answered: the role of the Chief of Staff—answered. The parallels with the Metropolitan police—answered. The role of Mr Wallis—answered. On the closeness to media groups, we should be clear about what we heard yesterday. Rupert Murdoch said that the politician he was closest to was Gordon Brown as Chancellor—and who was adviser to Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ignored!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Who was adviser to Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor? It was the right hon. Gentleman. On the action that we have taken, we should remember that during the previous Parliament, the Information Commissioner’s reports were ignored. Select Committee reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ignored!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Who was adviser to Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor? It was the right hon. Gentleman. On the action that we have taken, we should remember that during the previous Parliament, the Information Commissioner’s reports were ignored. Select Committee reports—[Hon. Members: “Ignored!”] The failure of the police investigation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.926.4", "colnum": "926", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "it turns out that he knew about that hacking, he will have lied to a Select Committee, he will have lied to the police, he will have lied to a court of law and he will have lied to me. I made the decision to employ him in good faith, because of the assurances he gave me. There was no information in that article that would lead me to change my mind about those assurances, but if it turns out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.926.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "As Rebekah Brooks said yesterday in Parliament, there was never a conversation that could have been held, in front of the Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.929.3", "colnum": "929", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "Murdoch’s secret back-door meetings at No. 10 under both the last and present Governments, does the Prime Minister agree that this explains why successive Governments have been so reluctant to act in response to the 2003 Culture, Media and Sport Committee recommendations, the 2006 Information Commissioner report, and calls last year from Lib Dem MPs for a judicial inquiry into phone hacking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.929.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.930.5", "colnum": "930", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Louise Bagshawe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louise Bagshawe", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that after the extraordinary events of the past few days, the last thing the general public want to see is cheap partisanship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.930.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.932.7", "colnum": "932", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "Rebekah Brooks yesterday described the Prime Minister as a friend and a neighbour. We heard from Jeremy Clarkson about Christmas walks and conversations over sausages. Given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.932.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "The confidence of my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that the former Prime Minister’s idea to have the inquiry was never raised with the official Opposition. One of the things that I read in the press in the last couple of days was one of his former colleagues saying that he thought that it was a proposal that Gordon made to himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point I would make is that we have all got to be open about the fact that both Front Benches spent a lot of time courting Rupert Murdoch, courting News International, courting the Russian who owns The Independent— and the Daily Mail, and the BBC while we are at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.940.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " International, courting the Russian who owns The Independent— and the Daily Mail, and the BBC while we are at it. [Interruption.] Everybody has done it. And we have got to admit that this sort of relationship needs to be changed and put on a more healthy basis. Now we are prepared to admit it, but basically, if you like, the clock has stopped on my watch, and I am determined to sort it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.940.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "t it, but basically, if you like, the clock has stopped on my watch, and I am determined to sort it out. [Interruption.] From a sedentary position, the shadow Chancellor says, “We didn’t hire Andy Coulson.” Look, you hired Damian McBride. You had Alastair Campbell. You had Alastair Campbell falsifying documents in government. You have still got Tom Baldwin working in your office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.940.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "Today is the anniversary of the moon landing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would like to accommodate many more colleagues on this important subject, but in order for me to do so, I require brevity. I call Mr William Cash—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.945.5", "colnum": "945", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point that was made by a number of people, the Deputy Prime Minister included, was just to ask whether it was right to give a job to Andy Coulson, because clearly, I had made a decision. That man had resigned from the News of the World over the hacking scandal because it happened on his watch. He gave me an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.945.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.946.5", "colnum": "946", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I do not have that information; I will have to get back to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.946.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.947.5", "colnum": "947", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have had a range of meetings with John Yates over the past year, mostly about terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.947.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.959.2", "colnum": "959", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I said that I am extremely sorry and that I deeply regret the whole furore that this has kicked up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.960.4", "colnum": "960", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "As someone once famously said, I’m enjoying this. The point is that my hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the fact that at the heart of all this is the issue of Milly Dowler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.960.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister, in all sincerity, to dissociate himself from the comment of the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South West (Paul Uppal) ? I can assure the Prime Minister, despite the debates that are going on here, that there is not one Member on the Opposition Benches who is seeking to make political capital out of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "preceding_text": "n here, that there is not one Member on the Opposition Benches who is seeking to make political capital out of the— [Interruption.] Can I ask the Chancellor in particular to pay attention to the last part of my remarks? I can assure this Chamber in the deepest sincerity that I do not believe there is one person in the Chamber seeking to make political capital out of the phone hacking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "preceding_text": "llor in particular to pay attention to the last part of my remarks? I can assure this Chamber in the deepest sincerity that I do not believe there is one person in the Chamber seeking to make political capital out of the phone hacking —[Interruption.] I am deeply disappointed that I am not being heard. Let me tell the Prime Minister directly that there is not one person who is willing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "John Yates wrote to me, as previous Home Secretary, last week. He wrote me a private and confidential letter, in which he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "y Coulson’s resignation, which had been under discussion for some weeks, was that he recognised that he could not go on doing his job. It was not, to the best of my memory, connected with any single event. It was literally: “I can’t go on being an effective communications spokesman. I have to resign. Let’s just make sure we get on with it and do it in an orderly way.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I take all allegations against members of my staff seriously, which is why I checked these out with The Times newspaper, which specifically confirms what the gentleman to whom the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuart) refers said, which is that he did not commission illegal investigations into Michael Ashcroft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.974.4", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is completely right that we did not do enough and we should have done more. I am absolutely clear about this. Of course this was a collective failure on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.974.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.1031.2", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ven the world, can be questioned before a Select Committee just like anyone else. That is how it should be in our country. People should not feel that they can get away with it. Let us ask how we got into that position. Many hon. Members have said that after 1992, Labour politicians were desperate for the good opinion of the media. They went out to the Canary Islands and all sorts of places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.1031.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "We have more independent Select Committees in this Parliament, thanks to the decisions taken by this Government, and that has been shown to have been absolutely the right thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "many people as the issues have arisen. The right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw) returned to the question that the Prime Minister addressed continually in his earlier statement about whether there had been discussions about the BSkyB deal. The discussions that the Prime Minister had about the BSkyB deal were irrelevant. They were irrelevant because the person who had the responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-07-20", "file": "debates2011-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "70c00c2cfaa299ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "(Mr Straw) returned to the question that the Prime Minister addressed continually in his earlier statement about whether there had been discussions about the BSkyB deal. The discussions that the Prime Minister had about the BSkyB deal were irrelevant. They were irrelevant because the person who had the responsibility— [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members will listen, I will answer the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-07-20a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-08-11", "file": "debates2011-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2edc9bc19b9da02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "traders told me that they feared the emergence of a new class of criminal consumer: BlackBerry-enabled, self-organised groups, whose new-found collectivism had diminished their fear of the police and increased their contempt for the law. Their clarion cry to the Prime Minister was: “Please reverse the planned reduction in police in the west midlands by 1,000 uniformed police officers.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-08-11", "file": "debates2011-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2edc9bc19b9da02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "flatlined for nine months, growing slower than that of the US and the eurozone. On the latest OBR figures, before growth forecasts—which the Chancellor today confirmed—were to be downgraded yet again, the borrowing forecast was £46 billion higher than the Chancellor planned. We need a tough, medium-term plan to get our deficit down, but it is the Chancellor’s reckless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-08-11", "file": "debates2011-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2edc9bc19b9da02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "going to lend money to European countries that do not have credible deficit plans. It is completely for the fairies, as he puts it. Let me talk about the US debate, which the right hon. Gentleman mentioned. He talked about deficit reduction in America and asked where I stand on the measured pace argument. Actually, I agree with the plan that President Obama set out at George Washington university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-08-11", "file": "debates2011-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2edc9bc19b9da02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "As I have already explained, we have an independent Office for Budget Responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-08-11", "file": "debates2011-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2edc9bc19b9da02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1126.6", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I reconcile it by quoting the Governor of the Bank of England, given that the hon. Lady mentions the Bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1126.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-08-11", "file": "debates2011-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "d2edc9bc19b9da02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Business without Debate — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "First I want to give the Home Secretary an opportunity to clarify the position in relation to the immediate additional operational costs that the Met and other forces will incur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-08-11a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.3.5", "colnum": "3", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.3.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "g is simply appalling—the loss of life, the damage and terror that the President has been inflicting on his own people. On Russia, one of the encouraging things is that the Russians came to the Paris conference, were one of the 63 countries represented there and supported the statement that came out of it about NATO continuing its work and making sure that we complete the job in Libya—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. What I would say about doctrine is that if you overdo your belief in a particular doctrine, you will find that the next problem that confronts you will fall completely outside it and you will have to spend a lot of time inventing a new doctrine to deal with it. I am a practical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “A new doctrine.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ill find that the next problem that confronts you will fall completely outside it and you will have to spend a lot of time inventing a new doctrine to deal with it. I am a practical— [Interruption.] Members say that I am a Conservative, and that is right. I am a practical, liberal Conservative—that is what I believe, and I think this was a practical, liberal, Conservative intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "12;and I have expected so far nothing from a Minister on this matter. I have received no notification, no hint, no twitch of an eyebrow, no signal otherwise. I hope I satisfy the hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) who, in the process of making his point, has alerted none other than the Prime Minister to what he believes is its force and significance. We come now to the main business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "e I satisfy the hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) who, in the process of making his point, has alerted none other than the Prime Minister to what he believes is its force and significance. We come now to the main business— [ Interruption. ] The Whip on duty is ahead of himself, and we are grateful to him. What I was going to say, and will now do so, is that the Clerk will now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister to what he believes is its force and significance. We come now to the main business— [ Interruption. ] The Whip on duty is ahead of himself, and we are grateful to him. What I was going to say, and will now do so, is that the Clerk will now— [ Interruption. ] Whips are usually behind the curve. Something has happened and they are doing better today, almost too well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "he balance of risk and ask serious questions about how that risk is managed. That should always be the starting point of hon. Members as responsible parliamentarians when we consider exceptional powers that do not exist in other parts of our legal framework. We are also committed to saying that in an ideal world, we would not need such powers, but unfortunately, we are not in an ideal world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "as a quick look, and a quick renewal. That is not what we want. We want to look underneath what is happening, rather than simply taking the easy option. I have asked the Minister and the shadow Minister whether, if either of them is in the next Government, they will ensure that a proper review is carried out. If I am in the next Government, I will do my very best to ensure that that happens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.69.5", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": ". That is why I am so pleased that the Government have accepted the argument. We should be very concerned when we step outside the normal bounds. I disagree entirely with the comments made by the hon. Member for Bradford South (Mr Sutcliffe) , who I believed to be a shadow Minister but who appears to be sitting on the very Back Benches. I do not know what that says about his position and standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.69.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-05", "file": "debates2011-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "249beed077677466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "th judicial oversight”. I will try to remember to use that full phrase if it would please her. These powers are exceptional. They are not what we want. We should strive harder to find ways that fit within the legal framework to make this case. I would have liked to talk later in great detail about police bail, but I am afraid I shall not be able to. I still think it is the right way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-05a.70.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": ", which is implementing the agreement most recently signed on 21 July by the eurozone. Of course we can and should have a discussion about the future of the euro and its governance arrangements—and that is important—but the euro is here to stay and we have to ensure that it works for Europe. I do not want Britain to be part of the euro, and there is no prospect of that happening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.157.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.162.5", "colnum": "162", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "It has been very clear, listening to all the international commentators talking about what is happening in the UK economy, that their advice has been to stick to the course and stick to plan A. That is the action that this Government are committed to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.167.4", "colnum": "167", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am happy with the performance of the OBR, because we have created a new institution in Britain that produces independent fiscal and economic forecasts. The absolutely astonishing revelation of the former Chancellor’s memoirs was how—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.167.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Laura Sandys", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Sandys", "preceding_text": "Like many of my colleagues, I want to thank the Chancellor for launching the enterprise zone and visiting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "When the Eurostar is in France it is in a eurozone country, but when it comes through the channel tunnel into England’s green and pleasant land, the euro is not the sovereign currency. Last week, Eurostar refused to accept British money, even on the train in this country. Will the Chancellor make a robust complaint to Eurostar?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Currency and Banknotes Act 1954 to allow banknotes in addition to those issued by the Bank of England to be legal tender; and for connected purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman’s hyperbole does not match the facts. He mentioned 715 amendments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": " patients’ best interests. Labour has led the arguments against the Bill since the autumn, helping to create the widespread opposition that has already forced the Government to pause and amend their plans. However, the Government, far from what the Minister said, refused to give the second Bill Committee enough time to scrutinise properly the changes after their so-called listening exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "e lead signatory was Hamish Meldrum, the chairman of the BMA council, whom I know well. It was curious because his objection to the Bill, which he wants to be amended, was about the introduction and extension of the role of “any qualified provider”. However, that extension is not in the Bill. It is not occasioned by the Bill; it is a consequence of the way in which commissioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “She was.”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am confused. I understood that the hon. Lady was a member of the Bill Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "That point was raised during the Secretary of State’s earlier remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.224.7", "colnum": "224", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to labour the point, but the report in The Guardian said that freedom of information requests to the Department of Health indicated that discussions were taking place between officials in respect of the transfer of between 10 and 20 NHS units —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.224.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.224.8", "colnum": "224", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "May I say to the hon. Gentleman that that report is unadulterated claptrap? The trouble is that it was a misunderstanding of the contents of the e-mails.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.224.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": " indication of what is in store. It is rather ironic that the Secretary of State quoted from the Labour party manifesto. Perhaps it might be instructive if I were to quote from the Conservative party manifesto. It said that the Conservatives would “defend the NHS from Labour’s cuts and reorganisations”. If this Bill is not the biggest reorganisation that we have ever seen —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "d better housing. I mention that in relation to the amendments that we are discussing to highlight the stark danger of a reversal in relation to health inequalities, which are not only influenced by decisions of the Health Secretary, but greatly influenced by decisions taken across Government. I shall draw my remarks to a conclusion. I am sure that Government Members will be relieved to hear that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "preceding_text": "How much? I will give way if the Minister tells me exactly how much it is all going to cost. I shall happily sit down; there you go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.242.2", "colnum": "242", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "in our constituencies—will be allowed to fail. Each of these subjects should be subject to separate and far longer debates, because they are of such importance to our constituents, our local NHS staff and our local services. However, because the House has been given so little time and the Government have tabled so many amendments, we have been forced to take these huge issues together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.285.4", "colnum": "285", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": " the cap and change it as appropriate in order to make it work properly; one would not get rid of it completely just because there are criticisms of it, unless one had another agenda. The question is why on earth the Government are considering allowing as many private patients as wish to do so to go into our national health service at a time of crisis, pushing out national health service patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-06", "file": "debates2011-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "b1714b67d3b83568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "VAT", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "strument. I do not want to go too far down memory lane, but I must remind the House that there was no intellectual case for bringing in the cap in the first place. It was introduced in 2002-03 in the relevant legislation as a sop to old Labour. The right hon. Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Frank Dobson) says that he has moved on, but he still has the Neanderthal tendencies of old Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-06a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.346.10", "colnum": "346", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to Lincolnshire and Rutland Education Business Partnership for the excellent work that it has done this summer, which is a really good example of communities working together to support the NCS. As I have said before, we are giving careful consideration to all bids received to run the 2012 pilots and will be making an announcement very shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.346.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman wants to change the subject, because on policing he was having his collar felt as he has done a complete U-turn on the policy he used to be committed to. As I said some moments ago, in our health service we are seeing more cancer patients get treatment, more doctors in our NHS, fewer bureaucrats, a reduction in mixed-sex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.351.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.354.5", "colnum": "354", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrats make up 8.7% of this Parliament and yet they seem to be influencing our free school policy, health and many issues including immigration and abortion. Does the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.354.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "ganisations. The past four weeks have been incredibly difficult. The campaign against the amendment has been co-ordinated by an organisation known as Abortion Rights, which is funded by Unison and a number of other small unions. It also received membership contributions, but, as I was told in a meeting with the organisation, it is largely funded by the unions and Unison is the biggest contributor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Who?”", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "I have spoken to organisations that provide counselling and have 80,000 registered counsellors throughout the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.367.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "I know that others want to speak. I have been speaking for a while and I want to get to the end, so I will keep going for a bit longer. I will take interventions in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.371.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "p at an abortion clinic, the clinic does not offer counselling. It does offer consultation, but the woman has to ask for counselling; it is not offered. She has to ask—or the doctor in the clinic has to see that a woman is in a particular position, or be alarmed enough by her state to offer counselling. I want to make the point very clear: counselling is not offered, but has to be asked for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.372.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "The amendments are grouped, but when I spoke to the Table Office last night, I was told that I would speak to amendment 1 and that amendment 1 would be pressed to the vote. I hope that the Clerks will clarify that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.376.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way any more on that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.416.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "yesterday, and I have noted the Secretary of State use it on several occasions. I have no doubt that, were I to read the Hansard reports of the Bill Committee’s sittings, I would find that the Minister had used the word, because it has been very popular on the Government side of the House. The word “scaremongering” is popular, because it is what the Government think we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "e of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the British Association of Occupational Therapists and the Association of Medical Research Charities—the alphabet soup of medical organisations that have criticised the Bill—are all scaremongering? Do they all misunderstand the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "r synthetic about them. They are very real concerns. We feel that the NHS, as a national, universal, publicly controlled and publicly financed institution is jeopardised by the Government’s proposed reforms. Not tomorrow maybe, or next year, but eventually and gradually it will be jeopardised by the new laissez-faire, localised, commercially driven and legally contestable version of the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect to the Secretary of State, who I have to confess knows a lot about the NHS and about the health service in this country, I think that that question is completely erroneous—a total red herring. As I said earlier, the practical reality is that the Secretary of State delegates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.419.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "As the Minister has just confirmed by omission, there will be no power to direct and therefore no power to deliver absolutely a comprehensive, universal health service as we have come to expect and understand it. Those are the key differences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-07", "file": "debates2011-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "2bcd7aea63ee71ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Union Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "s was a deeply felt concern at the risks to healthcare education and training in England posed by the fast pace of change.” The Government responded by saying: “we will introduce an explicit duty for the Secretary of State to maintain a system for professional education and training as part of the comprehensive health service.” We are still waiting. What will that duty look like?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-07b.426.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-09", "file": "debates2011-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "2a5adb6b3859062c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-09a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "ly for the Conservative party, which claims to be staunchly Unionist, and a staunch defender of the United Kingdom and its parliamentary system, it does not like the fact that one part of the United Kingdom consistently votes against it. It is worth noting the work of the hon. Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb) —I congratulate him on it—in helping to rebuild the Welsh Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-09a.677.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-12", "file": "debates2011-09-12d.xml", "sha256": "bd29f32a7e2689c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-12d.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "I will come to that issue. However, I will say to the hon. Gentleman now that if the elections were delayed for a further six months to take them to May 2013, incoming police and crime commissioners would be unable to participate in the budget that would already have been set for that year. They would be unable to take the key decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-12d.785.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-12", "file": "debates2011-09-12d.xml", "sha256": "bd29f32a7e2689c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-12d.869.5", "colnum": "869", "heading": "SWANSEA COASTGUARD", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "No. From a sedentary position, the hon. Gentleman says that pairing does not work. He is wrong. It was not open. It was covered by Milford Haven —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-12d.869.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-13", "file": "debates2011-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "d10ce0d24bac9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "The apprenticeship scheme was during the Labour Government, and we have a Labour Government in Wales. It is devolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.926.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-13", "file": "debates2011-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "d10ce0d24bac9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": "Clearly, we need to have both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-13", "file": "debates2011-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "d10ce0d24bac9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Julie Hilling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Hilling", "preceding_text": "han the survey of 5,000 young people carried out by the then Department for Education and Skills, which found that over 90% were satisfied with the service that they had received. Surely no one can argue that online advice is a substitute for face-to-face advice. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Mrs Chapman) and, I suspect, many other Members, I did not get good careers advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-13", "file": "debates2011-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "d10ce0d24bac9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "I thank the shadow Secretary of State for bringing this debate to the House, as I believe it is valuable—one of the most important debates I have attended since being elected. It is only a shame that so few Members are present to hear the contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-13", "file": "debates2011-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "d10ce0d24bac9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State for bringing this debate to the House, as I believe it is valuable—one of the most important debates I have attended since being elected. It is only a shame that so few Members are present to hear the contributions. [Interruption.] I am not naming names, just making a comment. The principle of the motion is very good, but the way in which it has been written is very poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-13", "file": "debates2011-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "d10ce0d24bac9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": " so few Members are present to hear the contributions. [Interruption.] I am not naming names, just making a comment. The principle of the motion is very good, but the way in which it has been written is very poor. [Interruption.] Those might be the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes) but they are not in this motion. The problem with it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-13", "file": "debates2011-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "d10ce0d24bac9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "e of these nights—young people who had never thought of going into that sort of industry. We cannot take too narrow an approach to this issue. We should expand it to include everybody involved in employing young people once they have finished school or university. I implore the Government to examine all the options. As I have said, I am disappointed that the motion has been so badly written.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-13", "file": "debates2011-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "d10ce0d24bac9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": " NHS Direct to get medical advice, or using computer programmes to get mental health advice? It is horses for courses. He talks about localism; what localism means for us is leaving it up to the expertise in the schools—the professionals, teachers and heads—to decide whether careers advice should be given face to face, over the internet, over the phone, or even by retaining Connexions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-13a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1024.7", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "John Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Stevenson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that the commission will consider the issue with regard not just to Scotland, but to the other devolved Assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1024.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1025.9", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman’s attitude. I thought he would have welcomed the fact that we are setting up the commission. I am sure that when it is set up, he will want to contribute to it. He raised some issues, including on the terms of reference, and my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office has made it absolutely clear that we will listen to all the points that are made to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1025.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1026.5", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "We will certainly not be taking any lectures on national insurance from Labour, a party that sought to introduce a jobs tax in 2009.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1026.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1026.5", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "l certainly not be taking any lectures on national insurance from Labour, a party that sought to introduce a jobs tax in 2009. [Interruption.] I had the benefit of visiting the hon. Gentleman’s constituency last week, and I would have thought that he would welcome the fact that these jobs that did not exist before and that they have a better chance of becoming permanent with the NIC holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1026.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, let me correct the right hon. Gentleman on his facts. The fact is that, this year, Britain is growing faster than America. That is something that he does not choose to tell us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, let me correct the right hon. Gentleman on his facts. The fact is that, this year, Britain is growing faster than America. That is something that he does not choose to tell us. [ Interruption. ] Let me answer directly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1029.6", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "So the message to all those people who have lost their jobs is that the Prime Minister is not going to change course. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has lashed himself to the mast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1029.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "Was my right hon. Friend taught, at whatever school he happened to attend, that one of the key functions of Parliament over the centuries has been to diminish what the historians have called the overmighty subject. In the 18th century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " Professor Vickers to look at this issue, and he recommended legislating in this Parliament, but introducing the reforms at the same time as the Basel changes are finalised in 2019, and that is exactly what we will do. At the same time, it seems to me vital that we address the failure of banks to lend enough money, particularly to small businesses. That is why we put the Merlin agreement in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come to the 10-minute rule motion. I call Dr Thérèse Coffey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1047.4", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that an assessor would knock on someone’s door, undertake a green deal assessment and, at the same time, encourage them to switch to another tariff?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1047.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-14", "file": "debates2011-09-14b.xml", "sha256": "b655b7b3439529b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "stop is 2018—the point at which we must cross the finishing line. Clearly, in the five years to 2018, from the point at which the green deal goes live, it will be up to the Government to monitor progress in the private rented sector. If we see that there is not a significant glide path towards being able to complete by 2018, it remains to us to take further measures and actions, and we will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-14b.1125.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-15", "file": "debates2011-09-15b.xml", "sha256": "ec84eb892645c779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": " certainly do put the emphasis on the issue being not just about domestic violence, but about a violation of human rights. It is the most serious of offences against young women—all women—and it is part of our action plan, which includes 88 actions. The legal guidance is also part of the issue, but we are taking a range of measures. For example, I was at the Manor Gardens centre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1175.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-15", "file": "debates2011-09-15b.xml", "sha256": "ec84eb892645c779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1185.6", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Boles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Withdraw.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Boles", "preceding_text": "I commend the calm and balanced approach set out by my hon. Friend—so unlike the wild and irresponsible statements by others on both sides of this House, whose long years have clearly not brought them wisdom. What matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1185.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-09-15", "file": "debates2011-09-15b.xml", "sha256": "ec84eb892645c779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1206.6", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "preceding_text": "ior members of the Ulster Unionist party have been summoned to Orange Order disciplinary proceedings after they attended the funeral of the murdered Catholic police officer, Ronan Kerr. May we have a short debate in which all Members of this House can demonstrate our support for Tom Elliott and Danny Kennedy and recognise the responsible way in which they have offered leadership to that community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-15", "file": "debates2011-09-15b.xml", "sha256": "ec84eb892645c779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Backbench Business — [31st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Lord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Lord", "preceding_text": "very long journey starts with just one step. There is now some sort of dialogue between India and Pakistan about Kashmir. There has been talk of the possibility of a new era of diplomacy; the new Pakistan Foreign Minister’s recent visit to India showed signs of progress, with additional agreements about trade over the border. Sustained and composite dialogue, however, is not yet forthcoming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-15", "file": "debates2011-09-15b.xml", "sha256": "ec84eb892645c779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Backbench Business — [31st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "As I have been saying, for some 65 years, this has been an issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-09-15", "file": "debates2011-09-15b.xml", "sha256": "ec84eb892645c779", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1267.6", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Backbench Business — [31st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jason McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jason McCartney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. His office is on my corridor, so we will probably bump into each other and talk about this many more times. Yes, we want a peaceful solution and the best way to end war-war is to jaw-jaw and talk about these things, and I hope that the UK Government can be part of that. Some eagle-eyed Members might have noticed the little green badge that I am wearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-09-15b.1267.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.4.7", "colnum": "4", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ss the Government continue actively to promote British defence exports overseas, led by the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence. Last month the UK hosted the defence and security equipment exhibition, which served to showcase the best of the UK’s defence and security industries, and was attended by me and my ministerial colleagues. The exhibition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.4.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.15.0", "colnum": "15", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "The Minister is, I am sure, aware of the number of cases in which there have been allegations that defence exports have ended up with people whom we would not want to have them and used for purposes that we would not want to see. He will also be aware that there are a number of cases of defence lobbyists acting in a shady and disreputable manner. Will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.15.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.17.7", "colnum": "17", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Read it out!”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be able to do precisely that; it was published a few hours ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.17.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "etra. At this time, Mr Boulter asked for a meeting to discuss Cellcrypt. Nothing happened for the next three months, but during the week of 13 June , Mr Werritty was dining in Dubai at a nearby table and Mr Boulter again requested a meeting. Mr Werrity suggested that it might be possible the following day, as I was coming through on my return from visiting forces in Afghanistan. The meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "o the independent adviser on Ministers’ interests. In conclusion, we might never know what got the Secretary of State into this crisis—whether it was arrogance, naivety or hubris. The British people “expect the highest standards of conduct…We must be...transparent about what we do and how we do it. Determined to act in the national interest, above improper influence”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "t peace to occur, but we have to accept that there are forces in that country, and even more in the diaspora, who do not want anyone to deal with the current Sri Lankan Government. My point is this: however much people may regret what the current Government have done or dislike them, unless we deal with that Government and get proper reconciliation, we will not be able to get peace in that island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.31.6", "colnum": "31", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "Very simply, because I told Mr Werritty, who was in Dubai with his girlfriend at the time, that I would be passing through and that we should meet up. The hon. Gentleman will have to take my word for it that there was a chance meeting with Mr Boulter, and I think that that is perfectly reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.31.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is right—[Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] I am sure that hon. Members will agree with everything I am about to say. The Secretary of State is right that it is perfectly understandable for a Minister, when travelling abroad, to bump into a friend. It is also perfectly understandable for a Minister, even in politics, to have a friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.50.4", "colnum": "50", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "In response to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) , who is no longer in his place, the Chancellor described the Bank of England’s analysis of the impact on inflation of the last round of quantitative easing. At a time when British people have less and less cash in their pockets, few issues could be more important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.50.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.50.4", "colnum": "50", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It’s Gordon Brown ringing for you!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "In response to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) , who is no longer in his place, the Chancellor described the Bank of England’s analysis of the impact on inflation of the last round of quantitative easing. At a time when British people have less and less cash in their pockets, few issues could be more important. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.50.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.51.5", "colnum": "51", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "the eurozone problems and that we have the firepower and strength in the banking system to deal with them. If we do not deal with them, the situation will go from bad to even worse. However, as I say, it would not be sensible to advocate to our European colleagues the break-up of the euro. That would greatly diminish what we had to say in these meetings, as it would not be seen as practical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.51.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No, he’s not.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is the shadow Chancellor’s Parliamentary Private Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman is the shadow Chancellor’s Parliamentary Private Secretary—[Hon. Members: “No, he’s not.”] Oh, he has been promoted! It is a complete clear-out. Well, well. We are very pleased to see that the shadow Chancellor is still in his place. Let me draw the hon. Gentleman’s attention to what was said by Digby Jones, one of the members of the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "scal activism, because one has to step in and take difficult decisions, which the Opposition have ducked, to get the deficit under control, to have a credible plan and to allow monetary policy greater freedom of manoeuvre. We are monetary activists while being fiscally responsible and that is the right approach. The alternative advocated by the Opposition is a big increase in interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "ional education, but under our reforms and the leadership of my hon. Friend the Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, that is being addressed. I was pleased that, this weekend, England came fifth in the WorldSkills championships, outstripping nations such as Germany and, indeed, France and proving that, when it comes to vocational skills, our young people are world beaters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "PROTECTION OF FREEDOMS BILL (WAYS AND MEANS)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " Government apparently accept which is why they seek to go further. The European Court ruled that indiscriminately keeping the DNA of those arrested but not convicted of a recordable offence was not proportionate. It breached the famous article 8 on the right to privacy and family life, which after last week’s shenanigans may well be known from now on as “the cat’s clause”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "PROTECTION OF FREEDOMS BILL (WAYS AND MEANS)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ey have? Who is responsible if a chief constable applies for a waiver, it is not dealt with, and the person concerned commits a further offence? The Minister has not thought through his proposals, and as my right hon. Friend said, this is about people. It is about John Warboys, the black-cab rapist, who was caught because his DNA was stored when he was arrested, but not charged, for a sex assault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "PROTECTION OF FREEDOMS BILL (WAYS AND MEANS)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "t, who was caught because his DNA was stored when he was arrested, but not charged, for a sex assault. [ Interruption. ] I would love to give way to the Minister, but his programme motion allows us four more minutes of discussion, and my right hon. Friend needs to reply. If he wishes to reconsider his position, I will certainly give way. The black-cab rapist was caught as a result of DNA evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "PROTECTION OF FREEDOMS BILL (WAYS AND MEANS)", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "That has not been the experience in Scotland. I would say to motorists, first, that they should not enter unless the signage is clear and they know what they are doing, and, secondly, that if that were to happen, they should call the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.136.2", "colnum": "136", "heading": "PROTECTION OF FREEDOMS BILL (WAYS AND MEANS)", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "It is not the norm. This is about making parking work for everyone. We are changing what was an appalling blot on the landscape. There is probably not an MP in the House who has not written to me or the Minister who previously held my position with terrible tales of rogue clamping. At the very worst, if the hon. Lady—sorry, the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.136.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "PETITION — Swindon Town Centre", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "I present a petition signed by Swindon residents and visitors to our town centre. It is made in respect of established street traders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-10", "file": "debates2011-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "48254d736028b103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "PETITION — Swindon Town Centre", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is rather discourteous. There is a lot of noise, including that being made by a Government Whip, who unaccountably is not staying to hear the presentation of the petition; I cannot imagine why. If Members are leaving the Chamber, I feel sure that they will do so quickly and quietly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-10a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said he was going to try not to prejudge that report, but it sounded very much like he did. The Secretary of State for Defence was in the Chamber for an hour yesterday afternoon and gave a very good account of himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "There will be no change at all to the civic duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Instead of lurching towards ludicrous conspiracy theories, the hon. Gentleman should look at the facts. The Electoral Commission did not say what he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The first point is this: has the Secretary of State apologised and admitted that something was amiss. Yes, he has. Secondly, has the Prime Minister made it clear that this is something he takes very seriously? Yes, he has. Thirdly, is it being properly investigated? Yes, it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.172.6", "colnum": "172", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "We are not. We are very clear that the ministerial code—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "As I said, I will come on to that in due course, when I talk about barring information and about what is on the CRB certificates. Ultimately, the fact that someone is barred is not necessarily the key issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": ", I will come on to that in due course, when I talk about barring information and about what is on the CRB certificates. Ultimately, the fact that someone is barred is not necessarily the key issue— [ Interruption. ] Well, if someone has been convicted of a sexual assault or other sexual offence, it will be on their certificate. The fact that they are barred from regulated activity will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.235.4", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "A taxi driver who worked with children would be entitled to an enhanced CRB check, which would show up any such convictions. I am going on to the ISA stuff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.235.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "preceding_text": "We debated regulated activity and supervision in Committee. [Interruption.] These amendments address those issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "an should not have to fear the knock at the door. I used to read about that sort of thing in Russian novels, and I do not expect it in my own country, but too many decent, law-abiding, taxpaying and hard-working citizens do now fear the call of the bureaucrat, because they think that some of the legislation is too pernickety, not well intentioned and will be enforced perversely against them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.289.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "preceding_text": "exercising judgment with regard to what is important? In my judgment, what is important is that the British people are entitled to have their liberties respected. They were not respected under the last Government, and this coalition Government are beginning to address the inroads that the last Government made into the liberties of the British people. I am going to draw my remarks to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.296.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "business of the House (13 October)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "heir commencement; and such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; (2) proceedings on the Motion in the name of Mr Greg Knight on Ministerial Statements may continue until three hours after commencement of proceedings on the Motions specified in paragraph (1), and shall then lapse if not previously disposed of.— (Bill Wiggin).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.303.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.304.9", "colnum": "304", "heading": "business of the House (17 October)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "iness), the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings on the Motion in the name of Sir George Young relating to the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund not later than two hours after the commencement of proceedings on the Motion; and such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved.— (Bill Wiggin .)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.304.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-11", "file": "debates2011-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "bde24e55e70dcb6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "business of the House (17 October)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thank the shadow Leader of the House for what she has said, and now that views have been expressed, I hope we can proceed to the Adjournment debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-11b.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.317.5", "colnum": "317", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is right to mention the Welsh rugby team and the way that it can highlight Wales. When the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom comes in and sits next to her later, for Prime Minister’s questions, will she ask him to put the Welsh flag up over No. 10 Downing street this weekend, as he did with the cross of St George for the England football team during the World cup?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "Members of the House, to the Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science in Wales. Let me tell the hon. Gentleman what we are doing. We are increasing capital spending on roads and railways, creating a superfast broadband network, and cutting corporation tax and regulation. We are doing an awful lot to support businesses, and I want the Welsh Government to rise to the challenge, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.322.9", "colnum": "322", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely right. This Government are committed to pursuing the growth of green industries in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.322.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.325.4", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " there are 239,000 more people in work than at the time of the election, and there are 500,000 more private sector jobs. He specifically asks about a credible growth plan. I would ask, where is his credible growth plan? Why is it that the former Chancellor of the Exchequer said this: “If you don’t have a credible economic policy, you are simply not at the races”? Why is it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.332.5", "colnum": "332", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Henry Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ahh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Smith", "preceding_text": "A recent TaxPayers Alliance report revealed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.332.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "essor, I had a meeting with her and her son and we set out very clearly in a written statement, which the hon. Gentleman saw on 11 November 2010 , the criteria against which we could make a decision. It is most unfortunate—and we were genuinely very disappointed yesterday at the reaction, because we have looked at all sorts of options and we have been working on this. We made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "United Kingdom Bioethanol Industry", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": "ltural jobs and rural development while additionally putting at risk availability of useful by-products such as protein for livestock feeds, continuing our increasing reliance on imported products.” This is an excellent business to have in the UK. Our feed wheat yields are some of the highest anywhere in Europe and the high starch varieties typically grown in the UK are ideally suited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Well, unemployment has fallen as a percentage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "hipping operation knows no bounds. I was hoping that the hon. Gentleman was going to repeat what the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock) said earlier this year. He said that “manufacturing is expanding under this Government”.—[ Official Report , 23 March 2011; Vol. 525, c. 1024 .] The trouble is that manufacturing output has fallen in every one of the past three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.360.7", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "or Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) , who is a former Bank of England economist, can certainly explain to the Chancellor why quantitative easing cannot do the job on its own. Whether the current Chief Secretary—the former national parks press officer—could explain to the Chancellor how quantitative easing works is another question. As the shadow Chief Secretary could very well explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.360.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "wngrade his growth forecast for next year. As I have explained, we already have £46 billion more borrowing in the pipeline, and unemployment is now rising. He is going to have to admit that borrowing will be billions higher still than at the time of his last forecast. The Prime Minister says: “You can’t borrow your way out of a debt crisis”, but he just doesn’t get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.364.4", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would know the answer if he listened. I said that attempting to go £40 billion faster in deficit reduction than the plan the Chancellor inherited is not working, but pushing borrowing up. The right thing to do now is to expand demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.364.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor’s whipping team really must tell people to listen to the answers before they intervene. The Nobel prize winner himself, Chris Pissarides, says in the New Statesman tomorrow that a temporary VAT cut is the right way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "s this is an Opposition day, however, before I turn to what the Government are doing it is worth considering what the Opposition propose, and what the shadow Chancellor did and did not say. We should consider what his political friends, as well as his political opponents, are saying about him. The right hon. Gentleman dismissed the intervention by one of my hon. Friends about Charles Clarke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.368.6", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I will quote them verbatim. The Chancellor quoted the IMF from September and the OECD from before the summer, but let me quote the IMF from October, just two weeks ago. It stated: “If activity were to undershoot”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.368.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.370.6", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment, because I want to ask Opposition Members some questions. The House is today asked to support an Opposition motion that would add another £20 billion to the structural deficit. They maintain the fiction that they are sticking with the so-called Darling plan on the deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.370.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.371.5", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I said that I will give way in a moment. Labour’s approach would lead to a credit downgrade of this country. The shadow Chancellor shakes his head, but there is no doubt about that any more. This is what the credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.371.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Let me just ask the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.378.6", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Let me ask the Chancellor a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.378.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I thought that Labour supported the link to CPI. Is the shadow Chancellor changing his mind on that? In the debates, the Labour party supported the link to CPI, and he has just raised the matter. Has he changed his mind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.381.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.396.5", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": " insults directed towards my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who had a proper job outside politics and Government, as I did, which the shadow Chancellor seems to think is worth mocking him for. My right hon. Friend was not the man who was responsible for the £1 trillion-worth of debt, for selling gold at a fraction of the price, or for running up deficits in boom years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.396.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Opposition Day — (Un-allotted Day)", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": " her example. The shadow Chief Secretary will have to think carefully about who she asks for advice. Perhaps she could ask the shadow Chancellor, or perhaps not. Perhaps she could ask my predecessor but one, the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr Byrne) , who left a message for my predecessor saying that there was no money left. That is not the only message that he has left recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.443.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-10-12", "file": "debates2011-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "7472480598fe0f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House (13 October)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "heir commencement; and such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; (2) proceedings on the Motion in the name of Mr Greg Knight on Ministerial Statements may continue until three hours after commencement of proceedings on the Motions specified in paragraph (1), and shall then lapse if not previously disposed of.— (Bill Wiggin.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-12a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, the Government are fully committed on the matter, and I do not resile from anything that I said in that debate. However, as I have just mentioned, the Home Office rightly decided to examine the wider issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is just time for Mr Simon Hughes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.478.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Walker", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for St Albans (Mrs Main) recently received a written answer from the hon. Member who represents the House of Commons Commission showing that the marginal costs of the House sitting for just two weeks in September could be £1.5 million on an ongoing basis. May we have a debate on the merits of moving the party conference season to save that money for the public purse?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I thought my hon. Friend was going to suggest abolishing the party conference season, which might have received an even greater cheer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": " the party conference season, which might have received an even greater cheer—[Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!] He raises a serious issue, in that the party conference season imposes some constraints on the parliamentary calendar, and I shall bring his remarks to the attention of the chairmen of my party and the opposite numbers in the parliamentary Labour party and the other parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.489.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Table an early-day motion!", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Evans", "preceding_text": "s have been tabled in this Parliament so far, and it is estimated that they cost the taxpayer around £1 million each and every year. Given that in the last year we had a spending review that carefully considered every aspect of public expenditure, does my right hon. Friend agree that it is right that we should now have a debate to examine the cost-effectiveness and value of early-day motions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.490.5", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "There are only three more days allocated for private Members’ Bills before the end of this Session, but there are 96 such Bills now tabled for consideration on those days. Some of them are completely and utterly bonkers, because, frankly, they come from Members whose grasp of reality is somewhat strained anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.490.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " run through his questions in the order in which he asked them. The right hon. Gentleman was quite right, of course, to pay an additional tribute to our armed forces and the work that they have done on Libya. He asked what the situation is in Sirte. There remain two small, steadily shrinking areas where the pro-Gaddafi forces fight on. I do not think that it is possible to give a time scale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Backbench Business — [32nd( )Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "I have the great honour, I believe, of having been the first of all current MPs to join Twitter. It has been useful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Backbench Business — [32nd( )Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "I support the proposal ably put forward by my right hon. Friend the Member for East Yorkshire (Mr Knight) —and he is my friend. He has recently printed an excellent book, “Dishonourable Insults”, in which I appear on page 163, and I thank him for that, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Backbench Business — [32nd( )Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, and it is useful to hear of his experience of the Welsh Assembly, where such changes have been made. Elsewhere around the world, there are examples of all kinds of Parliaments where people use the devices excessively and so are not taking proper part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.542.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-13", "file": "debates2011-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "fcc00ff5ec36dbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Backbench Business — [32nd( )Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "r and demanding to see their last tweet or this place setting up “Oftwit” to ensure that Members are behaving properly. The hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr Gray) has only to listen to our constituents to find out what they are more interested in. Members have said how inappropriate it would be if facts were brought to bear in debate, but that is what the officials Box is there for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-13b.552.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-17", "file": "debates2011-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "3da9d0d0a5ece021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-17a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "r the House to take a view. We are statutory consultees on the final schemes that will be independently worked out by IPSA if the motion is passed. Although I think that it is important that we have an opinion, that opinion, which must have some value, will not dictate the final result. I repeat that I do not believe that we should be in a different position from other people in the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-17a.658.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "at the report will be published later today, and it is clear to me that such scrutiny will be more effective when right hon. and hon. Members have had a chance to study it. It will not require telepathy to deduce that once the report has been published, an application for an urgent question—in the absence of any ministerial statement—will be the most effective way of pursuing that end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.773.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.781.5", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not understand his own Government’s policy, which is to eradicate the structural deficit by 2015? [Interruption.] According to the Government, the deficit will have gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.782.11", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, with her usual sagacity, gets to the heart of the matter. Given that we are talking about a small amount of money in the scheme of things —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.782.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.787.11", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "e median total private pension of a fit 56-year-old woman is £9,100. That is not £9,100 a year; that is £9,100 in total. The same figure for a man is closer to £53,000—and not only that: these women are more reliant than men on the state pension. Often, it is a woman’s only source of pension income, and 40% of such women have no private pension savings at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.787.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.790.5", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "preceding_text": " who are most affected. The Labour amendments tabled in Committee and today on Report that would delay the entire increase by two years are not sensible or realistic. Regardless of what the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East says, £10 billion would be a huge black hole in the public finances, and it would be a significant amount that the Government would have to find.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.790.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I recognised the logic of demography and longevity and the need to raise pension ages, but since ceasing to be a Minister of any kind, I have had more opportunity to think about this and to study it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "#8217;s announcements with those in the original pensions legislation in 1911 is inaccurate, because it leaves aside the critical factor that life expectancy back then was hugely different from what it is now. In fact, the vast majority of people then did not live long enough to collect their pension, whereas today people will be living for 40, or possibly 50, years beyond their pension age—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.807.6", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "I would have some sympathy for the hon. Lady’s cause if she could explain where we might find the money to fund what she wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.807.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "e to this very successful campaign is clearly tactical. In this debate, we always come back to the money question—it happened repeatedly in Committee and in many interventions on Opposition Members today. We are asked where we will get the money and told to come up with a specific statement about where we will find it. That happens not just as regards this proposal but day in, day out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "in seven or eight years’ time, so I am not sure that writing a letter, stating, “In the event you are on a certain benefit in seven or eight years’ time, and the delay in tribunals in such and such,” is germane to my point. The Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, the hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Dame Anne Begg) , in a characteristically balanced contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.822.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Lady’s point, because she seems to have pre-empted me—as I rewind on my iPad back to the chart showing taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "on currency debasement, I can tell her that we have been furiously debasing the currency since 1971, which is the reason for the current mess we are in. I also point out to the hon. Lady that the Bank for International Settlements has provided a number of charts setting out the debt projections for most of the western world, all of which look catastrophic. For example, in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-18", "file": "debates2011-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "433b096f98c44630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "preceding_text": "The Opposition and Government agree on many things in the pensions debate. It was the previous Labour Government who introduced the Turner commission that looked into the ageing population and the need to sort out pensions, but that is not to say that a certain group of women—about 500,000 of them—should be penalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-18b.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-19", "file": "debates2011-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "65def28213eea8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "Following discussions between Treasury Ministers and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority published a joint consultation paper in August setting out proposals for the transfer of the regulation of Northern Ireland credit unions from DETI to the FSA on 31 March 2012 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.884.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-19", "file": "debates2011-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "65def28213eea8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "All the right hon. Gentleman wants to do is talk down the economy, so he will not mention the fact that 300,000 new businesses have started and that 500,000 people have jobs who did not have one at the time of the election. The big question for the right hon. Gentleman is: if he does not like our plan, where is his plan? We now know that his plan to deal with out debts is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.893.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-19", "file": "debates2011-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "65def28213eea8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "t a superficial report; it is a comprehensive piece of work by the Cabinet Secretary, and the House should be grateful for it. I turn to the specific questions that the hon. Lady asked. Other Ministers are perfectly happy to make it clear whether they have met Mr Werritty. On whether similar practices are going on throughout Government, if she has any evidence I would like her to bring it forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.915.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-19", "file": "debates2011-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "65def28213eea8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the Leader of the House, but may I say to the House that he is a person of unfailing courtesy? I think that would be accepted on both sides of the House. He does not yell at other Members, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-19", "file": "debates2011-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "65def28213eea8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.930.5", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Unallotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "e that national regulators had more powers and to introduce more competition and transparency. That is what my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) has been calling for ever since he was Energy Secretary, including now, as leader of the Labour party. It is interesting that we are only now beginning to see signs that the Government are getting behind the Miliband deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.930.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-19", "file": "debates2011-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "65def28213eea8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making an eloquent case for reviewing the entire system, and we are currently carrying out a medals review. I assure him that it is a genuine review, not a —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-19", "file": "debates2011-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "65def28213eea8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-19", "file": "debates2011-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "65def28213eea8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "preceding_text": "ce issues. The hon. Member for North Devon also signed a motion specifically calling for an exemption and noting the differences with other Commonwealth nations. Given the Ministers’ previous support for PJM holders, I hope it is not too much to ask them, along with the other 51 Government Members who have signed early-day motions supporting PJM holders, to support the Lords amendment today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-19b.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1042.8", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "The UK low-carbon and environmental sector is growing strongly, despite the disappointing recovery. It employs about 910,000 people, and this could reach more than 1 million by 2015—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1042.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "st and she has served the House with distinction for 18 years. Never let it be said that business questions does not achieve results. Just 24 hours after my first appearance here as shadow Leader of the House last week, the Prime Minister answered my call to include more women in his Cabinet. If he is going to take my advice that quickly, I start today by calling for an immediate general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend share my utter frustration with Opposition Members constantly talking women down? May we have a debate to celebrate British women and what the Government are doing to support more women and girls to fulfil their full potential?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1063.4", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "We should not draw up the timetable for our business according to the convenience of Ministers; it should be about the convenience of this House. The Leader of the House has already committed in the coalition agreement to hand over the whole of our business to the Backbench Business Committee by the third year of this Parliament, which I reckon means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1063.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "This Sunday a regular season National Football League American football game will be played at Wembley. During that game—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "lar season National Football League American football game will be played at Wembley. During that game— [ Interruption. ] During that game, the NFL will honour our brave servicemen and women, and it is providing 500 free tickets for them. May we have a statement next week supporting that measure and encouraging other sporting events to do the same, and can we ensure that it is not on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1073.7", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are royal parks.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "There is ongoing concern in the House about the implications of the loss or misplacement of private documents in public places by the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr Letwin) . So that we can assess accurately the scale of the problem that we face, may we have a debate on the literacy levels of tramps in public parks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1073.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will understand that planning Ministers cannot comment on specific situations such as the one that he raises, for reasons that he knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "preceding_text": "evels. At the general level of definition—I mention the comments of the hon. Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) about “significantly and demonstrably”—there are any number of wide-meaning phrases in the NPPF that could do with some substantial testing. Perhaps we should employ some aggressive planning lawyers; there may be one or two in here who would like the work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": " silent or indeterminate. Points have been well made on those, and I will not repeat them. This should have been a trouble-free area of coalition policy. The precedents were very good, and I was shocked at how good the Conservative policy on planning was in “Open Source Planning” when it was published. It was very, very impressive; we were rather startled and felt the need to catch up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-20", "file": "debates2011-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b183dd48dedafe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Dromey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Dromey", "preceding_text": "cations being decided in the courts as the number of appeals goes through the roof. In the chaos that is unfolding in our planning system, more homes there will be: second homes in Marbella built by planning lawyers salivating at the prospect. Finally, the Government need to move beyond polarising the debate by demonising their critics. Today we have heard voices from all sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-20a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-21", "file": "debates2011-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e1e122fa968eb383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "t to you that you want to support legalised discrimination, go ahead, resign your seat so a woman can be selected in your place.” That is the best thing that proponents of this approach could do, but it is amazing how few of them are prepared to do it. They are not so keen that there should be more women in Parliament that they are prepared to make space themselves to allow a woman in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-21", "file": "debates2011-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e1e122fa968eb383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "that today had it not been for the arrival of significant numbers of women in Parliament. I should note that today is the anniversary of the arrival of the first women peers in 1958. There were four of them, and they were a slightly strange lot. One was married to a viceroy, another was the daughter of a viceroy and another was a countess, so it was not exactly equality as we like to see it today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-21", "file": "debates2011-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e1e122fa968eb383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " have been more strongly against it because she viewed it as condescending. She wanted to get the nomination for a seat on her own great merits—and very considerable her merits are, too. She did not want to be told she was a poor little thing: that is the sort of line an elder brother can use to a sister but it is not the sort of line that should be used by political parties or by the state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-21", "file": "debates2011-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e1e122fa968eb383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1214.3", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ause if Her Majesty’s Government or any other public authority—the Charity Commission, for example—were to support nunneries and monasteries equally, there would be a balance, and as there may be more monks than nuns in this country it might be positive discrimination in favour of men, if it were any discrimination at all. I do not think that criticism of the Bill actually holds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1214.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-21", "file": "debates2011-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e1e122fa968eb383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "That is the role of the QAA. I will be frank with the hon. Gentleman. This is where I have to reveal myself to the House as a Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-21a.1246.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": ", he spent the last five years telling his Back Benchers that he may not be banging on about Europe but that, deep down, he is really one of them. He was warned that he might start by dabbling with Euroscepticism, but that it was a slippery slope. That is exactly what happened. Does the Prime Minister regret getting out of the European People’s Party in favour of the right-wing fringe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.27.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Nadhim Zahawi", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They are not in the EU.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nadhim Zahawi", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister tell the House whether the President of Switzerland and the Prime Minister of Norway were at the table arguing with the French? I suspect that the answer is no because their relationship is different from ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.38.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " Nice, Lisbon and the euro—and consumed vast acres of newsprint over the years, criticising the euro and setting out a different vision of Europe’s future, that the proposition for a referendum before the House today is the wrong proposition at the wrong time. Building on what the Prime Minister said earlier, I want in the 15 minutes remaining to me to give the House six reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.55.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Holloway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Holloway", "preceding_text": "nough about what we were discussing to be aware that I should vote against it. I have loved doing my minuscule job as a parliamentary private secretary in the foreign affairs team, whose Ministers I respect—and believe me, they are doing a very good job. Trust me, and again I am not sucking up, they do not come better than the Minister for Europe—“Hear, hear” at this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.83.3", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "On that basis, I say to the House that we cannot constrain the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister in the incredibly difficult negotiations that will take place. To have a debate that might lead to a referendum on whether Britain will remain in the European Union or leave it entirely is such a massive distraction from the real concerns that this country and the rest of Europe have to address.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.83.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hurrah!", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "tion saying, “Let’s have more rules from Brussels and from Mr Barroso”, let them try it. We shall see how many seats they win on that basis. It is for us Back Benchers to say to Her Majesty’s Government: “Stiffen your sinews, summon up the blood and imitate the action of a tiger, for that is how you should behave towards our European partners, not like Bagpuss.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.135.2", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sheryll Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheryll Murray", "preceding_text": "I voted in the last referendum in 1974. It was the first time I had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "even born. One has to be 55 to have voted in it. It is therefore understandable that people of my generation do not feel that they have had their say on Europe. They see the EU interfering in our everyday lives, from how fruit and vegetables are packaged, to the number of announcements on trains and, most insidious of all, how long we are allowed to work in our jobs—for just 48 hours a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "hat people of my generation do not feel that they have had their say on Europe. They see the EU interfering in our everyday lives, from how fruit and vegetables are packaged, to the number of announcements on trains and, most insidious of all, how long we are allowed to work in our jobs—for just 48 hours a week. [Interruption.] It is clear to me that what was put to the people in 1975—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.137.5", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "and will be a result of the policies that have already been backed by the Government and by the EU itself. However, I think that to hold that referendum now, regardless of the result, would create a significant risk for our economy and for Cannock Chase in particular. I say to every Member who supports the motion, “Ask yourself one question: are you willing to jeopardise the recovery?”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.137.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-24", "file": "debates2011-10-24d.xml", "sha256": "4eaed6740155342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.137.5", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "t bread-and-butter issues. They are worried about jobs and about their livelihoods. I do not want to do anything that puts my constituents’ livelihoods at risk. The time will come for people to vote on whether we stay in the EU, but, in my opinion, that time is not today. This is a debate for another day. Voting for the motion would be an indulgence, and I hope Members will vote accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-24d.137.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-25", "file": "debates2011-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "0ee5d98d4255dc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-25b.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the tragedy of some of these Palestinian children in Israeli prisons has arisen because some of them have been groomed as terrorists by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which goes against the Geneva convention and all kinds of international law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-25b.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-25", "file": "debates2011-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "0ee5d98d4255dc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-25b.173.4", "colnum": "173", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "I do not recognise the reputation that the hon. Gentleman describes, unless they are all going to Ealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-25b.173.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-25", "file": "debates2011-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "0ee5d98d4255dc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-25b.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "ery other— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Harrow West and the hon. Gentleman told us everything that happened after the abolition of the other wages councils and boards. I would take much more seriously all the remarks that we have heard from Opposition Members if they had recreated a single wages council or board in their 13 years in office. They did not do that, and that is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-25b.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-25", "file": "debates2011-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "0ee5d98d4255dc7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-25b.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the worker will negotiate with his putative new employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-25b.218.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.329.9", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman telling or asking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.329.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " that that was exactly what he intended to do and that he told us, in the run-up to the spending review, that it would be irresponsible to increase the NHS budget in real terms. I searched the Labour manifesto for any commitment to funding the NHS in real terms, but there is none. In March 2010, he might have said that he knew all these things, but he did not tell the public about any of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ers from Liverpool, who have the rebuild of the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen hospitals and, all being well, the rebuilding of Alder Hey. That might also include the hon. Member for Copeland (Mr Reed) . The last Labour Government, before the election, to cut the capital budget, and his project—the West Cumberland hospital at Whitehaven—could have been at risk as a consequence of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I went with my colleagues; in fact, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury stood here at the Dispatch Box and reconfirmed support for that project, so I will not have any nonsense from the hon. Member for Copeland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.337.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "One of the reasons that the House should reject the motion is that it is deeply flawed. Let me just take up the hon. Lady’s argument. What an own goal it is for Labour to say that NHS funding fell in 2010-11. That was the last year of the Labour Government’s spending plans, not ours. The amount available to the NHS in 2010-11—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.338.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.339.17", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "y recurrent experience that when we held Opposition day debates on the NHS, the Labour or Government Benches were nearly empty while our Benches were pretty full of Members who, because of our commitment to the NHS, were seeking to make points about it. Funnily enough, it does not seem to have happened in reverse. The Government Benches are still full while the Opposition Benches are nearly empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.339.17"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.353.5", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "preceding_text": "We are introducing these reforms principally so that we put power back in the hands of GPs and, above all, patients. We are making these reforms because we have to. The status quo cannot remain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "ng and letting local commissioners have a look at the clinical evidence and safety aspects, but the independent review panel has been looking at those matters for years. The interference of people at the top has been the real issue. Politicians have to get away from the idea that they must defend the national health service in its current configuration at all costs. That will not improve it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "s just returning to his place, was unable to answer my question on that. I want to talk abut management costs, because the Department is focusing on that spending. It is important to be clear about management costs in the NHS budget. In 1999, they were less than 3%; in 2010, they were just over 3%. Independent research has shown that, if anything, the NHS is under-managed rather than over-managed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "2;I am sorry. In this year’s Budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s higher inflation forecast meant that NHS spending is now falling in real terms. House of Commons Library calculations show that it will fall by about 1% in real terms over the next four years—a loss in spending power of more than £1 billion by 2015. In the light of the recent inflation figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "Government are creating hundreds of new organisations and wasting more than £2.5 billion in the process, when this money should be spent on front-line patient care. What has been the result of 18 months of a Conservative and Liberal Democrat Government running our NHS? Thousands of front-line clinical staff are losing their jobs and posts are being frozen, piling pressure on those who remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "poses an unacceptably high risk to the NHS”. Government Members now like to criticise the BMA, but before the general election they applauded everything the BMA said. They always want to have it both ways. Three quarters of GPs—the very people this Government claim they want to empower—have said through the Royal College of General Practitioners that the Bill should be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.372.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because the hon. Gentleman has had his time. [ Interruption. ] When we consider flooding, the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk Coastal is in my head because it has proved that there are other ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "TRADE UNION OFFICIALS (PUBLIC FUNDING)", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "e and Transport Workers boss, Bob Crow, receives. In fact, 38 trade union general secretaries and chief executives receive remuneration of more than £100,000. To name but one, the former joint general secretary of Unite, Derek Simpson, received more than £500,000, including severance pay of £310,000. That is in addition to the fact that the trade unions get £18.3 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.438.5", "colnum": "438", "heading": "TRADE UNION OFFICIALS (PUBLIC FUNDING)", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "or a member of a recognised trade union is also entitled to unpaid time off to undertake what are called “union activities”, as distinct from duties. As defined by ACAS, union activities can include voting in a union election or attending a meeting regarding union business, but there is no statutory requirement to pay union representatives or members for time spent on union activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.438.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-26", "file": "debates2011-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "00858bdc80363aae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "TRADE UNION OFFICIALS (PUBLIC FUNDING)", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "resentatives are entitled to paid time off for duties including analysing learning or training needs, providing information about learning and training matters, arranging learning or training or promoting the values of learning and training. I ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, who is chuntering, is not all that the job of the human resources department? In 2004—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-26a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.456.7", "colnum": "456", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "We are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.456.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.456.7", "colnum": "456", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "We are— [Interruption.] We are carefully considering the impact of the ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.456.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "The Labour party thought those organisations were wrong when it was in office. The party needs to realise that it cannot do one thing in government and say another in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " to do so, we would add to our debt, and we do not think that that is appropriate. We have had to use our own resources to deal with our own problems in this country. It is of course crucial that the IMF remains a central economic institution in dealing with the world’s problems, and I urge the hon. Lady, newly appointed as shadow Chief Secretary, to reconsider Labour’s position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ion of the London 2009 G20 deal. It is completely astonishing that the Labour party voted against that agreement. As we discuss over the next few months increasing the IMF’s resources to deal with all the countries of the world, I urge Labour Members to reconsider their position on that, and also their rather odd position on the euro. They seem to be holding out membership of the euro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend and I have discussed this matter before, and we disagree. What the Foreign Secretary said at the time—I remember because I was his speechwriter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I would hope that we would persuade all parties in this House. There is certainly strong agreement on the Conservative Benches that we want to rebalance the responsibilities and repatriate some powers. The Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrat leader have talked about rebalancing responsibilities—he did so earlier this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "As I have said to the House, Britain should not be part of eurozone bail-outs. We got ourselves out of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am happy to acknowledge that the previous Government recapitalised the British banks. They were obviously under enormous duress at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.486.4", "colnum": "486", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We would, of course, have been laughed out of the summit. We would not even have been able to sign up to the Council’s conclusions. The Labour party policy has no plan to reduce the deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.486.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.486.6", "colnum": "486", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "What I would say about the financial transaction tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that we have lost our veto on financial assistance. That was one of the issues with the so-called EFSM—the European financial stabilisation mechanism—which was the EU27 bail-out fund, which we joined a couple of days before this Government were created. Getting us out of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "l us who is taking the blame? Tory blogger Tim Montgomerie blamed the Prime Minister, accusing him of having a work ethic which is the “opposite of Margaret Thatcher’s”. Apparently our Prime Minister is more interested in the latest box sets than in his red boxes. This week he has obviously been watching too much of “The Sopranos” and not enough “Friends”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "May we have a debate on happiness?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Council of Europe (UK Chairmanship)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "Nor should it ever be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Council of Europe (UK Chairmanship)", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman, but I would say, “Count the pennies and we’ll have the pounds.” I would like the Government to explore the notion of whether there needs to be any base in Strasbourg at all, or at least whether some functions could be combined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Council of Europe (UK Chairmanship)", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "#8217;ll have the pounds.” I would like the Government to explore the notion of whether there needs to be any base in Strasbourg at all, or at least whether some functions could be combined. [Interruption.] There is certainly an overlap of functions between the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-27", "file": "debates2011-10-27c.xml", "sha256": "49d790ad1ac3b816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Council of Europe (UK Chairmanship)", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "oblem, for example. Other issues can be involved. Sometimes people who are isolated in some way can be targeted, such as through cyber-bullying, which is a huge new problem. I therefore urge the Government to focus on these internet issues in their chairmanship, starting with the conference of 1 November . These problems must not be brushed under the carpet. Research has been done in Norway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-27c.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "This may come as a surprise, but we have a team on this side of the House. I have been leading on this issue, and the Secretary of State is very happy for me to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.613.6", "colnum": "613", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question, because it was he who accused me of butchering the industry after the last review. Since then, deployment has trebled. He was wrong earlier in the year, and he will be spectacularly wrong again. He will know that because of the way in which the system was set up under the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.613.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.613.6", "colnum": "613", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Since then, deployment has trebled. He was wrong earlier in the year, and he will be spectacularly wrong again. He will know that because of the way in which the system was set up under the— [Interruption.] If hon. Members will calm down slightly, I will answer their question. Perhaps they will allow me to get the words out. The fact is that the way in which the system was constructed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.613.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "rable matters, and the history books would have to be studied by me with some intensity and speed in order for me to answer that point made by the hon. Gentleman. But his wider point I take, and he has registered it—I think that was probably his main purpose for today. Wherever the Prime Minister is, there is a real prospect that the verdict of the Voice of Rhondda will be made known to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I will address that when we reach the amendments in two days’ time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "e in this situation. If the measures were for some emergency, I might understand why the Secretary of State had made such a suggestion, but he has suggested absolutely no emergency in relation to any of the three issues today. In fact, his argument, in so far as I can understand it, is that basically, “Nobody really cares about this stuff; it’s all agreed on by everybody.”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "but I have already explained how all three things have been canvassed. There has been consultation—indeed, it stopped us introducing them at an earlier stage—and, as he well knows, the pressure on parliamentary time is such that quite a lot of rather worthwhile criminal justice reforms are not enacted for years because no one can find a slot in the legislative timetable for them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "have not yet carried the motion before us, no amendments to which the Government have referred can possibly yet have been tabled. So, they will be tabled tonight and appear on the Order Paper tomorrow, and consequently we will not be able to table amendments to those amendments until after that. I can see the Clerk saying “No, no, no”, so perhaps I have got that completely wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman is so happy to have a debate, why is he so scared? Let us have proper time for the debate. Let us set aside time for it, and discuss the matter. Let us not have knives in the programme motion. Why is he running away? Let us have the debate, at any time, in any place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "I shall try to be a little briefer than the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "In one sense, the right hon. Lady makes an absolutely reasonable proposition. I am determined that we will win this argument, but I will wait to see what the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "No, it is not pathetic at all. Let me say to the right hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford that there are four groups of amendments and that we have until 10 o’clock. The Opposition Front Benchers want to press their amendments to a Division, as do other colleagues, including me and my right hon. and hon. Friends. I hope the Minister will be helpful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.662.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "ot causes of why one partner in a relationship should choose to abuse the other, whether emotionally, financially, physically or otherwise. This debate is not about whether or not we believe domestic violence is a problem; rather, it is about how the criteria are set. It is therefore a rather narrow debate, and it deserves more mature reflection than some Opposition Members have thus far given it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "ments were made in relation to amendment 74. The hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr Slaughter) indicated that he will want to press it to a Division, so I will spend some time on it. I agree that it is an important matter. He said that he understands our intent. Does he understand that we need to have savings in legal aid? I am not sure what he meant when he said that he understands our intent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I would speculate and say that it is probably to do with management rather than protecting individual practitioners, but I cannot give any assurances on that. What I am saying here today is common knowledge out there; it is not a new allegation that I have dreamed up just to try to grab a headline at this late stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "preceding_text": "ry that we have here in England and Wales and in other jurisdictions of the United Kingdom, but more than it costs in other common law jurisdictions such as New Zealand and Australia and in other jurisdictions that have essentially inherited our legal system. That fundamental problem is one with which, because of the deficit we were left by the last Government, this Government have had to grapple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, but I see Mr Deputy Speaker in the Chair this evening. I am sure that if I am out of order at any stage, he will upbraid me. I do not need any lessons from the hon. Member for Hammersmith about how to speak in this Chamber or indeed about the remarks I intend to make tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, but I see Mr Deputy Speaker in the Chair this evening. I am sure that if I am out of order at any stage, he will upbraid me. I do not need any lessons from the hon. Member for Hammersmith about how to speak in this Chamber or indeed about the remarks I intend to make tonight. [Interruption.] The simple fact of the matter is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "preceding_text": "The amendment proposed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) addresses schedule 1 and the non-exclusion of clinical negligence cases in the context of convention rights. As I have informed the House more often than, perhaps, I ought, I have never conducted a clinical negligence case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "I totally endorse that point and such defendants are punished accordingly, particularly in the punitive elements of costs when they are assessed. There are punitive factors that my hon. and learned Friend as a judge would know one is able to impose in a civil court whereby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "on with such vehemence and conviction when their party scrapped 99% of this category. Let me develop the point. Labour Members seem to be saying that if a drunk driver hit someone and caused brain damage, the injured person would not get legal aid. But if the same victim were brain-damaged to the same extent by a negligent doctor, they seem to be saying that that person should get legal aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "red at the same time. The current CFA regime, with its recoverable costs, causes a significant burden on, for example, the NHS. Withdrawing legal aid for clinical negligence without reforming CFAs could increase that burden significantly. The hon. Gentleman said that claimants in severe injury cases are more likely to be disabled and frail and so forth, and being unable to bring proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.712.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-10-31", "file": "debates2011-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "e7e852d3314c6056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "JARROW CRUSADE (75TH ANNIVERSARY)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "ng the finances in order and of targeting support at enterprise through enterprise zones, tax reductions and the changes that we have set out today, we must provide much better support for the long-term unemployed to get them back into the workplace. The introduction of the Work programme, which across this country today provides specialised back-to-work support for the long-term unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-10-31c.736.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "But with both women’s unemployment and the retail prices index at a higher level than at any time since the Chancellor left university—which was probably when the hon. Lady left primary school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "But with both women’s unemployment and the retail prices index at a higher level than at any time since the Chancellor left university—which was probably when the hon. Lady left primary school— [Interruption.] I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "bers showed this morning that the British economy is growing, and that is positive news. But of course we have a difficult journey to take, from the deepest recession of our lifetimes and the biggest banking crisis in British history, which the right hon. Gentleman presided over when the Labour party was in government—and it is made more difficult by what is happening elsewhere in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.755.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Youth unemployment in my constituency is higher than it has ever been, and this is directly caused by Government cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.768.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "rs: “Ah.”] Well, Opposition Members say “Ah,” but— [Interruption.] I have never been able to imitate the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) , so I shall not attempt to do so. I simply make the point I made earlier to my hon. Friend the Member for Bedford (Richard Fuller) : we are talking about a new approach, and about working across the whole of government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.772.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Education and Training (Young People with Autism)", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ving the new extended sentence. The power will be subject to the affirmative procedure. We will consult carefully and see what happens to the Parole Board and the courts once we have made the present form of sentence extinct for former prisoners. The trouble now is that someone who has finished his tariff has to stay in prison unless he can persuade the Parole Board that it is safe to let him out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Education and Training (Young People with Autism)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "The shadow Secretary of State has hit the nail on the head. The Secretary of State started off in his post by saying that the most important thing for him was reducing reoffending. Well, we are talking about the crown jewel in the criminal justice system for dealing with reoffending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.798.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Education and Training (Young People with Autism)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "recall the lengthy consultation that took place before the 1977 Act was introduced. It specifically distinguished between an occupied property and a property that had been left empty for a very long time. The issue at the time, particularly in London, was that vast numbers of empty properties were being squatted. That law was a product of consultation. There has been no consultation on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Education and Training (Young People with Autism)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "I think I was doing my politics A-level at the time, so I might have studied the Act as part of that. My hon. Friend makes an important point about housing need that the Minister, to be fair to him, also addressed, and I will move on to that in a moment. I will not say what grade I got in my politics A-level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Education and Training (Young People with Autism)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "ill charge between 850 and 10,600 offenders. The Government accept in their response to the consultation that “as with any criminal offence there would be an operational discretion as to whether a person should be charged with an offence.” I think that goes without saying, but they say it in particular with respect to hikers who take refuge in a house to take shelter from the elements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.870.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "WORLD VEGAN DAY", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "That is true. As I said, I have been a vegan for nearly 20 years. My hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun has been one for 15 years, and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby North has been one since time immemorial—well, since the 1970s, anyway. I think that we are all testament to the fact that people can survive perfectly well on a vegan diet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-01", "file": "debates2011-11-01d.xml", "sha256": "a73e50cdd467f51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.902.2", "colnum": "902", "heading": "WORLD VEGAN DAY", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "ly misleading. In fact, the bigger consumers of grain are pigs and poultry because they eat nothing else. They can be fed only on grain and soya bean. On the subject of soya, the hon. Lady talked about the increasing desecration of the rain forest to produce arable crops, but the main such crop is soya bean, which is what most people who do not eat meat eat. How can one have a haggis made of soya?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-01d.902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.911.5", "colnum": "911", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ised in having lots of strategies and fulfilling none of them. By contrast, we are in favour of taking action, which is why we are working with my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Chris White) to ensure, as I mentioned in answer to the previous question, that there is provision for social outcomes and social value to be measured in contracts. That is, of course, part of his Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.911.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " refers do not in any way reflect the pension that people retire on after a full career. That is the average, including many people who serve relatively short times in the public service. At the end of these reforms public sector pensions will still be among the very best available, much better than those available to most people in the private sector, who have no chance of enjoying such pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "These are the banks the right hon. Gentleman completely failed to regulate year after year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "These are the banks the right hon. Gentleman completely failed to regulate year after year— [ Interruption. ] Yes, yes, and these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.916.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.916.3", "colnum": "916", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House is getting— [ Interruption. ] Order. Mr Ronnie Campbell, calm yourself. The House is getting far too excited. It is only six minutes past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.916.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I will tell you what we did, Mr Speaker. We introduced the 50p rate of income tax that the Prime Minister and his Chancellor want to abolish, but I am glad that we agree that something needs to be done about top pay. Now, last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.917.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.923.6", "colnum": "923", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I will certainly welcome that bid. It is important to note that, because we are protecting the per-pupil funding, even at a difficult time for the economy and public spending, the education budget will be rising and not falling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.923.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.923.6", "colnum": "923", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "lor is wrong, even when he is sitting down. He talks even more rubbish when he stands up. I digress. As well as the extra investment in the schools budget, there is also the opportunity for free schools, which I think are going to be a major reform in our country, to bring in more good school places. Perhaps when a future shadow Chancellor attends one of those schools, he will learn a few manners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.923.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "te track of negotiations with the local government pension scheme—which the hon. Lady also mentioned—precisely in recognition of the fact that it is a funded scheme and that therefore different considerations apply. On affordability—the first of the hon. Lady’s three tests—let me tell her that, yes, the changes are affordable. Her test is met. This test ensures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "anges are affordable. Her test is met. This test ensures— [ Interruption. ] Opposition Front Benchers are saying, “Part-time workers?” The contributions increase has been set out. We have ensured, on a scheme-by-scheme basis, that the contributions will be tiered according to income. Those earning less than £15,000 a year on a full-time equivalent basis will have zero—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "will have zero— [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) likes to hector from a sedentary position. Instead of being the shadow chunterer, perhaps he will sit there and listen. We have made it clear that those earning up to £21,000 on a full-time equivalent basis will have a reduction. The full-time equivalent basis for pension reform is the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the statement consisted of sacrificing long-term pension rights to pay for a short-term failure to stimulate economic growth? What we are seeing, after 13 years of industrial peace, is the return of mass strike action due to Tory economic failure and a threatening, macho approach to negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Devolved Administrations (Armed Forces Covenant Reports)", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "We now move on to, or perhaps I should say back to, legal aid. When we discussed legal aid on our first day on Report, we had two very constructive, albeit lengthy, debates in which I took more than three dozen interventions. That was partly the reason, along with the many valuable contributions that were made, why we were unable to cover all the groupings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.953.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Devolved Administrations (Armed Forces Covenant Reports)", "cue_speaker": "David Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Name them!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Ward", "preceding_text": "e. Now, I am a lad from Bradford, and we have this strange practice in Bradford: when we agree with something we vote for it, and when we disagree with something we vote against it. I went into Committee, and of course people soon told me, “That’s not the way you do it. If something comes from the other side, even if it’s a good amendment, you simply don’t accept it.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.974.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.979.3", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Devolved Administrations (Armed Forces Covenant Reports)", "cue_speaker": "Karl Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karl Turner", "preceding_text": "tion cost many hundreds of pounds, and it is not a one-off cost. When people become qualified to give such advice, that is not the end of the matter, because they are required to engage in CPD as they continue in practice. It is unbelievably short-sighted of this disgraceful Tory-led coalition Government, disgracefully propped up by the Liberal Democrats, to suggest that this might be a good idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.979.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-02", "file": "debates2011-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5f6ea6f3ff746023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Devolved Administrations (Armed Forces Covenant Reports)", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on. Give way.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "We understand that these amendments seek to protect the rights of individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-02a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. and learned Lady to her position. I hope that she agrees with me that this is the best job in government and that it has some fun in it as well as the serious issues that she mentions. I agree with her entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1080.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "us Government signed us up to, which we do have to contribute to, that permanent mechanism will not require UK participation. That is an achievement of this Government, getting us out of the mess that the Labour Government put us into in May last year. The hon. Gentleman referred to the IMF. He will have to remember that it was he who led opposition to increasing our subscription to the IMF—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1094.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that my hon. Friend should not listen too closely to what is said by Labour Members, given that this crisis is about debt, and given that the last Labour Government more than doubled the national debt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1114.2", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I understand that there is an e-petition on the slightly broader issue of immigration and if that got through the 100,000 threshold, there would indeed be a debate in which it would be relevant for my hon. Friend to raise this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "nger term, we may move to a single, integrated Committee, but the initial proposal was that there should be two, side by side. Whether that would resolve the dilemma on which my hon. Friend touched, I am not sure because there would still be tension between, on the one hand, providing more time for Back-Bench business and, on the other, providing adequate time to scrutinise Government legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1130.3", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "That point was well made. I, too, was concerned, and I looked at the gender balance, having been a former Minister for women. I think Sue Essex will be a doughty and robust member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Come on.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "ntal taxes. To my mind, that would be very interesting indeed. As the right hon. Gentleman rightly said, Tata and other manufacturing companies in Wales that use large amounts of electricity are very angry about the way in which the environment has been used as a means to impose all sorts of extra tax burdens. The issue of the environment is worth exploring, but now is not the time or place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No, never!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "ns, which will continue to come from wherever those factories relocate, but it will make a different to jobs and the amount of tax that the Treasury collects within the UK. I would love to see the Silk commission looking into that idea, but I am afraid that I shall probably be disappointed. You might conclude, Mr Deputy Speaker, from what I am saying that I am in some way against devolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the constitution is delicate and needs to be balanced, but is not the answer to his question—the answer to the English question, if you like—that we should remedy the asymmetrical nature of devolution in the United Kingdom by devolving powers to the English regions, not just to the London region, which already has considerable powers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1168.5", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Guto Bebb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guto Bebb", "preceding_text": "I am slightly surprised by that intervention, because I thought it was self-explanatory. The sooner the discussions between the Government in Cardiff and the Treasury are concluded, the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1168.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Guto Bebb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guto Bebb", "preceding_text": "The question of fiscal responsibility does raise issues, therefore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1174.2", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "ho has had to leave because of a medical appointment? I was glad to hear the hon. Member for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb) expressing his interest in and loyalty to the Assembly. I shall briefly regale the House with a malapropism that came out on Radio Cymru—only the Welsh-speaking Members will understand this. A farmer from Ceredigion phoned in and called the Cynulliad “the cyn lleied”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that point, but the hon. Gentleman misses the key issue: Labour’s failure over 13 years. Labour Members salivate in decrying the 1980s. Wales was not the poorest part of the United Kingdom at the time, but it was when they left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not, at all. I am quoting accurately from my article. I suggest that the hon. Gentleman read it and that in future he does his homework a little better lest he is in danger of misleading the House about my opinions, if nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "preceding_text": "t did not offer an opportunity to influence its terms of reference. Perhaps, when the commission has had a chance to study the issues, it may wish to seek views or raise questions in an interim report, and that would be a more appropriate time for a debate. Having the debate now, before the commission has even begun its work, but after the terms of reference have been decided, is somewhat bizarre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "preceding_text": "y. This is not about feed-in tariffs. This is not just about manufacturing industry. This is about raising the proper revenue and then being able to do something with it. It is about wealth creation, setting the right long-term strategies that will encourage manufacturing to come to Wales, attracting the investment that we need and providing the wealth so that we can talk about what we do with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-03", "file": "debates2011-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "643773222318012f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1201.3", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "faith in the capacity of the people of Wales to run to any extent their own financial affairs and, perhaps more importantly, to decide whether at an election a politician is making an unsustainable promise, which of course is crucial to what we fall to consider. I found the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies) disappointingly and uncharacteristically cynical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-03a.1201.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-07", "file": "debates2011-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "21b45c8c36f60e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "eys that intelligence led officers to believe posed the greatest risk. The vast majority of those officers are hard-working, dedicated public servants. Just like all of us, they want to see tough immigration controls and strong enforcement, but they have been let down by senior officials at the head of the organisation who put at risk the security of our border. Our task now is to make sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-07", "file": "debates2011-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "21b45c8c36f60e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "As chair of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Road Safety, the transport safety charity, I welcome the Secretary of State to her new job. We look forward to working with her on safety issues on a cross-party basis. This tragic accident reminds us all that speed does kill, and hon. Members must think very carefully about it. I hope that when we analyse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.69.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-07", "file": "debates2011-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "21b45c8c36f60e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "LOCALISM BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State and the Under-Secretary, the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst, have both said on different occasions that a mayor and cabinet system would only follow a referendum of local people. That is typical of the mischief and muddle that have characterised the Bill. So bad were the Government’s original proposals that even Tory councillors were speaking out against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-07", "file": "debates2011-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "21b45c8c36f60e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "LOCALISM BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "preceding_text": "r. I tried on many occasions to persuade the Minister to convert the idea so that the referendums would be binding, but I failed. I was told to take comfort from the fact that this was a start, and that the referendums did not need to be binding because only a mad local authority would ever go against the wishes of its electorate. Well, there are many mad local authorities, as everyone here knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-07", "file": "debates2011-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "21b45c8c36f60e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.94.4", "colnum": "94", "heading": "LOCALISM BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "preceding_text": "We could go on. I shall take the opportunity to give one more example of a mad council ignoring the wishes of local people. That was in my own local authority in Richmond, where a couple of years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.94.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-07", "file": "debates2011-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "21b45c8c36f60e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "LOCALISM BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Graham Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes!”", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Jones", "preceding_text": "ing policy, we will have some problems, so we need a substantive framework and an opportunity for people to bring into public debate the decisions that the individuals on those bodies make. Further to that point, I am concerned that there is no robust framework for standards, and again I bring local government experience to that point. A lot of vexatious complaints are politically motivated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-07a.98.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-08", "file": "debates2011-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "c5fe90acca0a8d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-08b.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "This goes back to some of the challenges in the Commission’s presentation of its numbers. The budget proposed by the Commission is £100 billion larger than the real freeze in spending that the UK and its allies have proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-08b.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-08", "file": "debates2011-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "c5fe90acca0a8d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-08b.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "here we know the Government have a blind spot. The Commission and the European Parliament also need reminding that, without growth, we cannot solve the debt crisis, the banking crisis or the jobs crisis. Energy infrastructure projects, high-speed broadband and transport link improvements could all be brought forward within the MFF envelope and prioritised to boost employment and economic activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-08b.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-08", "file": "debates2011-11-08b.xml", "sha256": "c5fe90acca0a8d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-08b.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "I have not rejected that; this was done by a colleague in the Ministry of Justice, as it is a legal matter. However, I completely agree with my colleague, as he is a legal person and I am not. There are legal differences between Germany and this country. Everything is possible, and this Parliament can do whatever it wants to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-08b.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.273.5", "colnum": "273", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "Yesterday the Secretary of State for DECC sent a letter to all MPs promoting the Government’s policy of check, switch and insulate, but how does the Secretary of State suggest that off-grid customers can check or switch when in many areas there is a virtual monopoly on home fuel oil?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.273.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.274.4", "colnum": "274", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of any such suggestions in the Electoral Commission report, but my hon. Friend is correct to highlight the issues with the Scottish separatists’ referendum that are causing such uncertainty—the franchise, the question and the timing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.274.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Isn’t it utterly typical? When things go wrong, it is nothing to do with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.278.2", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the right hon. Gentleman continues, let me just emphasise this: there are Members on both sides of the House shouting their heads off. Members of the Youth Parliament last Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.284.3", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises a serious issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "n, difficult to give. Some honest efforts have been made to reinforce and carry out that dialogue, but they have certainly not yet produced general agreement in Bahrain on the way forward. The right hon. Gentleman asked me to explain why the report of the commission of inquiry had been delayed. That is a matter for the Bahraini Government rather than for me to explain, but I hope it signals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I did not notice under the previous Government a dramatic recognition of Palestine or support for its membership of the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.311.4", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "Before I give way to Back Benchers, I should like to offer the Home Secretary the opportunity to intervene and tell us whether watch lists were relaxed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": " comments, one would almost think that her party had left immigration in absolutely perfect order. Let me remind her that it left a system which her own Home Secretary at the time said was “not fit for purpose”, with a backlog of 450,000 asylum cases, and that Lord Glasman, her own colleague, said: “Labour lied…about…immigration and the extent of illegal”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.315.5", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": ". Some 6,500 staff are going from the Border Agency, with 1,500 going from the border force, including more than 800 this year alone. The Prime Minister told the House with great pride that the level of staff was returning to the level of 2006. Really? I have to say that I do not think that border controls were strong enough in 2006. We were right to strengthen them and to keep strengthening them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.315.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Margot James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margot James", "preceding_text": "I will not presume to comment on the decisions that the Home Secretary made, but I will say this. It was quite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ons, without my approval. Not only that, but checks on the second photograph in the biometric chip of passports of non-EEA nationals were also regularly stopped, again without my approval. Let me say again: I did not give my consent or authorisation for any of those decisions. In fact, I stated explicitly in writing that officials were to go no further than what had been agreed in the pilot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady’s case is that she agreed to weaken border controls in July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I say to the right hon. Gentleman that I was willing to allow officials to make an evaluation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "his was a regular operational instruction, and she should know that Ministers—under this Government or the last—do not sign off such instructions. UKBA operational instructions are signed off by UKBA officials. She asked whether the operational instruction distributed reflected Government policy, and I can tell her that yes, it did, in that it allowed for a risk-based assessment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.322.5", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The whole point is that they were allowed, in certain circumstances, not to open the chip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.322.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Human Rights Act. We have a clear plan to get net migration down to the tens of thousands. What do we hear from the Opposition? Nothing. Nothing on the cap on economic migration. Nothing on the clampdown on student visas. Nothing on settlement. Nothing on sham marriages. No wonder, when the Leader of the Opposition’s policy adviser said that Labour lied to the public about immigration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.324.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "If we look at— [Interruption.] If we look at the catalogue of disasters under the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.333.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "e has a 60% chance of dying, to come to this country. We are dealing with people for whom the situation is in that order of seriousness, so we should grow up and stop going for the stupid false nostrum that we can pull a wall around this country, even around the forgotten frontier that stretches from Foyle through Belfast lough to Strangford. We cannot build a wall around the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.353.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " months without even getting a view from the front line on how it was operating. It was only because Sir John Vine happened to go along to Heathrow that we were able to find out exactly what was happening. [Interruption.] The Minister for Immigration says that Ministers cannot be expected to do inspections, yet we heard from the hon. Member for Dover that at least he has been able to go and visit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way to the hon. Gentleman; he has already spoken. We also learned today that data do exist. The Home Secretary admitted that for the first time this afternoon, but she is refusing to publish them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.355.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.367.2", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Oooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for giving way— [ Interruption. ] He is now a shadow Minister and will probably never be a Minister again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman’s constituents want to know is what the Government are going to do about the crisis of youth unemployment unfolding in constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, at last, for a consensual note.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.371.6", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not answer the question from my colleague, the hon. Member for Solihull (Lorely Burt) . We are fooling ourselves, if we think that this problem is simply to do with this Government or the previous one. This is a long-term, growing problem of youth unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.371.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that that is particularly relevant to the question that I asked, but I will ask the right hon. Gentleman another question. His Government commissioned the Leitch report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.375.5", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Lady seriously denying that a crisis in youth unemployment is unfolding now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.375.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "e moved by what the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright) , my hon. Friends the Members for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard) and for Aberconwy (Guto Bebb), and the hon. Members for North West Durham (Pat Glass) and for Wansbeck (Ian Lavery) said about the plight of young people in their constituencies? Let there be no dispute about this: there is no denial and there is no complacency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-09", "file": "debates2011-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "63f86c9ea1eb14a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way.”", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "No, you had your chance. The right hon. Gentleman rubbished people at BT, Honda and British Gas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-09a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "13ba6b49ebbb8f5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10a.422.7", "colnum": "422", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "As I mentioned a moment ago, we are looking at ticketing and fares generally as part of the review we are undertaking, but no decision has been made on the closure of any category E stations. That matter will be considered in the round to ensure that we retain proper access to the railway network.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10a.422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.422.7", "colnum": "422", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "As I mentioned a moment ago, we are looking at ticketing and fares generally as part of the review we are undertaking, but no decision has been made on the closure of any category E stations. That matter will be considered in the round to ensure that we retain proper access to the railway network.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "b losses. I reassure the hon. Lady—I think she would like this reassurance—that, as I am sure she understands, Hinchingbrooke will remain an NHS hospital, the staff will remain as NHS staff, and the services will continue, as I said in my statement, within the format of all other services provided in every other NHS hospital, which is within the format of reconfigurations, if and when.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.450.5", "colnum": "450", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "sition MP and he is entitled to do so—was to run a campaign in his area stating that the Tories were going to privatise his local hospital. I assured him from day one that that was utter rubbish, that there was no truth in it and that he should wait until the TFA was finally published. It was published recently, and of course there was no proposal in it to privatise the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.450.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "Can I tell you, Mr Speaker, as a final thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.451.4", "colnum": "451", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I do not know who has been briefing the hon. Lady, but the lines are wrong, I am afraid. She is right that the final decision was taken by me, in this Administration, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.451.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "Is it not obvious to all of us that the reason the House of Commons is not going to be sitting next Wednesday and Thursday is so that the Prime Minister will not have to stand at the Dispatch Box on the day the new unemployment figures come out? If we are not here next week, I will be working hard in Dudley. I am sure the Prime Minister has already booked another one of his fancy foreign holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Harvey", "preceding_text": "It is very kind of my hon. Friend to issue that invitation, but I have actually already visited and seen the work at Hasler for myself. He is right to pay tribute to the terrific work done there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Government? It is not good enough to say that these are preliminary announcements. Why stick out a press release this morning, stating that £250 million a year is going to be saved and that this will somehow boost the British economy by £650 million, when the Minister has just admitted that these are preliminary plans? It is not good enough for our armed forces to be treated in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": " clear when we think that they have got it wrong, and I think that the way in which they have addressed a number of personnel issues needs to be examined more carefully. I welcome the Government’s progress in regard to, in particular, the enshrinement of the military covenant in law. Unfortunately, however, that was not done by choice, but was forced on Ministers by the Royal British Legion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "lie McCarthy of the Army Families Federation—I had the privilege of working closely with her when I was a Minister, and I pay tribute to her and to the representatives of the RAF and Naval Families Federations—has said: “The demands of the service have not gone down... but” personnel “are seeing their pay frozen, the threat of redundancy and now allowance cuts.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "th her when I was a Minister, and I pay tribute to her and to the representatives of the RAF and Naval Families Federations—has said: “The demands of the service have not gone down... but” personnel “are seeing their pay frozen, the threat of redundancy and now allowance cuts.” [Interruption.] In the light of that, I wonder whether the Minister will tell us why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.482.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.484.2", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "outhpiece? A little bit of quiet from the hon. Lady would be a better idea. She might want to take some lessons from the hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood) , who sat in the Chamber quietly while serving very effectively as PPS. May I put on the record my appreciation of the good job he did in that role? I was very sad to see him replaced, especially given what we have experienced today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lancaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lancaster", "preceding_text": "I start by declaring my interest as a member of the reserve forces. I regret that I cannot make the same declaration of interest as my hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) as an Army pensioner, but that is probably because he is rather more senior than I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I feel obliged to intervene because it really is misleading to use a bit of the Daily Mail to pursue an argument in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "the streets of our constituencies had never heard of the issue before that. What is important is the results of inquests and the good treatment of people at them, and we will get that right. The hon. Gentleman told us a mere seven times that he had been a Minister, yet he took no responsibility for the dreadful state of affairs that we inherited in the MOD. There was a £38 billion black hole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-10", "file": "debates2011-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "fd45aad001285d51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": ", but we must go further still. He referred to the bravery and sacrifice of our armed forces in Afghanistan and the need for success there, and I am entirely with him on that. I wish to thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood) for his work as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the MOD and I am delighted to see that he has a new job in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-10b.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-14", "file": "debates2011-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b1c9ef9c20000888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "I have to disappoint the hon. Lady, because decisions about where redundancies fall must be made by defence companies and not by Ministers. I understand her concern about what has happened at Brough, and she will understand what BAE Systems said, in public, about the underlying reasons for the changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-14", "file": "debates2011-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b1c9ef9c20000888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman was not here or was dozing earlier, but I answered the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-14", "file": "debates2011-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b1c9ef9c20000888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "n which the Chair will rule. If he wants to avail himself of the mechanisms available to him through the Table Office and the other means by which he can draw his concerns to the attention of the House and seek to probe Ministers, I think that it would be best for him to do that first. In this case, I do not have the advantage of prior knowledge of the detailed content of his point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-14", "file": "debates2011-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b1c9ef9c20000888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that I can provide the hon. Gentleman with the satisfaction he seeks on the basis of what I have heard. He has taken this opportunity to put his concern on record, and I do not think that I need to take the matter further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-14", "file": "debates2011-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b1c9ef9c20000888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "When we were in Committee, I recall the Minister saying that he regarded the duty to co-operate as an “unnecessary prescription” on schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-14", "file": "debates2011-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b1c9ef9c20000888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "Indeed. I will happily listen to the hon. Member for Cardiff West if he wishes to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-14", "file": "debates2011-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b1c9ef9c20000888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Surely not!”", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I want to talk about five aspects of the amendments. The first is the question of Ofqual. I disagree with my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuart) , the Chairman of the Education Committee, about the fines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-14", "file": "debates2011-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b1c9ef9c20000888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "nt climate. Through the Bill, we are redefining the apprenticeship offer. We are moving away from what I regard as an unrealistic guarantee that sought to require the Government to tell employers whom they should and should not employ. The previous Government took the view that the House could place a duty on the chief executive of skills funding to fund apprenticeships for anyone who wanted them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-14a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.682.7", "colnum": "682", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady must be careful not to misrepresent what the Electoral Commissioner said. It did not say that this system will lead to a drop-off on that scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.682.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.683.7", "colnum": "683", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "on Standards in Public Life will report shortly: in fact, it will report next week. Is he concerned about the objections from the chairman of the Conservative party to the £10,000 cap proposed in the draft report, and is he worried about the possibility of a situation similar to that which arose in 2007 when the Conservatives walked away from the opportunity to secure a cross-party agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.683.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I feel in a slightly invidious position having to answer that question while the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Forest of Dean (Mr Harper) is sitting next to me, because I know that he has an adjacent constituency. As my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham) knows, this is simply not a matter for Ministers. We have legislated —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Where is she?”", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "It is a shame that the shadow Home Secretary wrote that rant before she listened to what I said in response to her first question. To say that the Home Secretary has not been visible in this House is palpably absurd. She was here twice last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "7;s basic accusation that the Home Secretary has in any way not answered these questions is, as I say, palpably absurd. The second question the right hon. Lady asked—indeed, the only substantive one in her rather scatter-gun approach —was about how many people were coming through without being checked. The answer, now, is that every private flight is checked against the warnings index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.703.2", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The Labour party, predictably, has passed the information on to newspapers, so we know what it has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "As I have said several times, every private flight is checked against the warnings index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " index. [Interruption.] The shadow Home Secretary, characteristically chuntering from a sedentary position, as she does throughout, is talking about that happening when flights arrive. It is actually safer to check them before they arrive, and that is what the warnings index is for. All private flights are checked against the warnings index before they arrive, and I tell the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "preceding_text": " Minister’s website carries a colourful photograph of a fishing boat he saw on his travels. On the vessel’s side there is a picture of a Tasmanian devil, which is represented as a trawler skipper who is being questioned by a fisheries officer. He asks the skipper, “What are you landing today?” The skipper replies, “One box of whiting and six boxes of paperwork.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": " conservationists and recreational fishermen, but, having served with him on those Committees for the best part of two years, I also know that his heart is in the right place. If anyone is capable of doing the right thing and making the right argument and putting the interests of this country first, it is my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury. I doubt anyone in this Chamber could meet a finer man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.735.2", "colnum": "735", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "rk) spoke about marine conservation zones and referred to a conservation crisis. I hope that the Minister will apologise to the House and to all the stakeholders who took part in the consultations to identify marine conservation zones for yet another target that DEFRA has not been met. It really is not good enough. On the day when we are appealing to stakeholders to take part and contribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.740.5", "colnum": "740", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "ds for the Opposition, asked me to take forward proposals on which there is no scientific basis or not enough of one to sustain them, but that position was not taken during the lengthy hours of debate, in Committee and on the Floor of the House, about provisions that became the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. Neither the Wildlife Trust nor anyone else took that position. What we will do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "ink, by 5% under the Conservatives and 6% under Labour. The Government could deal with VAT now. We can talk about the effect that a semi-stabiliser would have on North sea oil and the prices at the pump, but the Government can take measures now to reduce VAT to help motorists today. When the previous Government lowered VAT from 17.5% to 15%, fuel prices came down, helping to stimulate the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "rists today. When the previous Government lowered VAT from 17.5% to 15%, fuel prices came down, helping to stimulate the economy. [ Interruption. ] They did. The hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) is laughing, but he needs to compare the prices. Prices came down and businesses were able to trade more. Individuals could also use their cars more, and not just for work but for leisure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.760.5", "colnum": "760", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "preceding_text": "No, I am going to carry on because I have taken some interventions and I do not have much time. I am coming to the conclusion of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Michael McCann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael McCann", "preceding_text": "That is the same explanation that the hon. Gentleman offered before, but I still do not understand it. I signed the motion because it was the only way of getting an opportunity to discuss this issue, which is important for our constituents. I would have preferred that the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for St Helens North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.783.5", "colnum": "783", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "e park today; their damning analysis of the Government’s lack of strategy for economic growth far exceeds the efforts of those of us on the Opposition Benches. It is almost incredible listening to them. We would not believe that they are in government; it is as if somebody else did this. I would not go as far as to say that I rise to bury the motion, but I certainly do not rise to praise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.783.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "ears or so is a reduction in the amount of tax on fuel as a percentage of its cost. The peak period of the highest tax on fuel was back in the mid-90s. Since then, we have seen a reduction. Over the course of the last few years, we have seen a massive increase in the cost of petrol. The tax has been significant, but the big increases recently stem from the profiteering of the fuel companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "in over the years, yet for all the talk we hear from people like the hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) , we have a motion before us that asks the Government to consider whether they can do something. If the massive increase in fuel duty over the years is so awful—I think it has gone up a lot—why do we not have a proposal that is a bit stronger? Why is the motion so feeble?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) , we have a motion before us that asks the Government to consider whether they can do something. If the massive increase in fuel duty over the years is so awful—I think it has gone up a lot—why do we not have a proposal that is a bit stronger? Why is the motion so feeble? [Interruption.] We have also heard from Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "te. He put the case most eloquently in an interview he gave on Radio 4 this morning, when he said that what he wanted from his Government were tax cuts for millions of hard-pressed people, not tax cuts for millionaires. We on the Opposition Benches entirely agree with that sentiment. The occupants of the “millionaires’ row” of the Government Front Bench may be less keen, however.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on.”", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I will not give way because we do not have much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "Interestingly, the Government tried to tell us that there was no prospect of our seeking a derogation in respect of VAT on petrol, but they are, in effect, seeking a derogation for their rural subsidy—or their rural special pilot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "duty fivefold—not a five-point plan but a fivefold increase in fuel duty, which went up from 8p to 45p by the time they left office. During the ’90s, when they invented the fuel duty escalator, fuel duty increased from 59% to 75% of the price per litre. That is what we inherited when came to government. It was left to Labour effectively to stabilise prices by freezing successive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Stop pointing!”", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "In a moment. What is the reality of what the Government did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-15", "file": "debates2011-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "f9756774bbde002c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.809.7", "colnum": "809", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "No; I am terribly sorry. Today, average pump prices are approximately 6p per litre lower than they would have been if we had continued with the previous Government’s planned escalator, which the Opposition are so keen to airbrush out of history. That means that a typical Ford Focus driver would have been £56 better off in 2011-12, and an average haulier £1,700 in 2011-12.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-15b.809.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor might have chosen to make this announcement when Parliament was in recess, but he really ought to have been here today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.33.6", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "This is a three-year deal by Mr Goody Two Shoes, Mr Branson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.33.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I think that there is a better guarantee of jobs under the current proposal than there would have been if Northern Rock had continued as it was. The problem with Northern Rock was that its cost base exceeded the business that it was writing, and that posed a long-term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": " can get things moving again. Across the country there is a large number of what I describe as shovel-ready sites complete with planning permissions, but a lack of immediate support has stopped development in its tracks. Therefore, we are launching a new £400 million get Britain building fund. It is the injection needed to get building going and has the potential to support up to 32,000 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "-ministerial working group, which brings together eight Departments and will help to solve the problems of homelessness. We have already published our first plan, which is in place and will help prevent street homelessness, with the “no second night out” nationwide pledge meaning that, for the first time in this country, nobody should ever sleep on the streets for a second night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "cheme, and that was the first time many of the lenders who were supposed to be participating in it had heard of it. So yes, the scheme is being widely welcomed, and I am pleased that he is welcoming it himself. The hon. Gentleman asked whether the right to buy will be a one for one, and the answer is that it will. That is possible because of affordable rent and our having put that scheme together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I think that is a reference to the housing market renewal areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Gilbert", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aah”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Gilbert", "preceding_text": "As possibly the only Member to have been elected last year while still living at the hotel of mum and dad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "a member of the ISC for just over a year—such is the sense of cross-party common purpose on the Committee, I would have no difficulty in accepting as Chairman any of the Committee’s three excellent Labour members. However, such a thing is completely unnecessary given the outstanding chairmanship of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "e greater cyber-security in future. There was concern in the past about a lack of ministerial responsibility for cyber-protection, so it comes as a great relief to the ISC and its members to know that the role will now be undertaken by the Cabinet Office, whose Ministers have a legendary reputation for the protection of sensitive information. Think about it. However, when we are considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-21", "file": "debates2011-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a9f974b02a337861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "In my case, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-21a.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dave Watts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Watts", "preceding_text": "When will the Secretary of State get a grip and sort out the problems of PFI long-term funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think that the register should be published before then, in so far as we are still considering whether or how to move forward within the time scale that the Information Commissioner has given us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had read it, he would know that the important aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may not have been listening to the response I gave to his hon. Friend, which was that the relevant aspects of the risk assessment have been incorporated into the impact assessments published in January and September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day – Second Part (Half Day)]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on.”", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ion out—and trying to reverse at least one of the cuts. I think that the right thing to do was address the cold weather payment. Let me give a slightly cheeky example of why that was our priority. I checked the dates of birth of the hon. Members from Northern Ireland and found that at least one of them would, in principle, qualify for a winter fuel payment—I am not going to name names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day – Second Part (Half Day)]", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "better-off might use, where are they to start? Pensioners do not want the hassle of complicated forms and do not always trust advice given over the phone, particularly after the bad publicity about people feeling under pressure to switch suppliers. I heard what the Minister said about there being an 0800 number to call for advice. I do not know whether he has sat with constituents and tried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day – Second Part (Half Day)]", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "t tightly squeezed, and again Age UK states that “older people have experienced a rate of inflation on average 5% above headline measures and this is, in part, because the proportion of their income spent on food and fuel is higher than for other age groups.” The harsh reality is that, instead of supporting pensioners, this Government’s actions are making life even tougher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day – Second Part (Half Day)]", "cue_speaker": "William McCrea", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Daily Mail ?”", "preceding_speaker": "William McCrea", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her comments, with which I wholeheartedly agree. When I looked at today’s Daily Mail , I saw that the editor’s comment says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day – Second Part (Half Day)]", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "vak Parliament’s controversial debate over the future of the euro, we have seen the strong view that even a small member state is entitled to have a say and not be overruled by a directoire of the larger member states. However, I caution my hon. Friend. If one looks at, say, Estonia, the ambition that it had to join the euro, and the celebrations on the streets when it joined the euro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.256.4", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day – Second Part (Half Day)]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "As I said, we wanted to make sure that we gave this careful consideration, because this is a complex matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.256.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day – Second Part (Half Day)]", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making that point. I do not want to see a north-south divide on the issue. I want the people of north Yorkshire to feel that their voice is being heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-22", "file": "debates2011-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "3f0b9f735905df13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "PETITION — Boundary Changes (Edmonton)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Love", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Love", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-22b.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "John Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Howell", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend share my regret that it is almost impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "et me give him the answer. The Work programme is helping 50% more people than the future jobs fund: it will help 120,000 young people this year, where the future jobs fund helped only 80,000. The waiting time for the most needy young people will be half the waiting time under the future jobs fund; under the Work programme, those who are not in education, employment or training will get help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Classically, lots of bluster but no answer to the question I asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "d benefit to those on the highest rates of tax; cutting the deficit; spending on public services; more money for the regional growth fund—that is when he is defending it rather than attacking it; turning empty shops into cultural community centres; and higher capital spending. This is the bank tax that likes to say yes. No wonder the shadow Chancellor has stopped saluting and started crying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.289.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Even for this Prime Minister, to be playing politics with youth unemployment is a complete outrage. He is the one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " now have the lowest rates of corporation tax in the G7. We are cutting tax for the low-paid, because we have taken 1 million people out of income tax. We are freezing the council tax, cutting the petrol tax and scrapping Labour’s jobs tax. That is what this Government are doing. Let me answer the right hon. Gentleman directly on the issues of growth and debt, because this is absolutely key.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman asks for a change of course. Let me just say to him what the leading economic organisations in our country and, indeed, across the world say about that issue. The IMF says this: “'Is there a justification for a shift in the policy mix', we think the answer is no.” Let us listen to the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King: “There has to be a Plan A.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "Returning to next week’s public sector strikes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very important point. As I said, it is wrong that these strikes are going ahead when negotiations are under way. It is wrong to strike and to close so many classrooms and essential services, but it is being done on the basis of those turnouts. Just one quarter of Unison members voted to strike, and just 23% of those balloted at Unite voted in favour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.295.6", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " NHS managers was increasing six times faster than the number of nurses—and NHS productivity was falling. If a Government inherit a situation like that, it makes sense to make some changes. That is why we see, since we have come in, 14,000 fewer non-clinical staff, but more doctors and midwives, and more operations taking place. If the hon. Lady wants something to celebrate in the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.295.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of research by the TaxPayers Alliance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "ly because I wanted a really good and authoritative review of how we can best tackle fuel poverty. I am determined that we shall do that. One conclusion of the interim report from Professor Hills was that there are 25,000 excess winter deaths and that perhaps 10% of them—a similar figure to those killed on the roads—are due to fuel poverty. We are determined to tackle that issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": " and beverage sectors to those representing businesses on our high streets, which are suffering, are calling for a reversal of this year’s hike in VAT. What do all those measures have in common? They are all part of Labour’s plan for growth and jobs. As our motion stated, the Government must take action now to increase demand and growth and give immediate help to the high street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "iligence upon receipt of a conditional offer letter from the Department.”—[ Official Report , 21 November 2011; Vol. 536, c. 154W .] Usually, the Government blame us for all the mistakes; now, it seems that they are seeking to pass on blame to the very businesses that they claim to want to help—and the bidder has to pay for the due diligence cost, too. As it happens, I met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.346.4", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Metcalfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Metcalfe", "preceding_text": "ortunity to speak in this important debate. There is no doubt that growth and employment should be at the top of everyone’s list of priorities, and I know that that applies to this Government, who are trying to promote that agenda. This motion, however, does nothing to build on that. It is just more of the same from the Labour party—the party that brought us to the brink of bankruptcy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.346.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Metcalfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Metcalfe", "preceding_text": "I put the two hand in hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "than ever we need a plan to give confidence to markets, businesses and our people. This debate was introduced by the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Streatham (Mr Umunna) . It was his first major outing, and I thought that his speech was fair. It was better on structure than on presentation—but then again, I suppose the 11 advisers write the speeches; they do not deliver them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-23", "file": "debates2011-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "b6d9c3ffbf4fcfb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ed, but let us also have a debate about why this Government have failed to stand up to vested interests in the energy industry and failed to reform our market. Let us not pretend that the Government’s approach to today’s debate is about some new-found concern for bill payers. However much Ministers like to claim feed-in tariffs cost the public, when 25,000 people lose their jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-23b.365.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-24", "file": "debates2011-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a621a30cbbfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-24a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is very discourteous for all sorts of finger-pointing across the Chamber to take place. The hon. Member for Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland) has asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-24a.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-24", "file": "debates2011-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a621a30cbbfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-24a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is very discourteous for all sorts of finger-pointing across the Chamber to take place. The hon. Member for Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland) has asked— [Interruption.] Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-24a.461.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-24", "file": "debates2011-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a621a30cbbfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-24a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "ng across the Chamber to take place. The hon. Member for Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland) has asked— [Interruption.] Order. [Interruption.] Order. I am not looking for, or expecting— [Interruption.] Order. I am not looking for, or expecting, any response from the hon. Gentleman, and it is not for the hon. Gentleman to sit in his place shaking his head. The hon. Gentleman asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-24a.461.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-24", "file": "debates2011-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "bb0a621a30cbbfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-24a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Backbench Business — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "preceding_text": "e of British manufacturing through my own experiences and my own eyes, because my father was similar to most small manufacturers of clothing in Leeds, near to the constituency of the hon. Member for Bradford East (Mr Ward) , and he had a similar business to those in Bradford. He was put out of business by imports, but we have to look beyond that and ask, “Why has manufacturing failed?”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-24a.558.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-25", "file": "debates2011-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a6b5178d09285b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-25a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "d the state. Tax provides carrots for some activities and sticks for others. Talking of sticks, I suppose I should note what my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) said, which surprised me somewhat, because I am told that he told the Finance Public Bill Committee in 2010 that he was giving up. Perhaps he would like to confirm that—or not—in the remainder of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-25a.636.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-28", "file": "debates2011-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "55b956ab34556a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-28a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "North Africa and the Near and Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "o find out what the European Union’s promise of assistance was to the local fishermen, and that he will do everything he possibly can to help them. My trip to Mauritania was the first by a British Member of Parliament since one by the Father of the House in 1960, and the Mauritanians were so amazed by this that they laid out the red carpet. I had more than two hours with the President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-28a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-28", "file": "debates2011-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "55b956ab34556a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-28a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "North Africa and the Near and Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be pleased to hear that there are more women going on the trip than men, which is a specific wish of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-28a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-28", "file": "debates2011-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "55b956ab34556a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-28a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "North Africa and the Near and Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "se parts of the world is extremely welcome. Indeed, it is also in line with the Government’s stated policy in BSOS—“Building Stability Overseas Strategy”—which talks about upstream prevention of conflict. In the case of Somalia, it is not so much upstream prevention as an upstream solution while the river is in full flood. We should not take the analogy too far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-28a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-28", "file": "debates2011-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "55b956ab34556a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-28a.729.6", "colnum": "729", "heading": "North Africa and the Near and Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Louise Ellman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louise Ellman", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. The state of Israel came about because it was internationally recognised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-28a.729.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Graham Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Jones", "preceding_text": "At the end of October the Foreign Secretary announced plans to put guards on merchant vessels. Yesterday he said that action would be taken briskly, but did not confirm a time scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Graham Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Jones", "preceding_text": "At the end of October the Foreign Secretary announced plans to put guards on merchant vessels. Yesterday he said that action would be taken briskly, but did not confirm a time scale. [ Interruption. ] Will he today confirm what has happened since October, especially with regard to the establishment of procedures, protocols and various rules? When can we expect to see the pledge fulfilled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Let me start by placing squarely before the House of Commons and the British public the economic situation facing our country. Much of Europe now appears to be heading into a recession caused by a chronic lack of confidence in the ability of countries to deal with their debt. We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt storm while doing all we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "gland and the OECD yesterday, the OBR cites the chilling effect of the current instability as one of the central reasons for the reduction in its growth forecast. I want to thank Robert Chote and his fellow committee members, Stephen Nickell and Graham Parker, and their team for the rigorous work that they have done. Their forecast today demonstrates beyond any doubt their independence, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "her reasons for the weaker forecasts. The first is what it calls the “external inflation shock”—the result, in its words, of “unexpected rises in energy prices and global agricultural commodity prices”. The OBR’s analysis—independent—is that this explains the slow-down in growth in Britain over the past 18 months. Secondly, the independent OBR—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "debt interest payments over the Parliament are forecast to be £22 billion less than predicted. The House might also like to know, given the economic events described by the Office for Budget Responsibility, what would have happened to borrowing without the action that this Government have taken. The Treasury today estimates that borrowing by 2014-15 would have been running at well over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " will fund it. I can also announce that we are asking the independent pay review bodies to consider how public sector pay can be made more responsive to local labour markets, and we will ask them to report back by July next year. This is a significant step towards the creation of a more balanced economy in the regions of our country which does not squeeze out the private sector. Mr Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ire confirmed today. I can also confirm that capital allowances of 100% will be available to encourage manufacturing and other industries into the zones in Liverpool, Sheffield, the Tees valley, Humber and the black country. Those allowances will also be available to the north-eastern enterprise zone, and we will consider extending to the port of Blyth to create new private sector jobs there, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "itting economic development that creates jobs, but we need to go further to remove the lengthy delays and high costs of the current system, with new time limits on applications and new responsibilities for statutory consultees. We will make sure that the gold-plating of EU rules on things such as habitats do not place ridiculous costs on British businesses. Planning laws need reform. So too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " to employ a young person who is out of work. The OBR forecasts that unemployment will rise from 8.1% this year to 8.7% next year, before falling to 6.2% by the end of the forecast. Youth unemployment has been rising for seven years and is now unacceptably high. It is little comfort that this problem is affecting all western nations today. The problem is, of course, primarily a lack of jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.808.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ut none of the gain. The OBR forecasts show that the Chancellor’s entire economic and fiscal strategy is now in complete disarray, yet all we get are excuses. He has blamed anyone and anything, including the Labour Government, the snow, the royal wedding, the Japanese earthquake, higher inflation, VAT, the eurozone and low-paid dinner ladies and teaching assistants—anybody but himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " VAT, the eurozone and low-paid dinner ladies and teaching assistants—anybody but himself. [ Interruption. ] It is he who is to blame. It is his failing plan that has pushed up unemployment and borrowing. It is his reckless gamble that has made things worse here in Britain, not better. If eurozone countries continue to fail to sort out their problems, of course that will have an impact here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "deepening euro crisis makes it even more important that he sees sense. Instead he is still clinging to the fantasy that any change of course would make things worse. He still clings to the illiterate fantasy that low long-term interest rates in Britain are a sign of enhanced credibility and not, as they were in Japan in the ’90s and in America today, a sign of stagnant growth in the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "he is still clinging to the fantasy that any change of course would make things worse. He still clings to the illiterate fantasy that low long-term interest rates in Britain are a sign of enhanced credibility and not, as they were in Japan in the ’90s and in America today, a sign of stagnant growth in the economy. [ Interruption. ] This summer the head of the IMF warned the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "complains about off balance-sheet borrowing. That is from Mr PFI. He says that we should have kept the future jobs fund, but 50% of all people who left that scheme were unemployed within 12 weeks, which is in part why we have an unemployment problem. Yes we are committed to real increases in the health budget, and yes the OBR confirms that we will meet our fiscal mandate and our debt target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "evious Government—would have led to an additional £100 billion on top of borrowing over the course of the Parliament. Let us look at the facts. There is not a single credible political party in the entirety of Europe that is proposing more spending at the moment, apart from—and it is not credible—the Labour party. This is what Tony Blair said this morning on the radio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “That’s not what he said.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "#8217; mortgage bills up, increase debt interest charges for taxpayers, increase the cost of loans for small businesses, and put people out of work. Now people know—you vote Labour, you get higher interest rates. The third and final argument that the right hon. Gentleman advanced is that the events happening in Europe will have almost no impact on anyone in Britain or on the British economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " British infrastructure. We are not proposing to provide, in this respect, guarantees for these projects. There are some guarantees set out for specific Government infrastructure projects such as the Thames tidal waste tunnel. What I am talking about with the pension funds is not guaranteed projects like PFI; it is simply about trying to get private sector money invested in British infrastructure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We absolutely want to support carbon capture and storage technology in this country. I confirm that we are still committed to a £1 billion investment, which is a very significant investment in a technology, but it cannot be on an unrealistic time scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " Hutton. He particularly focused on the benefit, but he said that there was a case for the increase in contributions. He also said recently that it was frankly difficult to imagine a better deal. That was the former Labour Pensions Secretary. What I do not understand is what exactly the policy of the Labour party is on this. They are absolutely silent. Are you in favour of increased contributions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.830.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No it wasn’t.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be straight with the House. That was a contract signed by the previous Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.836.7", "colnum": "836", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Well, the pay comes out of the health budget, and the official policy of the Labour party is not to increase health spending in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.836.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " international organisations said lacked a credible plan. Of course, as the OBR has made clear in its independent report, we are dealing with the consequences of the catastrophic failure of the last Labour Government to regulate financial services better, not least during the period when the shadow Chancellor was City Minister. That caused one of the deepest crashes of our country’s history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "It does. It is an illegal policy, which is a novel thing for an Opposition to advance. As I have said, fuel duty and taxes would be 10p higher if we had not acted in the Budget or in the autumn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES AND PARALYMPIC GAMES (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "preceding_text": " year, and he also mentioned that as far as he was aware the cost of a control order was £1.8 million per person. So a huge amount of money will need to be invested in ensuring that these new surveillance techniques are properly available. Given the evidence put before the Committee and in the other place, we know that some senior police officers still have concerns about the readiness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES AND PARALYMPIC GAMES (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": " to change their mind. However, they then behaved like a small child. Having been found out, they now want to kick the toys around spitefully. Section 40 can be introduced over time, in a measured way, using pilots. However, simply saying, “Okay, have the chief coroner, but you can’t have appeals,” looks petulant and leaves the Minister and the Ministry of Justice looking stupid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-29", "file": "debates2011-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "dbfdd05b8c9598e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES AND PARALYMPIC GAMES (AMENDMENT) BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "t and RBL— “an appeals process would not come into effect for several years.” All that is eminently doable, and to say otherwise is frankly wrong. Inquest continues: “An appeals process overseen by the chief coroner would offer families a route to resolve poor decision making.” That relates to the interventions from the hon. Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-29a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.925.5", "colnum": "925", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. The armed forces are a wonderful example of people from right across the community working together. I have on the wristband of the Royal Irish Regiment, which has representatives from right across Northern Ireland and the Republic and from 11 different nations. They set an example to us all of how we can work together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.925.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.928.8", "colnum": "928", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. First, may I congratulate him and the other 37 Members who have opted to grow additional facial hair in this month of November? It is a very good way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.928.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.929.4", "colnum": "929", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, the reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.929.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The difference is that, unlike the Prime Minister, I am not going to demonise the dinner lady, the cleaner or the nurse, people who earn in a week what the Chancellor pays for his annual skiing holiday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.930.6", "colnum": "930", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, let me be absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.930.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " they should make greater contributions. What we see today on the Opposition Benches is a party that is in the pocket of the trade union leaders, that has to ask their permission before crossing a picket line and that take the irresponsible side of trade union leaders who have called their people out on strike when negotiations are underway. Now let me answer his question about the low-paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.931.5", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister sits there shaking his head. He does not understand his own policy, and of course, he could not explain or justify what he did to everyone on low pay with the miserable deal cooked up with the Deputy Prime Minister to cut £1 billion from tax credits in the autumn statement yesterday. They have no explanation for why they are doing that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.931.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "With child poverty going up as a result of the autumn statement yesterday, the truth is that the Prime Minister could not answer the question because he is too embarrassed by the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "the Labour party has taken sides today: he is on the side of the trade union leader who wants strikes and not negotiations and he is on the side of people who want to disrupt our schools, disrupt our borders and disrupt our country. And when it comes to borrowing, he cannot even bring himself to welcome the fact that there are low interest rates. Let me tell him this. The shadow Chancellor —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "rade union leader who wants strikes and not negotiations and he is on the side of people who want to disrupt our schools, disrupt our borders and disrupt our country. And when it comes to borrowing, he cannot even bring himself to welcome the fact that there are low interest rates. Let me tell him this. The shadow Chancellor —[Interruption.] Mr Speaker, they are all shouting in unison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I came into politics to try to improve the welfare of people in our country. The fact is that, at the end of this public sector pension reform, those people working in the public sector will have far better pensions than most people in the private sector, who are contributing that money to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "e the welfare of people in our country. The fact is that, at the end of this public sector pension reform, those people working in the public sector will have far better pensions than most people in the private sector, who are contributing that money to them. [ Interruption. ] I know the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Chancellor are paid to ask questions; they do not have to wave as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.938.5", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister to ensure that this House remains a free and democratic institution, accountable only to voters? Does he share my indignation that some Members had to ask permission from the GMB to be here today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.938.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "on scheme; tomorrow there will be discussions with the teaching unions, and on Friday with the health unions. After the new offer was made on 2 November , it was agreed, at the request of the TUC, that discussions would continue on the schemes—so it is within the sectoral schemes that the discussions are taking place, at the specific request of the TUC. In addition, there are frequent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You!”", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "he new offer was made on 2 November , it was agreed, at the request of the TUC, that discussions would continue on the schemes—so it is within the sectoral schemes that the discussions are taking place, at the specific request of the TUC. In addition, there are frequent— [Interruption.] The shadow Chancellor asks from a sedentary position whether we have met the TUC. The answer is yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You! You!”", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "e request of the TUC, that discussions would continue on the schemes—so it is within the sectoral schemes that the discussions are taking place, at the specific request of the TUC. In addition, there are frequent— [Interruption.] The shadow Chancellor asks from a sedentary position whether we have met the TUC. The answer is yes. [Hon. Members: “You!”] So, contrary to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "It is easy to tell from the tone of that response who pays for the hon. Gentleman’s party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Are you going to meet them?", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "May I deal with the point about the negotiations? I thought I had made it as clear as possible that, at the TUC’s request, the negotiations are continuing in the scheme sector talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "May I deal with the point about the negotiations? I thought I had made it as clear as possible that, at the TUC’s request, the negotiations are continuing in the scheme sector talks. [Hon. Members: “Are you going to meet them?] I have met them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "May I deal with the point about the negotiations? I thought I had made it as clear as possible that, at the TUC’s request, the negotiations are continuing in the scheme sector talks. [Hon. Members: “Are you going to meet them?] I have met them—[Hon. Members: “When?] Since 2 November . We conduct many of the negotiations in private—at the request of the TUC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Hairdressers Registration (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "endment that I propose is supported by the Hair and Beauty Industry Authority, City and Guilds, the Freelance Hair and Beauty Federation, the Hairdressing and Beauty Suppliers Association, the Fellowship for British Hairdressing, and the National Hairdressers’ Federation, to name but a few. Let me make clear that if there is a Division today, it will not be more of a division than a parting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.974.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "May I take the shadow Secretary of State back to the subject of youth unemployment? Doubtless the previous Government did some very good things in that area—they did some very bad things as well—but does he admit that the present situation was not created overnight? When Labour left office there was an upward trend in unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "The Pensions Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.985.8", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should explain to his constituents how £6,500 for every household in his constituency has been added to the nation’s credit card.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.985.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.988.6", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "According to the findings of the IFS and of the Treasury, the top decile pays a huge amount more in relative terms than anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.988.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.994.4", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "With respect, that is not a policy; that is just a lot of waffle. In reality, what the right hon. Gentleman has to tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jessica Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jessica Lee", "preceding_text": "I disagree completely with the hon. Lady’s comments. That sort of scaremongering about local children’s services is not helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jessica Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jessica Lee", "preceding_text": "I disagree completely with the hon. Lady’s comments. That sort of scaremongering about local children’s services is not helpful. [ Interruption. ] This Government have gone out of their way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": " they want. I am pleased that those who earn a salary of up to £15,000 on full-time equivalent will not have to pay any more and saddened that others will have to pay more until they retire to provide the means for decent pensions. The Prime Minister said earlier that a nurse earning £34,000 will get a pension of £22,000 when she retires. I am sure that all of us in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "le, the right hon. Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Frank Dobson) asked why we did not value the teachers’ pension scheme, as we might find that it was in credit. I have news for him: there is no scheme; there is no money. Today’s teachers pay for today’s retired teachers. There could not be a credit, because there is no fund. That is one of the problems with this whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-11-30", "file": "debates2011-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "436f10ca06082007", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "y we did not value the teachers’ pension scheme, as we might find that it was in credit. I have news for him: there is no scheme; there is no money. Today’s teachers pay for today’s retired teachers. There could not be a credit, because there is no fund. That is one of the problems with this whole debate. [ Interruption. ] There is no fund and no money; there is nothing invested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-11-30b.1046.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-01", "file": "debates2011-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "25f1f493d0da16e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "leman cannot, sadly, wave away the question of whether this measure will add at least £26 to consumer bills in 2020, and possibly as much as £80. I will happily take this issue away and look into exactly which Department is meant to come forward, but I return to the point that what he needs to take into account is not whether something is on the balance sheet but what consumer costs are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-01", "file": "debates2011-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "25f1f493d0da16e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I am in favour of more applications but, as I said to the hon. Member for Huddersfield, it is too soon to draw the conclusion that I think the hon. Gentleman is drawing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1094.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-01", "file": "debates2011-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "25f1f493d0da16e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Order. This is an intervention, not a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-01", "file": "debates2011-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "25f1f493d0da16e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Order. This is an intervention, not a speech. [ Interruption. ] Yes, but interventions must be brief, and we are coming to the end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-01", "file": "debates2011-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "25f1f493d0da16e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " “criminal penguins” had been mentioned in this House. She also made an important point about the importance of the local as well as the regional, which is very much at the heart of the local TV agenda. The hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Nick Smith) talked about the fact that the BBC is not afraid to rattle feathers. In terms of local TV coverage, one of the things we need to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-01", "file": "debates2011-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "25f1f493d0da16e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "e surprised to hear me mention the importance of credit unions. Credit is a fact of life. Although we all occasionally meet people who say, “Well, if you haven’t got much money, you shouldn’t borrow”, the fact of the matter is that it happens at every level of society to help people get through the ups and downs of life. Childbirth and Christmas can happen to anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-01", "file": "debates2011-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "25f1f493d0da16e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "idance of doubt, let me state that they do not. Those are the sorts of tricks and ploys that are played, with a lot of subtle suggestions without saying anything. We probably know people who are not generally credulous who, from time to time, receive such a thing and take it as genuine. I apologise for being almost boring in the extent to which I am going to agree with all previous speakers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-01", "file": "debates2011-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "25f1f493d0da16e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1178.2", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "t to act. Should they not step in and regulate these markets in the interests of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged? My hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) has been a thorn in the Government’s side in pursuing the high-cost consumer credit market. In doing that, a regulator could work with industry to ensure realistic reductions in exorbitant interest rates and charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-01b.1178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.1.7", "colnum": "1", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "We can all play with figures, but I would have thought that the only accurate indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.1.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.6.5", "colnum": "6", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "preceding_text": "According to figures unearthed by the TaxPayers Alliance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.6.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "to-day support for staff from their colleagues who volunteer to act as union reps? These are the unsung heroes of Britain’s volunteering tradition, the workplace wing of the Prime Minister’s big society. They save employers and the Exchequer millions of pounds by cutting the number of tribunal cases, cutting the number of days lost through illness and improving the take-up of training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has made his point. May I say gently to the Secretary of State that we are enjoying the full product of his lucubrations, but I think just a snapshot will do. We can get by with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "known technique, but fortunately it does not progress too far, because many such complaints are political, as many would be on the issue before us. Ministers have to make a decision on a statement, but, with such rules hanging over a Minister, many statements would not be made outside the House when they should be; they would end up in the Chamber and, as I have already said, clog up the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "ted Neville Chamberlain. Let me first remind him that what Chamberlain said was “peace for our time”, not “peace in our time”. Given the hon. Gentleman’s close association with the Secretary of State for Education, who I understand is very keen on British history, that is the kind of thing that we should expect him to get right. What he did not mention, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.65.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " This House exists to protect the freedoms and the liberties of the British subject. Yes, I know that some of them will be guilty and will deserve severe punishment for the crimes they have committed, but have we not set up our justice system on the basic principle that it is better for 100 guilty men to go free than for one innocent man or, indeed, woman, although women commit fewer crimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ot entirely satisfactory—I was very much persuaded by my hon. Friend’s introductory remarks—I am much more concerned about the European arrest warrant, which risks the freedom of innocent people in this country. I really would rather that we did not manage to arrest a foreign criminal if the exchange for that was allowing an innocent English person to be transported abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The Committee makes it clear in its report that the “EAW is based on the principle of mutual recognition of judicial decisions and… mutual trust” between the judicial authorities of EU states. That is a legitimate position for us to adopt, just as it was adopted in 1991 by the Conservative Government when they signed us up to the ECE—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "cognition of judicial decisions and… mutual trust” between the judicial authorities of EU states. That is a legitimate position for us to adopt, just as it was adopted in 1991 by the Conservative Government when they signed us up to the ECE— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman is chuntering, but I cannot hear what he says. Unless he wants to chunter louder, I am at a loss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-05", "file": "debates2011-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c0ffe6a7446e346c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.124.2", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "That kind of casual British superiority sometimes does not carry the day when it comes to making decisions about our legal systems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-05a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are grateful to the Chief Secretary, but we will move on to questions and, hopefully, answers that relate to the policies of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ld expect the banking system to follow that advice. When it comes to shareholders, it is particularly good news that the Association of British Insurers has said this morning that it expects to see restraint in financial sector pay. We have to ensure that our banks are prepared for whatever is thrown at them in the coming months, and that they do not pay the large bonuses that used to be paid out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.152.6", "colnum": "152", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the OBR is a key participant in ensuring the UK’s economic recovery and that its establishment by this Government marked a step change in the transparency and openness of our economic and fiscal policy making? Further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.152.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should have read the OBR’s report, which analysed the depth of the economic crisis during his time in office and found that the size of the boom and the bust—which he claimed to have abolished—was larger than forecast. As a result, for every £8 that we thought we would have as a country, we have only £7.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.166.2", "colnum": "166", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " the cumulative impact of all that we are doing. I am sure that he will not want to be selective and will look at the whole picture. Page 4 of the analysis includes a chart ranking people by what they spend, which shows that the proportion lost rises with income. In other words, the smallest amounts lost are for the lowest households and the largest cash amounts lost are for the highest households", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": " where people are suffering under the cuts that are being introduced with a heartlessness not seen since the 1930s. They have absolutely no idea of the effect of the cuts in public services, but they know big business and the City, partly because the City provides more than 50% of Conservative party finances. For the first time in British history, City individuals and businesses finance the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "nced further budget measures from VAT rises to pension age increases, reminding us of the value of getting ahead of the markets not following them, and the credit ratings of 15 eurozone countries have been put on negative watch, while here in Britain interest rates have stayed low despite the deterioration of the fiscal forecast, which has meant that last week we continued to borrow at below 2.5%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.178.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "On the same measure that the hon. Lady uses, child poverty rose by 200,000 in the last Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "In a second. I will answer the previous intervention before I turn to the next one. The financial crisis hit every major country in the world, and bank regulation was not tough enough here in Britain or in countries throughout the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The numbers for the hon. Gentleman’s constituency show that 8,600 families in his constituency are losing out from the cut in tax credits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "preceding_text": "For the benefit of the shadow Chief Secretary, my constituency is Tamworth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "The shadow Chancellor makes the point that the Government are trying to borrow their way out of a crisis. I suggest that we are actually borrowing our way into a bigger crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Government Members may laugh at an 80% rise in youth unemployment, but that is not a laughing matter for the young people concerned, or for our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "preceding_text": "sts. By the end of next year, those who experienced such difficulty as a result of Labour’s fuel duty escalator will save £144 on the cost of filling up the average car by the end of next year. That is an important example of progress. The apprenticeship scheme has also been a real help to our young people after youth unemployment rocketed, particularly under the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "I am not familiar with circumstances in the north-east; I am making the point that too few students want a career in business because until now they have not had the right education, and we need to get them back on to a better path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": "re taking in, so that, in effect, £1 out of every £4 spent was borrowed. There was a very challenging situation when the Chancellor took the steering wheel of the supertanker, and we need a significant process of change to alter its direction towards one where we have a much healthier public sector financial position and where the private sector is able to continue its process of growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "(Mr Meacher) , my hon. Friends the Members for Islwyn (Chris Evans) and for Glasgow North East (Mr Bain) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr Clarke) , who explained with passion and determination how the pain being experienced in their constituencies was but inadequately matched by the dry, outdated ideological dogma of too many on the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "per plan B. We need a short-term plan to kick-start the economy and create jobs such as—now let me think—Labour’s five-point plan for jobs and growth: a tax on bank bonuses to fund up to 100,000 jobs for young people; genuine long-term investment in infrastructure such as roads and schools; a temporary VAT cut giving families with children a boost of about £450 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ow rates combined with fiscal consolidation produced a significant recovery. Is that not the lesson from history that the shadow Chancellor simply has not learned? Of course, we could have opted for another growth policy—some call it plan B—involving unfunded tax cuts, more borrowing and more spending. The details of that are never clear, but the consequences are higher interest rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "rest rates. [Interruption.] Labour positions itself as the party of high interest rates, although a 1% rise in market interest rates adds £10 billion to mortgage bills—meaning that the average family with a mortgage will pay £1,000 more—and increases business rates by £7 billion and taxpayers’ costs by £21 billion. That would be the price of Labour government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "3;1,000 more—and increases business rates by £7 billion and taxpayers’ costs by £21 billion. That would be the price of Labour government. [Interruption.] I have looked around Europe for Governments or mainstream political parties that have opted for a policy such as plan B, but they are in short supply. Other Governments are now having to address their budget deficits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the Question be now put. [Interruption.] I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-06", "file": "debates2011-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "151aa71d4e124a5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the Question be now put. [Interruption.] I think the Ayes have it. [Interruption.] Order. Hon. Members must calm themselves; it will be injurious to their health otherwise. The Question is, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-06b.269.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.290.6", "colnum": "290", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "artment for International Development has zero tolerance of corruption. The independent watchdog reported last week that although there was no evidence of corruption in this year’s programme, it was necessary to take new measures when we work in very difficult areas. I have instructed the civil service to implement all the independent watchdog’s recommendations, lock, stock and barrel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.290.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "es counted. We are pressing the Electoral Commission to publish the results on a polling station by polling station basis so that any necessary appeals by those taking part can take place. Britain spent more than £30 million ensuring that registration and other things went ahead before the election. We must wait to see what the commission says about the credibility of these elections shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.292.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "As I explained, at the summit— [Interruption.] Let me explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I think the short answer is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "There is a wide spectrum of views on Europe throughout the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He’s not!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is simply wrong again. The figures are there, and the poorest third are losing far more than the richest third. He used to say, “I’m not going to balance the budget on the backs of the poor.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman had 13 years in which to tax private jets—and now former Labour leaders are jetting around in them! In two years we will have taxed them. He quotes the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Let me remind him of what it said about Labour’s plans. It said that Labour’s policies would lead to “even higher debt levels over this Parliament”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.296.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "jetting around in them! In two years we will have taxed them. He quotes the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Let me remind him of what it said about Labour’s plans. It said that Labour’s policies would lead to “even higher debt levels over this Parliament”— [Interruption.] Labour Members do not like to hear their own policies being taken apart. [Interruption.] Calm down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.296.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-07", "file": "debates2011-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "af40558573ac608c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Tax Refunds Regulation (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "ary certainty would lead to a process that might take decades. The businesses using this form of law would bear the costs, as they would find out—either to their cost or otherwise—through the legal process of testing its bounds. Finally, let me repeat, so as to make it perfectly clear, that the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South wholly misrepresented the views of the Lord Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-07a.322.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-08", "file": "debates2011-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "eda0c57ba051d831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.389.6", "colnum": "389", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Of course I readily concede that something unglamorous can also be very important. I call Penny Mordaunt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.389.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-08", "file": "debates2011-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "eda0c57ba051d831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "My party plans to overtake the population of pandas before the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-08", "file": "debates2011-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "eda0c57ba051d831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "Again, I do not want to go down that particular avenue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-08", "file": "debates2011-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "eda0c57ba051d831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "William Bain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "William Bain", "preceding_text": "Sadly, this Government will have had another three Budgets and, perhaps, another three autumn statements by the next general election, so we will make our spending plans clear at that general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.451.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-08", "file": "debates2011-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "eda0c57ba051d831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman’s 2010 figure is not wrong— [ Interruption .] Excuse me! It is true to say, however, that the money that was put into reducing youth unemployment worked and that youth unemployment was brought down from the very high level that was inherited in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-08", "file": "debates2011-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "eda0c57ba051d831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "preceding_text": "c sector pensions as part of its drive towards fiscal autonomy and full separation. Let me draw the House’s attention to the words last week of the First Minister, Alex Salmond: “The way to stop this Parliament and Government being hamstrung by the policies of the UK Government is to give us the financial independence that we require in order to do that.” That is clearly his aim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-08", "file": "debates2011-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "eda0c57ba051d831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.463.4", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "preceding_text": "tonomy or full separation, however, how would all that be disaggregated? It would lead to an enormous muddle over who was liable to pay for what and over who would be liable for the shortfall in future pension payments accrued under the current system? Were we to move down that road, I would wish to train as an actuary, because a lot of them would make a lot of money from disentangling everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-08a.463.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-12", "file": "debates2011-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "0745e24071af8401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "k of Merseyside police and other police forces around the country in dealing with metal theft. It is why we are moving forward with the metal theft taskforce, and why that will also be responsible for greater co-ordination, but I hear the points that the hon. Gentleman makes about penalties. That is something that we are actively considering in the context of our review of the current legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-12", "file": "debates2011-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "0745e24071af8401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.517.4", "colnum": "517", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "The weekend before last, 13 British citizens including, disgracefully, a Member of this House, were present at a party in a French restaurant where members of that group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-12", "file": "debates2011-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "0745e24071af8401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to the work that is being done by the Merseyside force in relation to the savings that it is making in its budgets. As Chief Constable Jon Murphy has said, “It’s not salami slicing but re-engineering the whole organisation.” As my hon. Friend has shown, that can be done effectively, saving money but providing a good service to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.518.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-12", "file": "debates2011-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "0745e24071af8401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.519.7", "colnum": "519", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " have said that we are going to respond positively to the tough measures set out in the Vickers report. There are issues about whether this can be done under current European regulations, so one of the things we wanted was to make sure we could go further than European rules on regulating the banks. The Financial Services Authority report on RBS today demonstrates just how necessary that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.519.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-12", "file": "debates2011-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "0745e24071af8401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.519.7", "colnum": "519", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ilarly, on this year’s EU budget, it was Britain, in partnership with France, Germany and Holland, that successfully insisted on no real increases in resources—for the first time in many, many years in the EU. On defence, Britain is an absolutely key European player, whether leading the NATO rapid reaction force or tackling piracy in the Indian ocean. Our partnership with France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.519.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-12", "file": "debates2011-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "0745e24071af8401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for having to interrupt the Prime Minister. Those on the Opposition Front Bench, at the moment, are making the most noise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-12", "file": "debates2011-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "0745e24071af8401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.522.2", "colnum": "522", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "m that he has not secured one extra protection for financial services? The veto on financial services regulation—he did not get it. The guarantees on the location of the European Banking Authority—he did not get them. Far from protecting our interests, he has left us without a voice. The sensible members of his party understand that as well as anyone. What did Lord Heseltine say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-12b.522.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-13", "file": "debates2011-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fd1075b96eb3c27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Have the numbers gone up or down?”", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "0,000 prisoners before they had completed their sentence because they had no room for them on the prison estate. We are maintaining capacity to meet whatever demand we face from the courts. What I said last time, from which the right hon. Gentleman took the slightest extract, was that we respond to the decisions of the courts, we respond to the level of crime, and at present we have managed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-13", "file": "debates2011-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fd1075b96eb3c27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "CHARITIES BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "That is a different debate for a different day, but I would rather that nuclear weapons were in the hands of the United States or this country than in the Iranian regime’s, as it is currently constituted. The hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) commented on the International Atomic Energy Agency report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-13", "file": "debates2011-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fd1075b96eb3c27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "us. We had no support from any of those member states. It is clear that the Prime Minister spectacularly mishandled the summit by failing to prepare the ground, failing to talk to European leaders in advance and failing to build alliances. The Foreign Minister of Poland, until fairly recently one of our strongest allies, singled out the UK for criticism in a recent speech. It now transpires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-13", "file": "debates2011-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fd1075b96eb3c27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Don’t be tempted.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "If that is an invitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-13", "file": "debates2011-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "fd1075b96eb3c27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.762.14", "colnum": "762", "heading": "PETITION — Royal Mail Delivery Office, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire", "cue_speaker": "Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "I should like to present a petition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-13a.762.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.781.6", "colnum": "781", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I can indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.781.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.781.6", "colnum": "781", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I can indeed. [Interruption.] On—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.781.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " discussions over a long period with the unions and the leadership of the TUC over the individual schemes. If the hon. Lady thinks we are not negotiating, she should talk to the TUC about the intensiveness of the negotiations. Perhaps she would like to remind her friends in the unions of what Lord Hutton, the former Labour Pensions Secretary, said only yesterday about the Government’s offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The truth is that the Prime Minister’s promises to young people for next year are as worthless as the promises he made in 2011. Let us turn from his broken promise on jobs to his broken promise on the coalition. And Mr Speaker, let me say that it is good to see the Deputy Prime Minister back in the House. This is what the Prime Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More! More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ster back in the House. This is what the Prime Minister said— [ Interruption. ] Calm down. This is what he said in his new year’s message for 2011—and I will place a copy in the Library of the House, just so that everyone can see it: “Coalition politics is not always straightforward…But I believe we are bringing in a” whole “new style of government.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.785.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More! More!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I will answer. No one in this House is going to be surprised that Conservatives and Liberal Democrats do not always agree about Europe, but let me reassure the right hon. Gentleman. He should not believe everything he reads in the papers. It’s not that bad—it’s not like we’re brothers or anything!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.785.4", "colnum": "785", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " goes on a business trip and he is left waiting by the phone, but he hears nothing until a rambling phone call at 4 am confessing to a terrible mistake. How is the Prime Minister going to pick up the pieces of the bad deal he delivered for Britain? The Council came to conclusions on Friday morning, but the treaty will not be signed until March. In the cold light of day, with other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.785.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have no answer on this matter whatsoever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.786.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.786.5", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "t went well, didn’t it? He told us that he would have credible plans to cut the deficit, but we still have not seen them. He said that he would stand up to vested interests, yet he backed the biggest strike for years. We all know that he has achieved one thing, though. He has completely united his party. Every single one of them has asked Santa for the same thing: a new leader for Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point, which is perhaps why the leader of the Labour party is struggling so much to tell us what his view is on the proposed treaty. On one hand he wants to join the euro, if he is Prime Minister for long enough, and on the other hand he wants to sign a treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Every increase in youth unemployment is unacceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Every increase in youth unemployment is unacceptable— [ Interruption. ] I will tell the House exactly what is happening. The number of 16 to 18-year-old young people not in employment, education or training is actually going down, but the problem, as the hon. Gentleman rightly says, is that 18 to 24-year-olds are finding the job market extremely difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to be called in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I will in a moment, but first I want to make one point about the Work programme. The Work programme is a new scheme that builds on the flexible new deal. We have said that if it works and delivers value for money we will keep it in place, but the Minister must accept that worries about the programme are growing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.853.6", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "The only way that money can be paid back is by raising taxes, which destroys jobs, or cutting public spending. That is a basic economic fact that Labour Governments throughout history have failed to comprehend. Of course, there are more things that this Government can do. We have taken the brave decision as a coalition to get rid of the deficit as quickly as we can. It might take until 2017—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.853.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Beveridge!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": " they ship back whatever it was they were making. I have only 45 seconds left, but I must mention the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill, who was going to give way to me, but failed to do so, when he mentioned Clement Attlee. We all supported the grandiose schemes of—not Clement Attlee, sorry, Bevin, who was supported by Winston Churchill at the time, the Conservative leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "The idea that we should come here and dance around about whether all the figures are accurate, when there are 2.6 million unemployed people in this country, is not sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Eilidh Whiteford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eilidh Whiteford", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment, thank you. It has been evident in Scotland over the past year that the growth of private sector employment has outweighed falls in public sector employment. We now have the highest share of private sector employment that we have had since the advent of devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Eilidh Whiteford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eilidh Whiteford", "preceding_text": " sector employment that we have had since the advent of devolution. [Interruption.] Although unemployment has fallen across the piece in the past year, it shows that the Scottish Government’s decision to boost investment in the public sector and in infrastructure as far as possible has been a way of offsetting the problems of investment that have been apparent in other parts of the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "PEDESTRIAN ACCESS (RAILWAY STATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Are they real?”", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "ar, it has been unsuccessful, not least because of a tremendous campaign against barriers led by the campaign group Residents Against Station Closure—RASC. For more than four years, it has thoughtfully and thoroughly pursued the issue through lobbying, campaigning and regular creative demonstrations. Indeed, this Friday its festive protest will involve seven Santas with their reindeer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "PEDESTRIAN ACCESS (RAILWAY STATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "olio and conclude that, since May 2010, transport and, in particular, railways have done rather well. The Chancellor’s growth statement included several roads that the hon. Lady may notice, but what was not picked up was that £1.4 billion extra is being allocated for rail, as against £1 billion for roads. So we are seeing massive investment in the railways, and that includes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.900.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-14", "file": "debates2011-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "c0bd65a7081ffb9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "PEDESTRIAN ACCESS (RAILWAY STATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": ", with the problem of ticketless travel. I said that I wanted to be constructive—and I do—because this is a serious issue for people in Sheffield and a serious issue for the railway. I am keen to resolve the issue constructively and in a way that I hope addresses the interests of all involved. I want to make the hon. Member for Sheffield Central and other hon. Members an offer tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-14a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The Minister talks about driving up participation, but will he tell us how he will monitor how much sport young people are doing in schools when he has scrapped the school sports survey? As his Government have cut the school sports partnership, it is even more important that we know what the effect on participation in sport is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.907.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "see a headline in The Independent which read “EU 26 fight to stop pact unravelling”. In response to the hon. Lady’s lengthy thesis on relationships, I simply make the point that the relationship between the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister is stronger than the relationship between Tony Blair and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, who were members of the same party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes his point well. It is not in the report, but I accept it. To return to the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr Tyrie) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "May I make a little progress, because I need to set out the Government’s concerns about the report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.968.6", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Yes, IPSA put out a press notice, which is on its website for everyone to see. It has confirmed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.968.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "t is quite clear that IPSA has a number of things that it is trying to achieve. Yes, it wants to support Members of Parliament to do their jobs efficiently, cost-effectively and transparently. Indeed, it has a legal duty to do so. It is also interested in both restoring—there is some evidence that there has been progress in that direction—and maintaining public confidence in MPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": " recommendation because it advocates a particular allowance system in six months. Actually, he seems to oppose it because it recommends that in six months “the House should have the opportunity to consider the merits” of the recommendation “and to make a decision”. Surely he is not saying that the House should be denied an opportunity to consider whether this is acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "ver, that the House can decide to change the system of allowances, we do not have an independent system any more. Members cannot have it both ways. I listened to the previous debates, and Members on both sides made it clear that we did not want to vote on our pay, pension or expenses. That is where we want to be and it is where we want to stay. I shall conclude my remarks so that others can speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Chapman", "preceding_text": "can Bannatyne, who has his head office in my constituency, does not have a maths degree. Such exceptions aside, most people would benefit from having this sort of knowledge. I think that it would assist in the way that the hon. Gentleman indicates. I will conclude because much of what I was going to say has already been said, and probably much more eloquently, by the hon. Member for North Swindon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "ay need to leave before the debate’s conclusion, depending on how long we run on for? I congratulate the all-party group on financial education for young people on producing its report, and I pay tribute to the hon. Members for North Swindon (Justin Tomlinson) and for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) and my hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Mrs Chapman) for the work that they put into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Walker", "preceding_text": " has somehow been diminished. We also live in a world where we are all increasingly bombarded by offers of credit, as my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak neatly pointed out. I do not know whether I am the only Member who regularly receives calls on my House of Commons office telephone carrying recorded messages offering me cheap debt deals or spurious payment protection insurance compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-15", "file": "debates2011-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c6e7485ae1c3575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "preceding_text": "It is nice to speak at this point in the debate, when everybody has said everything. May I begin my adding my plaudits to those already heaped on my hon. Friends the Members for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) and for North Swindon (Justin Tomlinson)? I was a mere foot soldier in their regiment as they steamrollered this through and I must say what an efficient manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-15a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1039.7", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Dinenage", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Dinenage", "preceding_text": "I welcome that news from the Secretary of State and the confirmation of what many of us know: that women can do everything that men can do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1039.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "preceding_text": "What is the point of having a review if no one, except a select few, has an opportunity to look at its findings? Should not the Liberal Democrats, in particular, be allowed some access to that information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Michael McCann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael McCann", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Chancellor’s conversion on bank regulation. I remind him that there are more bankers and former bankers behind him than there are behind me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "preceding_text": "On behalf of my knees, Mr Speaker, I thank you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The RBS-ABN AMRO deal stands out as the moment of greatest folly in banking regulation, not just because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": " decline of traditional industries over a long period. In the spirit of Christmas and non-partisanship, which the Minister mentioned, I will not ascribe that to any one particular Government, although Thatcherism comes to mind. We saw the meretricious pursuit of funny money and fluffy activity under the Thatcher Government—not that I would accuse the Minister of being either fluffy or funny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": " fusion between North Hertfordshire college and Weldability Sif, whose inspirational founder is Adrian Hawkins. We are trying to develop a network of such colleges throughout the United Kingdom, which is short of 30,000 welders. The average age of a welder is over 55, and welders in the midlands are now being paid more than £100,000 a year. Welding gives people fantastic career opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "preceding_text": ";on providing people with training that they would have had anyway. A secondary issue is the fact that if we can retain the level of skills enhancement we have already and refocus some of the money that would be spent on it on other areas, we might well be able to enhance other apprenticeship provision in other areas, which is equally important. I could go on for a very long time about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "preceding_text": " percentage increase in apprenticeships in my constituency, at a whopping 76%. The number of apprenticeships in my constituency has increased from 540 to 960. That represents young people being given the skills and the training they need to get back into work, and I am proud of what this coalition Government are achieving. I was touched that the Minister, who is sadly no longer in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Karen Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Buck", "preceding_text": "from both sides of the House that have stressed Members’ real concern, and interest in, apprenticeships and the need to raise the skills base among young people and the general population. In particular, I congratulate Members on both sides who have taken on apprentices, with your support, Mr Speaker, and hope that that will encourage others who have vacancies to divert them to that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH UNIT (BURTON)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "preceding_text": "patient beds at 46 mental health trusts across the country, giving a snapshot of a large number of mental health providers up and down the country. That evidence showed that the median number of beds per 100,000 people was 27.5, yet in south Staffordshire, which has a population of 606,100, we currently have 88 acute beds. I was rebuked by the Minister earlier for not having very good maths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-19", "file": "debates2011-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "3bee7f15e9bbc0af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH UNIT (BURTON)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "preceding_text": "n in this way, because the consequences are too dangerous to contemplate. My hon. Friend the Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) has spoken about the impact on families. We all know that families are hugely important in helping people back into mental health well-being and can act as a huge tonic and support. For those who have to go to St. George’s in Stafford, it is a 27-mile trip one way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-19b.1171.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-20", "file": "debates2011-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "e07e391785466e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-20b.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman refers to the reasons why this coalition Government were created—it was to clear up the mess that his party left behind. It is not easy, what we are doing, but it is right. At the beginning of this year, his party had nothing to say about the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-20b.1185.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-20", "file": "debates2011-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "e07e391785466e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-20b.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "f. The new pensions will be substantially more affordable to alternative providers, and it is right that we offer workers continued access to them. In addition, the Government will consider what practical options might be available to reform the terms of access to the NHS pension scheme, in particular for NHS staff who move to a non-NHS “any qualified provider” delivering NHS services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-20b.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-20", "file": "debates2011-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "e07e391785466e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-20b.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "ers continued access to them. In addition, the Government will consider what practical options might be available to reform the terms of access to the NHS pension scheme, in particular for NHS staff who move to a non-NHS “any qualified provider” delivering NHS services. [Interruption.] That is something that the trade unions have suggested, so hon. Members should keep quiet and listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-20b.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2011-12-20", "file": "debates2011-12-20b.xml", "sha256": "e07e391785466e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-20b.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "National Health Service (Right to Treatment)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "We now move on to the main business. As hon. Members know, it has been divided into several sections. It is all very complicated, but we have fingertip control in the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2011-12-20b.1223.1"}