{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.13.4", "colnum": "13", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "May I tell the Secretary of State and the Minister that he will receive more representations on his Bill later this week from two hospital doctors who, early this morning, began a 160 mile run to protest against his Bill, from Bevan’s statue in Cardiff to his Department?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.13.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It is a different question.”", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "The cost of the NHS modernisation is estimated to be between £1.2 billion and £1.3 billion. That will save £4.5 billion over this Parliament, and a further £1.5 billion each year thereafter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.16.2", "colnum": "16", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": " Hessle (Alan Johnson) , did not publish the risk register on two occasions during his tenure. The bits relevant to the Health and Social Care Bill have been made public, but we will not be publishing the risk register because, as the hon. Gentleman knows, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is appealing, as he is entitled to do, against the Information Commissioner’s decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.16.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aquifer.”", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "round 56.5 miles will be partially or totally hidden in cutting, as a key way of helping to reduce noise in neighbouring communities, and 10 miles less track along viaduct or embankment. In all, that means that around 79 miles—more than half the route—will be mitigated by tunnel or cutting. The revised tunnel alignment through the Chilterns will avoid an important water aquifier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hurray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "t of high-speed rail in this country, a process begun by Labour. I hope that the Secretary of State will consider the issues that we have raised. This is a major scheme which deserves proper scrutiny. We have raised questions with the clear intention of ensuring that we have the best possible high-speed rail network, one that the country needs and deserves. We strongly support the building of HS2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.31.6", "colnum": "31", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrats were the first party to push for high-speed rail, back in 2004—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.31.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.38.6", "colnum": "38", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "We looked very carefully at where the HS2 line should terminate when it got to London. Our decision was that it was far better to terminate it in London than, as it were, at Old Oak Common, which would have seen people then have to transfer again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.38.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "preceding_text": "Deciding about independence is, of course, the sovereign right of the Scottish people and has consequences for the rest of the citizens of the United Kingdom. Will the Secretary of State raise with the Scottish Government the precise date upon which the radioactive materials from Scotland stored in my constituency will be returned to Scotland in the event of independence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.64.4", "colnum": "64", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "Border (Rory Stewart) , and a Stewart there, my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes South (Iain Stewart) . I am a Stewart; I am half a Stewart; and I have got a half-Scot beside me in the Father of the House. We are very interested in what happens in Scotland, and I would like to ask the Secretary of State how we can put our views forward properly about what happens to our ancestral homeland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.64.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.81.6", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Park Homes (Site Owner Licensing)", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course. The idea is to give the maximum incentive to councils. That is how the system is being devised. However, it is much simpler than the existing system, which is just about impenetrable. Indeed, London Councils considered that point some time ago when it described the four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.81.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Park Homes (Site Owner Licensing)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "tter of precedent. Neither the Act that created the poll tax nor the one that replaced it with the council tax—the two Acts that this Bill, in the main, amends—had their Committee stages on the Floor of the House; they went into Committee. This Bill should also go into Committee. That is why we will vote against the programme motion. By not allowing the Bill to go into Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.89.5", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Park Homes (Site Owner Licensing)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "lves—and, to judge by the consultation, they are—is whether they trust this Government and whether they trust this Secretary of State to use all these powers in a fair way. To judge by what has been done so far, there is not much room for confidence. We know that this Bill is being introduced at a time when local authorities are facing unprecedented cuts. Cuts do have to be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.89.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Park Homes (Site Owner Licensing)", "cue_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "preceding_text": "and Opposition Members, week after week I meet businesses in the north-west, particularly in my constituency, that have the potential to grow but just want a little extra support. That might mean doing up the road on the industrial estate or providing a bit of extra shedding so that they can meet their orders. With these changes, councils will finally have an interest in encouraging that business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Park Homes (Site Owner Licensing)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "I was not putting words into the right hon. Gentleman’s mouth, but I have to say that he is continuing the mistaken idea that every person in receipt of council tax relief is unemployed and useless. They are not; they are hard-working, low-paid families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-10", "file": "debates2012-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "6008592b175f5a33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Park Homes (Site Owner Licensing)", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": " the last five-year revaluation period, when the average business rate growth in England was 5%, the following authorities had business rate growth above the average, and therefore would have benefited more than average had our proposed system been in place: Doncaster, Durham, Greenwich, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Sefton, Stockton, Middlesbrough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-10b.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "preceding_text": "8221;, which examines the high level of incorrect and inaccurate decisions made in the work capability assessment. Given the amount of money that Atos Healthcare receives from the public purse for undertaking these assessments, is it not now time for the Government to consider the report’s recommendation that financial penalties be imposed on Atos for a number of those incorrect assessments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.164.5", "colnum": "164", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "This was one of the issues that the Secretary of State and I discussed with Professor Harrington, and as he prepares his further report, this is inevitably one of the issues he will address.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "tland, but ensuring that everybody in the country gets the opportunity to participate in the consultation on the shape of the referendum, and I hope that people will respond to that. I hope that everybody across the country—not just politicians—will get involved in debating defence, welfare and the state of our economy, all of which, I believe, are much safer within the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "We now know that there will be an independence referendum in the autumn of 1914 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "reduce that to RPI plus 1%, but if the right hon. Gentleman wants to see more money go into our railways—presumably he supports the electrification of the Great Western main line and the railway lines in the north-west—he will be touring the country telling us that he supports these things, but he is never prepared to take difficult decisions in order to support them. It is time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We are now on to the issue of higher pay. On the issue of the rail fares, let me be absolutely clear. Labour introduced the policy of 5% flexibility. They changed it for one year only—for an election year—but with no intention of making that permanent. If the right hon. Gentleman does not know that, he should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "res, let me be absolutely clear. Labour introduced the policy of 5% flexibility. They changed it for one year only—for an election year—but with no intention of making that permanent. If the right hon. Gentleman does not know that, he should. [Interruption.] If he wants to get on to the issue of executive pay, he is entirely right to raise it. Unlike a Government who did nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.171.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the right hon. Lady on her preferment in the new year’s honours list. Although I profoundly disagree with many of the things that she has tried to do over her political career—mostly to disarm Britain one-sidedly—I praise her for her persistent efforts. No one can accuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.180.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "ests in our transport industry is holding back the reform that is required. In the spending review, the Government have made three decisions that have hit bus services. First, they have cut councils’ local transport funding by 28%—and front-loaded it. that has meant the end of support for many subsidised routes, and the end of ring-fencing has placed further pressure on councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-11", "file": "debates2012-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "cb459e93fafcebe0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where are they?”", "preceding_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "preceding_text": "Let me start by picking up on the last point that the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard) made. He suggests that this debate was thrust on our Front Bench. Far from it; I believe that a number of Members desperately want to discuss this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-11b.238.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "Costs impact on fares, as the Minister has just said. In London, Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson—[Hon. Members: “Hooray!”] I expected a more Pavlovian response, Mr Speaker. Mayor Johnson has approved rises on average of nearly 6%, yet Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.327.5", "colnum": "327", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for making the point that the best way to get change is not to impose a quota on a country but to encourage people to recognise the talents that exist within their companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.327.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": ";they are generally but not exclusively women—are left in a very vulnerable situation when they find themselves victims of domestic violence. The previous Government began the Sojourner project, which provided some breathing space for those women. We have continued and extended that project pending a long-term solution, which we are working on with the Department for Work and Pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "e left in a very vulnerable situation when they find themselves victims of domestic violence. The previous Government began the Sojourner project, which provided some breathing space for those women. We have continued and extended that project pending a long-term solution, which we are working on with the Department for Work and Pensions— [ Interruption. ] Mr Speaker, are you coughing at me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.337.5", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady may have had an opportunity to raise precisely that issue with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport during Transport questions earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.337.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "apse. Some of them are on really important things such as adoption, firearms, daylight saving, metal theft, the registration of lobbyists—that would solve the problem there. Why does the Leader of the House therefore not give up some of the days he is using on footling business and allocate them to private Members’ Bills, which lots of Members on the Government Back Benches would love?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.342.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stephenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stephenson", "preceding_text": "e local circumstances completely. From what I am led to believe, landlords in my area tied to Punch Taverns have to pay the brewery something between £1.32 and £1.56 per pint that they buy. In the town where I live, Colne, the Derby Arms sells Foster’s and John Smith’s for £1.49 a pint, and the Wallace Hartley and the Duke of Lancaster sell Foster’s for £1.79.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh dear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "ntinued: “I’m waiting to see what comes from Westminster…Last resort is to sell up and move on.” He points out that this is not just about the price of the beer either, saying: “Aside from paying between 1.5 to 2 times wholesale value within the tie. Enterprise restrict what I can buy, for example I can not have Crabbies Ginger Beer”. I have never heard of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.387.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Even?”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. We do need to give the self-regulatory regime time to work, and I pay tribute to him, and even to my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.399.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": ", is that I felt that during the ’80s the Labour party was quite patronising towards ethnic minorities. There was a sense on the part of the incumbents in politics—those with power—that ethnic minority groups were somehow hapless and weak and needed all the support and help they could get, and all sorts of extra support in order simply to compete. I rejected that prognosis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "lso worked in previous years and had people shadow me, and I know that many other Members have done the same. There has been a lot of progress that we should celebrate. Recommendation 56 that civil partnership ceremonies should be allowed to be held in the House has been actioned. Indeed, I think the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) might have been the first to take advantage of that change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "preceding_text": "bstacles in front of her. She became a Member of Parliament and then Prime Minister. As we reflect on the issues we can address in order to raise diversity in the House, I feel certain that many people who see that film, whatever their politics, will be as shocked as I was at the sight of one woman among so many men. The film shows very clearly the difficulties she faced but nevertheless overcame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "preceding_text": "I agree with that—and it leads me very neatly to my next point, which is on support for people who want to stand for Parliament. I was very lucky. I was a candidate for three general elections before I got in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": ", as it were, tied together to form one. I pay tribute to those who have come out. That is difficult however, as not every gay person wants to be out, and I do not think they should have to be. I disagree with what the hon. Member for Milton Keynes South (Iain Stewart) said about role models. I hope to God nobody will ever think of me as a role model in relation to anything whatsoever at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-12", "file": "debates2012-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "0bb198c7ee1ed476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": ". I shall go into that in a moment. We have made a start, but there is much more to do. Three areas are crucial to achieving equality: young people, political parties and the public sector. Hon. Members mentioned young people, and those in all parts of the House are doing a good job, going into schools to spread the message that politics is life and that we are human beings, which is a good start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-12b.438.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-16", "file": "debates2012-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "a21b65988e1ffdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman raised that. He made exactly that point at Deputy Prime Minister’s questions on 15 November and my right hon. Friend said that we would look into it. Indeed, I did. Although the numbers did broadly increase as the hon. Gentleman says, they did not do so over a year. The increase in the electorate in Rhyl West from 2,474 to 3,531 took place over a period of nine years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.487.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-16", "file": "debates2012-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "a21b65988e1ffdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Williams", "preceding_text": " occasions highlighted the example of one ward in my constituency. This ward combines the huge challenge— the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Jonathan Edwards) , like me, a former student of Aberystwyth university will understand this—of comprising a large student community, a huge number of houses in multiple occupancy and areas that are designated “deprived”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.501.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-16", "file": "debates2012-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "a21b65988e1ffdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.542.5", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ily on the regulatory framework developed in telecoms and utilities regulators …Interestingly, Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley’s own ideas for the reform of the NHS, developed while in opposition, were born out of his experience of the privatisation and regulation of utilities in the mid-1980s when he was Principal Private Secretary to Norman Tebbit.” There we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.542.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-16", "file": "debates2012-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "a21b65988e1ffdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I am not defending the existing policy. The cap was set for each trust individually to reflect historical levels. The reason why trusts such as the Marsden and Great Ormond Street have a more generous cap is the large amounts of private work that they carry out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-16", "file": "debates2012-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "a21b65988e1ffdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "Of course, the reality is as envisaged by my right hon. Friend the shadow Secretary of State, who has accepted that there is a role for the private sector within the health service, but the debate is about how big it should be and how much control there should be of the health sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.568.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-16", "file": "debates2012-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "a21b65988e1ffdbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "preceding_text": "tain’s most valued public service by not simply allowing but encouraging, as a matter of principle, a private sector free-for-all in England’s health service. That is why in a speech in November last year the Prime Minister stated that he wanted the NHS “to be a fantastic business for Britain”— a line strangely omitted from the official transcript of the speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-16a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I rise to speak about the motion on the Order Paper, although I have nothing specific to say about the Bill proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ty Leader of the House—who is in his seat and will, no doubt, assent to this—has absolutely no intention of ensuring that there will be time for the Bill to have its Second Reading, let alone to go into Committee. Consequently, I cannot see that there is any sense in it. I merely point out that there are 109 private Members’ Bills on the Order Paper and only three are from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "idays. There are 64 this Friday and I guess we might get to debate two of them in any kind of substance, and the rest of the Bills will not even be heard on a day when we are sitting. If hon. Members want to agree to this going forward, I say to them sincerely that they should ensure that there is more time for private Members’ Bills, because sometimes they make some of the best legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. She is absolutely right. However, if I had a choice between being in Devon or Chiswick on a Saturday, I know which one I would choose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "ft as a museum. While I am on the subject of planning, it is worth saying that sometimes English Heritage does not help us. I am sure my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Oliver Colvile) will agree that the decision to list Plymouth civic centre as some kind of historic and beautiful building, when it is probably the ugliest thing outside Dudley, is absolutely disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": " sit, listen and talk. That is what Mary Portas is saying and we should be listening to her. In Rhyl and Prestatyn, which are seaside towns, we have promenades. The word “promenade” means “to walk”. We do not do enough walking or socialising. We are all on this treadmill of work, work, work and work. We need time to relax and we should be relaxing in our high streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "James Wharton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Wharton", "preceding_text": " meeting, to make their concerns known and to discuss the proposals. I attended, and so did Yarm’s town councillors and borough councillors. Borough councillors from neighbouring communities also came along on a cross-party basis—well, on a coalition basis, I suppose, as the Liberal Democrats turned up, as did the Conservatives, but the Labour party did not send a representative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Chris White", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “On this side.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris White", "preceding_text": "I, too, begin by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) for securing a very popular, as well as important, debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-17", "file": "debates2012-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "db8202b493ee393b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Sexual Offences (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What’s the latest score?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) on securing this debate on this vital subject. It is an important day for town centres around the country, but it is also a very important evening for Macclesfield Town football club, who are playing a well deserved replay at the Reebok against premier league Bolton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-17b.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "ry of State for Wales, he did not achieve the electrification of one single inch, whereas we in the Wales Office have already announced the electrification of the line to Cardiff. Electrification of the line to Swansea is still open and that is unfinished business. As he well knows, we are now working on the electrification of the valleys line. I hope that I will have his support for that as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.736.6", "colnum": "736", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will be pleased to know that, for example, all the apprentices at the Welsh Government undertake business administration NVQs and are recruited through fair and open competition via their website, with support from Careers Wales and Jobcentre Plus. That shows that the apprentice programmes are equipping young people to take up jobs in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.736.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.740.2", "colnum": "740", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is simply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.740.5", "colnum": "740", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me give the right hon. Gentleman the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.758.4", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that my hon. Friend believes that. I think that is right. The problem of letting the inquiry go ahead while the police are carrying out the investigations is obviously that one could hopelessly compromise the other. We cannot have witnesses giving evidence about events when the police are in the middle of inquiries into the self-same events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should recognise that it is not much use having a consultation unless it informs the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "preceding_text": "etary of State said to me when I questioned him in the Select Committee. I had to question him three times. I was asking a specific question about what local authorities would do differently. The Secretary of State said: “I think they would see the reward.” I said: “No. What would they do?” He then said: “Please do not badger me like this; I am a sensitive man.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "preceding_text": " not badger me like this; I am a sensitive man.” [Interruption.] Well, the Minister says that it was a joke, but I can tell him that the Secretary of State’s following paragraph most certainly was a joke. To be honest, it was a complete load of nonsense. The Secretary of State could not answer my question, and he started to talk about sea shanties. I think this cuts to the heart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, and I suspect that it will be one of the Minister’s biggest headaches in the system. I doubt whether he will come to the conclusion—although perhaps he should—that the real answer is unitary authorities across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "I want to speak about set-aside—the principle and the calculations—and, in particular, to draw attention to my amendments 44 and 45. This is the first opportunity that I have had during the Committee stage to talk about the new, simplified system of local government finance that the Government are proposing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "ere is a perception that this change will make a real difference to most areas, but it will not; the effect will be marginal at most. My hon. Friend is also right that councils cannot just stop providing elderly care and other services. In the present round of cuts, the problem is trying to explain to people what is statutory and what is not. This Government know exactly what they are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "t system. Sadly, despite the fact that some Members would deny it, there is force to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) and others that perverse incentives in the current system sometimes lead to perverse behaviour, with more emphasis placed on ticking the boxes that can demonstrate need than harnessing the undoubted energies that local government has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-18", "file": "debates2012-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "47b2abb51220a521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "force to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) and others that perverse incentives in the current system sometimes lead to perverse behaviour, with more emphasis placed on ticking the boxes that can demonstrate need than harnessing the undoubted energies that local government has— [Interruption.] and in which I have faith to drive forward economic growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-18a.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-19", "file": "debates2012-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce4e2916e607b5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "There will be an opportunity next Thursday to cross-question Ministers, but the right hon. Gentleman’s proposal would go against the action that the Government have taken to appeal against the decision. He is in effect inviting us to admit, by taking the action that we do not want to take, that we have lost the appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-19", "file": "debates2012-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce4e2916e607b5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder whether it is in order for Ministers to abuse Opposition Back Benchers on the basis of their age or gender—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-19", "file": "debates2012-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce4e2916e607b5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder whether it is in order for Ministers to abuse Opposition Back Benchers on the basis of their age or gender— [ Laughter. ] Yesterday, we heard the Prime Minister do that to the 79-year-old hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner). That problem was repeated today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-19", "file": "debates2012-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce4e2916e607b5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.911.5", "colnum": "911", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Civil Aviation", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "ission to spend. As part of its financial framework, the Commission also proposed the end to our rebate—another proposal we would reject. The Commission would look to member states to meet the cost of these projects, which is why it is absolutely vital that we work with like-minded allies to restrain the EU budget and ensure that we can spend more money at home, while less money goes abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.911.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-19", "file": "debates2012-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce4e2916e607b5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.916.3", "colnum": "916", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Civil Aviation", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "We are all waiting to see what proposals come forward. The Chancellor has said that he will come to Parliament and let us have a say on many of these things. Indeed, perhaps the Minister can help us out with the timing of those proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.916.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-19", "file": "debates2012-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce4e2916e607b5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Civil Aviation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “£18 billion.”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " paying £41 billion for joining this club we would be paying £19 billion. If hon. Members think that I am being unfair to the European Union on this point, they should consider the reality of what happens. This is not just about the £7 billion or £10 billion that our “net contribution” is each year, because the EU actually takes £14 billion or £15 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-19", "file": "debates2012-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce4e2916e607b5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.934.3", "colnum": "934", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Civil Aviation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "That point was made eloquently in the debate earlier, and I noted with interest that only two regions in this country would benefit from any of that funding. My objection is not at all to what the Government are doing in this motion—it is a fine motion and in recent months the Government have been absolutely spot on. I will not say when they started to change their position on this —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-19", "file": "debates2012-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ce4e2916e607b5e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Civil Aviation", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "preceding_text": "hanges “will be subject to consultation with absolutely everybody who has a legitimate interest in it, and I happy to reiterate that that will include the Welsh Government.” –– [ Official Report, Public Bodies Public Bill Committee, 15 September 2011 ; c. 195.] I welcome that commitment. I do not wish to go through the whole list of public bodies and make suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-19a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-20", "file": "debates2012-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "25270e6abb601457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-20a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Daylight Saving Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "I wish to introduce a discussion on amendment 59 and the other 27 amendments, from Members on all sides of the House, that you have included in this group, Mr Speaker. Before I outline the reasoning behind amendment 59, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Rebecca Harris) on having steered her first private Member’s Bill so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-20a.970.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-20", "file": "debates2012-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "25270e6abb601457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-20a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Daylight Saving Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "on to incorporate in a piece of legislation. Clause 12 says that it means adding one hour to Greenwich mean time in the winter and one hour to summer time in the summer. As I hope is apparent from my introductory remarks, I regard adding an hour to Greenwich mean time in the winter as unacceptable—hence my amendment. Amendment 79 is the last amendment to which I need to speak in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-20a.987.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-20", "file": "debates2012-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "25270e6abb601457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-20a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Daylight Saving Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "On that occasion I meant the majority party in the Scottish Parliament, but I see the hon. Gentleman’s point, so perhaps we should have two representatives from Scotland, which means we must also have two from Somerset, because Somerset would feel let down if the numbers were not maintained with the rest of the Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-20a.998.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-23", "file": "debates2012-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "297fc02e39fe9a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.31.7", "colnum": "31", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with this question several times already. I am aware that those countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.31.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-23", "file": "debates2012-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "297fc02e39fe9a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "Commodity prices of certain things, such as wheat, have remained stable over the past 20 years, whereas others have risen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-23", "file": "debates2012-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "297fc02e39fe9a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "d that there was an adverse effect on competition from unfair supply chain practices. It recommended that supermarkets with a turnover of more than £1 billion a year should be prevented from imposing retrospective discounts and from changing terms and conditions for suppliers. That leads to an unfair spread of risk and cost down the grocery supply chain, and to short-termism in relationships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-23", "file": "debates2012-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "297fc02e39fe9a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "poorest end of the scale, who do not have a freezer and cannot store so much food. However, most of the problem comes from people such as—dare I say it?—us in the House. Mea culpa: at the end of Christmas and its excesses, we look at our own fridge or freezer and see that it is still full of food that was not needed. That food ends up going in the bin, at the same time as people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-23", "file": "debates2012-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "297fc02e39fe9a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Pat Glass", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Pat Glass", "preceding_text": " forms of farming or, more often, leave the industry altogether. War on Want believes that a supermarket ombudsman would support farmers here at home and help poorly paid workers in the developing world. Only the British Retail Consortium, speaking for the supermarkets, believes that a supermarkets ombudsman is a costly and unnecessary new bureaucracy that would not benefit suppliers or consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.58.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-23", "file": "debates2012-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "297fc02e39fe9a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.103.3", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "we are providing. Labour cannot be taken seriously on the economy until it admits the mistakes it made when it was in power. If Labour was really changing its position on the economy, the first thing it would do is say sorry. Sorry for letting youth unemployment get out of control, sorry for letting the banking sector get out of control, and sorry for letting the deficit and debt get out of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-23b.103.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-25", "file": "debates2012-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c069f8a6e8f728c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-25a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Statements of Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "says that it has a “vision for a coherent and consistent EU Criminal Policy” by 2020. So the European Commission wants us, in eight years, to have established that uniformity. As we have discussed, the proposal includes things that are open to wide interpretation, such as computer crimes. Even an alarm clock is now computer-controlled, so even if you were to steal an alarm clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-25a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-25", "file": "debates2012-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c069f8a6e8f728c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-25a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Statements of Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "If you will allow me, Mr Deputy Speaker, I shall conclude on the issue of toilets by saying simply that the Guild of Registered Tourist Guides formed an inconvenience committee, which produced a report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-25a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-25", "file": "debates2012-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c069f8a6e8f728c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-25a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Statements of Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for reminding me of that. In fact, one might ask why we did a report on public toilets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-25a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-25", "file": "debates2012-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c069f8a6e8f728c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-25a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Statements of Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "Derby—I am so sorry. Those visitors would not be caught out by all sorts of strange people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-25a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.403.6", "colnum": "403", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Gentleman would agree that it is important that if people are receiving a subsidy for electricity which is generated, they should have generally well insulated homes and they should not be wasting it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.403.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, the scheme that the hon. Gentleman refers to—the feed-in tariffs—was devised and implemented by Ed Miliband—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should observe the correct forms of address, and he should not refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ded up in the Aye Lobby supporting an amendment that he had rejected moments earlier at the Dispatch Box. Will the Leader of the House confirm that the Minister, on realising that he was locked in the wrong Lobby, bravely took refuge in the toilet while a Conservative Minister barked orders at him through the doorway? The Government’s legislative agenda has been bogged down for months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "firm that the Minister, on realising that he was locked in the wrong Lobby, bravely took refuge in the toilet while a Conservative Minister barked orders at him through the doorway? The Government’s legislative agenda has been bogged down for months— [Laughter.] It says something about the incompetence of the Government that it took the Serjeant at Arms to flush the Minister out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "preceding_text": "Last Friday, a handful of hon. Members waffled on for the best part of five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Rubbish!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": ", are not living in the real world for the British economy. Our national interest is to have prosperity and success. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made clear, it is in Britain’s national interest for the eurozone to succeed and for the current crisis to be resolved. Clearly, Conservative Members do not agree with the Chancellor’ words. They wish to see the eurozone fail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to hear the hon. Gentleman gloss over his speech, but that is the point I was making. I am all for exporting to the BRICs, but their growth rates are slowing. India is talking about a return to “Hindu economic growth” and China might go as low as 8% or 7%, which is a real worry for the Chinese authorities. The same is the case in Brazil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "That is the reputation we have and that worries me. It also worries me to hear reports that one of the new intake on the Government Benches, whom I shall not name, said in a conference over the weekend that it would have been impossible to have been selected as a Conservative candidate in recent years—or, indeed, to be a Conservative MP—without showing the most strident Euroscepticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I have given way to two Europhobes, and I think three would be too many. It is a real worry when one party, the governing party of our country, is so monolithic—without internal debate, internal division or much internal discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Russian navy battle group”", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": "ent of our Falklands reinforcement plan.” I want to examine each aspect of that assertion—first, the rapid deployment of the maritime forces into high-threat areas. The maritime patrol aircraft is there to protect our nuclear deterrent. In mid-December, The Scotsman reported that a Type 42 destroyer had to be dispatched when a Royal Navy battle group appeared off the coast of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "I am going to make some progress. Does it matter that Labour’s programme was stuffed full of projects that would never and could never be delivered? I would argue that it did, because so long as the fantasy persisted, the doctrine and philosophy of our armed forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.470.7", "colnum": "470", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "personnel at risk of redundancy to retrain for alternative roles of which there are shortages in the armed forces. I heard the comments of my right hon. Friend the Member for North East Hampshire earlier. Following the publication of the Select Committee’s report, I have asked for a specific briefing on the point that he raised. I would be happy to share that with him after the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.470.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "They are almost represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Edmonton (Mr Love) , who is almost sitting in their usual place. An expat Scot, he looks as though last evening he spent a lot of time enjoying Burns night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is demonstrating that he is probably the most knowledgeable Member on the issue of the deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": " to back up my hon. Friend the Minister and put in perspective the hon. Gentleman’s argument. He is trying to get into the tactics of how a battle is operated. What does he want to fly off these aircraft carriers? I am afraid his Government got rid of the Sea Harriers, so he would not be able to use the Storm Shadow, the Brimstone or any of the guns, because the Harriers did not exist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to catch your eye, Mr Deputy Speaker. Like others, I declare my interest as a member of the Territorial Army. There seem to be enough of us here to form a small platoon, which would perhaps be interesting, although such a platoon would come only from this side of the Chamber. Indeed, there is a noticeable absence of support for today’s debate from the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-26", "file": "debates2012-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0b7ff94c261b4c55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Financial Services", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "sponse to his suggestion that the cuts we make in this country should be contingent on other countries improving their defences, I have to say that he might have to wait a very long time before that happens, although I hope I am wrong about that. It was wonderful to listen to my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh) . At last I have found someone who is even more gloomy than I —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-26a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-30", "file": "debates2012-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "fd622f9c0f0b8404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.537.7", "colnum": "537", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "I think that that was yesterday’s soundbite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.537.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-30", "file": "debates2012-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "fd622f9c0f0b8404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I know that the architect of the previous system does not like the new homes bonus, but I have to say that he is very mistaken about its impact. Nearly 160,000 new homes have been built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-30", "file": "debates2012-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "fd622f9c0f0b8404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.559.5", "colnum": "559", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will notice that I did not use that example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-30", "file": "debates2012-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "fd622f9c0f0b8404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "I am coming to a conclusion now, so the hon. Gentleman should wait for his own speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-30", "file": "debates2012-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "fd622f9c0f0b8404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "preceding_text": "mingham, Luton, Heathrow or East Midlands, and even London City is not a huge travelling time away. I have used all those airports to fly up to Scotland, and their performance has varied enormously. I have had some very good experiences and some fairly hellish ones, and I found out about the airports’ performance by trial and error. I will not name and shame the airport that was poor —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-30", "file": "debates2012-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "fd622f9c0f0b8404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": " way, it is vital that there is, as I said, complete buy-in. Indeed, I know a number of Members received numerous pieces of correspondence from different airlines. The latest to hit my inbox was from British Airways—not that I hope that by mentioning it I will get the black card for the invitation-only lounge, although I know that the other Deputy Speaker was very keen to receive that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-30a.632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ent is absolutely explicit and clear that it cannot encroach on the competencies of the European Union and that measures must not be taken that in any way undermine the EU single market. Nevertheless, I made it clear that we will watch this matter closely and that, if necessary, we will take action, including legal action, if our national interests are threatened by the misuse of the institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "tatement and associate myself with his remarks about Iran, Syria and Burma. On those issues there has been a bipartisan approach, and the Government have our full support in the effort they are making. Having heard the Prime Minister’s statement on Europe, the whole House now knows the truth—that with this Prime Minister, a veto is not for life, it is just for Christmas. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "phantom veto of December is now exposed. What does the Prime Minister cling to? What did he say at the press conference yesterday? He said: “There isn’t an EU treaty because I vetoed it; it doesn’t exist.” The agreement involves the European Court of Justice, the European Commission, the European buildings, 25 out of 27 countries, and he says that it is not really a treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "221; It sounds like the single market to me. Can he confirm that the United Kingdom will not even have observer status at the regular meetings of the 25 to find out what is going on and whether the single market is being discussed? The Prime Minister needs to answer the question: who will protect the British national interest at those meetings? I think his Back Benchers will be interested in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "t up: the Prime Minister reduced to relying on the people he calls “the bureaucrats from Brussels” to represent him at the meetings. In the Prime Minister’s topsy turvy world, that is all he has left: his thin blue line against the 25 countries exceeding their mandate. Instead of ending up in that position, the Prime Minister should not have walked out of the meeting in December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " relying on the people he calls “the bureaucrats from Brussels” to represent him at the meetings. In the Prime Minister’s topsy turvy world, that is all he has left: his thin blue line against the 25 countries exceeding their mandate. Instead of ending up in that position, the Prime Minister should not have walked out of the meeting in December. [Interruption.] No, he should not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I tell you what: I will deal with my Back Benchers, you deal with yours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.2", "colnum": "681", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " The first problem is that he cannot actually tell us whether he is in favour of this treaty or against it. The Government are clear: we are not signing it and we do not agree with it. That is why we vetoed it being within the EU treaties. That is our position. What is his position? He has had all of his Christmas to make up his mind about whether he would sign the treaty or not. Last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.2", "colnum": "681", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "y of Nice, a treaty of Amsterdam and a treaty of Lisbon. On each occasion, the Labour party was in favour. There will be no EU treaty of Brussels because we vetoed it. The right hon. Gentleman asked specifically what effect this treaty could have on the EU single market. The treaty is clear. Article 2 states: “The provisions of this Treaty shall apply” only “insofar”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must now calm itself. With all that gesticulation and hand-waving from the shadow Chancellor, I thought he was playing with his cooking utensils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Nothing.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "rticle 2, which states that the provisions “shall not encroach upon the competences of the Union to act in the area of the economic union.” The fact is that Labour always fails to stand up for Britain. That is what we know. The previous Labour Government gave away the EU rebate. What did they get in return? Nothing. They signed up to the bail-out mechanism. What did they get in return?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Nothing.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "to act in the area of the economic union.” The fact is that Labour always fails to stand up for Britain. That is what we know. The previous Labour Government gave away the EU rebate. What did they get in return? Nothing. They signed up to the bail-out mechanism. What did they get in return? [Hon. Members: “Nothing.”] They signed up to the social chapter. What did we get for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.694.5", "colnum": "694", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "In Europe, we have a plan for jobs and growth, which is called completing the single market. The question that the hon. Gentleman and his leader have to answer is about the new treaty being proposed, which 25 countries are going to sign and Britain is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.708.8", "colnum": "708", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Not yet, but don’t encourage them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.708.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Frankly, I am very surprised indeed that Lib Dem members of the coalition are going along with this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.742.10", "colnum": "742", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ward", "preceding_text": "I sincerely doubt it, but thank you, Miss McIntosh. Members have noted that if pensioners are protected, the burden will have to be picked up by others, who may be on low incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.742.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.745.4", "colnum": "745", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why’s it in there then?", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "It is a power to intervene but the Secretary of State does not propose to intervene on schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "walked around a big estate and seen how these people operate. They often wait outside the place where people collect their benefit, and take the money straight off them. That is the reality of life on the edge. That is what many of our charitable organisations and benefit advice agencies deal with every day. It is only right that they should be consulted. Amendments 70 and 71 seek to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.757.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Stockton North”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "eguard pensioners—a point on which, it would appear, there is cross-party support. It does not require the Secretary of State to approve schemes, and it is not a power to intervene in schemes. I think that I have made that point clear to the House, and if I have not, I repeat it now to make it so. Several rather whacky points have been made. The hon. Gentleman for Stockport North said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "That is an important consideration for local authorities when they look at the speed and pace of change in the schemes they devise, but I have to say that practically everything that Labour Members have contributed to the debate has been on the basis of trying to preserve the existing scheme and associated costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "hat local authorities will probably take a cautious approach to changing their local schemes in the first year. I have to say, however, that we believe it is absolutely the case that those that wish to make a more radical change will be able to do so. I am encouraged to hear that IT suppliers are considering the possible changes to existing software and are working with local authorities to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-01-31", "file": "debates2012-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "8adbb3fa42d95416", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Relocation to Bristol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "preceding_text": "rmanship today, Ms Primarolo. Let me make it clear to the Committee at the outset that the amendment is probing. I do not intend to press it to a vote. My aim is to give the Government an opportunity to clarify their thinking on administrative arrangements for distribution of council tax reduction schemes. There is clearly some sense in local authorities being able to pool their sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-01-31b.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.807.7", "colnum": "807", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ho have been displaced from Abyei since 2011. In addition, 360,000 have already been assisted in coming down from Sudan, with a potential 700,000 still to come. This is placing enormous strain on the emergency and humanitarian response, but the UK is playing a lead role and, in December, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced a two-year package of support for the humanitarian funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.807.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "he Foreign Office and partly through my Department. We address many of the humanitarian issues, as well as issues involving the capacity-building and economic growth that are essential if progress is to be made, while the Foreign Office addresses many of the political issues. I am satisfied that the APF is delivering what we seek from it, but I accept that much more needs to be done in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Exactly what we would expect: no leadership on top pay from this Prime Minister. In case he has not heard the news, more than eight people are earning more than £1 million at our banks. What did the Chancellor say in opposition? He said this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.814.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.816.6", "colnum": "816", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Against the Bill!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Every time the Prime Minister talks about the NHS he just shows how out of touch he is with what is happening on the ground. Let me now tell him who is lined up against the health Bill: 98% of GPs, against the Bill; the Royal College of Nursing, against the Bill; the Royal College of Midwives, against the Bill; the Royal College of Radiologists", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.816.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.816.6", "colnum": "816", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Against the Bill!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "er talks about the NHS he just shows how out of touch he is with what is happening on the ground. Let me now tell him who is lined up against the health Bill: 98% of GPs, against the Bill; the Royal College of Nursing, against the Bill; the Royal College of Midwives, against the Bill; the Royal College of Radiologists [Hon. Members: “Against the Bill!”]; the British Medical Association", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.816.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.816.6", "colnum": "816", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Against the Bill!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "appening on the ground. Let me now tell him who is lined up against the health Bill: 98% of GPs, against the Bill; the Royal College of Nursing, against the Bill; the Royal College of Midwives, against the Bill; the Royal College of Radiologists [Hon. Members: “Against the Bill!”]; the British Medical Association [Hon. Members: “Against the Bill!”]; the Patients Association", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.816.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "If you are trying to bring into a public service choice, competition, transparency, proper results and publication of results, you will always find that there will be objections. The question is, is it going to improve patient care and the running of the health service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.817.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.822.4", "colnum": "822", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the hon. Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (Tom Blenkinsop) presents his ten-minute rule motion, I issue my usual appeal to right hon. and hon. Members who are leaving the Chamber. They should do so quickly and quietly, so that the rest of us can listen to the hon. Gentleman. Perhaps he can move into view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.822.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ut it makes a huge difference for me. Among other everyday essentials it pays for the heating to keep me warm during the long and often painful days at home while my partner is out at work.” Not an extravagant sum, is it? We are not being over-indulgent to someone who worked until he had that terrible disease and wants to try to make the best of his life in such circumstances. He says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.850.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Of course. The Labour party advanced the position in our amendment not, as the Minister said in a slip of the tongue, 10 years ago but well over one year ago. It was advanced by my predecessor and the Leader of the Opposition. During the passage of the Bill, we have talked extensively about the risks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I can assure the right hon. Gentleman, following conversations with my constituents in Broxtowe, that hard-working people overwhelmingly take the view that the long-term unemployed should no longer be better off on benefit than in work. That is not only for the sake of the public purse; it is a result of the compassion that we feel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.882.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "I notice that the shadow Minister commented on how she felt the Minister had performed. I would describe her own performance as a little bit chippy, but that is not to say that she did not make a few good points. Many of us on this side of the House have had similar experiences to those on her side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "w good points. Many of us on this side of the House have had similar experiences to those on her side. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] I like her a great deal, but for her to talk about Conservative Members in the way she did—to intimate that they are in some way detached from humanity—not only does her a great disservice, but does the debate in this House a great disservice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "preceding_text": "e process will take, so that they can enable a managed process. While that happens, there will be an impact on their income as arrears are likely to build up before alternative accommodation becomes available. Some RSLs have done work on this, including Riverside housing association, which is based in Merseyside. It has calculated that it will take it at least three years to move everybody around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-01", "file": "debates2012-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "329a6111cb2597db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Yvonne Fovargue", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvonne Fovargue", "preceding_text": "tment, Wigan and Leigh Housing, are so strong that we have been in correspondence with Lord Freud. There are very few one-bedroom properties, private or council, in my local area, and it will take eight to 10 years to move the 1,450 to 1,800 people who, on the estimates, might want to downsize. During that period, it is estimated, on Lord Freud’s own research, that 35% of those people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-01a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "appointments whose salary exceeds £142,500, terms and conditions are negotiated by the appointing Department and are presented to me for approval of the salary. Those arrangements are in place to control excessive pay. In the light of that recent case, I have asked the Treasury urgently to review the appropriateness of allowing public sector appointees to be paid through that mechanism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "gotiated by the appointing Department and are presented to me for approval of the salary. Those arrangements are in place to control excessive pay. In the light of that recent case, I have asked the Treasury urgently to review the appropriateness of allowing public sector appointees to be paid through that mechanism— [ Interruption. ] I have also asked the Treasury Officer of Accounts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1013.3", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am grateful to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Opposition Front-Bench team and the 34 right hon. and hon. Members who were able to question the Chief Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1013.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may have sparked a bidding war to establish which Member of Parliament has the finest cheese in his or her constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1019.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Alleged?”", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "It so happens that I have read Sue Cameron’s article in The Daily Telegraph , concerning the alleged letter written by Sir Gus O’Donnell to the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ple can understand what will happen to the offender. We are simplifying the release framework so that all prisoners will be governed by one set of rules, making it easier for justice agencies to keep victims informed, and we are replacing the disgrace of so-called indeterminate sentences for public protection with a tough, determinate regime that can be easily understood by victims and the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": " change things. In government, Labour improved the quality of training for lay magistrates, which means better and fairer decision making and gives us confidence to rely more on what has been a mainstay of justice for 650 years. We also set up the Supreme Court, a body that within a few years has become central to the administration of justice in the UK. I give credit to the Lord Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": ";the hon. Gentleman does not even seem to be clear in that. However, I do not want to have a go at him. While I was listening to the Lord Chancellor, I was reading the evidence Lord Justice Leveson gave to the Select Committee. I was pleased to see that when he sits as a recorder he always fills his forms in properly and submits them to the Sentencing Council. I think he deserves a bonus for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "at the moment, our system pays to keep people in prison at astonishing rates in order to punish them, but they often come out of prison and reoffend. When the Solicitor-General winds up the debate—I understand that he is the Government’s spokesman at the end—I hope he will tell us whether Lord Justice Leveson is still chairing the Sentencing Council, even though he is also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-02", "file": "debates2012-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9d6e8cedbb298cef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "e has sat as a recorder in the criminal division, even though that was not his area of practice. I am not trying to curry favour with him, but the fact is that many recorders do not come from the criminal Bar and did not work as criminal solicitors but nevertheless have the great ability and skills required to act in just as brilliant a way as any other judge who was at the Bar for 15 or 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-02a.1073.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-06", "file": "debates2012-02-06c.xml", "sha256": "87ee06aede535768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-06c.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "on between the deputy governors of the Bank and the Chancellor, bypassing the Governor, so he might like to explain what he meant. I considered the idea, but rejected it. I think we need to force the Bank of England itself to reconcile its internal differences rather than create additional lines of accountability between the Chancellor and a deputy governor. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-06c.54.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-06", "file": "debates2012-02-06c.xml", "sha256": "87ee06aede535768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-06c.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "d hoc or standing committees, which do not yet exist. It seems as though the Governor will decide whether they should exist at all and who should attend them. My advice to the Chancellor is that one cannot just rely on Treasury officials or gossip by the water pump. Unlike many of the Back Benchers who have intervened, I am not seeking to play a party political game; I want him to change the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-06c.68.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As the Health Secretary has explained many times, the central purpose of the Bill is to ensure that those who know patients best, the GPs, surgeons, nurses and clinicians, have a greater say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.153.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend will know, we are running a consultation on exactly those kinds of questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": " as low as possible, because getting 5% of something is a lot better than getting 15% of nothing. Please do not take my word for that, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Deloitte report concluded that “a cautious approach to the introduction of a POC tax appears to be appropriate. Setting an initial tax rate below 10% would be consistent with minimising the risk of promoting a grey market” —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.186.5", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman brought up that point, because I anticipated it. First, I think it is good that Members of this House have experience in working for business. Secondly, my experience of advising different companies and financial institutions on such arrangements has convinced me that we must reform the way in which the system works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.186.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.190.4", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where’s the question?”", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "I am listening with great interest to the hon. Gentleman’s extended exposition on the failings of the previous Labour Government. It is nice to see him joined by so many for such an extended mea culpa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.190.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.201.7", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "overnment who agree with that view. In an article about RBS, the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) pointed out that the Government should not run RBS; they should not get involved in the day to day business of banks but should run them at arm’s length. That was a structure set up by the previous Government and I understand that the Leader of the Opposition supported it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.201.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "I am not repenting, but the hon. Gentleman might like to repent for the fact that the real origins of the problems that we are facing can be traced back 30 years to Margaret Thatcher’s Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.224.2", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Steve Brine", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Name them.”", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Brine", "preceding_text": "I am listening carefully to my hon. Friend’s speech. Further to her discussion with the shadow Business Secretary, there are new entrants to the high street lending market, which I think, without name-checking them and giving them the publicity, will shake up the “Computer says no” culture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.224.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "inning to restore that trust and integrity. Opposition Members have set out clear, constructive proposals in three key areas: transparency, accountability and fairness. [Interruption.] On transparency, the Labour Government legislated for the implementation of David Walker’s recommendations on high pay, including for rules to disclose the numbers of employees paid over £1million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "es Morris) and for Nuneaton (Mr Jones) and excellent contributions, too, from my hon. Friends the Members for Bedford (Richard Fuller) and for Stourbridge (Margot James). We heard an interesting contribution from the Chairman of the Select Committee, the hon. Member for West Bromwich West (Mr Bailey) , who pointed out that it was my right hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": " understand—that to the 25% of SME employers who do not obtain that loan or overdraft, the fact that 75% do will be no consolation. That is why the Chancellor is taking decisive action to provide some £21 billion, £20 billion of it under the national loan guarantee scheme, which will be available over two years and will allow banks to offer lower-cost lending to smaller businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-07", "file": "debates2012-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e763189422f06872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.245.2", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "preceding_text": "eir houses are burgled and the boilers are taken. I suggested to the police that we ought to put identification numbers on boilers, but it would be a huge piece of new bureaucracy, so my good police came up with the suggestion of using SmartWater. It is a very good system, but will we really be putting SmartWater on every church roof? Will we put it on memorials? The situation is quite incredible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-07b.245.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.318.4", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has been caught out. The fact is that the HMIC savings did not include the pay freeze or the savings from collective procurement, which just a few minutes ago she said could be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.318.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.318.4", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "ings from collective procurement, which just a few minutes ago she said could be made. [Interruption.] Two weeks ago, she was forced to admit that she backed that pay freeze. Her colleague the shadow police Minister tried to disagree with that, but she has confirmed that she backs the pay freeze. Those savings are in addition to the £1 billion. [Interruption.] They are in addition to the 12%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.318.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady agreed with that herself, why does she remain committed to these 20% cuts? That is what she is committed to: the HMIC savings plus the pay savings, the procurement savings, and the savings her shadow police Minister has identified through overtime. All of that adds up to far more than 12%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "I really think that “boasting” is a silly word to use about what I am saying these forces are doing. I am describing what chief constables have done in adjusting to reduced resources, reconfiguring how policing is delivered and protecting the front line. That is not a boast from the Government; it is an explanation of how policing services can be transformed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No, it would not.”", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "more than a quarter of total Government spending, and that tackling the record deficit is the responsible thing to do. They know that this helps families as well. In these tough times, as a proportion of total income, interest payments for mortgages are currently at their lowest since records began. A Labour Government would have meant more expensive mortgages, failing to tackle the deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "t on waste and drive it out. All councils across England have chosen to publish online their expenditure over £500—all councils except for one sorry exception, Labour Nottingham city council. It is disappointing that Opposition Front Benchers still support the continued arrogant and outrageous secrecy against the residents of Nottingham city, who deserve to see how their money is spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman’s own local authority had a reduction of 3.2% this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where is he?”", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "nly a group of Ministers who were completely divorced from what was going on in the real world in local government could say such a thing in public. We know, however, that in private some of them have said something rather different. Last year the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Andrew Stunell) wrote to fellow Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and we are talking about a change that the Government are apparently determined to push through in a very short space of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "taxes all their life and then find that they cannot get care in their old age and that their sons and daughters are caught between trying to look after them, to work and to look after their children. I am talking about the families on low wages who go out to work every day and want their children to get on but cannot afford to buy all the books they would like and are dependent on their libraries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-08", "file": "debates2012-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "dca3045479135edd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "d was that when it is cut too far, too fast, those local companies do not expand—they contract or go bust. The Government, while taking that approach, have taken away every lever local authorities had to help their local economies. Nottingham alone lost £6.5 million from the scrapping of the future jobs fund. My hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish has mentioned Tameside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-08b.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-09", "file": "debates2012-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "896a2bcb50b461d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-09a.451.6", "colnum": "451", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that reply. News content aside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-09a.451.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-09", "file": "debates2012-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "896a2bcb50b461d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-09a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Somalia", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ways, the history of Africa—all those straight lines between countries drawn on the map to describe boundaries that were utterly meaningless to the communities, except that in Somalia things are slightly different, because it is the only country in Africa that is linguistically unified and where only one language is spoken. Every other country in Africa has a multiplicity of languages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-09a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-09", "file": "debates2012-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "896a2bcb50b461d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-09a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Somalia", "cue_speaker": "Laura Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Sandys", "preceding_text": "nt forward. I very much welcome the conference and hope that it will represent a proper step change in the security and stability of the area. I commend the Government for their dedicated and focused attention on Somalia. The previous Government did a lot of work in Somalia, but I think that we have seen a change in our relationship and engagement. The Minister, who represents North Norfolk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-09a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-20", "file": "debates2012-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b997ff1392fdc07f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.604.5", "colnum": "604", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "ation responsibility. Let us remember that this Government introduced the pupil premium, and it is therefore new, but it would be fair to say that we in the Ministry of Defence had not appreciated that this might happen. The Department for Education is looking to ameliorate any problems, but let us remember that the pupil premium is about the transience of service children attending schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.604.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-20", "file": "debates2012-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b997ff1392fdc07f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right to raise the impact on Scotland. We will discuss the impact of the report with Scottish Government Ministers and my hon. Friend the Immigration Minister will write to them today about the implications. We will obviously take up more detailed discussions on the precise operations at official level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-20", "file": "debates2012-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b997ff1392fdc07f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.629.2", "colnum": "629", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I appeal to the hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr Campbell) to calm himself. Perhaps he should take up yoga. It is only Monday, and I know that he will want to hang on every word of the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.629.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-20", "file": "debates2012-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b997ff1392fdc07f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Backbench Business — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “The amendment.”", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "We have yet to hear whether the right hon. Gentleman is going to support the amendment or the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-20", "file": "debates2012-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b997ff1392fdc07f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.659.2", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Backbench Business — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "I am deeply heartened by much of what my right hon. Friend says, but my understanding of article 2 of the United Nations charter and the Kellogg-Briand pact, which I understand is still in force, is that the United Kingdom is not entitled to hold military force as an option on the table and that we long since delegated that power to the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.659.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-20", "file": "debates2012-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b997ff1392fdc07f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Backbench Business — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "I wondered whether that would come up. That is the phraseology in the hon. Gentleman’s motion today, but it is not the phraseology that we used. We talked about opposing military action against Iran. That was written before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-20", "file": "debates2012-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "b997ff1392fdc07f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Backbench Business — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I will not, if the hon. Gentleman does not mind, because I have taken two interventions and others wish to speak. I worry that like a spanner that one can use to ratchet up but not down, if we use language that is exorbitant and goes too far, we will end up in a situation where, from no real decision of our own, we may be at the doorstep of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-20a.706.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-21", "file": "debates2012-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "f9fa1fca72564405", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-21b.798.5", "colnum": "798", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — European Convention on Human Rights (Temporary Withdrawal) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "theless allows the Speaker, on a Friday at 11 am, to make provision for questions of an urgent nature to be answered, or, for that matter, for Ministers to make a statement? I ask because the motion that we are about to consider does not allow us to sit on Wednesday 28 March , and some of us fear that that might be because the Prime Minister is frightened of answering questions in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-21b.798.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "What I agree with is the fact that the Government are not making any savings at all from these changes. Savings from abolishing the adult disability premiums and changes to the child rate will not return to the Exchequer; those savings will be recycled into higher payments for more severely disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.862.7", "colnum": "862", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right that our primary concern is to ensure that we get the economy on the right track. By fixing the deficit, rebalancing the economy and ensuring that there is sustainable growth, we will do just that. In the meantime, we should get on with resolving the issue of independence to remove the uncertainty that it causes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.862.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "One of my first acts as incoming Health Secretary was to commission Robert Francis QC to conduct an independent investigation into the events at Stafford on a local level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.892.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the hon. Gentleman thinks that such an intervention is appropriate. Why did he not ask the chairman and chief executive about this matter? Why does it take me to go and research the risk register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "vices for these children. Children with chronic disease and disability will particularly suffer, since most have more than one condition and need a range of different clinicians.” They stated that: “The Bill is misrepresented by the UK Government as being necessary” and that it will “harm those who are most vulnerable.” Those are not my words, but those of clinicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "rganisation will do to their NHS. They deserve the full truth and tonight this House can give it to them and correct the Government who have got things so badly wrong. I say to people outside who are watching this debate, join this fight to save the NHS for future generations. The NHS matters too much to too many people for it to be treated in this way. People have not voted for what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.898.2", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I will in a moment. Perhaps the hon. Lady would like to explain the views of not only my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh) but his successor as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the right hon. Member for Barking (Margaret Hodge) , who said: “Over the last ten years, the productivity of NHS hospitals has been in almost continuous decline.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " dreadful things there happened on their watch, so they might at the very least have come here and apologised. The right hon. Member for Exeter came to the Dispatch Box when he was a Minister and said, “Oh, it’s nothing to do with me, it’s all to do with the management of the hospital.” I believe in foundation trust hospitals, which apparently the Labour party now does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.903.5", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. Fourthly, the publication of the risk register would distort rather than enhance public debate. We should remember that a risk register does not express the risks of not pursuing the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "give way to the right hon. Gentleman—again. All the information was in the original impact assessment. Information was put into the revised impact assessment in September, as is customary on the introduction of a Bill to another place, but in recognition of the Information Commissioner’s decision on 2 November , the Minister in another place, my noble Friend Lord Howe, described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.904.7", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No, the risk register that the right hon. Gentleman is talking about relates to policy development, not an operational matter. It is a high-level risk register akin to others across Government that, if published, would be prejudicial to frank advice in policy development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.904.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State, who puts his view of these things on Twitter, wrote: “I didn’t sign them off.” He did not even use 140 characters. He managed it in even fewer. He said he didn’t sign them off—but oh yes, he did. What about Whiston hospital in St Helens and Knowsley? He signed that off. It is a pathetic attempt to escape responsibility for leaving the NHS in debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "of bureaucracy. The right hon. Gentleman was in charge of the NHS in the year before the election. The cost of bureaucracy in the NHS in that year went up 23%. At the same moment that he was telling the NHS that there was going to be a £20 billion black hole, he launched the so-called Nicholson challenge, to save up to £20 billion. We did not launch it; it was launched when he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.910.6", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " those principles, including that of no further top-down reorganisations. Now, however, they are forced by the political incompetence of their Secretary of State to turn this argument into a touchstone issue—if someone is in favour of the Bill, they are in favour of reform in the NHS; if someone is against the Bill, they are against reform of the NHS. Nothing could be further from the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.910.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I see that the Whips’ brief dragged up something I did in a previous life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": "The issues underpinning the debate are purely ideological, and no amount of amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.918.3", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. Gentleman and I have signed the early-day motion supporting the release of the register. The biggest ever reorganisation of the NHS is being undertaken and it is best not to do that in the dark. It is best to have as much information available as possible. I am not suggesting that we are completely in the dark —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.918.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.918.3", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "lect Committee and elsewhere, has been about trying to anticipate the effects of the reforms. It would be far better to try to anticipate these things on the basis of the best information given by people who are inside the service and providing that advice. That is why I believe the risk register should be published. The impact assessment perhaps represents the selected highlights of that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.918.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "preceding_text": "decision ordering the release of the Department of Health risk register. It is important to consider the procedure followed by the commissioner in determining whether it was the right decision to make. The Secretary of State’s decision to challenge the commissioner’s ruling is, procedurally, absolutely correct. The procedures set out in the Freedom of Information Act, as amended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "preceding_text": "The shadow Secretary of State does not understand the legislation. That is why he is making these assumptions. Section 35(1) makes it clear that: “Information held by a government department…is exempt information if it relates to…the formulation or development of government policy”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "preceding_text": "hat the procedures applied by the Secretary of State were in line with the Freedom of Information Act, which was enacted by the previous Labour Government. Under that procedure and statute, he is entirely within his rights, using the correct procedure, to apply section 57 to appeal the ruling to the tribunal. That is absolutely right and proper. It is important to say that we have the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "preceding_text": " but I should point out to him that a spokesman for the Department of Health said: “We have never previously published our risk registers as we consider them to be internal management documents. We believe that their publication would risk seriously damaging the quality of advice given to Ministers and any subsequent decision-making”. I would say to the shadow Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.944.7", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " concluded: “Management of risk across the delivery chain is weak. There is no formal linkage between risk registers and mitigation strategies held by the Department and those in the delivery chain.” Two years later, when the capability review was repeated, many of the same problems still applied, and the Department was again flagged in the review as at an amber state of concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.944.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "ave written to me, and I have been told by people with very high posts in the NHS, including senior clinicians, senior mangers and professors of health policy, that the Government ought to publish the register. Underneath this all is a growing belief that the only reason the Government can possibly have for not publishing the register is that it would be politically embarrassing for them to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "proach is critical to developing policy not just on health care but across the piece. That was certainly the Labour party’s view when it was in government and when the shadow Secretary of State was in charge at the Department of Health. Under his stewardship, a very similar request to see the risk register was refused, and section 36 of the Freedom of Information Act was cited as the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.955.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-22", "file": "debates2012-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "5dd18b2dfdd19df9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "cretary of State. It referred to “our battle to save the NHS” and called on NHS workers to support Labour’s campaign to drop the Bill and stop the “Americanisation” of the NHS. By sending out such a provocative e-mail, he is attempting to demean my constituents and insult their intelligence. The Opposition’s motion refers to informing parliamentary debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-22b.972.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-23", "file": "debates2012-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "25c2a84f9baed4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": ";s research that I am referring to. On the issue of moving forward on concessionary fares, I do not know whether the Labour party is pledging a new spending commitment, but its own research shows that £740 million would be required for the concession that it is advocating—a few days after the shadow Secretary of State announced that she would have a more responsible attitude to finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1006.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-23", "file": "debates2012-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "25c2a84f9baed4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1029.5", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tom Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "nted portable snow and ice-clearing system, a de-icing unit called Thaw-Tec, to Network Rail, Eurotunnel and Asda, but Network Rail is now trying to copy his design. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Prime Minister are aware of that, but may we have a debate on the Floor of the House about the importance of patented designs to small and medium-sized enterprises, and their protection?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1029.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-23", "file": "debates2012-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "25c2a84f9baed4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1036.6", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I recall, as I am sure do other hon. Members, a form of collective punishment at school, whereby the whole class was detained because somebody had misbehaved and remained anonymous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1036.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-23", "file": "debates2012-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "25c2a84f9baed4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "by the timing of the winding-up speeches. I am grateful for her contribution and her important point about the significance of the take-up of these benefits. It is all very well us sitting here debating the rates, but if people do not claim the benefits, it is a slightly academic exercise. My hon. Friend was right to highlight the importance of our making sure that the benefits are taken up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1068.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-23", "file": "debates2012-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "25c2a84f9baed4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Kettering.”", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "Of course my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Kettering—[Hon. Members: “Beckenham.”] What did I say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-23", "file": "debates2012-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "25c2a84f9baed4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " successor with avuncular charm. All those things might spur the Leader of the Opposition on to another of his relaunches—the man has been relaunched more often than the Padstow lifeboat. However, it is the purpose of the House not to give those opportunities to the Leader of the Opposition, but to ensure that Ministers are held to account. This House sets out its business in a proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-23a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-27", "file": "debates2012-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b949b6520a7dd149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-27a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "or Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning a colleague who is passionate about that and who is on record in the latest issue of The House Magazine as having said that he has used the word “apprenticeship” in debates in this House more often than any other Member here. The reason he has done so and the reason we are so committed to increasing the number of apprenticeships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-27a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-27", "file": "debates2012-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b949b6520a7dd149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-27a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Estimates Day — [4th Allotted Day] — VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2012-13 — DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "hamber, which were inevitable, in the main both parties have worked well together. Certainly, I believe that my party did what it could to support the right hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood when she was Secretary of State, and since then she has worked with us to ensure that the preparations go ahead smoothly and are not marred by partisanship or political point scoring. We have now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-27a.27.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-27", "file": "debates2012-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b949b6520a7dd149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-27a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Estimates Day — [4th Allotted Day] — VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2012-13 — DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "eal, and ended up in hospital more times than I care to name. A feature of this debate has been that Members of Parliament have attempted to do two things. First, they have attempted to persuade their constituents that they do not have any Olympic tickets. I, too, can assure my constituents that I have no Olympic tickets, despite having made great efforts. I can find nobody who has tickets —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-27a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-27", "file": "debates2012-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b949b6520a7dd149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-27a.87.2", "colnum": "87", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2011-12 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "preceding_text": "ho do so much to support the criminal justice system in this country. The Forensic Science Service has been making a significant loss for a considerable period. This is not a new situation that has materialised suddenly in the 18 months since this Government came into being. The Forensic Science Service has had 20 years of fiscal decline and difficulties. It has lost about £2 million a month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-27a.87.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-28", "file": "debates2012-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "49309012f671f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ace not to amend the Bill in Committee, but to use those debates in Committee as a basis for amendment on Report. The process is straightforward. My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister, together with Baroness Shirley Williams, explained to their Liberal Democrat colleagues some of the amendments on which we have been working together in order to make sure that there is further reassurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.155.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-28", "file": "debates2012-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "49309012f671f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "wever, their principal legal purpose is for the benefit of NHS patients, and so they already have to make sure that they reflect that in their annual reports and in their annual plans. As the letter indicates, we are, with my hon. Friends in another place, working on a further corporate governance mechanism to ensure that foundation trusts reflect their principal legal purpose in all that they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-28", "file": "debates2012-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "49309012f671f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.160.6", "colnum": "160", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister’s letter accurately reflects the discussions that we have been having in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.160.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-28", "file": "debates2012-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "49309012f671f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2012-13", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Ashworth", "preceding_text": "ument put by hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Andrea Leadsom). However, I want to put a point to the Minister on which I hope he can reassure me in his summing up. There is concern among campaigners for the electrification of the midland main line that they may not see any direct advantage from HS2—that resources for the scheme will be taken away and we will never get electrification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-28", "file": "debates2012-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "49309012f671f204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2012-13", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Committee is considering the issue of east-west travel. I look forward to his contributions, for he is a diligent member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-28b.198.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.278.6", "colnum": "278", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "remely well and that a lot of money is raised for the charity. In answer to the hon. Gentleman’s question, I will come back to him and let him know, because I would like to ask the people who work in the Wales Office. We are having a charity called Dreams and Wishes come in on St David’s day tomorrow. That is what we are focusing on, but I will see what I can do for the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "preceding_text": "ast week in answer to a question that I had tabled that Barnett consequentials would be decided after “budgeting and funding arrangements” had been completed. Will the Minister ensure that Wales does not lose out on the £1.9 billion that it should receive as a result of HS2, by securing guarantees that the project will be funded via a stream that results in Barnett consequentials?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "As this is Welsh tourism week, I have been out on visits. I also have regular discussions with ministerial colleagues and others on the promotion of tourism in Wales. Tourism is primarily a devolved matter for the Welsh Government but, as usual, we are keen to work with them to promote Wales internationally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.282.2", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "do not think—and he advised the Labour Government, that is true. He is the GP at the head of the clinical commissioning group in Tower Hamlets. He wrote to the Prime Minister on Monday and said this: “We care deeply about the patients that we see every day and we believe the improvements we all want to see in the NHS can be achieved without the bureaucracy generated by the bill.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "o let me give him a selection of people who ran the NHS in the last decade and see what they think of competition. This is what Lord Darzi said: “The right competition for the right reasons can drive us to achieve more”.—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 11 October 2011; Vol. 730, c. 1492 .] This is what John Hutton said. He was a Health Minister under the last Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.283.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "He said that 98% of GPs oppose the reforms—that was the figure. Let me give him the actual figures. There are 44,000 members of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Out of a total of 44,000, just 7% responded opposing the Bill. What about the royal college of physiotherapists? Of the 50,000 in the royal college of physiotherapists, 2% —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.284.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.284.5", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not mention: the National Association of Primary Care—supporting the Bill; the NHS Alliance—supporting the Bill; the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations—supporting the Bill; the Foundation Trust Network—supporting the Bill; Lord Darzi, a Labour Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor said at the time of the autumn statement that the policy would be in place in time for the Budget, and that is exactly what is going to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What this Government have done is increase tax credits for the least well-paid; lift people out of tax; and introduce free nursery care for two, three and four-year-olds, and expand it for families. All those things have made a difference. Incidentally, the hon. Lady did not mention that she is sponsored by the Unite union. She could have taken this opportunity to condemn Len McCluskey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.288.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "am most grateful to the hon. Lady for her point of order, to the Prime Minister for his response to it and for this opportunity to set out the position. Let me say this for the benefit of the hon. Lady and the House: whether or not she is sponsored by Unite, and I emphasis whether or not she is—I am happy to accept that she is not if that is the factual position, because I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "pportunity to set out the position. Let me say this for the benefit of the hon. Lady and the House: whether or not she is sponsored by Unite, and I emphasis whether or not she is—I am happy to accept that she is not if that is the factual position, because I do not know— [ Interruption. ] I do not need any help from a junior Government Whip—he would not know where to start—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "he is sponsored by Unite, and I emphasis whether or not she is—I am happy to accept that she is not if that is the factual position, because I do not know— [ Interruption. ] I do not need any help from a junior Government Whip—he would not know where to start— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) says that he is a senior Government Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "says that he is a senior Government Whip— [ Interruption. ] I do not think that the Speaker has ever greatly cared about the level of seniority of Whips as far as that goes. Whether or not the hon. Lady is sponsored by Unite, I emphasise that there is nothing wrong constitutionally in our arrangements with being sponsored by a trade union, so it is not an accusation. The matter is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Financial Institutions (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": " what is decided by the House as a whole, because these matters relate to the Standing Orders. I see that the Leader of the House is here. He knows how vexed this question is. We have gone backwards and forwards on it. However, the issues that we are discussing have been discussed extensively in public. My hon. Friend is more than welcome to come along if he wants to listen to any of our sessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Financial Institutions (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "If only the position of the Liberal Democrats were clear on that matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Financial Institutions (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "All the changes that the all-party group is investigating would require negotiation. Some things are more complicated than others, although we are setting everything out in the research that we are undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Financial Institutions (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane) in debates on Europe. He is the authentic voice of Euro-enthusiasm on the Labour Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Financial Institutions (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "arliamentary approval for such payments through the laying of a statutory instrument. That power should be triggered after a sober assessment of the facts, and after the Secretary of State has made her case to the House. The explanatory memorandum is silent on state aid. Is the Bill compatible with EU state aid rules? Has the Environment Secretary discussed the matter with the European Commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.364.4", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Financial Institutions (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Neil Parish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Parish", "preceding_text": "It is absolutely right that the planning process be taken into consideration. In my view, the Thames tunnel must go ahead, because when I was returning to Battersea from this House late one evening, cycling along the Embankment, the tide was low, and I could smell the sewage being pumped out into the Thames.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.364.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-02-29", "file": "debates2012-02-29b.xml", "sha256": "5ca340d180d19bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Financial Institutions (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "ies—county and unitary—that will pose real difficulty for them, and I put that to the Minister. My hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) mentioned affordability. The Minister and others have been challenged about that in many forums, not only the Select Committee, but all-party groups. It is right that the Bill focuses on affordability for the south-west region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-02-29b.366.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-01", "file": "debates2012-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfa96bac34b87a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.493.4", "colnum": "493", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Private Pensions (Charges, Disclosure and Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Months!”", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting point, but it is also interesting that the House of Commons has, in effect, had no business to discuss for the past couple of weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.493.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-01", "file": "debates2012-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfa96bac34b87a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Private Pensions (Charges, Disclosure and Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I shall follow that, Mr Deputy Speaker. I suspect the white wine concerned had not been in the hand of the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies) for long enough to get warm. I was there last night and it was a splendid occasion, but to be honest, colleagues from other parties should have been there. There were very few Labour Members, which may have been a mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-01", "file": "debates2012-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfa96bac34b87a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Private Pensions (Charges, Disclosure and Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He wasn’t!”", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "very few Labour Members, which may have been a mistake— [ Interruption. ] I was pleased to be there, but I am just making that point. The right hon. Member for Torfaen (Paul Murphy) , an ex-Secretary of State for Wales, was not there, for example. In any event, I do not want to be boorish, and I have obviously bumped myself off next year’s guest list. Mr Deputy Speaker was there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-01", "file": "debates2012-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfa96bac34b87a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Private Pensions (Charges, Disclosure and Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "That, too, is a big issue, and the hon. Gentleman is right: it is a grave concern. The word “gerrymandering”, which was used by hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies), comes to mind. Indeed, I was shocked to agree with some of the things he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.506.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-01", "file": "debates2012-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfa96bac34b87a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Private Pensions (Charges, Disclosure and Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "the electoral boundaries in Wales, I have listened to everyone’s comments but I cannot believe that one can argue against having equal weight for equal votes. We should work towards a situation in which constituencies have the same number of electors. My constituency used to be far greater at one time. It was represented by great heroes such as Tom Hooson, Caerwyn Roderick and Tudor Watkins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-01a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.556.4", "colnum": "556", "heading": "PAYE", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The tax credit system, which the hon. Lady’s party left us, is administered and run by the Treasury. She said that I was bringing this measure in, but the Treasury has made that policy decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.556.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.573.4", "colnum": "573", "heading": "PAYE", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "In congratulating the Prime Minister on his veto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.573.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "PAYE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “But…”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "We are very lucky to have a British bulldog of a Prime Minister fighting for our interests in Europe, and of course, the Prime Minister is nearly always right on most things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.578.5", "colnum": "578", "heading": "PAYE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We are not signatories to the agreement, so we will not be represented at the meetings. What was interesting about Friday was that, although they signed an agreement, there was only one meeting, which was a meeting of the 27 that discussed, funnily enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.578.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "PAYE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "itutions or on those that have signed it. I am sure that he could give us a very straightforward explanation of reverse qualified majority voting, but I can tell the House that it is basically a way to impose the will of a group of countries on to others, and I do not think that it is the way forward. But we still have not heard from the Opposition whether they would sign this treaty or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The first of the two debates is on jobs and growth in a low-carbon economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.588.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.601.6", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where’s the progress?”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "n. Lady is quoting from the Pew report, but those data were provisional. According to the new data recorded by Bloomberg, investment is twice as much. I am afraid that she needs to do her homework before she comes to the House. Unlike the right hon. Lady, we have made good progress on the green investment bank. The recruitment of the bank’s chair and senior independent director is under way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.601.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "r delivered in 13 years of Labour government. On all those things, the record was not all that the right hon. Lady might wish to make us believe it was. There was one area in which Labour had a clear position with which I disagreed and with which I still disagree. I am not committed—the Liberal Democrats are not committed—to nuclear power. We do not think that it is the solution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "We have absolutely no desire to have what is essentially a sub-prime bank in our area. The idea that we can boost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.639.6", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "The changes come into effect next month, but the Budget is in 16 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.639.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.639.6", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "rent or gas bill. We have called this debate because the Government seem unaware of what is happening, unable to understand what people are going through, unwilling to do what it takes to get our economy growing and unemployment falling, and uninterested in taking the trouble to find out what impact their decisions are having. The choices that the Government are making are hurting but not working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.639.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-05", "file": "debates2012-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "4aa48f33e92760b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "The figures for the last quarter for which figures are available show that there were more than 1.1 million jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-05b.647.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-06", "file": "debates2012-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a36262b62d84b12d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-06a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "rd on 7 December —at column 313—a very good definition of subsidiarity. That is not only my opinion; the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Robert Flello) , speaking for the Opposition, said precisely the same thing, so there is clearly general approbation on both sides of the House for that definition. I do not propose to trouble the House by reading out the definition again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-06a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-06", "file": "debates2012-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a36262b62d84b12d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-06a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Evans", "preceding_text": "d that this area of the law has, in fact, been under review since 1980. In the 1980s and 1990s the shortcomings of the operation of consumer law were apparent. A scoping paper was produced in 2006. The Law Commission then produced its proposed legislation, but it was not enacted, despite the fact that in 2009 a request to do so was made to the last Labour Government. The reason for that was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-06a.788.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-06", "file": "debates2012-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a36262b62d84b12d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-06a.802.5", "colnum": "802", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "David Nuttall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Nuttall", "preceding_text": "t will look to make the same scintillating speed of progress as our hon. Friend the Member for Finchley and Golders Green made with the London Local Authorities Bill. My hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East referred to the fact that 10 Bills have been promoted by the London local authorities. I do not know over what period, but I assume it is since the Greater London council was abolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-06a.802.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I am a strong supporter of the military in Northern Ireland. I wear the Royal Irish wristband, because that regiment is stationed at Tern Hill in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.831.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.834.6", "colnum": "834", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Minister will agree that inward investment into Northern Ireland is always welcome, but we must not forget small indigenous businesses that have been there for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.834.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.834.6", "colnum": "834", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Minister will agree that inward investment into Northern Ireland is always welcome, but we must not forget small indigenous businesses that have been there for many years. [Interruption.] Will he join me in welcoming the £30-million investment by the Asda group in one site in my constituency, which is in an area that has not had investment for 35 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.834.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.839.5", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is proud of his welfare reforms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.839.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.840.6", "colnum": "840", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, let me set the context for this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.840.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I have to say to the Prime Minister that that answer is no use to Mr Howes and his family. He cannot find the extra hours and so will lose his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Here we go: another change the right hon. Gentleman does not support. He seems to think that people on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.841.5", "colnum": "841", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “That’s two.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "t he now supports the principle that people on high incomes should not get child benefit, because before the election he supported the opposite principle and said quite clearly to families up and down this country, “I’m not going to take away your child benefit.” In my book there is a very simple word for that: a broken promise—it is a broken promise by this Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.841.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Upwardly or outwardly?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "pport of the motion tabled in my name and those of my colleagues in the Democratic Unionist party. The motion unashamedly blows the trumpet and beats the drum for Northern Ireland, and we are well known for beating the drum there. I was raised in a house in which, unless we could beat or put up a Lambeg drum, we knew nothing. That was when I was a small boy. I have grown slightly since then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.908.7", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "preceding_text": "here is little doubt that the outstanding character and assets of my constituency’s tourism offering are unsurpassed. In this month of St Patrick, I ask all hon. Members, as I ask my hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) , to come and walk in the footsteps of Patrick. Contrary to the real spirit of this motion, Patrick was, and remains for us, the epitome of unity and diversity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.908.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.908.7", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "preceding_text": "place to another, and we must move ahead in terms of parity of esteem by respecting political traditions and respecting each other. This is not about a narrow form of nationalism; it is about a broader form of nationalism that embraces everybody on the island, both Unionist and nationalist. Only last year, I was very happy to be in Dublin to meet the Queen, and I met her on two separate occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.908.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.915.4", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "ncy that people visit and into which money has been poured to develop some of that tourist infrastructure, and the celebrations of St Patrick and that whole tradition—some claim St Patrick for the Roman Catholic community, some claim it for the Protestant community. It really does not matter! If St Patrick is a marketable commodity, let us make him a marketable commodity and benefit from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.915.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “East Antrim.”", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": " diversify slightly into other sports better to reflect Northern Ireland in the 21st century. The Secretary of State had to absent himself to attend the joint ministerial working group on rebalancing the economy. I imagine that the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister were there, as was Northern Ireland’s Finance Minister, the Member for North Antrim, who is now in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "ong, when the issue of who owns St Patrick came to the fore once more. It was amazing. Just as the hon. Lady was claiming St Patrick for the mountains of Mourne and her own constituency, as if from nowhere the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley) appeared, Mephistopheles-like, from some Committee to claim yet again that Slemish was St Patrick’s natural home and that he came from Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " not been murdered. In all cases thus far in which extradition from the United Kingdom has been sought, the judge has decided that the case has been proceeded with not on the ground of seeking justice, but on purely political grounds. That is something we must deal with. I am certain that the Government are not allowing any of those people in. From all the nudge-nudge, wink-winks I have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "rom the United Kingdom has been sought, the judge has decided that the case has been proceeded with not on the ground of seeking justice, but on purely political grounds. That is something we must deal with. I am certain that the Government are not allowing any of those people in. From all the nudge-nudge, wink-winks I have had— [ Interruption. ] I got a nod from the Minister just now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am not asking the Minister to do it routinely. I am asking him to do it in this specific set of circumstances, because I think it would be profoundly successful in transforming the views of the Russian regime. The Minister’s speech, in effect, was a speech against the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "y he is quite popular in Russia is that not all Russians want pluralist liberal democracy? I make no defence of that point of view; I just ask that question. In his article, my right hon. and learned Friend said that “the only opponents permitted to stand in the election were the Communists and an unelectable oligarch”, but all the parties represented in the Duma were allowed to stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for her statement, but frankly it was a statement that she obviously did not want to give to this House in person. Let me give this advice to the Minister and to Government Members: even if the situation is difficult, it behoves a Minister to come to this House to explain it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " period of only a few days? Was warning given to the Remploy board before the last couple of weeks that it would have to manage this speed of change and a massive redundancy programme over the next few weeks? When the modernisation statement was made to the House in 2007, the now Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, the right hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.954.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.961.7", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "looked at the whole network to see which factories we could put into a financially sustainable position. Again, however, I would gently remind him that the Wrexham factory in his constituency supports 41 disabled individuals, at a cost of £900,000 last year, against an estimated total of 7,400 disabled people in the Rhondda who are of working age. Does he not want to do more to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.961.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "I have to say that once again I find myself in disagreement with my coalition colleagues on this matter. Can the Minister give an assurance that those companies that are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.962.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to be able to give that assurance to my hon. Friend. I apologise if Members did not catch the answer to which he refers: under the previous Administration, 68 factories closed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to be able to give that assurance to my hon. Friend. I apologise if Members did not catch the answer to which he refers: under the previous Administration, 68 factories closed— [Interruption.] I apologise; 28 factories closed under the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Leaving aside the utterly shabby way in which the Minister tried to sneak out the announcement today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-07", "file": "debates2012-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9d45a4db762938c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question and hope that he received my letter, which clarified that I enjoyed my discussions with the Porth factory and very much understand his support for them. I gently remind him that the factory supports 74 disabled people. He needs to ensure that he is also thinking about the 12,400 disabled people in his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-07a.973.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-08", "file": "debates2012-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "6823265f80c21a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-08a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "or celebration, because the Secretary of State for Transport is here, despite her previous duties, and it is good to see her. I did not get a chance to speak on the motion in the House yesterday to present an humble Address to Her Majesty the Queen on the occasion of her diamond jubilee, but it is fitting, as we celebrate international women’s day, that she is a woman and she has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-08a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-08", "file": "debates2012-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "6823265f80c21a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-08a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "entitlement to 15 hours a week of free education and care for three and four-year-olds. We are also extending the entitlement to 15 hours a week of free education and care for 260,000 of the most disadvantaged two-year-olds. We are funding online and telephone support services for families, and are providing over £28 million for specialist local, domestic and sexual violence support services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-08a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-08", "file": "debates2012-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "6823265f80c21a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-08a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "year-olds. We are also extending the entitlement to 15 hours a week of free education and care for 260,000 of the most disadvantaged two-year-olds. We are funding online and telephone support services for families, and are providing over £28 million for specialist local, domestic and sexual violence support services. [Interruption.] As the hon. Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-08a.1065.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-08", "file": "debates2012-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "6823265f80c21a02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-08a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " that spirit, I welcome much of what the Minister said. I commit the Opposition to doing the same, and as a sign of our intent, the Leader of the Opposition has appointed a member of the shadow Cabinet with specific responsibility for these matters. I refer to my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester West (Liz Kendall) . The House might have noticed that she is not here today. I send her apologies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-08a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-12", "file": "debates2012-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "42390b0a99ae45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.7.7", "colnum": "7", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "The LSL survey shows that in the three months through to January rents actually fell, but we do not have to believe LSL —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.7.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-12", "file": "debates2012-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "42390b0a99ae45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I will certainly organise meetings for the hon. Gentleman with the Local Government Association. Of course, 80% of charities receive no money from the state. I have noticed that the top five authorities for extending their funding for charities are Conservative authorities and that no Labour authority appears in the top 20.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-12", "file": "debates2012-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "42390b0a99ae45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that question. Having already said what a splendid fellow he is, I am happy to address the issue that he raises. We expect the Procedure Committee’s conclusions to be of great value, as they have been on a number of other topics. I want to emphasise that today’s motion is not intended to pre-empt the review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-12", "file": "debates2012-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "42390b0a99ae45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "e during the debate on 15 June 2010 —namely, that at present no Member can be nominated for the Chair unless he or she belongs to a party with at least 11 Members of this House. I acknowledged on that occasion that my hon. Friend and the hon. Gentleman had identified a possible defect in the Standing Order that needed to be considered, and I am pleased to move this motion to remedy it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-12", "file": "debates2012-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "42390b0a99ae45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ness Committee to participate in its work. The motion allows the Committee to invite an hon. Member who does not belong to a party represented on it to participate in its proceedings, including deliberative sessions, but not to vote. It would be for the Committee to decide whether to invite one hon. Member for a Session or a shorter period or to invite different hon. Members to different meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-12", "file": "debates2012-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "42390b0a99ae45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "it is Back-Bench business. By convention, such votes should not carry a Whip; they should be free votes. There is no way that the Executive should try to instruct the House how to organise Back-Bench business affairs, but Conservative Members were told last week that we would be on a three-line Whip to vote for this outrageous motion. After protests, the Whips Office reduced it to a one-line Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-12", "file": "debates2012-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "42390b0a99ae45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "ge to restore trust in Parliament. Even worse, I understand that Ministers and Parliamentary Private Secretaries are on a three-line Whip to vote through this despicable motion. The very people who should have no interest in Back-Bench business are the ones who are being told to vote for the changes. I am more than happy to take an intervention from the Leader of the House if that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.48.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-12", "file": "debates2012-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "42390b0a99ae45ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ember for North East Derbyshire (Natascha Engel) go to the heart of what it is to be a Member of Parliament. Every single one of us can be partisan. I can be extremely partisan on occasion. [Interruption.] Indeed, other hon. Members can be partisan, too. That is not wrong, as we were all elected on party tickets. My constituents in the Rhondda do not vote for me because I am a lovely, decent chap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-12a.55.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.124.6", "colnum": "124", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "rds of victim support across the country. The service that someone living, working and travelling across the midlands receives could depend on one of four or more areas, depending on where the crime is committed. Given the real concerns being raised by victims groups about the potential mess that could arise as a result of the Justice Secretary’s policies, will there be an individual —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.124.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "We are not persuaded that that will give rise to any increase in costs. Everybody accepts that cuts need to be made to legal aid. It is just that the Labour party is against every single cut that we suggest in particular. This cut is perfectly straightforward and will not give rise to the difficulties that the hon. Lady points out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.137.6", "colnum": "137", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "There will be a full presentation of all the statistics and evidence relevant to the matter. I assure the hon. Gentleman that matters are in hand and that ALS’s performance is improving significantly. Particular problems remain with two nationality groups of interpreters, who are causing difficulties, but plans are in hand for them, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.137.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the concerns expressed by Diabetes UK and, indeed, by many other organisations representing people with long-term conditions, who have not been given the clarity that they need in order to give their support to these changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I do not think the right hon. Gentleman should quote Cromwell to a Cambridgeshire MP; I think I know more about Cromwell than he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "What do I know about the health service? I have been at the Government and Opposition Dispatch Boxes for nearly nine years speaking on behalf of the national health service. Before that I was on the Select Committee on Health, looking out for the interests of the health service, and before that my father was working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "wers. The Bill does not create any new competition powers in the NHS; it transfers the exercise of competition powers from the Office of Fair Trading to Monitor, as a sector-specific regulator, as we agreed in the coalition agreement. That is what the Bill does, and that is a better protection for the NHS compared with what would otherwise be the application of competition rules, and before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.169.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "t to the full force of domestic and EU competition law, and that has not yet been clarified. The Government maintain that it will not, but the changes brought about by the Bill make certain that it will. In any event, it is not in the Government’s gift to decide, because the issue will be decided in the courts, so I genuinely believe that we are entitled to clarification on that issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.184.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "f people to Blackburn, without one comment accepted from the people in my constituency. That was an outrage. We campaigned vigorously to get that stopped. I held a march of more than 1,000 people through Burnley. What happened? Our local MP at the time—hon. Members will probably notice that after 77 years, the colour of the MP in Burnley has changed, and it has changed because of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.200.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "preceding_text": " areas such as my constituency, where child poverty is higher than elsewhere—half the children in my constituency live in poverty—and where there is an inextricable link between poverty, health and life expectancy, it is vital that we have a health service that delivers for people on the ground. This Bill will not do that—Ministers know that, so they should do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "s grind out the same old arguments over and over again to attack the Government. They spin the same misleading, scaremongering lines about privatisation. They proclaim the end of the NHS and talk down the medical professionals and patients who will be empowered by the Bill. They continue to support the bureaucracy that drains vital resources away from front-line care, certainly in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "r which the Labour Government were entirely to blame. I find it astonishing that the shadow Secretary of State can come to the Dispatch Box, week in and week out, and bleat on about the private sector without having the courtesy to accept that his Labour Government blew hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash on paying private providers for treatments that they failed to carry out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I mentioned front-line patient care in all our constituencies. This is about ensuring that resource goes to the front line, and that it is taken away from the back office, the bureaucracy and the managers. Labour’s opposition to the Bill is shallow. Every time we have these debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": " starting-point of cutting bureaucracy, decentralising powers and increasing clinical commissioning, we now seem to have an end-point, which is becoming clearer. It seems to be the NHS ripped asunder by competition and private provision. This Bill is about establishing competition and entry-points for the private sector at every level of the NHS. In essence, it is a Trojan horse for privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You are.”", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "ntworth and Dearne (John Healey) and my hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) spelt out our concern about the Bill. It is extraordinary that we can proceed while the Government are still refusing to reveal the risk register. There is concern throughout the NHS about the fragmentation that will result from the Bill. Government Members say that we are scaremongering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Stalybridge!”", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": " his part of the world they call a spade a spade. I must also mention the speech of the hon. Member for Walsall South (Valerie Vaz) , which was at times fanciful, that of the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Joan Walley) , that of the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman) , which was passionate but, I fear, misguided, and that of the hon. Member for Stallybridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-13", "file": "debates2012-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "dccc10efb8e489dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "TORPHICHEN SUB-POST OFFICE (CLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that warning. I come back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-13a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-14", "file": "debates2012-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "e1f8da6756223527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.244.8", "colnum": "244", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "Does the very able Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.244.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-14", "file": "debates2012-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "e1f8da6756223527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.246.6", "colnum": "246", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman makes clear, these settlements are illegal and the Foreign Secretary has made that absolutely clear to his opposite numbers, as did I when I visited Israel, the west bank and Gaza just before Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.246.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-14", "file": "debates2012-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "e1f8da6756223527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary has set out clearly the need to resolve some disputes which affect the land space of Puntland and Somaliland, but that the issue of the future of Somaliland is a matter for Somaliland, Somalia and the surrounding countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.247.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-14", "file": "debates2012-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "e1f8da6756223527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "We will compare what our Government did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-14", "file": "debates2012-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "e1f8da6756223527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.251.8", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Lady has invited me to make a comparison. Let me make three comparisons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.251.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-14", "file": "debates2012-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "e1f8da6756223527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady’s party acknowledges, the police need to make savings. The key thing is not what the total number is, but where the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.253.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-14", "file": "debates2012-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "e1f8da6756223527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "Parliament. Under this Bill, that important principle of parliamentary oversight of the spending of considerable sums of taxpayers’ money is being broken. We know that the assistance to the south-west will cost £400 million over the seven or eight years of the scheme. The Minister said it was “unimaginable” that any other water companies and customers would get public money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-14", "file": "debates2012-03-14b.xml", "sha256": "e1f8da6756223527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "DANGEROUS DOGS", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "s if a tenant fails to adhere, and of course that applies just as much to housing associations as it does to local authority housing. I said that I was going to return to the issue of finance and, in particular, to insurance, which my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest raised as one of her proposals. The previous Government considered the matter when they launched their consultation in 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-14b.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-15", "file": "debates2012-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "086e222dbc007782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-15a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "In that diatribe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-15a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-15", "file": "debates2012-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "086e222dbc007782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-15a.367.10", "colnum": "367", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate the new Minister for employment law, the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) . I am disappointed that he is not answering this question, but let me put it on record that he has been courteous and constructive in his role so far, and I wish him at least a modicum of success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-15a.367.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-15", "file": "debates2012-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "086e222dbc007782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-15a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": " am, Mr Speaker, so the timing of the publication and appearance of the statements meant that we were not able to make such an application on those statements. Secondly, we were not given any time to prepare in a way that would have enabled us to raise during Business questions any issues to which the statements related. Were you, Sir, given any notice of the statements in advance? Have you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-15a.398.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-15", "file": "debates2012-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "086e222dbc007782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-15a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "but the reality is that we must make cost savings. He knows that there are difficult decisions to make. I see the Minister of State, Department of Health, the right hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr Burns) , chuntering away next to him. He knows more than anybody that the real-terms cuts—they have been made in his Department—are difficult, yet he does not say that we should not make them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-15a.411.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-19", "file": "debates2012-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "26f028ab80acfa6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-19a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "In the light of the discussions last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-19a.511.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-19", "file": "debates2012-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "26f028ab80acfa6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-19a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "PROTECTION OF FREEDOMS BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": " last week and in introducing this debate. I believe that the Select Committee had some doubt about major projects being included in the NPS. For the avoidance of doubt, are the Government unshaken in their view that projects such as the Thames tunnel and Deephams sewage works should be included in the NPS? Whatever the final decision on the route and the detail, it is important to be clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-19a.589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "If my understanding is right, the hon. Gentleman campaigned at the last general election on a commitment in his manifesto to reform legal aid. There have been countless reviews—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "We will, of course, look for the earliest possible opportunity, to ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.640.6", "colnum": "640", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Have you seen it?”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The reasons why we are withholding publication of the risk register are precisely the same as the reasons why the Labour Government withheld their consent for publication on three occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.640.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "preceding_text": "tituency as he and his family cope with his condition that means that he is unable to swallow. His mother is worried sick about the changes in the health service, which might mean that he will not get the treatment he requires in Newcastle. Does my right hon. Friend agree that that risk is all the more reason for publishing all risks, as we should know the truth about what is happening to our NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Secretary of State has indicated that he wishes to speak later in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Have you read it?”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "with the benefit of that information, and to be able to represent our constituents properly on it. This is a very sad day for our health service. Although the Bill returns to the Commons today following a tangle of more than 1,000 amendments, the Government have done little to alter its direction, which remains fixed on the ideology of driving commercialisation into almost every corner of the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "ed by the hon. Member for Easington (Grahame M. Morris) . It has also read the Bill, and it represents more than 3,000 public health specialists in the NHS as well as local councils and academia. It says that the Bill poses “significant risks… to patients and the general public”. It goes on to say that the Bill could well damage people’s health and experience of care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.674.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I support the amendment relating to Monitor and NHS foundation trusts. The Government seek to amend the Bill to allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "The Minister says “No”, but I tabled a question recently in which I asked him whether he had taken advice from the European Commission. He told me that he had not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "The amendments cover Monitor, the regulation of NHS services and the governance of foundation trusts. Before I deal with them, I would like briefly to address some of the myths that have grown up around part 3 of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.709.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that most of the foundation trusts that are interested in raising and removing the cap wish to do so because they want to invest the money that they would generate from private income to improve services for NHS patients?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.717.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "blic health. Some amendments relate to the employment of public health professionals by local authorities. The trouble is that the Faculty of Public Health, the body that represents those people, opposes the Bill and wants it to be dropped. It has stated that the Bill will widen inequalities, increase health care costs and reduce the quality of care. It says that there are significant risks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.739.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Let me deal with both those points. I acknowledge that absolutely. On past occasions, the right hon. Gentleman has been to our party conference, although I do not think he came to the Gateshead conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-20", "file": "debates2012-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "06d213e8b221211e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "tate. In Committee, we considered the possibility of failure in NHS organisations, and Ministers reassured us that the issue would be effectively addressed in amendments. I would like some reassurance this evening that Ministers can foresee patients gaining greater access to their records, and I would like some detail of how that might be achieved. In view of the current cuts to the service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-20b.755.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to say that nine of the biggest suppliers to Government have already agreed that they will advertise on Contracts Finder their contracts for sub-contract as well, and that will increase accessibility. In addition, we are taking steps to ensure that payments get made quickly not only to prime contractors but to sub-contractors further down the supply chain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I will look at what the hon. Gentleman says and provide him with what will no doubt be a comprehensive answer .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.787.4", "colnum": "787", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "We are eight months on from the riots. The Deputy Prime Minister hosted a reception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.787.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.787.6", "colnum": "787", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "We are talking about people who have not been helped by the money provided to local authorities and cannot get help. Three things need to happen to make good on this. First, as matter of urgency, there needs to be proper information on the payments made under the Riot (Damages) Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.787.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.790.5", "colnum": "790", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that, as well as the Liberal Democrat priority to lift the tax threshold to £10,000, one of the best ways of helping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.790.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor spoke for an hour, but one of his usual phrases was missing; there was one thing that he did not say. Today marks the end of “We’re all in it together”, because after today’s Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.809.5", "colnum": "809", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "After today’s Budget, millions will be paying more while millionaires pay less. A year ago, the Chancellor said in his Budget speech that “now would not be the right time to remove” the 50p tax rate “when we are asking others in our society”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.809.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.809.5", "colnum": "809", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "n stamp duty. There are 300,000 people benefiting each and every year from his top rate tax cut, and there are 4,000 houses sold each year for more than £2 million. So 99% of those who gain from his millionaires’ tax cut will be totally unaffected by the rise in stamp duty and will get a massive windfall from this Chancellor. He did not tell us what this meant in pounds and pence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.809.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is the man who said that “sunlight is the best disinfectant”. Here is the challenge. Just nod if you are going to benefit from the income tax cut or shake your head if you are not. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on, we have plenty of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.811.4", "colnum": "811", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Members on both sides of the House will come to order. The Leader of the Opposition will be heard with the same courtesy that was given to the Chancellor. I do not want to have to rule further, because I will have to get firmer. It is only right that the country hears what the Opposition have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.811.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-21", "file": "debates2012-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "5417059b550493e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "One more chance. Nod or shake your head. Are you going to benefit? I have one thing to say to the Prime Minister: let sunshine win the day. I hear that this is good news for him, because now he will be able to buy his own horse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-21b.811.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Duncan Hames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Duncan Hames", "preceding_text": "Rural Britain, in the shape of the small town of Bradford on Avon in my constituency, welcomed the news this week that it is to have superfast broadband with the conversion of its exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.912.9", "colnum": "912", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": " success, I am sure that the whole House will welcome yesterday’s announcement by the Chancellor of the introduction of similar tax reliefs for the video games, animation and high-end TV production sectors. The UK has some of the world’s most successful creative industries, and yesterday’s Budget will ensure that they can continue to grow and support jobs up and down the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.912.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "Because Britain is bigger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.917.6", "colnum": "917", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "May I say, if you will indulge me, Mr Speaker, that I find it odd that Opposition Members have such distaste for Morocco. What is wrong with Morocco getting superfast broadband? Why is that seen as some kind of weird phenomenon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.917.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "ympic tickets last year. Subsequently, she found herself pregnant, and expects to have a few-week-old baby at the time of her events. When she contacted LOCOG, she was told to purchase an extra seat for the baby, but that the seat could not be guaranteed to be next to the parents. Given that airlines allow babes in arms at 35,000 ft, surely it is possible in a stadium. Will the Minister intervene?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.919.2", "colnum": "919", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "We, the taxpayers, have spent £9 billion on the Olympics and we are very proud of them. But everybody I talk to, including myself—I occasionally talk to myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.931.3", "colnum": "931", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "Coalition government is absolutely no fig leaf for these very serious breaches of the ministerial code —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.931.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.935.9", "colnum": "935", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I am interested to learn that this story was apparently briefed before any decision emerged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.935.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “A bit rich!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it is a bit rich to be asking this question today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.942.8", "colnum": "942", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "Earlier this morning, the hon. Gentleman denied it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.942.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.959.0", "colnum": "959", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Twenty-four hours after the Chancellor rose in the House, the full reality of the Budget is sinking in. At a time when fuel and food bills are going up for families on middle and low incomes, the Chancellor has added to them all. Whatever he says about the personal tax allowance, a family with children earning £20,000 will lose £253 a year from April. Nearly 4.5 million pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": " greenest Government ever; greener business cars will get a series of tax breaks; and hauliers’ vehicle excise duty has been frozen. But most importantly, there will be £4.5 billion less in burdens on the motorist with the cancellation of the fuel duty escalator and the confirmation of the fair fuel stabiliser. Business needs support in many ways. We are very clever and inventive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "on Abbey”, and perhaps the Labour party does include Wallace and Gromit, although which one out of the shadow Chancellor and the Leader of the Opposition is Wallace and which one is Gromit is something on which we have been speculating. As for the Liberal Democrats, let us not be left out. I fear that our signature film will be “Four Weddings and a Funeral” if we are not careful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-22", "file": "debates2012-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "4756ecc56a5f6b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Happy birthday!”", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": "May I begin by wishing my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Andrew Miller) a very happy birthday? He does not look a day over 75, which is just as well, because he is only 63 tomorrow. With the greatest respect to my hon. Friend, his is not the biggest birthday of the week. Today marks the birthday of my mother. I hope the whole House wishes her a happy birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-22b.1030.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1052.5", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John Woodcock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Woodcock", "preceding_text": "o keep to the same time as the Secretary of State took. If you will allow me to go slightly over that time, Mr Speaker, I can do so. We have not opposed £3.36 billion being taken from the Highways Agency’s budget, out of the total reduction of £3.86 billion. We have not opposed £1.73 billion being taken from the Transport for London budget, which represents the full reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1053.7", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John Woodcock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Woodcock", "preceding_text": "ys to make things harder in future. Even from the comfort of No. 11 Downing street, the Chancellor cannot have failed to hear the growing calls for some relief on fuel taxation. If he refused to listen, it was the Secretary of State’s job to prise open his ears and tell him just how hard it is for Britain’s motorists. In the Budget negotiations, however, she secured diddly squat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1053.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John Woodcock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Woodcock", "preceding_text": "Well, you know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "preceding_text": "ent in which private sector businesses will flourish. There is also, of course, a deeply moral issue. If a policeman or woman in my constituency is serving the public—whether it be in my constituency or elsewhere, as when they travelled down to London in vans to support the Met police during last summer’s riots—it is right that those servants of the public be paid the same rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1061.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "preceding_text": "It is a great pity that the hon. Lady has been so interested in following the Conservative party’s crib sheet that she has not read about what happened. The circumstances were very different with the court system, and 50 local rates were reduced to five—it was totally different and it standardised the pay far more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1063.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "panese example is a perfect illustration of this—that we are unlikely to recover to pre-trend levels. At this time of stagnation and austerity, what is the Government’s priority? Is it growth, jobs and helping the hard-pressed squeezed middle? No, it is a tax cut for millionaires. Some 14,000 millionaires will get a tax cut of £40,000 per year. The 300,000 payers of the 50%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1085.4", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "pressed motorists—that is what we need. And a VAT cut for home repairs and maintenance to stimulate that important sector of the economy—that is what we need. Then we have the granny tax. Under the guise of simplification the Government have brought in a stealth tax on more than 4 million pensioners. Some 700,000 people turning 65 years old will lose more than £300 per year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1085.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to you for calling me to speak on this auspicious day, a Friday sitting, to discuss the Budget, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am also grateful to follow the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "Back Bencher, who remained nameless—I cannot think why he wanted to remain anonymous—said: “Everybody was saying George is a great economic strategist and political strategist and how unique he is to have both skills: that is going to be questioned. In fact, colleagues already are.” More important, this Budget was a watershed because it gave the lie, once and for all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-23", "file": "debates2012-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9aa51785bfaf4594", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "This Government take child poverty extremely seriously, and this Government of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-23b.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a very important issue. It is rather like painting the Forth road bridge—or is it the rail bridge? I can never remember.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Not any more.”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a very important issue. It is rather like painting the Forth road bridge—or is it the rail bridge? I can never remember. [Interruption.] The rail bridge—I am grateful. It is ongoing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Where is he?”", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "which I led for the Conservative party. The right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw) led for the Labour party and the present Parliamentary Secretary, Office of the Leader of the House of Commons, my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr Heath) , led for the Liberal Democrats. The origin of those talks was a genuine desire on the part of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "pressing. Accordingly, at the last election, all three main parties promised in their manifestos to make progress. This Government have an explicit commitment in the coalition agreement to “pursue a detailed agreement on limiting donations and reforming party funding in order to remove big money from politics”. It was helpful when, in the early months of the coalition Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "ed and demanding, and should be meticulously complied with by all parties. This Government have already gone much further than any previous Government in revealing details of Ministers’ meetings with outside organisations and individuals. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has set out this morning that the Conservative party will now go much further. I hope that all other parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " funding, but this weekend’s revelations. Let me remind the House that this is about the Prime Minister’s chief fundraiser seeking cash for access. What did he say? He said: “The first thing we do… is get you at the Cameron and Osborne dinners, and in fact some of our bigger donors have been for dinner in No. 10 Downing Street”. It is about seeking cash for influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1158.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "reement, drew up its election programme on the back of an agreement to have union donations that would fund its campaign, so the right hon. Gentleman should not come here and lecture us about cash for policy, because Labour Members are the past masters at it—and look where it has got them. The shadow Health Secretary—he is over there—tabled amendments pushed by his union backers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1160.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [ Interruption. ] Order. [ Interruption. ] The Minister should resume his seat, which he has done. First of all, there is far too much noise, a lot of it, but not all, from a sedentary position; and secondly, I simply say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I agree that it is essential that there should be a cap on donations, and we agreed in the previous discussions that an appropriate level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I very much doubt it, but I suspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1168.3", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "Given the acrimonious, childish and partisan shouting, jeering and accusations that have accompanied this statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1169.8", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I completely agree. We approached the previous discussions absolutely in that spirit, and we will approach the new discussions in that same spirit, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1169.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1171.3", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes, it is!”", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "Because this is not about access to the policy unit, which is staffed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1171.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "For a moderniser, I am rather old-fashioned in this respect, and I think that one man, one vote is not a bad way to go. [Interruption.] I mean one person, one vote. I may not be the most complete moderniser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1171.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "The flat that the Prime Minister and his family occupy is private property. [Interruption.] It is their private residence, and the Prime Minister has not in any way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend is willing to go to her constituents and say, “Actually we’re going to spend more of your taxpayers’ money on filling the pockets of political parties—”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1173.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "mbridge, is developing new wireless network technology. In Tech City, we have a rapidly growing technology hub in the heart of London’s east end, which in just three years has grown from about 15 companies to more than 300. My personal favourite is the motor sport industry, which is worth £5 billion a year and exports 70% of its products. I was particularly tickled by an anecdote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1186.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "preceding_text": "y well draw their own conclusions. Perhaps the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West did not mention the age-related allowance because when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of the last Budget of the previous Administration, he froze the age-related allowance. All Labour Members’ criticisms of the Budget could equally be made against themselves and the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1220.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1261.3", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "first I wish to mention some of the other contributions. My hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire (Glyn Davies) talked about the benefits of the Budget for rural areas. A number of Labour Members representing Scottish constituencies rightly referred to the absence of a contribution from the Scottish National party and to the damaging policies of the SNP Government in Scotland for the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1261.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "The full depths of the economic incompetence of the Labour party have been revealed in the course of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1265.4", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "There we see it again—a party in denial about the mess it got this country into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-26", "file": "debates2012-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "36ac3a39bbdf7545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1265.6", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "The Budget is fair. It raises additional taxes from the wealthiest and asks the wealthiest in this country to pay more. That is why, for example, we are capping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-26b.1265.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-27", "file": "debates2012-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "2b537c8552617522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-27a.1324.5", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "Well, that interesting rant bore little relation to the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-27a.1324.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-27", "file": "debates2012-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "2b537c8552617522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-27a.1357.4", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Those on the Front Bench will have heard what the hon. Lady has to say. She will know—and the House can testify—that I attach great importance to Ministers making statements of new policy to the House, but statements arise when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-27a.1357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-27", "file": "debates2012-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "2b537c8552617522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-27a.1357.4", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Those on the Front Bench will have heard what the hon. Lady has to say. She will know—and the House can testify—that I attach great importance to Ministers making statements of new policy to the House, but statements arise when— [ Interruption. ] Order. I do not require any assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-27a.1357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-03-27", "file": "debates2012-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "2b537c8552617522", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-27a.1398.2", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "ack to the topic that the public believe we are discussing. The Attorney-General, the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr Garnier) , gave us a very gentle lesson in the different approaches to politics. He said that sometimes we can formulate and legislate and put things in neat, tidy little boxes, but the Attorney-General then added that there was another way of approaching politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-03-27a.1398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am grateful to the Minister of State, but can I ask him not to keep swivelling round? The House cannot hear what he is trying to say, although we wish to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "I am surprised by the hon. Gentleman’s question. We have asked the School Teachers Review Body to consider the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Scrapped!”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "e of the Mersey. I am delighted that the Labour candidate for the Liverpool mayoralty, Mr Anderson, has endorsed the extension of academy schools in Liverpool and I hope that the hon. Lady will join me in working to ensure that those schools transform outcomes for young people. Education maintenance allowance has been reformed by this Government and as a result of those reforms we have seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.18.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Finance (No. 4) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "No, I will not confirm those figures. According to my figures, 23 million individuals will be better off as a result of the personal allowance change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Finance (No. 4) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "man would do well to look at the analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which shows that the increase in the personal tax allowance most benefits those who are in the second highest income decile. Increasing the income threshold is not a progressive policy; in fact, pensioners do not benefit from it at all, and nor do people who are on such low incomes that they do not pay income tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.61.4", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Finance (No. 4) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " will lose all their child benefit, whereas next door there may be two people each earning £40,000 and they will retain their child benefit. Constituents say to me—perhaps this happens to you, too, Madam Deputy Speaker—that they resent the fact that the house next door is almost identical to theirs and yet is in a different band for community charge or, as it is now called —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.61.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Finance (No. 4) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "h is costing the average family £450 a year. Furthermore, another 678,000 people of all ages who are currently paying the basic rate of income tax might feel pretty aggrieved when they wake up to discover that they have been catapulted into the 40p income tax rate, not because they are earning massively more but because the Chancellor has not raised the threshold in line with inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.115.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.119.2", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Finance (No. 4) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "[Hon. Members: “It went bust!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " think that that is great; I think that where the husband and wife are both going out to work, one of them is a relatively low earner and the whole family income benefits, that is good for men, women and probably their children, too. So this is absolutely the right policy. In addition, we have cut corporation tax, a pro-business policy. We saw how well Ireland did by cutting corporation tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Finance (No. 4) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "And we heard a great deal about it from the hon. Member for Bristol West (Stephen Williams) . I would be more interested in listening to their view on this if they acknowledged how many other measures have not helped many of the low-paid. Raising the tax threshold is not in itself a bad thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.122.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-16", "file": "debates2012-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "60212d71ff207949", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Finance (No. 4) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "to government. Was it 48 days? I am not sure. We have made the argument about why we introduced the 50p rate, and we do not intend to make it once more. The reality is that the Government are entirely out of touch. Both Government parties—the one down there below the Gangway and the one up here opposite me —are completely out of touch with the reality of working people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-16b.129.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. The debate stood adjourned; to be resumed on Tuesday 24 April .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "London (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ], which was originally introduced in the House of Lords in Session 2007-08 on 22 January 2008 , should have leave to suspend any further proceedings on the bill in order to proceed with it, if they think fit, in the next Session of Parliament according to the provisions of Standing Order 188A (Suspension of bills).— (The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means .)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I would like to make some progress down the Order Paper, so we need shorter answers. The word is shorter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "20;bit of a mess”. Can she confirm that the hearing has been properly applied for and planned rather than cobbled together in a rush in order that it sits at the same time as the House? There is something a little odd about the timing and confusion. We are debating Abu Qatada without knowing what the courts will decide this afternoon and what action the Home Secretary will need to take next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "erly applied for and planned rather than cobbled together in a rush in order that it sits at the same time as the House? There is something a little odd about the timing and confusion. We are debating Abu Qatada without knowing what the courts will decide this afternoon and what action the Home Secretary will need to take next. [ Interruption. ] Will she therefore agree to return this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Surrogate Parents (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I think that I am right in saying that what their lordships tried to do was put one form of definition used by the UK Border Agency on the face of the Bill. That is far too wide, and it is for a different purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Surrogate Parents (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes he has.”", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman has been in the Chamber for very long during this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Surrogate Parents (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Chapman", "preceding_text": " domestic violence. That is any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse, whether psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional, between individuals who are associated with each other. It is a shame that it has taken him so long to agree to something that is otherwise agreed on across Government, by external campaigners for women’s rights and by many Government Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Surrogate Parents (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "er. Friends and former colleagues at the Bar have told me that there has been a rise in the number of people representing themselves in the civil courts, certainly in Nottingham and on the eastern circuit. The Government must look very carefully at that development. They must not take the simple view that when people represent themselves we will save money. Invariably, such people are a nightmare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-17", "file": "debates2012-04-17c.xml", "sha256": "b882d63ff845ffcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.268.3", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Surrogate Parents (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "I will be as brief I can, because a number of my hon. Friends also wish to speak to the two amendments on industrial diseases. If appropriate, Madam Deputy Speaker, I shall say a brief word about the Lords amendment on metal theft as this is the only opportunity to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-17c.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I acknowledge that the hon. Lady is well known for speaking up both for the low-paid and on the minimum wage. That is why I would have thought that she would have welcomed the fact that the Government are raising the personal allowance to £10,000 during this course of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is very excited today. In case he has forgotten, it is Prime Minister’s questions. The clue is in the name. I ask the questions and he is supposed to answer them. No answer on pensioners, no answer on families—what about charities? The Prime Minister’s big idea was the big society, but since the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.313.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister talks about the fuel strike. I will not take any lectures on industrial relations from a Government and a Prime Minister who caused panic at the pumps. That is the reality. When he gets to his feet, let him apologise for the gross irresponsibility, for the Cabinet Minister who caused that panic at the pumps, and for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister rightly wants to crack down on tax avoidance, so what does he think about Ken Livingstone, who said that “I get loads of money, all from different sources, and I give it to an accountant and they manage it”? Is that modern socialism for you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me just make this point about the top rate of tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "preceding_text": "A few weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "Today, a group of MPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "eal with the debt and the deficit. I do not think that it is defensible to ask people who earn £20,000 or £30,000 to pay their taxes so that people sitting in this House can get child benefit. I do not think that that is fair. I know that Opposition Members will walk through the Lobby tomorrow for something that they will benefit from financially, but I think that it is profoundly wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "n a point of order, Mr Speaker. Before the Prime Minister leaves, I point out that he has just told the House in Prime Minister’s questions that the 50p rate did not raise any money, a claim that is flatly contradicted by both the documents published on Budget day and the Treasury’s own figures published on Monday. Could the Prime Minister correct the record before he leaves the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.329.5", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": " point, the amount of money that would be forgone in forthcoming years, which is captured in table A2 on page 51, is £3 billion, rising to £4 billion over the spending period. That is the reality, there in black and white in the HMRC document. These are not uncertain numbers, like some of the other ones. I will now give way to the hon. Member for Northampton North (Michael Ellis) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.329.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "We do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "We do not know— [ Laughter. ] Conservative Members might laugh, but I would like to see them present some evidence on this, instead of the flannel and rhetoric that we are hearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Nadhim Zahawi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadhim Zahawi", "preceding_text": "If we set aside the shadow Minister’s amendment, which would leave us with a 40p top rate of tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.333.4", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": " question of whether we would reverse that decision is irrelevant because we are not in government. You lot are, and you cut it, but that would not have been our priority. Neither was it the priority of the present Chancellor just 18 months ago. When we introduced the 50p rate, we said that we wanted those with the broadest shoulders to pay the most, in order to deal with the global turmoil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.333.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "The 50p rate was introduced, as I said earlier, when we were in the depths of the biggest global recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I hate to say it, but it is worse than that. What happened is that the Chancellor made up his mind, and then made the evidence fit his decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "times I need to keep telling the hon. Gentleman this, but the simple answer is no. He should turn to page 2 of the document, which clearly says that this rate raised £1 billion; he should turn to page 39, which says that it raised £1.1 billion; he should turn to page 51, which says that it will rise to £3.1 billion next year. These would be the static costs. It goes on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to speak in this debate, but the previous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.340.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.344.6", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way to the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Nadhim Zahawi) again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.344.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ow it has affected people’s behaviour. Sometimes, when a new rate of tax is brought in it has a sudden impact that then evaporates two or three years later. There is absolutely no certainty and I say to Government Members, who I am sure are going to march loyally through the Lobby with the Exchequer Secretary this afternoon not because he is persuasive but because they believe in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "I do agree, but if the hon. Gentleman had been listening he would have heard that the economic case—that we did not raise as much revenue as we should, that we will raise more revenue than we were doing and that we will improve the competitiveness of the UK economy through this new measure—has not been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.361.6", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "preceding_text": "tly. Exactly the same uncertainty that there is now existed when the previous Chancellor increased the rate from 40% to 50%. The economic situation has changed. Therefore, there will obviously be uncertainty in all the data, be they from the OBR, HMRC, the Institute for Fiscal Studies or any other independent forecaster. The Chancellor needs to make a judgment based on the data that are presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing me on to my next point. The hon. Member for Pontypridd is fond of saying, “Ah, look at the HMRC impact report. It brought in £1.1 billion but the estimate was that it would then have brought in much more.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "preceding_text": "Very much so. My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is also in the OBR report. These are the forestalling measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "preceding_text": "Very much so. My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is also in the OBR report. These are the forestalling measures— [Interruption.] Labour assumes that people forestall for only one year and that the income will suddenly pop up the following year. That is not what really happens. Often people will take a long career break.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cites the report; let me give him the full quote. On page 2, the summary gives the estimate that the yield from the 50p rate could be “around £1 billion or less…and that it is quite possible that it could be negative.” We need to compare that with the previous Government’s estimate of a yield of £2.6 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": " the static numbers as if they were acceptable. We must take account of the behavioural impact, and as we have seen more evidence, it has become clear that it has been greater than was anticipated. The effect of the 50p rate has been damaging not just to the Exchequer in failing to raise the money that was anticipated, but to competitiveness. There has been a 29% increase in Britain’s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.385.4", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "t introduced. Thirdly, there is a crucial set of questions about values and priorities, because both the clauses that we have debated to date and the clause before us raise questions about the priorities and values of this Government versus those of the Opposition. Those questions do not reflect terribly well on this Government, Mr Gale. Mr Gale, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I will keep going for a moment and then happily give way. The bank levy currently impacts on banks only after the first £20 billion in equities and liabilities is taken into account, capturing, in effect, the millionaires of the corporate world. When the idea of the levy was first mooted—initially by Labour Members and then after being picked up by the International Monetary Fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I have been getting my facts right all afternoon: it is Government Members who have been getting their facts wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "That would have been a good intervention, were it not for the fact that the £3.5 billion that was realised is written in black and white on page 101 of the OBR document. It is clear how much money was raised—£3.5 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.389.5", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "At the danger of being ruled out of order for repeating today’s earlier debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.389.5", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "but I am absolutely not. I have been pointing out to his colleagues for the past couple of hours that the volume of behavioural change anticipated in the Exchequer analysis is fundamentally flawed. The taxable income elasticity point chosen by the Exchequer to derive that volume of behavioural change is completely outwith the normal delta used by economists to assess the elasticity of top incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "If Labour had won the election, it may have changed its view and continued the bank bonus tax. The Opposition certainly believe that Government ought to impose a bank bonus tax in addition to the current levy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "The debate on the 50p rate was interesting in that it revealed the differing attitudes of Opposition Members and Government Members on paying taxation. From the way in which some Government Members responded to the debate, one could surmise that they are very comfortable with people finding every possible means, illicit or legal, to avoid tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.392.7", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Sir Roger, although I found that debate terribly entertaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.392.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.393.6", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "By and large I would agree with the hon. Gentleman. Tax policy ought to be predictable. Indeed, the current Government deserve some credit for continuing with the trajectory set by the previous Government on tax policy planning and tax making, by seeking to consult significantly and publish things well in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.395.4", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "ere diminishing under this Government, rather than increasing. They are looking to the Government, and the Opposition, for action. They want us to put on the table solutions that will deliver growth and jobs and that will stop the economy flatlining. Unfortunately, the net effect of all the measures in the Budget, including those in clause 209, will be an increase of only 0.1% growth in GDP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.395.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving me this opportunity to clarify the wording—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "at is why the Government have come forward with yet another scheme to try to encourage more lending, which I should have thought everyone in the House would want them to do. If the hon. Gentleman wants to know why there has been too little lending in the last couple of years, there are two simple reasons. The first is that after the crash the banks were forcefully regulated not to lend more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "Many people would think that the outgoing Government had a lot of responsibility for the crash, along with their professional advisers, the quangos and the Bank of England, who apparently did not see it coming. They had very light regulation in the lead-up to the credit crunch and then very tough regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "esh Ideas question and answer session—we have not heard many fresh ideas in today’s debate—on 25 March 2011 about how to cut the deficit, and he said that there should be “another bankers’ bonus tax”. That is not a concoction; those are the words of the hon. Gentleman’s party leader, and I am afraid to say that the starting bid is £29.6 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow some excellent speeches. As we heard earlier, the harsh reality of the Budget is that it has done nothing to give Britain the jobs and growth we desperately need. We have heard how it has failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "rely of their own making, and drop these ill-thought-out plans, which have led to more questions being asked about hot and cold snacks than anyone could have dreamed were possible. Before I move on, and before anyone asks me when I last ate a pasty—or a bridie, as it would be in Scotland—I have a confession to make. I am one of Parliament’s three vegan MPs, so the delights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ever-decreasing circles as a result of this furore. The Treasury Committee employed its usual straightforward way with words when it stated: “We recommend that, where changes to complex areas of taxation are proposed, the greatest possible supporting material be published to allow for greater scrutiny of the possibility of unintended consequences.” Those are extremely wise words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I want to give plenty of opportunity for Back Benchers to contribute to the debate. It is not just a debate about pasties; it is also about caravans. I know that many Members will wish to speak on that issue because of its importance for their local industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": " Members will wish to speak on that issue because of its importance for their local industries. [Interruption.] I would be happy to take an intervention from Ministers or from one of those senior Tory MPs quoted as having met the Chancellor today to lobby on the issue of caravans. Does anyone want to give us an update on that? No, I see no takers at the moment. Perhaps we will hear about it later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ame decision. In the global recession of 2008, the caravan industry was hit hard. In my neck of the woods, east Yorkshire, we know how difficult that was. I took a delegation to meet the well-known caravan user Lord Mandelson, to make the argument that the industry needed a bit of help from his Department—which was not at that time known as the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.451.4", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "The question is, that the clause be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.451.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-18", "file": "debates2012-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "fc1be0ca62f70661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Diabetes Prevention (Soft Drinks)", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "I am sorry but there is no time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-18a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": " no appeal to the Grand Chamber; on Wednesday, an appeal was under way. Yesterday, the Home Office said the appeal deadline was Monday night, but European Court officials said it was Tuesday night. So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with “X Factor” judges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ht, but European Court officials said it was Tuesday night. So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with “X Factor” judges. [Interruption.] When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.508.5", "colnum": "508", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The shadow Home Secretary tell us that she wants Abu Qatada deported, but I am beginning to wonder whether she really does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.508.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.508.6", "colnum": "508", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let us lower the temperature. I said that the shadow Home Secretary must be heard, and precisely the same principle applies to the Home Secretary. Let us hear what she has to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.508.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. Let me repeat what I said in my first answer. We have always been clear that despite the progress we have made, the process of deporting Abu Qatada is likely to take many months. It should hardly come as a surprise to anybody that he intended to apply delaying tactics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.510.6", "colnum": "510", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "In my experience as Home Secretary, the louder the cheers from behind, the deeper the mire the Home Secretary was in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.510.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.512.4", "colnum": "512", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "Would the Home Secretary like to challenge Opposition Members who are now shouting their criticism to say whether they would support the abolition of the Human Rights Act 1998 and withdraw from the European convention, which has led to this mess in the first place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.512.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.513.4", "colnum": "513", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer!”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The position of the Government has always been absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.515.7", "colnum": "515", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No you have not.”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Let me say to all hon. Members who are intending to repeat this question that I have already answered it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.515.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "preceding_text": "Given some of the opportunistic nonsense that we have heard from Opposition Members, may I assure my right hon. Friend that she has the full support of Government Members? She will know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.519.7", "colnum": "519", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I will repeat it again. I could not be clearer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.519.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aah!", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "On Tuesday, the Backbench Business Committee met for the last time this Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": " in this important debate. It is important because it touches on perhaps the greatest challenge facing politicians and representatives in this Chamber. She is a luminary of the new Labour party and one of the stars of her intake, and it is always a pleasure to hear her in the Chamber and on the television. No doubt, at some point, she aspires to high office not only in her party but in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.557.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "I wish we could deal with this canard. I did not want to be political about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "That point was very well made. I am never surprised by the ability of people to brush over things. We have heard this afternoon that this is a minor technical change. As I said, I am quoting the BBC itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Katy Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Katy Clark", "preceding_text": "should have been introduced with far greater notice. The Government should know that pensioners are being disproportionately affected by the policies they are pursuing. We hear a great deal from Government Members about their ambitious deficit reduction plan—so far, of course, we have only seen the deficit increase. What we are seeing locally, and I suspect they will be seeing it, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.607.0", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "oximately another 1.1 million people with taxable incomes of over £60,000 who do not have children. If everyone earning over £60,000 paid an extra £1,000, we would not have to bother with this very partial project of penalising families with children. I am not suggesting that as a definite solution. I should much prefer, for example, to reduce our contribution to the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.607.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "I defer to the parliamentary private secretary to the Financial Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Reading West (Alok Sharma) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "We are somewhat short of time. There are two reasons why we may not be able to do the measure justice. First, the Opposition tabled an urgent question, which took an hour out of our debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-19", "file": "debates2012-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "408c54f8c56e5208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "ARMED FORCES COVENANT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I talk to the British Legion the whole time, of course. Indeed, I saw the chief executive on Monday at a conference. We work very closely together, although I am sorry that the Labour party has said that they will be issuing joint press releases, as I think it is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-19a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.638.3", "colnum": "638", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "If we were doing what the right hon. Gentleman says we are doing, I should be as outraged as he is. However, we are not doing that. Part of our proposition is that all contributions paid to date will be recognised in the new system. At the point of transition, if someone was heading for a pension of £150, £160 or £170 a week, that is what we would pay that person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "IMF", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “How much?”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "arties there. European countries not in the eurozone have also committed loans—from Sweden and Denmark, to Switzerland and Norway, which are not even in the EU. Some have suggested that the BRIC counties did not contribute. That is not the case. India, Russia, and—yes—China have all made firm commitments to contribute resources and will set out the exact sums in the coming weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "IMF", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ack under control, and we are seen by the world to be dealing with our debt crisis. After spring meetings in Washington at which countries not in the EU, including Australia, Japan, South Korea, Norway and Switzerland, all agreed to contribute to increased IMF resources, it would be truly bizarre if a British Chancellor were to come to the House today and announce that Britain is not contributing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "IMF", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "e dealing with our debt crisis. After spring meetings in Washington at which countries not in the EU, including Australia, Japan, South Korea, Norway and Switzerland, all agreed to contribute to increased IMF resources, it would be truly bizarre if a British Chancellor were to come to the House today and announce that Britain is not contributing. [Interruption.] What did the shadow Chancellor say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "IMF", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "t crisis. After spring meetings in Washington at which countries not in the EU, including Australia, Japan, South Korea, Norway and Switzerland, all agreed to contribute to increased IMF resources, it would be truly bizarre if a British Chancellor were to come to the House today and announce that Britain is not contributing. [Interruption.] What did the shadow Chancellor say? [Interruption.] What?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.670.4", "colnum": "670", "heading": "IMF", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can. IMF loans are repaid and they always have been in the past. No country has lost money giving resources to the IMF and such loans are repaid with interest. Indeed, if I can find the quotation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.670.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "IMF", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I can do that on the simple grounds that I would not be able to make a loan beyond the agreed headroom without a vote in Parliament. Perhaps by then the shadow Chancellor will have flip-flopped again and will support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Financial Services Bill (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Lady just to hold her horses for a moment. This is about the third time we have discussed this matter and she may want to engage in the debate later, but we need to understand the function of the market. The previous Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-23", "file": "debates2012-04-23b.xml", "sha256": "9cfd3e3bebfbc13a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.704.5", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Financial Services Bill (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "erk” response. He even said that it was a “political whim”, but that really is not the right approach to take when trying to find a consensus on tackling high-cost lending, particularly when so many of our constituents get sucked into that world and are often ripped off in the process. The Minister did not even know when the research, which has been around for heaven knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-23b.704.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-25", "file": "debates2012-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "d8d7c83ab3c4f6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Craig Whittaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Reading!”", "preceding_speaker": "Craig Whittaker", "preceding_text": "The head teachers of Calder and Todmorden high schools in Calder Valley welcome the Government’s educational reforms. [Hon. Members: “Reading!”] They are two schools that never qualified for the Building Schools for the Future programme under the previous Government because they attained far too highly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-25", "file": "debates2012-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "d8d7c83ab3c4f6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain McKenzie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain McKenzie", "preceding_text": "Did the Prime Minister agree with the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Nadine Dorries) when she said that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-25", "file": "debates2012-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "d8d7c83ab3c4f6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.950.4", "colnum": "950", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has spent plenty of time cosying up to News Corporation in return for political support, so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.950.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-25", "file": "debates2012-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "d8d7c83ab3c4f6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "gh I intend to respond fully to allegations about my conduct and that of my Department when I present my evidence to Lord Justice Leveson, I believe that it is important to update the House on actions that have been taken as a result of evidence released yesterday. We are 273 days into a process whose first stage will last until October. This is not the time to jump on a political bandwagon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-25", "file": "debates2012-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "d8d7c83ab3c4f6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "atives, as well as other interested parties—both supporters and opponents of the merger. Transcripts of conversations and texts published yesterday between my special adviser, Adam Smith, and a News Corporation representative have been alleged to indicate that there was a back channel through which News Corporation was able to influence my decisions. That is categorically not the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-25", "file": "debates2012-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "d8d7c83ab3c4f6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "s; instead, she has chosen to jump on the political bandwagon. Let me remind her that the Labour party spent over a decade in power and did nothing other than cosy up to the press barons and their families. She speaks for a party whose Prime Minister, when in opposition, flew half-way round the world, in Rupert Murdoch’s words, to “make love” to him “like a scorpion”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-25", "file": "debates2012-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "d8d7c83ab3c4f6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ress barons and their families. She speaks for a party whose Prime Minister, when in opposition, flew half-way round the world, in Rupert Murdoch’s words, to “make love” to him “like a scorpion”. [Interruption.] This is a party whose Prime Minister was godfather to Rupert Murdoch’s daughter and whose Prime Minister’s wife organised a sleepover at Chequers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.957.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-25", "file": "debates2012-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "d8d7c83ab3c4f6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.957.2", "colnum": "957", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "de a decision, I obtained the advice of independent regulators, which I carefully considered and which I followed. I put it to the right hon. and learned Lady that if I had been backing the bid, I would not have sought the advice of independent regulators who might well have opposed it. I made four decisions in this process, and each of those decisions was contrary to what News Corporation wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-25b.957.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-26", "file": "debates2012-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "d4f4554c49fc1749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-26a.1078.7", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "Unbelievable! This is the second biggest public health challenge that the country faces, but all we have are excuses and inaction from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. With an estimated 29,000 premature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-26a.1078.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-30", "file": "debates2012-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "366a2671d23d96ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-30a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "n they were Prime Minister: Blair seven; Brown 13; me four. The idea that there was some agreement that, in return for their support, we would somehow allow this merger to go through is simply not true. I have to say that if that was the case, while I respect him deeply, what on earth was I doing making the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable) the Business Secretary responsible for this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-30a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-30", "file": "debates2012-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "366a2671d23d96ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-30a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "in return for their support, we would somehow allow this merger to go through is simply not true. I have to say that if that was the case, while I respect him deeply, what on earth was I doing making the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable) the Business Secretary responsible for this? [Interruption.] The proprietors of News Corporation have denied under oath at the Leveson inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-30a.1242.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-04-30", "file": "debates2012-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "366a2671d23d96ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-30a.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "that was the case. On Friday, he then wrote to me stating merely that he was “aware and content” with Adam Smith’s role. Either the Secretary of State failed to provide full and accurate information to Parliament or he failed to require his civil servant to provide full and accurate information to a Select Committee of Parliament. Both are breaches of the ministerial code —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-04-30a.1245.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-09", "file": "debates2012-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "1686a996c56904cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Belfast North (Mr Dodds) , and it is a privilege to be the first Liberal Democrat to speak in this Session of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-09", "file": "debates2012-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "1686a996c56904cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "e continuously for nearly 29 years, and has been the most loyal and steadfast friend and colleague for all that time. He has been a wonderful representative of Aberdeen, of Aberdeenshire, of his constituency and of his country. He has served this Parliament with great distinction, not least today. We are very grateful for his public service, and I think we would all like to put that on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-09", "file": "debates2012-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "1686a996c56904cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "ddress those questions, but personally I will not hold my breath in expectation of imminent reform—although I might be wrong, as I often am. That is not to say that I favour the status quo, but I do foresee problems—some visible ones, some undercurrents —that could stymie our debate. We might come up with wonderful solutions, but with the best will in the world, will they happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-09", "file": "debates2012-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "1686a996c56904cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "n am. That is not to say that I favour the status quo, but I do foresee problems—some visible ones, some undercurrents —that could stymie our debate. We might come up with wonderful solutions, but with the best will in the world, will they happen? [Interruption.] Does the hon. Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) wish to intervene? I would be pleased to accept an intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.60.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-09", "file": "debates2012-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "1686a996c56904cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman—or is it right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-09", "file": "debates2012-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "1686a996c56904cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "ndamental reform of the banking system. It will include the ring-fencing of retail banking and measures on capital adequacy requirements. There will be radical reforms in the Bill which are needed entirely because the Labour Government and the previous Prime Minister completely destroyed the banking sector through what went on with the Financial Services Authority. They should be absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-09", "file": "debates2012-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "1686a996c56904cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Dwyfor Meirionnydd.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman. Some of the banks have forgotten everything that happened. They are not lending particularly to small businesses and I agree with him that they should act now rather than wait until the Bill becomes an Act. The right hon. Member for—it is a Welsh constituency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-09", "file": "debates2012-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "1686a996c56904cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "preceding_text": "ed that I had waited to be called for eight hours the day before. “Oh well, there’s only one piece of advice I can give you about making your maiden speech,” he said. I was a young newbie and so asked what it was. “Well, just don’t muck it up,” he said, before wandering off laughing. He actually used stronger language, but I will not use it in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-09c.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "2c499041a851da00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "m the Anglican Church, and I respect the standing of that Church and its link with Parliament. However, in our modern society we must also consider people of other faiths, and if we have the convention that the alternative report recommended—and which I support—that will emerge. I might have been a bit harder on the Liberal Democrats than I normally am, but I have to say to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "2c499041a851da00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "hey complained about changes to their working arrangements and pensions that took place under the previous Labour Government. When I met them a couple of months ago over a very nice lunch in Preston, they said, “Bring back Jacqui Smith”, but I am afraid that they do not have that option at the moment. What they are left with is a Home Secretary who basically does not give a toss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " accept an absence of carrier capability and, as I have said, I am certainly not prepared to see us go beyond 2020 without the carrier strike capability. My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is the question for Opposition Members to answer: why did they order two 65,000 tonne carriers without cats and traps, which anyone involved in naval aviation operations knows is itself an absurdity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "n he was a Minister, he said in relation to a request for publication of a departmental risk register: “Putting the risk register in the public domain would be likely to reduce the detail and utility of its contents.”—[ Official Report , 23 March 2007; Vol. 458, c. 1192W .] He is making an absolutely spurious distinction between the transition register and the strategic register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "welcome the fact that the European Court came out and refused Abu Qatada’s application for referral yesterday. As I told the Home Affairs Committee, I had been strongly advised that that was expected to happen because of the case that we had made. Of course I accept that the Court has made its decision on the matter of the deadline. The Government still do not agree with that decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.170.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "m the Anglican Church, and I respect the standing of that Church and its link with Parliament. However, in our modern society we must also consider people of other faiths, and if we have the convention that the alternative report recommended—and which I support—that will emerge. I might have been a bit harder on the Liberal Democrats than I normally am, but I have to say to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "preceding_text": " will charge people enormous sums of money to write short letters on their behalf. The lawyers who really annoy me are the ones who take money off my constituents and then write to me as their client’s MP asking me to do their job for them. I take the view that immigration rules need to be firm, fair and understood. The previous Government left people waiting, without solving their problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "preceding_text": "harged with death by dangerous driving, the maximum sentence would have been 14 years. However, under the law as it stands, being uninsured and unlicensed is not enough to qualify as dangerous. I repeat: if someone takes to the roads with no licence and no insurance, kills a child and flees the scene, that does not qualify as dangerous driving. That is quite simply preposterous and it must change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "preceding_text": "uninsured and unlicensed is not enough to qualify as dangerous. I repeat: if someone takes to the roads with no licence and no insurance, kills a child and flees the scene, that does not qualify as dangerous driving. That is quite simply preposterous and it must change. [Interruption.] The “Justice for Robert” petition to back longer sentences for that crime was signed by 1,300 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.225.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": " The Government are committed to ensuring that we can reassure our allies that the confidential basis on which they share intelligence with us can be protected, while ensuring that the courts are able to make real findings on the merits of cases where sensitive information is given. I think the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr David) said that he is opposed to closed courts. Let me say to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.249.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-10", "file": "debates2012-05-10b.xml", "sha256": "d3c8f704a4442e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "ASBOs are civil orders at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-10b.251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-14", "file": "debates2012-05-14b.xml", "sha256": "be4c07da3cd12e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14b.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "preceding_text": " that the economic position remains difficult. However, it is important to remember the magnitude of the task that was faced by this Government when they took office in 2010 and the situation that the previous Government left us with. They had taken Britain to the brink of bankruptcy, with a structural deficit seven years before the recession began—the largest deficit in the developed world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14b.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-14", "file": "debates2012-05-14b.xml", "sha256": "be4c07da3cd12e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14b.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "eople, and young people in particular, we are now operating in a globalised economy. Young people in Wales will not be competing with young people from the north-east, the south-west, Scotland or Ireland; they will be competing with the Chinese, Indians and Brazilians. That is why our competitive edge is all about creating a highly skilled and highly motivated work force. I have two friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14b.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-14", "file": "debates2012-05-14c.xml", "sha256": "3acc898ee4ca2db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14c.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "So, in contrast to what seems to be in the Secretary of State’s Telegraph piece—I have a copy of it to hand—he has no problem with the working time regulations; instead, he simply has a problem with ECJ cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14c.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-14", "file": "debates2012-05-14c.xml", "sha256": "3acc898ee4ca2db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14c.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "es not have a problem with the working time regulations. So why on earth is he publishing an article in The Telegraph saying “the tide is turning against EU bureaucracy” and “Britain is no longer a lone voice in the push for deregulation”? Who is that designed to please? The reason we are in recession is not our employment law regime; it is this Government’s policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14c.298.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-14", "file": "debates2012-05-14c.xml", "sha256": "3acc898ee4ca2db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14c.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "preceding_text": " that the economic position remains difficult. However, it is important to remember the magnitude of the task that was faced by this Government when they took office in 2010 and the situation that the previous Government left us with. They had taken Britain to the brink of bankruptcy, with a structural deficit seven years before the recession began—the largest deficit in the developed world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14c.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-14", "file": "debates2012-05-14c.xml", "sha256": "3acc898ee4ca2db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14c.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "eople, and young people in particular, we are now operating in a globalised economy. Young people in Wales will not be competing with young people from the north-east, the south-west, Scotland or Ireland; they will be competing with the Chinese, Indians and Brazilians. That is why our competitive edge is all about creating a highly skilled and highly motivated work force. I have two friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-14c.356.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "79b90313e5edf5e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15b.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael McCann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael McCann", "preceding_text": "I am happy to answer that. The International Development Select Committee was in India last year, so it knows that, as the Secretary of State for International Development would confirm, 800 million people who live there are surviving on less than $2 a day, which is an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15b.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.395.7", "colnum": "395", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, like everyone else, will have to wait for our response to the consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.395.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "Of course, drug treatment programmes are the responsibility of the Department of Health. As one would expect from a mature Department, I will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.416.8", "colnum": "416", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "No, not at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.416.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Michael McCann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael McCann", "preceding_text": "I am happy to answer that. The International Development Select Committee was in India last year, so it knows that, as the Secretary of State for International Development would confirm, 800 million people who live there are surviving on less than $2 a day, which is an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the eminently wise speech by the hon. Member for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow (Mr McCann) on both the subjects he chose. I listened to the Gracious Speech last week, and I noticed a seemingly small passage —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "As you know, Madam Deputy Speaker, the voices in the Tea Room believe you are very young—a peach among all the Deputy Speakers that this place has ever seen—and I apologise for my use of the word “you”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I have time. Will the right hon. Gentleman forgive me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I have time. Will the right hon. Gentleman forgive me? [ Interruption. ] I am sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, in his eloquent contribution, brings me directly to the issue of the legislation. Many hon. Members have raised the question of the legislation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-15", "file": "debates2012-05-15c.xml", "sha256": "a48c10a5268927b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "s eloquent contribution, brings me directly to the issue of the legislation. Many hon. Members have raised the question of the legislation —[Interruption.] If the right hon. Member for East Renfrewshire (Mr Murphy) would stop mumbling from a sedentary position and trying to put me off, he will hear the answer to the question that his colleagues have been asking in respect of the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-15c.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "2f6d8df4c1b6132a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16c.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " Parliament—the Labour Government were in power—decided to legislate to reduce carbon emissions. That is probably the most radically ambitious piece of legislation ever to go before this House. As I recall—I do not work for News International, so I do have a memory—it was also the Labour Government who set renewable energy targets, although they were more than just targets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16c.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "embly and Policing Board, is the PSNI, which needs to work with the full co-operation of the public. The situation is frustrating. As the Chief Superintendent said on television yesterday, the PSNI needs information from the public, so I appeal publicly to all those with any details. Some of these events are horrific and the police need the public’s help to bring the perpetrators to justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "round the world. I refer him to Patrick Grant, the Savile Row tailor of E. Tautz—judging by the look of my hon. Friend, he has been to visit him on a number of occasions—as well as Jonathan Anderson and others. There are a huge number of people, both in Northern Ireland and outside, in the industry, and we are—to repeat myself—very excited by the prospects for the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.536.6", "colnum": "536", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "Although it is well and good to encourage the creative industries in Northern Ireland to create short-term employment on some occasions, what can the Minister do to encourage the small to medium-sized companies in Northern Ireland that are currently on their knees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.536.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister’s answer. It was about the proportion of front-line officers—that is because he is sacking so many police officers from the back office. But what is actually happening to the number of front-line police officers? We have 5,000 fewer front-line officers. We have fewer 999 responders, fewer neighbourhood police and fewer traffic police. What was his sales pitch —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.541.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " how many nurses in training cannot find jobs. This is all because he has diverted billions of pounds from patient care to a top-down reorganisation that nobody voted for and nobody wanted. I know that he does not like being reminded of his words, but that is because he broke his promise. That is the problem with this Government: they cut taxes for millionaires and cut services for the rest of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.542.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.544.5", "colnum": "544", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What are you going to do?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a really important point. The right to buy their council house was a hugely important social and economic change that gave people a stake in their society, a stake in their community and led to a huge improvement in many housing estates up and down the country. It is sad that under the last Government discounts were allowed to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.544.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ol, and that was in our manifesto. He also undertook to look at better ways in which we could provide for energy efficiency, and I will come to those shortly. In government, we had a good record of helping people with their bills. Millions of people were helped by Warm Front and millions of pensioners were helped by the winter fuel payments. What are this Government doing to help people with that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.551.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.555.4", "colnum": "555", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “That’s not half.”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": ", but today their impact assessment forecasts that the programme will reach fewer than 4 million. Even the Government’s own advisers think that is optimistic: the Committee on Climate Change now thinks it will help only 2 million or 3 million households. The Government claimed that the green deal would help to create 100,000 jobs, but today that estimate has been halved to just 60,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.555.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury of the previous Government left a message to say that there was no more money. That is the legacy this Government are dealing with. We will take fuel poverty seriously. My predecessor commissioned a report to ensure we have proper targets and measurements of fuel poverty. John Hills has produced a welcome report, on which we will consult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "principles. One would have expected Labour to use those principles in government. It did not, we are, and it should be ashamed. We have already seen the big switch campaign from Which?—the first big collective switching scheme—and I am delighted it was so successful. Through the big switch, people have saved £120 on average—but £200 if they have paid by cash and cheque.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No thanks to you!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "The Government have taken many measures to try to keep down the cost of fuel, but the hon. Gentleman will know that we do not control the price of oil globally. I am delighted, however, that we are not suffering from a tanker fuel dispute. The resolution of that dispute is extremely important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " Parliament—the Labour Government were in power—decided to legislate to reduce carbon emissions. That is probably the most radically ambitious piece of legislation ever to go before this House. As I recall—I do not work for News International, so I do have a memory—it was also the Labour Government who set renewable energy targets, although they were more than just targets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the shadow Secretary of State is not prepared to defend her party’s record in government or the fact that it is still calling for fares to rise above inflation. I would like them to go below inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.587.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.589.4", "colnum": "589", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "ers get a better deal than the 75p that the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) offered them, is exactly the right mix of measures. It allows people to keep their money and spend it as they please when times are tight. It is a responsible, liberal approach, and one that we need to take further, as I am sure we will do during the rest of the Parliament, but it is there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.589.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": " increasing VAT was the best thing to do but was outvoted in Cabinet. It was not a Government decision. He wanted to increase VAT, but he was wrong. He also wanted to increase vehicle excise duty, but I argued and voted against that measure because it, too, was wrong. On those issues, he was wrong. He did many brave things. For instance, he introduced the 50p rate at the end of our time in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.604.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "f people who use our trains.”—[ Official Report , 29 November 2011; Vol. 536, c. 810 .] Why did fares rise in January by as much as 11% on some commuter routes? What the Chancellor perhaps forgot to mention was that the Transport Secretary—not this one, but her predecessor—had given back to the train companies the right to add up to a further 5% increase on top of that cap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "What the Chancellor perhaps forgot to mention was that the Transport Secretary—not this one, but her predecessor—had given back to the train companies the right to add up to a further 5% increase on top of that cap. [Interruption.] That was banned when we were in government once times were getting tough. By not cutting the rail budget so far and so fast, we would set the minimum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "to go down. I shall briefly discuss some of the particular cost of living issues that hon. Members across the House have raised today. First, let me briefly address some of the challenges associated with rail fares. We know that keeping rail fares affordable is important, which is one of the reasons why we took action this year to limit the increase in regulated fares to 1% above inflation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-16", "file": "debates2012-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "3cc9085f706c2139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "We now come to the results for the election of the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee. Nominations closed at 5 o’clock this afternoon for candidates for the post of Chair of the Backbench Business Committee. One nomination has been received. A ballot will therefore not be held tomorrow. May I be the first to congratulate Natascha Engel on her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-16d.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "451a9e5df2c9feee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes? Yes?”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "Twice so far in his speech, the right hon. Gentleman has said that the problems in the UK are nothing to do with the eurozone. Will he therefore disown the remarks of the shadow Chief Secretary, the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) , who said last week that the eurozone was having a major impact on British businesses and British families?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "451a9e5df2c9feee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "r growth was slower and was revised down. Last year, it was only the eurozone that prevented the British economy from going into recession earlier. Our domestic economy, excluding exports, was actually in recession for pretty much all of last year. The eurozone economy was growing when the British economy went into recession. Even today, the eurozone is not in recession and the British economy is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "451a9e5df2c9feee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "l of last year. The eurozone economy was growing when the British economy went into recession. Even today, the eurozone is not in recession and the British economy is. [Interruption.] The Welfare Secretary has made a career of blaming Europe for everything that goes wrong in Britain, but I am afraid that this is a recession made in Downing street. The Chancellor will also try to claim today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "451a9e5df2c9feee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "ked into the media, is “double-dip recession”. If I took my son, Alex, to the fairground and we went on a rollercoaster called “The Double Dip”, he would be pretty disappointed—even at the age of 3—if the second dip was eight times smaller than the first. Labour is being disingenuous with the figures and undermines our economy by constantly peddling that phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "451a9e5df2c9feee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " establish the baseline on that point. The trouble was that the previous Government gerrymandered the figures on youth unemployment. When somebody had been unemployed for six months, they put them on one of their programmes—the future jobs fund or whatever—and took them off the unemployment register. They were not put back on to the register until they fell out of that programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.714.8", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " trying to blame that crisis for the UK recession flies in the face of the facts. This is what the Chancellor said in his autumn statement: “if the rest of Europe heads into recession, it may prove hard to avoid one here in the UK.”—[ Official Report , 29 November 2011; Vol. 536, c. 799 .] But it is the eurozone that has avoided recession and the UK that has plunged back into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.714.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.714.8", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ds into recession, it may prove hard to avoid one here in the UK.”—[ Official Report , 29 November 2011; Vol. 536, c. 799 .] But it is the eurozone that has avoided recession and the UK that has plunged back into it. [Interruption.] Even The Sun —not known as a big supporter of Labour, but a big supporter of the Chancellor over the last few years—wrote only yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.714.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "to “Save Moira Fire Station” and for the “replacement” of local bus services. I am not sure that all that is entirely on message. Yet the Chancellor and the Prime Minister are still clinging to the view that they are right and everyone else is wrong. In his speech today, the Prime Minister seemed to be trying to claim that the choice between austerity and growth was a myth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Lady and I can agree on one thing. There has been a 130% rise in long-term youth unemployment—unemployment lasting more than six months—in her constituency over the last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.718.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.718.4", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "r growth was slower and was revised down. Last year, it was only the eurozone that prevented the British economy from going into recession earlier. Our domestic economy, excluding exports, was actually in recession for pretty much all of last year. The eurozone economy was growing when the British economy went into recession. Even today, the eurozone is not in recession and the British economy is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.718.4", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "l of last year. The eurozone economy was growing when the British economy went into recession. Even today, the eurozone is not in recession and the British economy is. [Interruption.] The welfare Secretary has made a career of blaming Europe for everything that goes wrong in Britain, but I am afraid that this is a recession made in Downing street. The Chancellor will also try to claim today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "t up the Automotive Council and provide long-term strategic leadership has made a huge difference to the prospects for car investment in our country. Nissan; Rover—we made great progress. That progress is being continued, and we should all welcome that. However, I have to say, for all the complacency that we just heard in that intervention, is it any wonder that business organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.719.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.722.2", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where?”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " the past 30 minutes. Given the claim by the right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) that the eurozone has had no impact on the economic difficulties in Britain, and his claim that his 13 years in government did nothing to lead to the debt and the deficit that this Government are trying to clear up, it is no wonder that there were some rather long faces on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "f the good things that has happened in the past few years is that our exports to China and India are up by a third, and we need to see more of that. In his speech, the shadow Chancellor dismissed the Governor of the Bank of England as plain wrong. Who appointed the Governor? Did the recommendation ever come across the desk of the shadow Chancellor when he was the political adviser in the Treasury?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "There have been queues at Heathrow for far too many years, and of course those queues need to be addressed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.728.5", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Let me make some progress and then I will take some more interventions. I want to say something about some of the Bills in the Queen’s Speech, as we are debating the Queen’s Speech. I want to talk particularly about the banking reforms—something else that the shadow Chancellor mentioned in only half a sentence, so we have no idea whether he supports the reforms or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.728.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "nd borrow more. To be fair to him, he is the politician who tried to tell Labour to get serious about welfare reform and about dealing with the deficit. He was famous in my Department for the very precise memo he sent to civil servants on how to prepare his morning cappuccino and his afternoon espresso. How ironic that what did for him was his attempt to get Labour to wake up and smell the coffee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "First, as I have said, we have used the money available to us in the balanced Budget to cut the small companies tax rate, which the hon. Gentleman wanted to go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "Queen’s Speech, I should like to compliment my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (David Miliband) on his very good speech. We all have opinions, but to put the facts in such a clear fashion that cannot be argued with proves why he is a loss sitting on the Back Benches. I am not a natural supporter of his, as he knows, but the Front Bench is his place, not the Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.744.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "This Queen’s Speech can be summed up by the Prime Minister wandering around the country saying that he is not for turning. I remind him and his party that the last person who said that—Lady Thatcher—was tossed out by the country when people found out that they were getting uncaring Conservatism once again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " establish the baseline on that point. The trouble was that the previous Government gerrymandered the figures on youth unemployment. When somebody had been unemployed for six months, they put them on one of their programmes—the future jobs fund or whatever—and took them off the unemployment register. They were not put back on to the register until they fell out of that programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-17", "file": "debates2012-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "05f2e959edd26cdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t (Mr Mudie) said that he wanted to see the right hon. Member for South Shields on the Front Bench. I wonder what role he would see the right hon. Gentleman in if he got him there. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood) on his speech. He reminded us that we had some great news the other day because Boris won again in London. That is very good news for all of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-17b.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b64182664095050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " , who, when in opposition, was only too keen to talk about new burdens and to attack the Labour Government of the time for not honouring the new burdens doctrine, would do better if he now ensured that his own Government followed the words he used then. It is an interesting case of someone changing their tack once they find themselves on the Treasury Benches—briefly, I suspect, in his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b64182664095050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "te and overlapping withdrawal of council tax support through localised schemes. This would produce a marginal deduction rate higher than 76%”. If millionaires were having to put up with that, the Government would be rushing in to rescue them. What sort of Government include those warnings in the consultation and then ignore them? They are either incompetent or vicious—one or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b64182664095050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is entirely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b64182664095050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Pat Glass", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pat Glass", "preceding_text": "authorities, which came out very firmly and screamed that they were not creaming off the money. The civil servants looked again and then pointed the finger at special educational needs, saying that the growth in the SEN sector and its increasing cost was draining money that had been meant for the schools. A proper review found that it was not special educational needs, but a Treasury anorak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b64182664095050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.946.4", "colnum": "946", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. This is a bit like coming out in the play-off final after the brief half-time break at Wembley on Saturday. We just need a little bit more to close the deal as far as this Bill is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.946.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9b64182664095050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "wer to all the nation’s ills—at one count it was, with one thing and another, solving poverty and dealing with the deficit. Also, although I have a high regard for the Secretary of State, I am surprised that he did not make that speech, because after all, this is his flagship Bill. I know that we have a part-time Chancellor; I just hope that it is not proving contagious in the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "03a6d0eb42fd3413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.825.6", "colnum": "825", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. Immigration reform is one necessary element of creating a more balanced labour force, but the other two elements are welfare and educational reform, which will ensure that British workers are trained and have the right attitude to take the jobs available, in agriculture or in other sectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.825.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "03a6d0eb42fd3413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " , who, when in opposition, was only too keen to talk about new burdens and to attack the Labour Government of the time for not honouring the new burdens doctrine, would do better if he now ensured that his own Government followed the words he used then. It is an interesting case of someone changing their tack once they find themselves on the Treasury Benches—briefly, I suspect, in his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "03a6d0eb42fd3413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "current system, will, as the Barnsley advice network has told me, have to find 20% of their council tax bill from their basic income, whatever they earn, as councils try to make less go further. The Minister is old enough, experienced enough and has been involved in local government long enough for this measure to sound a warning to him and his colleagues. This is the return of the poll tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "03a6d0eb42fd3413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "te and overlapping withdrawal of council tax support through localised schemes. This would produce a marginal deduction rate higher than 76%”. If millionaires were having to put up with that, the Government would be rushing in to rescue them. What sort of Government include those warnings in the consultation and then ignore them? They are either incompetent or vicious—one or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "03a6d0eb42fd3413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is entirely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-21", "file": "debates2012-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "03a6d0eb42fd3413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Local Government Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": " of slow-cooking stew until after the Queen’s Speech. It will not have a Second Reading in the other place until, I believe, 12 June , and its first Committee sitting there is scheduled for 3 July . If, as I am told, the other place will not be sitting in September, who knows when the Bill will complete its passage? Amendments will have to come back here, and if they are not agreed to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-21b.906.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-22", "file": "debates2012-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "729eddf0d590fae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-22d.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "t the Opposition have raised this issue for discussion. The difficulty is that the amendment—it is a permissive amendment; it allows, for instance, the number of members of mutuals to be counted—is the sort of thing that would be done anyway. A mutual could be sent an e-mail saying, “How many members have you got?” It really does not require a statutory instrument to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-22d.1053.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-22", "file": "debates2012-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "729eddf0d590fae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-22d.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "ch we hear all too frequently, of wanting to be the greenest Government ever. We obviously had quite a bit of disagreement about whether the Bill reinforces that claim. Indeed, the Minister for shipping, who is in his place, and I had a discussion this afternoon about this being the greenest Government ever in terms of environmental protection. However, I do not think that Mr Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-22d.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-22", "file": "debates2012-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "729eddf0d590fae6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-22d.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "e obviously had quite a bit of disagreement about whether the Bill reinforces that claim. Indeed, the Minister for shipping, who is in his place, and I had a discussion this afternoon about this being the greenest Government ever in terms of environmental protection. However, I do not think that Mr Deputy Speaker— [ Interruption ] —if he was paying attention—will let me go there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-22d.1084.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-23", "file": "debates2012-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "2fc32e14a28f5976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-23b.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "I welcome this proposal, because during the recent elections in Burnley there were reports of wholesale fraud taking place on an industrial scale in terms of personation and fake postal votes. Is the Minister considering proposals to require photo identification when people turn up to vote to cut out the appalling growth in personation that is taking place in some polling stations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-23b.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-23", "file": "debates2012-05-23b.xml", "sha256": "2fc32e14a28f5976", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-23b.1225.2", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "ith the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Bill is leading us towards a US-style democracy that excludes the disadvantaged and disengaged at election times and instead focuses on the needs of the more privileged, thereby poisoning our politics. The Deputy Prime Minister has rather grandly compared his ambitions for our democracy with those of the Great Reform Act of 1832.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-23b.1225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-23", "file": "debates2012-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "7fbd754b2006de64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-23c.1119.9", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "We are very pleased that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been asked by the United Nations Secretary-General to co-chair the high-level panel on a framework to replace the millennium development goals. That process will of course need to be open and consultative, and I am confident that the voice of girls and women, who are often among the world’s poorest people, will be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-23c.1119.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-23", "file": "debates2012-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "7fbd754b2006de64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-23c.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "In case the Prime Minister has not noticed, his Business Secretary does not support his proposal. What double standards. When it comes to ordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-23c.1124.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-24", "file": "debates2012-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "78f7843c6ea7001e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-24b.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Graham Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Jones", "preceding_text": "nesses. That is why they live in the Ribble valley, and they do not operate from home. The rural broadband policy in Lancashire will not provide additional businesses or create jobs. It will certainly not mean that businesses will be opened down country lanes that take two hours to drive down and are a long way from the urban centres. This is just about faster internet shopping for wealthy people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-24b.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-05-24", "file": "debates2012-05-24b.xml", "sha256": "78f7843c6ea7001e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-24b.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Reid", "preceding_text": " accommodation, such as houses and houseboats, not caravans that can be towed on our roads. Although announced in the Budget, the measure is not part of the Finance Bill. I hope that, following the consultation, the Government have listened and will decide not to go ahead. I even hope that my hon. Friend the Deputy Leader of the House will be able to make that announcement in his summing up today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-05-24b.1326.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-12", "file": "debates2012-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "25901a9520cc0400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.175.4", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "e if I correct the shadow Minister’s misapprehension. What I gave, and what I stand by, were the latest figures for full-time equivalents in the NHS work force. Since May 2010, the number of qualified nursing staff has fallen by 2,693. That is the figure I gave the shadow Minister, and it comes from the category in the work force statistics headed “qualified nursing staff”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.175.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-12", "file": "debates2012-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "25901a9520cc0400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Defamation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "preceding_text": "an heretofore. I will be corrected if I am wrong, but I seem to recall that until relatively recently juries in defamation cases had a part to play in deciding the quantum of damages after successful defamation proceedings, and I recall also some rather large figures for damages awarded against various periodicals. I am a great fan of Private Eye , possibly because I have not featured in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-12", "file": "debates2012-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "25901a9520cc0400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Defamation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": " case against the newspaper or public institution that has defamed them. The nature of this Bill is such that there is general agreement that we need to move forward and have a better understanding of such access to justice, which is patently not there at the moment. I should make a declaration as a trained mediator and as someone who was at the Bar and has earned a moderate living as a barrister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.245.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-12", "file": "debates2012-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "25901a9520cc0400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Defamation Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "Member for Rochester and Strood and others may bring upon him—because of their fundamental objections to further European co-operation on such matters—that is something that we will also revisit in due course. If the Minister can provide us with a timetable for further discussion and examination of the issues, and if he is saying that he will rule out for ever signing up to this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-12", "file": "debates2012-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "25901a9520cc0400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Defamation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "urkey is not a member, it is not included in any aspects of co-operation. An example of that is the way the RABITs were deployed in Greece to deal with illegal immigration. Because the UK was not part of Schengen, we were not allowed to be a formal part of the activity of the RABITs. As a result, we were left marginalised. Mr Speaker, I can see that you are about to tell me that I am out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-12b.280.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has been a formidable, expert and passionate advocate of the open data agenda. Open data are the new raw material and can drive a huge amount of business growth. The Government are already the world leader in opening up data, but there is more to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The key issue is who makes the judgment on whether there has been a breach of the ministerial code. This is what Lord Leveson said on 10 May : “I will not be making a judgment on whether there has been a breach of it, that is simply not my job”. In other words, it is the job of Sir Alex Allan. Let us take one of the issues that was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.316.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.319.4", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I would point out that the increase in health spending for the hon. Gentleman’s primary care trust is 2.9%, a £8.2 million increase for the current year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased that my right hon. Friend the Education Secretary is introducing compulsory poetry reading lessons in class. Perhaps we could start with the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.339.4", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "preceding_text": "Sir Alex Allan’s response clearly said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.339.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.341.7", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "interventions, I know that Members in all parts of the House regard the question of truth, accuracy and full disclosure to Parliament as fundamental. We cannot settle for anything less if we are to hold Ministers to account. Putting it at its very lowest, there is prima facie evidence that the Secretary of State failed to give accurate and truthful information to the House. On 3 March 2011 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.341.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " record. However, what the Minister just referred to was his reply on 7 September , when he said that it was for reasons of cost that he was not able to provide anything more. How much would it have cost him to remember that he had sent a memo to the Prime Minister on the matter, or to have checked his own mobile phone for the text messages that he sent to James Murdoch? He has lied to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.344.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": " so when Members cavil and inquire whether what we have heard is legitimate, I am guided by advice and I operate on the basis that there is a substantive motion, which is what the whole debate is about and in relation to which the Secretary of State is speaking. In general terms, the normal principles of “Erskine May” about moderation and good humour apply, but I cannot preclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.345.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.347.5", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "The memo, if the hon. Lady has read it, said that we should have a meeting that should not intrude on the quasi-judicial decision that the Business Secretary had to make. Something very significant, which she is forgetting about, is that no meeting happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.347.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Members must not shout at the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.347.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am grateful to the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": "t be in post. As the Leader of the Opposition said today, it is not the Secretary of State who is on trial, but the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has undermined the independent adviser on ministerial interests by his conduct. We heard a classic example of that today. Purely for partisan political purposes, the Prime Minister wrote to Sir Alex Allan, and received a response the same day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.352.6", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": "ox for political advantage. He has used Baroness Warsi for political advantage by referring her to the independent adviser. He is using his colleagues to defend his position. We saw his behaviour again today, when he insulted my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Steve Rotheram) . It is a disgrace that Conservative Members support such contemptible behaviour by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.352.7", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has made a number of references to the Prime Minister, which I took to be in passing, but the conduct of the Prime Minister is not the subject of debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.352.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "8212;collateral damage. I have just concluded a biography of one former Member who lost his life because of the effect of that scandal on his health. The shame still lies on this House. The perception outside is that politics is debased and that we do not tell the truth or obey a moral code. I appeal to all Members not to see this as one of the usual tribal votes when we go into the Lobbies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "an adviser, but he was paid by people outside and attended a ministerial meeting. What happened was absolution by resignation. He was allowed to resign before the country knew the full facts of what went on. What possibly happened was that his advice—his seat at the table—might have brought us closer to a war with Iran. I appeal to all hon. Members to treat this matter seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.359.7", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has followed this issue assiduously, but on this occasion he has got his facts wrong. We must remember that there had been no discussion about mitigations in lieu or about reducing the BSkyB bid involvement of News Corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.359.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will wait a moment and just let me finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "The previous sentence referred to the procedural processes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Reckless", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Reckless", "preceding_text": "hat the Secretary of State was a bit too friendly with the lobbyist Frédéric Michel and had informal contact with him that he should not have had—an accusation made without taking into account the fact that the Secretary of State and Frédéric Michel were in the same hospital while their wives were giving birth in adjoining rooms. I will focus the rest of my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.378.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "has campaigned and spoken out on these issues for many years both before and after he came to the House, speaks with authority. What I am saying is that we need to tread very carefully, as these changes might have unintended consequences. I believe I am right in saying that evidence from Australia suggests that a similar change resulted in greater litigation and greater resort to the courts there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": " was a health and safety risk to making toast. I have made the effort to get the statutory guidance. If the motion supported the statutory guidance, I would probably have to vote against it, because it goes no further in looking at the definition of what is a risk of significant harm. It is quite clear that certain practitioners do not believe that being a prostitute is a risk of significant harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-13", "file": "debates2012-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "d7606214f8999b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "ry of State for Education, my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) , has told me that he has involved in his work the hon. Member for Stockport (Ann Coffey) and the previous hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow, Oona King, who is now a Member of the other place. He even said—tongue in cheek—that he has a Liberal Democrat councillor on one of his groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-13b.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that we have had discussions with News Corporation, but I will certainly look at the Department’s records. Local television is certainly an opportunity for local media, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.455.6", "colnum": "455", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "I was heartily relieved that my hon. Friend identified the sport at the end of his question, before I had what is known as a Caborn moment. The simple answer to his question is that I am well aware of the ambitions of squash, and indeed of lacrosse, netball and a number of other worthy sports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.455.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Of all parties.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear about the job fair in my hon. Friend’s constituency. I know that many hon. Members have helped to set up job clubs in their constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "uct requirements for new entrants to ensure that they are appropriate and not disproportionate. We strongly support the need for a stronger challenger bank to emerge from the Lloyds Banking Group divestment. We are engaged with Lloyds and the European Commission to ensure that the divestment process creates as strong a challenger as possible. A more competitive banking system will work only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Backbench Business — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Churchill.”", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "ever made. I wish to make another point that touches on the contributions of my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne and the hon. Member for North Durham. One in five people still think that anyone who has a history of mental health problems should not be allowed to hold public office. How many former Presidents, Prime Ministers or Ministers would have been excluded if that view had been applied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.535.6", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Backbench Business — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": " laboured long and hard to, I hope, some good effect. In the 18th century, it was possible to cross the river to Bedlam and gawp at people gesticulating, ranting, performing odd rituals, talking to no one in particular, exhibiting delusory beliefs in their own power, or expressing paranoid fears about their foes. The nearest 21st-century equivalent is probably Prime Minister’s Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.535.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Backbench Business — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ations that provide help. About 31 years ago, I was appointed to the council of Mind, formerly the National Association for Mental Health. The reason for that was that the then Conservative Government wanted to give the organisation their support, and its then general secretary was thought to be left-wing; I was there to provide balance. I am not sure how my Whips would regard that decision today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Backbench Business — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "It was beginning to look like a Whips’ cabal in the Chamber. I was quite worried. A number of hon. Members, particularly the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) , who is busy disappearing from the Chamber, mentioned care for, and the mental health of, veterans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-14", "file": "debates2012-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "448c40ee32b73234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Backbench Business — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "he Chamber. I was quite worried. A number of hon. Members, particularly the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) , who is busy disappearing from the Chamber, mentioned care for, and the mental health of, veterans— [ Interruption. ] I am making a plea to keep my small audience. To my delight, the shadow Secretary of State mentioned a famous organisation in that field: Combat Stress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-14a.551.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-18", "file": "debates2012-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "3555f54590b37afd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-18b.606.6", "colnum": "606", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "My message can be summed up in six letters: KFC UFO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-18b.606.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-18", "file": "debates2012-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "3555f54590b37afd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-18b.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Alison Seabeck", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “We don’t want it!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Seabeck", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) had re-read the May statement, he would have known that half the money is for renewing the infrastructure of the Rolls-Royce facility in Derby, which is essential for the next generation of nuclear submarines. That is not new but necessary investment. This is a vital programme that a separate Scotland would not be able to afford or benefit from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-18b.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-18", "file": "debates2012-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "3555f54590b37afd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-18b.621.6", "colnum": "621", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "carry strategic nuclear missiles. We have a second class of submarines, the Astute class of nuclear powered attack submarines. The Royal Navy will always need nuclear powered attack submarines whatever we do with the successor to the Vanguard class. So this sovereign capability is required if the Royal Navy wishes to remain in the business of having nuclear powered submarines, and we certainly do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-18b.621.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-19", "file": "debates2012-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d17452ad2c85011c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-19a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ber for Keighley (Kris Hopkins) —he, too, is not in his place, so I hope that I do not misrepresent him—said, “I want to see all criminals deported as soon as possible.” That would return us to a rather 19th-century understanding of what should happen to criminals in this country. I think he meant that all foreign criminals should be deported as soon as possible, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-19a.815.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-20", "file": "debates2012-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1318233bee27c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.906.5", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Duncan Hames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Duncan Hames", "preceding_text": "ruption.] I heard that clearly, and I am sure we will hear more about it later. It is worth remembering, although the shadow Secretary of State found it difficult to do so, that Labour closed 29 Remploy factories as a result of a decision in 2008. Perhaps it was because the answer was “not more than 30” that the shadow Secretary of State was not able to bring that answer to us earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.906.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-20", "file": "debates2012-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1318233bee27c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "3, the previous Prime Minister. He set that proposal out at time when his advisers were the current Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Chancellor. I do not know whether the shadow Chancellor wrote that passage for the Budget speech—a lot of the Budgets around that time turned out to be “Balls”. Did he write it? Does he agree with it? If not, what has changed in the meantime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-20", "file": "debates2012-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1318233bee27c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " to justify the relocation costs and loss of continuity that relocating inevitably involves. So this approach is about investigating whether this could be another way of supporting local economies, by helping to provide more public sector jobs for the same level of spending and by helping the local private sector to become more competitive and to expand. This could help poorer areas to grow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.947.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-20", "file": "debates2012-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1318233bee27c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry, Minister. It is not necessary for Members on either side of the House, especially those on the Front Benches, continually to shout across the Floor. This is an important and heated debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.948.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-20", "file": "debates2012-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5a1318233bee27c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "c sector pay is usually set nationally. It is simply a fact of modern life that public and private sector organisations compete for employees in different markets across the UK. The Opposition and their union supporters are quick to paint regional pay as an attack on the public sector or a race to the bottom, but that is offensive to the millions of people who work in low-paid private sector jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-20a.952.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Tuesday 3 July .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That so much of the Lords Message [ 21 May ] as relates to the Transport for London Bill [ Lords ] be now considered. —(The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.140.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The Managing Director of the IMF put it in a very graphic way. She presented to the whole country the alternative that we faced in May 2010. If we had stuck with the Labour party’s incredible plans, we would be one of the countries seeking a bail-out, rather than, as we are now, a country that is a relatively safe haven in the very, very difficult European situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.156.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I would never accuse the hon. Lady of falling into the fatalist camp, but some do. The fatalist position—that we cannot improve—was touched on by my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuart) , the Chair of the Education Committee, but I believe Andrew Adonis, who said: “The fatalists who say”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.189.8", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "y 2011 what his real position had been on languages in 2004, he said: “I had mixed views.” Given this lack of consistency, can we be certain that his position now, in backing modern foreign languages, is a consistent one? And will he assent to our other proposals? Does he believe that we should get rid of modules at GCSE and end the re-sit culture? Yes or no? A simple nod will suffice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.189.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer the question.”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for supporting the English baccalaureate. The frock-coated communist has become the grey-suited radical. One of the things that matters to me is whether the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby supports the English baccalaureate. Yes or no?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend, like me, knows the MOD budget very well. Clearly, what the Government have done is to take out in-year capability. We should also remember the reductions in armed forces personnel—the people who are paying for some of this. My right hon. Friend is correct: the idea that such a big black hole can be filled in two years is complete nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "vernment get the extra £2 billion from, I do not know. This issue was also dealt with in Bernard Gray’s report, and as my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgend said, the £38 billion figure is based on the principle that every single piece of equipment that was planned for would actually be delivered. However, anyone who knows the defence budget knows that that is not how things work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "t was not. One approach could be to delay projects, as this Government and the previous Government have done, or to cancel them. When the previous Secretary of State took office, he said that he was going to save a load of money by renegotiating contracts with various suppliers. We have yet to see a single example of his having been able to renegotiate procurement contracts and make great savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.236.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "The last Labour Government were committed to looking for efficiencies and reviewing the procurement contracts. So some of the things that were planned would not have been procured, which would have closed that black hole to which the hon. Gentleman refers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-26", "file": "debates2012-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "072eeeef8f6712c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "together. The SNP’s so-called “campaign” on this issue is a little hollow, to say the least. The SNP needs to explain exactly what the new Scottish armed forces would be if Scotland were to be independent. Would the Navy be something like fishery protection vessels? Would the Army be downgraded to some type of border force to patrol the border between Scotland and Northumberland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-26c.238.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-27", "file": "debates2012-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f5ab35bfe7ae6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-27a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "l to her Committee for supporting the view that the Minister took. Any changes that we introduce create more potential for problems. For example, this is not what the hon. Lady has proposed but if we were to introduce discretion on the part of returning officers they would be open to challenge because of the way in which they applied that discretion. I am glad that she has not gone down that road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-27a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-27", "file": "debates2012-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f5ab35bfe7ae6959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-27a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "As I thought I had made clear, the Opposition want plenty of time to discuss all the important issues, so that the House can come to a natural consensus. We do not want to be rushed in our consideration of a Bill that many believe is flawed. We support the principle of a referendum—want movement on it and will achieve it, despite the Government’s unreasonableness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-27a.384.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We now come to question 8—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": " that two parties are now working together in government more harmoniously than one party did in government for 13 years. Finally, on fuel, I admire the cool performance of the Economic Secretary in the face of some very aggressive interviewing by Jeremy Paxman. The Opposition accuse the Government of a U-turn, but let us consider their position. First, they introduced a fuel duty escalator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the right hon. Gentleman was present for transport questions, but they would have provided him with an ideal opportunity to raise the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "Again, that is more a matter for the Commission than the Government, but speaking from memory, I think there are plans to roll out access to wi-fi within the Palace of Westminster. At the moment it does not reach the Leader’s office. I hope that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "preceding_text": "fits. The key issue that he made clear was that work will always pay but that benefits would be available for those who cannot work. Incredibly, the Labour party opposes a benefit cap and set up, when in government, a huge and complicated system of benefits. May we therefore have a debate on the future strategy for benefits, so that we can pin down, once and for all, where the Labour party stands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "e on market abuse and protecting consumers. We have been reviewing with the FSA and the Bank of England the operation of the LIBOR regime, which was not regulated under the previous Government’s Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. The market is already changing and the role of LIBOR is changing with it. As part of our review into LIBOR and the strength of the financial regulatory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ious Government’s Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. The market is already changing and the role of LIBOR is changing with it. As part of our review into LIBOR and the strength of the financial regulatory— [ Interruption. ] May I just say to the Opposition that I think a little more silence would do, and perhaps an apology for the mess that this Government are trying to clean up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where’s Balls?”", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "I start by thanking the Chancellor for advance notice of his statement, which was handed to me at 12.19 pm—two minutes before he delivered it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "rtant task for the Government, especially when hundreds of thousands of jobs depend on the industry and when all of us and small businesses in all our constituencies rely so much on the financial services sector. There are three areas in which I have questions for the Chancellor, the first of which is dealing with the people who are responsible. Are those responsible in the banks being held—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "nsible will be held to account. Absolutely, and the authorities are carrying out investigations into individuals. She asks whether people who have broken the criminal law will be held to account. That is absolutely what the authorities are looking at but as I have said, the FSA’s criminal powers granted by the previous Government do not extend to criminal sanctions for manipulation of LIBOR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Barclay", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Barclay", "preceding_text": "First, I declare that before I joined the House, I worked for Barclays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for sharing his CV with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman what this Government are doing. First, we are getting rid of the tripartite system that failed. Secondly, we are changing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman voted for 13 years for a Government who failed this country. We are changing the regulation, changing the structure of banking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman voted for 13 years for a Government who failed this country. We are changing the regulation, changing the structure of banking— [Interruption.] and we are dealing with this latest abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "That has probably happened in spite of Government policy, not because of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "I apologise, but I will not give way again, as I do not have much time left. For many low-income households the green deal financial mechanism simply does not stack up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I call Nigel Evans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-06-28", "file": "debates2012-06-28c.xml", "sha256": "8a19b7b4fc9550fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "8212;she has heard me talk about this before—that it would be lovely if the contribution those communities are making to green growth was reflected in the allocations from the coastal communities fund. They deserve the lion’s share of that money. Frankly, I feel that we should get our share of the revenue that the Crown Estate secures from offshore wind farms and other such activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-06-28c.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.573.7", "colnum": "573", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should not believe too much of what she reads on these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.573.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.578.4", "colnum": "578", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": " I do not know when a forecast is not a forecast. May I tell him what the housing situation is like on the ground, because his responses so far have not revealed it properly? In Slough, 43 affordable new homes have been started, down from 103. I have had more inquiries about housing this year than in any year since I was elected in 1997. We have nearly 300 people whose homes have been repossessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.578.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.578.9", "colnum": "578", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is no breach of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.578.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " to face fundamental choices about whether to limit their national democracy and provide financial support to the weaker members. And like others outside the Eurozone, we in Britain also face big choices. As Europe changes to meet the challenges of the eurozone, so our relationship with Europe will change, too. There are those who argue for an in/out referendum now. I do not agree with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "he EU would be best for Britain. Nor, however, do I believe that voting to preserve the exact status quo would be right. As I wrote yesterday, I do not believe that the status quo is acceptable, but just as I believe it would be wrong to have an immediate in/out referendum, so it would also be wrong to rule out any type of referendum for the future. The right path for Britain is this. First—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ister cannot be part of the solution because he is part of the problem. On growth, the Prime Minister used an instructive phrase in his post-summit press conference, when he said: “Just as we have to tackle the euro crisis, so we have to tackle the growth crisis”. Having at last admitted that there is a growth crisis, he added: “Britain has been driving this debate.”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "#8212;or should I call it his weekend hokey-cokey? On Friday, he ruled out a referendum. He said: “‘I completely understand why some people want an in/out referendum… I do not think that is the right thing to do..” Hours later—what a coincidence—100 Back Benchers and the former Defence Secretary called for an in/out referendum. Then, hey presto, on Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.587.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman failed to answer the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) , the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, just a moment ago, in which he asked the Prime Minister to recognise that the pressure for deregulation and a very light touch in the City was coming very strongly from him and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point I would make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "Given that the UK is running a large trade deficit with the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The systematic lying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "bor market. The public are angry, and they rightly ask whether this generation of politicians, regulators and banks can put right the wrongs for which they are paying a heavy price. I say “this generation of politicians” because we must all admit that regulation should have been tougher, and we should all learn the lessons of an open and independent judicial inquiry. For my part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ghtly ask whether this generation of politicians, regulators and banks can put right the wrongs for which they are paying a heavy price. I say “this generation of politicians” because we must all admit that regulation should have been tougher, and we should all learn the lessons of an open and independent judicial inquiry. For my part— [Interruption.] For my part, I regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.614.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " years we are changing the entire system of regulation by getting rid of the FSA and introducing a change to the structure of banking. That is happening because of the recommendations from the committee that we set up under John Vickers, and we have still not heard from the shadow Chancellor whether he supports John Vickers’ proposals. He often gets up and says what is wrong with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.616.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.627.6", "colnum": "627", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Parliamentary Committees have a whole set of powers available to them. Ultimately, as I understand it—the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury might correct me if I am wrong—the House itself can call witnesses to Parliament through a vote. That power is available to us— [Interruption.] That is absolutely the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.627.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-02", "file": "debates2012-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "fb9e5aa78e68d631", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "crease, even though they had found the money to give a tax cut to millionaires. As has been suggested, if there is money available, it ought to go to those whose household budgets are being squeezed the most. It is still astonishing to me that the Government seem intent on punishing families—especially those with children—while at the same time giving a massive tax cut to millionaires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-02c.644.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-03", "file": "debates2012-07-03c.xml", "sha256": "c47ea32d463f21f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.834.6", "colnum": "834", "heading": "“GROUP 12 — CARAVANS", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": "Then came the shocking revelations at Barclays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.834.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-03", "file": "debates2012-07-03c.xml", "sha256": "c47ea32d463f21f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.854.8", "colnum": "854", "heading": "“GROUP 12 — CARAVANS", "cue_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "preceding_text": "I should like to conclude my speech. I have given way enough, but if the hon. Gentleman wants to hear more about the issues affecting our country and my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.854.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-03", "file": "debates2012-07-03c.xml", "sha256": "c47ea32d463f21f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "“GROUP 12 — CARAVANS", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "ur commitment to improving the tax policy-making approach. However, it should be seen against the fiscal backdrop that we inherited. Before I discuss the Bill in more detail, let me remind Members of the challenges that we face. When we came to power, we were confronted by the largest peacetime deficit that the country had ever seen. One pound in every four was borrowed. Members will recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-03", "file": "debates2012-07-03c.xml", "sha256": "c47ea32d463f21f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "“GROUP 12 — CARAVANS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "ealing with young people before coming to Parliament, and she has been a strong advocate for them ever since. Her experience is very similar to mine. It is absolutely disgraceful that we have Ministers sitting there laughing at what is happening to young people up and down this country, who cannot get jobs because we have a Government who entered office when the economy was growing strongly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-03", "file": "debates2012-07-03c.xml", "sha256": "c47ea32d463f21f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "“GROUP 12 — CARAVANS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "lp those young people I was talking about who cannot find a job because the Government will not take action and because they cut the future jobs fund when they first came into office. What we really needed from this Government was a Budget of fairness. Instead, we got that tax cut. What they should be doing is repeating Labour’s bankers’ bonus tax, which raised £3.5 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-03", "file": "debates2012-07-03c.xml", "sha256": "c47ea32d463f21f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "“GROUP 12 — CARAVANS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hurrah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "’s figures. That £3.5 billion was nearly twice as much as the £1.8 billion raised by the bank levy. The bank levy is a start, but the Government could repeat the bank bonus tax and use the money to get young people back to work and the housing industry going. The temporary VAT cut would help small businesses that cannot get loans from the banks. I know that people want to get home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-03", "file": "debates2012-07-03c.xml", "sha256": "c47ea32d463f21f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "“GROUP 12 — CARAVANS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her comments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-03", "file": "debates2012-07-03c.xml", "sha256": "c47ea32d463f21f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "“GROUP 12 — CARAVANS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "No, I am not going to take any more interventions; the hon. Gentleman can sit down. We should be seeing the investment from the bank bonus tax and a temporary cut in VAT. The Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-03c.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "A very negative one. The hon. Lady is absolutely right. Northern Ireland justifies two airports. They are both thriving concerns and we have had some good news on air passenger duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.905.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Nick Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Smith", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is aware of the so-called punishment attacks by paramilitaries on young people in Northern Ireland. These attacks are increasing, particularly in Derry, by a group styling itself Republican Action Against Drugs. What every community needs is strong policing, not vigilantes. Will he proscribe this group?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.907.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.912.3", "colnum": "912", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Everybody can see what is happening here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "I want to draw my right hon. Friend’s attention away from banking for one moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.927.4", "colnum": "927", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "hey are otherwise unable to restore their finances to good health. It will entail about £1.5 billion of total support for them to be able to pay for their PFI projects. Where there are opportunities for renegotiation we will exercise them, but unfortunately it is in the nature of coming into government that we inherit what the previous Government left us. We were left with 102 hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.927.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.929.3", "colnum": "929", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "s part of the world, as he must know from the experience of the primary care trusts in North Yorkshire. The primary care trusts of the past did not cope, and it is up to the new clinical leadership in Yorkshire to make these things happen more effectively. The PCT did not finish last year in deficit; only three in the whole of England did—Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. I will make sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.929.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "l be a subject for local consultation. Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman will recall that, when there is any proposal not to provide a service, the Secretary of State is responsible under legislation for the provision of a comprehensive health service. It is not open, as I have made clear to the right hon. Member for Leigh, to the NHS to discontinue the provision of NHS services. It has to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2012-13 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "mer, who because of the fabulous work that she did at the UKBA has been promoted and is now one of the permanent secretaries at the Treasury, gave us a promise when she said, in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall North (Mr Winnick) , who had requested that the legacy cases be concluded by the end of last summer, that every single legacy case would be concluded by the end of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-04", "file": "debates2012-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "d8ea31fc24122cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.942.8", "colnum": "942", "heading": "VOTE ON ACCOUNT 2012-13 — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ill move on to students, which is an issue of great interest to the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon. The Select Committee happens to contain not only the hon. Lady, but the hon. Member for Cambridge (Dr Huppert) , so obviously student visas are an important issue to it. Of course, the fine universities of Northampton, Leicester, De Montfort and Rhondda are also represented in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-04a.942.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1050.6", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "Obviously, I am aware of the disappointment throughout Lincolnshire at the application’s rejection. However, given my hon. and learned Friend’s expertise, I am sure that he knows it was on valid grounds. First, the sausages have been made outside Lincolnshire for more than 20 years. We found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1050.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "really quite serious”. Will the Leader of the House explain why the Government are watering down the Vickers commission recommendations, and arrange an urgent statement on this matter from the Chancellor? May I congratulate the Leader of the House on his sterling performance in the recent ConservativeHome league table of Cabinet Ministers? The right hon. Gentleman has surged up the rankings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Walsall!”", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Lady has raised the matter with the newly elected mayor of Leicester, who has responsibility for the transport budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "their jobs. As the Army works on its manning plan over the next couple of years—there will be further tranches of redundancy—people will be able to move across the Army to fit the newer structure. The hon. Lady asked me how I arrived at the decision. I did not arrive at the decision: the Army arrived at it. The Army has done the modelling work, and the Army has come to the conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1100.2", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "It is no good the hon. Gentleman saying “without any obfuscation”. He is asking a ridiculous question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1100.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1113.7", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " that I could deliver, or any speech that any of us could deliver, for an independent, arm’s length public inquiry to elevate this debate above the deeply partisan tone set by the Chancellor and his colleagues. As for the false personal accusations that the Chancellor has made against me, not on the basis of any evidence but purely in the hope of political advantage, he said yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1113.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1113.7", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "th the Bank of England and Barclays in October 2008 concerning the LIBOR market, a claim that his aides repeat. He made that utterly baseless accusation before any proper investigation, before any witnesses had been called and before any papers had been examined. He did not say it to an inquiry; he said it yesterday to The Spectator . If he has any evidence, he should produce it now, in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1113.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1113.7", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " October 2008 concerning the LIBOR market, a claim that his aides repeat. He made that utterly baseless accusation before any proper investigation, before any witnesses had been called and before any papers had been examined. He did not say it to an inquiry; he said it yesterday to The Spectator . If he has any evidence, he should produce it now, in the House. [Interruption.] If he will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1113.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Order. Please can we calm the debate? This is an important debate, and we do not need shouting across the Chamber in that fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The allegation made about me yesterday in The Spectator is utterly untrue. At no point did I have any communication, directly or indirectly, with Mr Paul Tucker, at any time when I was an adviser, a Minister, or subsequently a Cabinet Minister, and I had no discussion at any time with anyone about the LIBOR market and its operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "tly, with Mr Paul Tucker, at any time when I was an adviser, a Minister, or subsequently a Cabinet Minister, and I had no discussion at any time with anyone about the LIBOR market and its operation. [Interruption.] It is not for me to provide the proof; it is for the Chancellor to prove his allegation. If he has any evidence, he should produce it now, in the House. I will take an intervention now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1117.4", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I need to make some progress. This is a very important issue and others want to speak. I have taken a number of interventions. I have to say, I am still waiting for the intervention that I want—the apology from the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1117.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1118.5", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should listen before she concludes whether to support our motion later on. First, all the recent experience of the phone hacking scandal suggests that only a judge-led inquiry, under the Inquiries Act 2005—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1118.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1118.7", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I will make the point and then take the intervention. First, all the recent experience of the phone hacking scandal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1118.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1118.9", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I am not going to take an intervention from the hon. Gentleman, who interrupts every sentence. It is not good for the House or this debate, and I suggest that he stay in his seat. I will say the sentence again, Mr Deputy Speaker, if that is okay with you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1118.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1120.2", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ink that that is extremely difficult. The right hon. Gentleman then raised a second point, which was that that argument could also apply to referring the matter to a Joint Committee of both Houses. If I may say so, he is correct in that. It could present such a difficulty, but I note that there is no prescriptive timetable laid down for the working of the Joint Committee and I have no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1120.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Yes, let us have more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1121.10", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1121.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1121.10", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way— [ Interruption. ] Look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1121.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not answered the question I put to him earlier. He says he wishes to have a judge-led inquiry, and he gives some perfectly good reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1123.5", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "It is a pity not only that the right hon. and learned Gentleman was not consulted before the inquiry was announced but that he is not leading for the Government today instead of the part-time Chancellor, as that would probably be a more enlightening debate. Let me repeat exactly what I said in my speech. When the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Lady in a moment— [I nterruption. ] There is no need for any favours like that to get me to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "It would help if the right hon. Gentleman listened, rather than getting carried away with his own rhetoric. There is nothing to prevent this House, if it wishes, from setting up a joint inquiry of both Houses into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "It would help if the right hon. Gentleman listened, rather than getting carried away with his own rhetoric. There is nothing to prevent this House, if it wishes, from setting up a joint inquiry of both Houses into— [ Interruption . ] The “banking industry” is the way it was described, and that is what is in the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "stry” is the way it was described, and that is what is in the motion— [ Interruption. ] Yes, to incorporate LIBOR—I make that quite clear. Obviously, and this point applies as much to the right hon. Gentleman’s motion as to any other step, if there are criminal investigations or inquiries, any inquiry by this House will have to be managed in the light of that process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1126.8", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Plan B!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "nment’s proposal for a parliamentary inquiry by the end of this year is defunct—dead, torpedoed, gone. That is why, rather than intervening again, the Attorney-General should speak to the Chancellor, call the Prime Minister—wherever he is—and say that they should withdraw these motions, get to the drawing board and come back with a plan that is baked rather than half baked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1126.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1127.3", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way because I have answered the hon. Gentleman’s question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1127.4", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1128.6", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was the City Minister during the LIBOR scandal. We know, as I said in my interventions on him earlier, that, first, Baroness Vadera admits that she saw the report that was commissioned on the LIBOR rate; and secondly, that Bob Diamond said that Ministers in Whitehall were putting the bank under pressure through the Bank of England. If he is able to tell me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1128.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1128.6", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "as I said in my interventions on him earlier, that, first, Baroness Vadera admits that she saw the report that was commissioned on the LIBOR rate; and secondly, that Bob Diamond said that Ministers in Whitehall were putting the bank under pressure through the Bank of England. If he is able to tell me— [ Interruption. ] I am answering his question. I have said that he has questions to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1128.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1128.8", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Let me say exactly what I said, and then the right hon. Gentleman can answer my question. I said, “They were clearly involved”, and we now have that from two sources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1128.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1131.5", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Of course, all involved need to answer questions. The first thing that we are doing to address the immediate issues with the LIBOR—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1131.5", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Of course, all involved need to answer questions. The first thing that we are doing to address the immediate issues with the LIBOR— [Interruption.] There are very serious issues of financial stability that we in the House have to address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1132.7", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point, and I agree absolutely with his instinct. We need to look at giving more criminal powers to our prosecuting bodies. One thing that Lord Turner has said is that, unfortunately, the FSA does not have the criminal powers it needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1132.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "under that Act have taken longer than one year, and the only one that took less than two years was into the tragic explosion at the plastics factory in Glasgow. The idea, then, that we could have a full public judge-led inquiry, while criminal prosecutions are taking place, and that it could conclude inside 12 months is completely fanciful—and the Labour party knows it. And by the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "And by the way— [ Interruption. ] Calm down. That presents the House with a serious decision, because if we do not have the results of a broader inquiry, we will not be able to amend the banking Bill, when it is introduced into Parliament next January, in order to change the law and adopt the conclusions of the inquiry. We have one of two choices, then. We can either delay the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will make further progress in my speech and then give way, but I am not giving way at the moment. If we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1135.9", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ant to say to the House. Of course we can act swiftly or follow the Opposition motion, which means delay, but there is a broader point. A Joint Committee can summon people under oath and it can summon papers. I commit to giving it any resources it needs to do its job. It can sit in public, and we can get to the bottom of what happened. But there is this final point for the House to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1135.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Watts", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that any inquiry will have public support only if it is carried out on a cross-party basis? It is amazing that a Chancellor who seeks such co-operation from the Opposition should go out and the first thing that he does is tell lies about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "criminal activity. Let us remember that, at a time when taxpayers’ money was being poured into the banking system to prop it up, these people were acting in their own personal interest and to profit Barclays and other banks, and against the interests of the country. In fact, it could even be called treason. These people belong behind bars, and the inquiry that needs to take place here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "d outwith it. What will people have witnessed here this afternoon? Partisanship. I understand that we can all get dragged into it, but I have to say that people have no faith in this place. On both sides of this House, we see ex-bankers and ex-financial advisers. Quite honestly, Madam Deputy Speaker, if you were to ask me, “Would you trust these people?”, my answer would have to be no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "to it, but I have to say that people have no faith in this place. On both sides of this House, we see ex-bankers and ex-financial advisers. Quite honestly, Madam Deputy Speaker, if you were to ask me, “Would you trust these people?”, my answer would have to be no. [Interruption.] If we seek a genuine answer, this problem needs to be tackled by being placed in the hands of someone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-05", "file": "debates2012-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "8f2de3fb90f37e0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Business without Debate — SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "that he set out in the House this afternoon. The Opposition respect the hon. Gentleman and will work with him, but we have some real concerns about the membership and secretariat of the Joint Committee, which we hope he will address. This afternoon’s debate, and particularly the devastating interventions of the Attorney-General, exposed serious questions about the scope of the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-05a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-06", "file": "debates2012-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "718bd8a260448852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "preceding_text": " but living for the past 25 years up in South Derbyshire far away from City issues has given me an ability to reflect on other things—I now deal with everyday issues such as potholes, farming, milk prices and goodness knows what else we do in South Derbyshire. The debate is somewhat esoteric: funnily enough, they are not talking about it at great length at The Dog and Duck in Shardlow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-06", "file": "debates2012-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "718bd8a260448852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": "I never fail to be surprised at the ability of hon. Friends and hon. Members to vote for what they do not really believe in, as we might see next Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-06", "file": "debates2012-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "718bd8a260448852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1227.2", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall indeed turn to the substance of the debate, but I find it rather sad that an hon. Member seeking to restore the rights of Parliament should seek to deprive another hon. Member of the right to continue the long-established tradition in the House of speaking at length, if they so choose. I was talking about the original subscribers, so I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-06", "file": "debates2012-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "718bd8a260448852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1227.2", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": " to restore the rights of Parliament should seek to deprive another hon. Member of the right to continue the long-established tradition in the House of speaking at length, if they so choose. I was talking about the original subscribers, so I— [ Interruption. ] I cannot hear what the hon. Member for West Ham (Lyn Brown) is chuntering about. If she wishes to intervene, she should please do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-06", "file": "debates2012-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "718bd8a260448852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": " down before. My hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk talked at length—but to the point, I must say—about the structures in the United States. It is important that we understand what goes on in the United States in order to understand what might happen here if the Bill becomes law. We well understand the recent financial history of the world. I was working in the City in 2000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-06", "file": "debates2012-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "718bd8a260448852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1258.2", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "er) , in her typically pithy way, made some important and powerful points about the changes that the Bill would introduce. My hon. Friend the Member for Finchley and Golders Green (Mike Freer) came with a list of original shareholders of the Bank of England and tried to identify whether any of their successors were in the House of Commons. I have with me a list of Governors of the Bank of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-06a.1258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.17.6", "colnum": "17", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I do not trust those statistics, to be honest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.17.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "e an upper Chamber that is ever-expanding. That is one of the main consequences of the unfinished 1999 reforms. Very simply, after a general election, new Governments will always seek to reflect the balance of the vote in the Lords. But it is impossible to get rid of Members: the only way to leave is to die. So new Administrations inevitably have to make more appointments to get the balance right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "ly, after a general election, new Governments will always seek to reflect the balance of the vote in the Lords. But it is impossible to get rid of Members: the only way to leave is to die. So new Administrations inevitably have to make more appointments to get the balance right. [ Interruption. ] The current membership is 816. That will soon be over 1,000. Clearly, the status quo is unsustainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It is a Bill.”", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "If, for whatever reason, the Deputy Prime Minister is unsuccessful in getting the White Paper through this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "If I could just make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "If I can make a little more progress, I will give way. Of course, this does not mean that every Member of this House agrees with every clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman misses is that the Bill will in fact make space in Parliament for a different kind of politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman misses is that the Bill will in fact make space in Parliament for a different kind of politician. [Interruption.] Let me explain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "It is worse than that. The Joint Committee did not even examine the type of voting system that is now being proposed. It was pulled out of a hat without any proper consideration. Although the Bill recognises that conventions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Byles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Byles", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has discussed the problem with having different types of peers in the new upper House, but nobody has yet discussed the new ministerial Members, who will, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "cided to introduce this Bill, our job is to respond. We will oppose where we think things are not right and we will support them when we think they are the right thing to do. As I have said, on this occasion we will be supporting the progress of this Bill, but the Committee stage will offer the opportunity for the House to shape the Bill into something much better. It is absolutely crucial —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.46.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "his proposals—other than a desire to be all things to all people? That is the sad problem with the Liberal Democrats: they always wish to be all things to all people—to go for the middle way. I am reminded of a remark I once heard, which I thought was rather good: if Christopher Columbus had been a Liberal Democrat, he probably would have been content with discovering the mid-Atlantic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "way.” I recall hardly any occasions during my time here when, in the end, they have not caved in, because we are the elected House. I believe in efficient and effective government. I think that it is something the Conservative party has stood for over the years. We have given this country more than 250 years of good government—or, at least, we have given a lot of it during that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.70.2", "colnum": "70", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Democrats currently hold the balance of power in this Chamber, and it has been suggested that if the programme motion is not passed tomorrow and if the Bill does not pass, Liberal Democrat Members will vote against the boundary changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.70.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Stevenson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What?”", "preceding_speaker": "John Stevenson", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the monarchy is part of our constitution where effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "e motions, about which I shall say more in a moment. Of course, at the time of their introduction by a Labour Government, the Conservatives and Liberals fought it tooth and nail, telling us how awful and what a denial of democracy it was, but we knew—I was in the Government Whips Office then—that as soon as they had the chance to use them, they would use them, and use them mercilessly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.108.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "d the disdain that they have both for this place and for the people. Having had their fingers burnt to a crisp over the AV referendum, they have adopted another strategy: “As we cannot trust the people to give us the right answer, we are not going to bloody ask them. We are going to tell them what is good for them. That is how we will rebuild trust in Parliament.” I do not think it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. I do not think that the current House of Lords accurately reflects the diversity of the United Kingdom. Although we think that there are Scots everywhere, there are probably fewer Scots in the House of Lords than there ought to be given the percentage of the population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-09", "file": "debates2012-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "0aee197449e878c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.122.6", "colnum": "122", "heading": "House of Lords Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Byles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Byles", "preceding_text": " but I speak regularly in this Chamber about key events and intervene in others. I am not one of those Members who chalks up short speeches on TheyWorkForYou and then judges themselves by the number of speeches they have made rather than their quality. As I said, our constituents are blinking in bewilderment at the amount of time we are spending discussing this issue, but discuss it we must—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-09a.122.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.150.6", "colnum": "150", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "ys been very open about, is that a Bill of this complexity and self-evident controversy—at least in this place—is unlikely to progress without being properly timetabled in one shape or form. I should just ask the right hon. Gentleman this: is it not time he had the courage of his convictions? He says he believes in House of Lords reform, but he wills only the ends, not the means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.150.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.152.6", "colnum": "152", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Because I am not a walking encyclopaedia. I do not have all these facts and figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.152.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.164.8", "colnum": "164", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has not seen it either. We are both in the dark, that is wonderful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.164.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.164.8", "colnum": "164", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has not seen it either. We are both in the dark, that is wonderful— [ Interruption. ] The shadow Attorney-General does not know anything, apparently. Let me enlighten her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.164.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "something that we wanted to change. Remploy is hopeful that current negotiations may lead to the transfer of business and, importantly, the retention of jobs. That currently means that 27 Remploy sites will no longer operate. Details of those sites will be placed in the House of Commons Library, so that all hon. Members can see them; they will be able to get those details, and consider them fully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": " Remploy employees. Undoubtedly, for those employees who have been told that their factories are closing, this is difficult news, but let me make one point absolutely clear: we are doing everything we can to ensure that Remploy workers who are affected will receive a comprehensive package of support and guidance to make the transition from Government-funded sheltered employment to mainstream jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "ecision, doing so in the current economic climate makes it look as if she is abandoning her duty of care to disabled employees who have given many years of service to a company that the Government own—a company that this country owns. The Minister mentioned the Access to Work programme. She might wish to remind the House that Access to Work numbers are plummeting under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "re to do so, she would see that Access to Work is actually spending more money than ever before in supporting disabled people across the country. Yes, there is more that we can do, and that we are doing, because what we inherited was what Liz Sayce called the best secret in government. We are going out and marketing Access to Work actively to make sure that more people can use it to get into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.175.7", "colnum": "175", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "orted in the way that they need to be. I gently remind him that the estimated average redundancy of somebody in a Remploy factory will be about £19,000, which is more than double the average that would be received under the statutory scheme. It is important that people get the right level of support, so we are making £8 million available to support individuals into mainstream employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.175.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have not heard the reports—I was not listening to the 4 o’clock news—and, as the hon. Gentleman well knows, that is not a matter for me, and it is certainly not a point of order. We come now to the ten-minute rule motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "May I take my hon. Friend back to the issue of programme motions? She came here before we introduced them, and by the way, I regret that we ever did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.204.4", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Johnson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point. Very few Members of this House think that the House of Lords is perfect in every way, but we do not want radical overhauls and an elected House of Lords, as suggested by this fundamentally flawed Bill. Governments are currently created by single elections—general elections—and the reviewing Chamber acts as a check and balance without—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I can answer that by moving on to my observations about the contributions made yesterday by some of my Opposition colleagues, which I also found surreal. Let me go through them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aah”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Lloyd", "preceding_text": "se of Lords, reactionary views are not restricted to my right-wing colleagues, as I heard some of them coming from Opposition Members. Even though the Labour party has supported House of Lords reform for many years and some Labour Members spoke with great passion, insight and conviction, I was struck by the unadulterated hatred towards the Lib Dems that was expressed in a number of speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hart", "preceding_text": "or the sake of what will be, at best, two and a half years of coalition management. That is one reason why the decision that I shall make at 10 pm will be such an easy one. Let us be honest. We talked a great deal about the timetable yesterday, but this is not really about the timetable. Of course the timetable is important, but the reason we are so agitated is that this is actually a rotten Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "n in the very near future, I wonder whether he could confirm that the Government intend to take advantage of the gap that may be created to bring forward some other Bills that they had promised to bring forward. They include the private Member’s Bill, which I have helpfully tabled, to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists. Indeed, I know that the Minister is absolutely delighted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": "lusion from that experience from that which some Liberal Democrats seem to have reached. I supported AV and campaigned for it. However, in the case of the AV referendum, hardly anyone who campaigned for AV really believed that it was the ideal solution, and they did not give it any enthusiastic support. That is the danger that will face the Government if and when this matter comes to a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.263.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "ot be the case that he favours referendums only when it suits him. The Government have claimed that there is no need for a referendum because Lords reform was in all three party manifestos. It is true that a commitment to Lords reform was in our manifesto, along with a promise to hold a referendum on the matter. It was also in the Liberal Democrats’ manifesto. I respectfully point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-10", "file": "debates2012-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "2f35665c0c73c4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Local Services (Planning)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": " that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House set out clearly, as well. We have heard from many members of the Joint Committee. The hon. Member for Stockport (Ann Coffey) reminded us in an excellent speech that we should pay attention to the views of our constituents. In a recent YouGov poll, 39% of the public said that the way peers are elected to—I mean get to—the House of Lords", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-10a.272.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Anne-Marie Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Anne-Marie Morris", "preceding_text": "This Government have a great record on education reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.304.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman will not have had a chance to look in detail at the White Paper, but it makes it clear that the costs in the spending review period are more than adequately met by the additional resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "As the Procedure Committee has only just resolved to look into the matter, I would not want to cut off any avenue of discussion. I think that it will be happy to look at both suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes my point. The vote was decisively lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "ecause Select Committee meetings already clash with the working hours of the Chamber. I am conscious of the time and so will make only a couple more points. We have a problem, and one in which I know you, Mr Speaker, take a personal interest: the late-night, boozing, alcoholic culture of this place. That is something that is made worse by having to wait around until 10 o’clock to vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "ing hours of the Chamber. I am conscious of the time and so will make only a couple more points. We have a problem, and one in which I know you, Mr Speaker, take a personal interest: the late-night, boozing, alcoholic culture of this place. That is something that is made worse by having to wait around until 10 o’clock to vote— [ Interruption. ] I cannot hear what they are saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aidan Burley", "preceding_text": "hose with young children, must look at the working hours of this place and think, “Yes, that is something I aspire to. I want to work those hours and to work until 11 o’clock at night, away from my family”? Frankly, we can see that there is not a very good mix of society here. There are not very many normal people in this place. If we want more normal people who have lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.361.2", "colnum": "361", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natascha Engel", "preceding_text": "spoken about the different kinds of constituency and the distances that they have to travel. There are inner-city and rural constituencies and constituencies far away and close by. We have also heard details from any number of Members about their domestic arrangements. The issue is that every single MP has different domestic arrangements. Some people have families and some have social lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": " noticed the snuff box still provided for MPs by the entrance. That is perhaps just a faintly amusing anachronism, which falls into the category, mentioned by the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) , of traditional things that are not harmful. I would say that our late sittings fall into the category of things that are anachronistic and harmful. They are harmful to the health of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "I acknowledge the point that has been made, but contrary opinions have been expressed by others who were around in that period. Indeed, some Select Committees appear now to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-11", "file": "debates2012-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "1e087894db2860e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "United Kingdom Borders", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come now to motion 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-11a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-12", "file": "debates2012-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "d598bcbcec59c000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.435.3", "colnum": "435", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the hon. Lady a breakdown of that, but I can tell her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-12", "file": "debates2012-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "d598bcbcec59c000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "to the EU can happen without the express consent of the British people. The work that I am announcing today will help to inform decisions on Britain’s future path in Europe. It is not a consultation about disengaging or withdrawing from the EU. The coalition Government’s policy on Europe has not changed. We remain committed to our membership of the EU and to a strong and stable Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-12", "file": "debates2012-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "d598bcbcec59c000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "eekend of referendum shambles than with promoting Britain’s national interest, because the splits on Europe are not just between the coalition partners, but within the Conservative party. The timing seems to reflect growing rumblings from those on the Conservative Benches, many of whom will see today’s announcement as merely another step on the ramp towards an inevitable EU referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-12", "file": "debates2012-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "d598bcbcec59c000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "in due course. Given that the right hon. Gentleman got into party political matters, let me say that it is a pity that Labour never conducted such a review. It might have helped the Labour Government when they were handing over so many competences without understanding what they were doing, without subjecting them to proper scrutiny in this House and without having a referendum. We remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.471.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-12", "file": "debates2012-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "d598bcbcec59c000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “We were right!”", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ad to policy prescriptions, which will be left to the wilder elements of individual political parties? On behalf of all of us who argue for a more decentralised, transparent and democratic European future, I want to say with an element of affection and nostalgia that, today, my mind goes back to the general election in which he led his party and I led mine. He led his on a Save the Pound campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-12", "file": "debates2012-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "d598bcbcec59c000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Certainly, public disillusionment with the European Union is the greatest that it has ever been. We should be clear about that. I remember my hon. Friend being there on the day we launched the campaign to save the pound; let us be thankful that it was successful. We had precious little help from the other side at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-12", "file": "debates2012-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "d598bcbcec59c000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "I welcome the review, but may I express my regret that it does not go far enough? My right hon. Friend is right about so many things, and indeed I was with him until the second sentence of his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-12b.479.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-13", "file": "debates2012-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2686ecd0fe01a19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-13a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "45 to 147 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act”, which received Royal Assent on 17 May 2012 . I do not know whether there is a Guinness record for the shortest time that a piece of legislation, which, indeed, will not even come into effect until October, has remained on the statue book, but if there is sections 145 to 147 of the 2012 Act would certainly qualify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-13a.597.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-13", "file": "debates2012-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2686ecd0fe01a19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-13a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "t clear that the Government want to give it a fair wind. It is by no means, of course, the only area where the Government are determined to act to improve the affordable housing situation. We inherited a lamentable record of affordable housing starts, and we have been working hard to improve that through our affordable homes programme, which will provide up to 170,000 new affordable homes by 2015.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-13a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-13", "file": "debates2012-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2686ecd0fe01a19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-13a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "Minister and so is the coalition, so it has to be a Government Bill, done properly through this House. In a Second Reading debate, we have to discuss the principles involved, so let us start with one of them. This is not intended to be a party political point. Overseas aid as a proportion of gross national income was at its lowest point in 1999, under the Labour Government, when it stood at 0.24%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-13a.646.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.699.4", "colnum": "699", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "I, too, welcome the electrification of the midland main line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.699.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "test danger is now, as the unstoppable force of reorganisation hits the immovable object of the financial challenge. That is why the Opposition make no apology for introducing this debate, or for bringing the House’s attention back to where it should be: our country’s most important public service and the struggle it faces. I am grateful for the Secretary of State’s letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.710.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "Just wait. But, as he has said, and as I have said about the £26 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I will now make some progress. The motion seeks to give the impression that NHS care is being rationed. That is worse than inaccurate: it is scurrilous nonsense and scaremongering on a grand and somewhat desperate scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.726.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I will now make progress. Treatments available on the NHS are based on clinical need. There should never be any arbitrary rationing based on cost either locally or nationally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.727.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.729.4", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": " of the national pay framework, they cannot do so unilaterally; they must consult and seek agreement with their staff and representatives. Almost all trusts have until now chosen to stay on national terms and conditions. I believe that most still want to, but that has to be fit for purpose and fit for the future. Only one trust—Southend—has opted out of “Agenda for Change”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.729.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "preceding_text": ";in introducing the solutions to the challenge that Sir David Nicholson articulated in May 2009. The same approach was taken in the Labour party’s manifesto for the 2010 general election. The challenge that the right hon. Gentleman has to address if he is to discharge his responsibilities as shadow Health Secretary is to move on from party political ding-dongs, of which we have had too many.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.754.4", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "ewer people are receiving support that they desperately need as councils raise eligibility thresholds. Charges for vital services such as home help are soaring, with huge variations across the country. That is a stealth tax on the most vulnerable members of society. At the same time, the quality of care is being put at risk as councils are forced to pass on cuts in their budgets to care providers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.754.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "e NHS and local councils to pool budgets, and new care trusts to jointly commission care. Those care trusts will be swept away under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. We supported carers through the carers grant and new rights for carers. We introduced the first ever national dementia strategy, and we backed improvements in housing through the Supporting People programme and extra care housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "ea to which the person was moving. In other words, there was still a risk of interruptions. In addition, that Labour White Paper said nothing about the rights of carers. The hon. Member for Leicester West was absolutely wrong when she told the House that Labour was responsible for introducing carers legislation. Back-Bench Members in this House, tirelessly arguing the case, were responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "per, but we are still seeing sledging and negative comments from Opposition Front-Bench Members as we have seen all day. It is deeply disappointing that the Opposition are so thoroughly letting down the people whom they claim they represent. I do not believe it is too late, and I really urge them to get back to the table and to be more positive about the steps that the Government are taking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "er, probably very expensive initially and would leave the state with an uncertain liability. If Local Authorities administered it, they might be left with a complex burden of assets which would differ greatly from one part of the country to another. The Commission consider there little overall benefit to be gained from such a scheme.” I would be grateful if the Minister could tell me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "Local Authorities administered it, they might be left with a complex burden of assets which would differ greatly from one part of the country to another. The Commission consider there little overall benefit to be gained from such a scheme.” I would be grateful if the Minister could tell me — [ Interruption. ] It is a deferred payment scheme at the discretion of local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-16", "file": "debates2012-07-16d.xml", "sha256": "80f32911ea326265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "iament was seen to be acting in the best interests of the public in resolving the issue before it, and that could happen only if the Joint Committee were supported not only by the parties in Government but by the Opposition. I am grateful to those who have added their signatures to the motion. I do not intend to detain the House for long. I want to make five points, spending half a minute on each.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-16d.795.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-17", "file": "debates2012-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3cadee7817585267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-17b.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "Of course what the hon. Gentleman omits to mention in seeking to give an impression is this: the implication is that social services are not coping with delayed discharges and are the principal cause of them, but the figures do not bear that proposition out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-17b.829.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-07-17", "file": "debates2012-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3cadee7817585267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-17b.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "I was expecting at least one further subject to be brought up during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-07-17b.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "Given the hon. Gentleman’s record on accounting for supposed children’s centres closures in his constituency, which turned out not to be the case, one needs to scrutinise some of his comments rather more closely. What I do know is that there is some very innovatory work going on in the youth field between the three boroughs in the tri-borough experiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.13.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "now is that there is some very innovatory work going on in the youth field between the three boroughs in the tri-borough experiment. [Interruption.] Within the hon. Gentleman’s own constituency, in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, they are leading the way in youth innovation zones, showing new, practical, innovatory ways of bringing services to young people that they need and will use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.13.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.15.0", "colnum": "15", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Karl McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karl McCartney", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that energetic answer. Does he agree that the Government need to focus on improving competition in school sport to counter the culture that existed under the previous Labour Government whereby teachers sought to reward all competitors for fear of dividing children into winners and losers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.15.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Free schools are already doing a fantastic job in providing that opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.15.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on House of Lords reform—or what is left of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on House of Lords reform—or what is left of it. [Interruption.] Members will be aware that the Government have decided not to proceed with the House of Lords Reform Bill during this Parliament, and I can confirm that the Government have today withdrawn that Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "221;] I am not as happy about that as Members sitting behind me. I set out these intentions during the parliamentary recess, in the light of widespread media speculation over the reforms. At that time, I committed to making a statement to Parliament at the earliest possible opportunity, which I am doing today. The House will be familiar with the sequencing of events, but let me give a brief recap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "r that she has an early autumn sore throat to battle with. She gets 10 out of 10 for spectacular insincerity, nevertheless. The Labour party used to campaign against privilege and patronage. The Labour party used to say that it was the party of the people. The Labour party used to believe that the second Chamber should be abolished altogether. Yet when push came to shove, what did it do? It—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "we had a commitment to deliver legislation, and indeed elections, come 2015, in the coalition agreement we are sticking to retaining legislation on boundaries, for which, by the way, as I know he is meticulous about such things, there was no timetable stipulated in the agreement. On boundaries, we are, I suppose, strictly speaking, adhering to the coalition agreement, unlike on Lords reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Since we are trading quotes, I remind the hon. Lady that she—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I knew the question was going to be a nice one. No, I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I find it almost touching that the right hon. Gentleman thinks that his party has any credibility whatsoever left on political reform. Labour did not introduce democracy in the House of Lords during 13 years. An opportunity was delivered to the Labour party on a silver platter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As I said before, that barely scratches the surface of the issues that exist in the House of Lords. On the first point, the failure of collective responsibility is a political one in which one party in the coalition Government has not honoured the commitments set out in the coalition agreement to proceed with reform of the House of Lords. Let me be clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "a focus of discussion, as I have mentioned, at the UN General Assembly ministerial week later in September. Again, we will directly address the question face-to-face with the Russians and Chinese during that week. I imagine, without prejudging the Prime Minister’s speech to the General Assembly, that there is a high likelihood that the subject will feature in that speech. I have to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "n this requires the full examination and passing of a Bill is the passage through this House of the European Union Act 2011, which the right hon. Gentleman probably opposed if he voted on it. A much briefer procedure was required under the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008, which he supported. Parliamentary scrutiny has been enhanced by the recent change, and I am merely establishing that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.74.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-03", "file": "debates2012-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "1fc5f52c77e3aef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": " that Britain was not going to leave Europe, and that we were very committed to the EU. I have not brought the article with me, so I cannot read it out. Dagens Nyheter in Sweden said the same thing. The Government went into total panic mode as they realised that a lot of people in Europe thought that the hon. Member for Stone spoke for the Conservative party, and that we were on our way out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-03a.93.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-05", "file": "debates2012-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "0c26af3ab75a6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.226.7", "colnum": "226", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "My responsibilities as Minister for the Cabinet Office are for the public sector efficiency and reform group, civil service issues, industrial relations strategy in the public sector, Government transparency, civil contingencies, cyber-security and civil society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.226.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-05", "file": "debates2012-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "0c26af3ab75a6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It is very good to see the hon. Gentleman back in such good form. I am sorry that when I was forming my Government of all the talents I could not find him on my speed dial, but I have done something that new Labour never managed: I have taken a miner and put him in the Cabinet, and he is running the railways. I thought the hon. Gentleman would appreciate that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.229.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-05", "file": "debates2012-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "0c26af3ab75a6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.246.8", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "cap, rightly taking into account the state of the public finances, but that decision would at least be more transparent and enforced. My noble Friend Lord Adonis, when he was Transport Secretary, took such a step and banned train companies from increasing regulated fares beyond the cap set by the Government. He has been very clear about this in oral and written evidence to the Transport Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.246.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-05", "file": "debates2012-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "0c26af3ab75a6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right that there is a choice to be made about where to pitch the figure for RPI plus or minus whatever it is. Today’s motion is based on our current policy as it is—something I think the Government could agree with—which retains credibility in terms of deficit reduction, but which would also bring significant relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-05", "file": "debates2012-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "0c26af3ab75a6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman again. As the Secretary of State’s predecessor rightly said, “If you don’t ask, you don’t get.” That is the first thing that he can do in his first Cabinet meeting—well, not his first, but his first in this role.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-05b.251.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-06", "file": "debates2012-09-06a.xml", "sha256": "488e53a2d460ecef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-06a.410.4", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The right to light and the right to amenities are completely unaffected by this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-06a.410.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-10", "file": "debates2012-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "a2b3275ef3299482", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-10b.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State should pipe down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-10b.10.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-11", "file": "debates2012-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "ebd4c310af139f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The short answer is yes, we are. It is not about legislation; it is about delivering the money. [Interruption.] Labour Members say “Ah”, but we can legislate as much as we like; the question is whether we are prepared to take the difficult decisions to deliver the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-11", "file": "debates2012-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "ebd4c310af139f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "e evidence submitted on Friday was the decision to deny people a choice about who receives the money. I hope that the Secretary of State will reform this before implementation of universal credit, because many people who run women’s refuges say that the system is so badly thought through that refuges for women fleeing from domestic violence will have to close. In fact, Refuge tells us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-11", "file": "debates2012-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "ebd4c310af139f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Anne Begg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Begg", "preceding_text": "12;will help to highlight important issues to the Secretary of State and his Ministers, such as the questions that still need answers, the decisions that still have to be taken and the unintended consequences. I know that witnesses have already presented us with a number of such consequences in the evidence we have taken. Some groups will be worse off under universal credit and some will lose out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.162.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-11", "file": "debates2012-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "ebd4c310af139f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Brown", "preceding_text": "on as a proportion of gross domestic product. We must look outside the Secretary of State’s Department to find the savings dramatically to reduce the cap on student fees. The renewal of Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent and a new generation of Trident submarines are unaffordable and unnecessary public expenditure, not the higher education of our nation’s young people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-11", "file": "debates2012-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "ebd4c310af139f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "cerns that led it to withhold approval for his appointment. I share these concerns and, as a parliamentarian, take little pleasure in seeing a Select Committee’s view being completely ignored, but I wish Professor Ebdon well, will take a close interest in his work and will endeavour to help in any way I can. His recent interview with The Daily Telegraph , however, has attracted much comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-11", "file": "debates2012-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "ebd4c310af139f31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "That is like the small print of a contract. I have seen the advice to OFFA and what is said on its website. I do not know whether my right hon. Friend, through that intervention, sought to withdraw the injunction given to OFFA last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-11b.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-12", "file": "debates2012-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "9e46da1ce7d9d7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-12a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " who have to do the fighting. The number of women who have lost their jobs under the Government’s cuts has been twice that of men, and the statistics out today show that the number of female redundancies has been rising over the last few months. In addition, we now have nine Departments with not a single woman Minister. Now, I know the Prime Minister likes to think of himself as butch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-12a.273.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-12", "file": "debates2012-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "9e46da1ce7d9d7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-12a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "This is an economy that has generated 1 million new private sector jobs. I know the right hon. Gentleman does not want to talk about predistribution, but I have done a little work and I can tell him about his new guru. His new guru, the man who invented predistribution, is called—and I am not making this up— [Interruption.] They do not want to hear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-12a.276.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-12", "file": "debates2012-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "9e46da1ce7d9d7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-12a.321.5", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": " believed they could win. Just so we are clear, damages awarded to claimants in defamation cases are typically between £10,000 and £20,000, whereas the costs of such litigation frequently run to many hundreds of thousands of pounds, but the Government now seem to think that the fees lawyers charge will come down if fewer people can get access to justice. Two situations could arise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-12a.321.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-12", "file": "debates2012-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "9e46da1ce7d9d7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-12a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "t damaging to me, as the journalist explained what the process was and I did not mind. The idea that if I had no money I could go to a lawyer and ask them, at the expense of their other clients or of the public purse to take action, in a case in which there was not substantial damage to me, strikes me as absurd. There are therefore counter-arguments to the cases raised by Lord Prescott and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-12a.328.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-13", "file": "debates2012-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "186876aedb671dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-13a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman’s answer on asbestos is much too complacent. It is incredible that we are being brought back here when every day I go into my office, I meet men in white coats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-13a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-13", "file": "debates2012-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "186876aedb671dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-13a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "pect he earned across the sector during his period as Secretary of State. He is sitting next to the former Secretary of State for Health—the Government Front Bench today could be called “detox and retox”, as while the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield was detoxifying the Conservative brand, the right hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr Lansley) was retoxifying it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-13a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-13", "file": "debates2012-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "186876aedb671dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-13a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "mple, nearly half of children entering education are now female, and such key building blocks will enable women to take a more prominent role. Just under 30% of Members of the Afghan Parliament are women, and we must ensure that in the future, women have the education and training that will enable them to participate more fully in Afghan society than in the past. I will conclude my comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-13a.444.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-13", "file": "debates2012-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "186876aedb671dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-13a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "BACKBENCH BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bingham", "preceding_text": "Far from it; the market would work perfectly if we could see a little more of how it works. The issue is about ensuring that there are fair petrol prices and that when the oil price comes down, so does the petrol price. Mrs Bingham complains that I do not take her anywhere expensive anymore, but last week I took her to a petrol station in High Peak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-13a.475.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-09-18", "file": "debates2012-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "24ae953862114aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-18a.790.5", "colnum": "790", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "As I said in my statement, the amount of partnering will steadily reduce with the transition to Afghan lead, then Afghan sole control. As a matter of fact, it has been reducing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-09-18a.790.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-16", "file": "debates2012-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "0cf38f2809a10a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-16a.286.5", "colnum": "286", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to that and to the questions from the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright) in the same way, if I may. Enforcement, local consultation—this deals with my hon. Friend’s concern—and the system for calling in are unchanged by the new clauses. There will be no addition of formality. That is unlikely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-16a.286.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "I do not think I can carry on accepting all these welcomes; it is far too much for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.307.5", "colnum": "307", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Government’s policy on Remploy is to provide supported jobs in mainstream employment. I have had discussions with him previously about the issue. I am entirely happy to have further discussions with him if he requires. As to Friday, I cannot make any commitments as I do not have my diary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I had really hoped that, just for once, we would get a straight answer to a straight question. All the Prime Minister needs to do—Government Members will like this—is to take a leaf out of the police Minister’s book, because on Monday he told the House the truth. He said that there are 6,778 fewer front-line police officers than when they came to power. Why not just admit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "aid that there are 6,778 fewer front-line police officers than when they came to power. Why not just admit— [ Interruption. ] I do not think that the part-time Chancellor is going to help, but perhaps he is taking over the Home Office. This is another promise broken. The Government are not just breaking their promises; it is their conduct as well. This is what the Mayor of London said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "This is what the Mayor of London, the Prime Minister’s new best mate, said last year at the Conservative party conference: “I reckon we need to…make it clear that if people swear at the police then they must expect to be arrested.”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.314.5", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What the Chief Whip did and what the Chief Whip said were wrong. I am absolutely clear about that, and I have been clear throughout. That is why it is important that the Chief Whip apologised. That apology has been accepted by the officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.314.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "No straight answers on police numbers, and no straight answers on the Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.315.4", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " public, but from the newspapers, what are they saying in private? That he is “completely undermined” and that his position is untenable. In other words, he’s toast. That is the reality. Here is the truth about this Government: while everybody else loses their jobs, the Chief Whip keeps his. If you are a millionaire you get a tax cut, if you are everybody else you get a tax rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.315.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, may I wish the hon. Gentleman happy birthday for yesterday? He was seen celebrating it, and I would like to join in that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely right. Labour MP after Labour MP is trooping up to Corby and claiming that the hospital is not safe when they know that that it is simply not true. The local newspaper is now backing up the fact that the hospital is being invested in by this Government, because unlike the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.318.4", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Why will the Prime Minister not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.318.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.318.4", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Why will the Prime Minister not— [ Interruption. ] I am over here. Why will the Prime Minister not publish all the texts, e-mails and other forms of correspondence between himself and his office and Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and News International, so that we can judge whether they are relevant? Is it because they are too salacious and embarrassing for the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.318.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.318.5", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, before answering this question, I would like hon. Members to recall that the hon. Gentleman stood up in the House and read out a whole lot of Leveson information that was under embargo and that he was not meant to read out, much of which about me turned out to be untrue, and he has never apologised. Do you know what? Until he apologises, I am not going to answer his questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Transport Secretary came to the House and made a full statement and gave a full apology for what had happened. I must ask the House this: can we remember a Labour Minister ever apologising for anything? Anyone? None!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You will remember the extensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Relationship, Drug and Alcohol Education (Curriculum)", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "A range of measures in the Bill will help to improve access to justice. Of course, the most important thing is to make sure that fewer people end up going to employment tribunals in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.334.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.348.4", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Relationship, Drug and Alcohol Education (Curriculum)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "a chorus of “Happy Birthday”, but we wish him many happy returns. While I warmly welcome the new Minister to her place, I have to say, with a tinge of disappointment, that I will miss her predecessor, the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) , for two reasons. First, we incessantly used his book, “How to maximise compensation at an employment tribunal”, in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.348.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-17", "file": "debates2012-10-17c.xml", "sha256": "ef07eed1b5f5cd96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Relationship, Drug and Alcohol Education (Curriculum)", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "I commend the right hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East (Mr Brown) for his assiduous and long-standing opposition to “To let” signs. I wonder what has driven him to this position, but I recognise and celebrate his tenacity in finding occasions on which to make such proposals in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-17c.419.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-18", "file": "debates2012-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "c1d249036bc52ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "we can establish what on earth the Government’s policy on low-energy tariffs now is? In his botched reshuffle, the Prime Minister appointed the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) as a roving Minister. It appears that the Education Secretary also considers himself to be a roving Minister, as he has announced that he would vote to leave the European Union in a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.498.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-18", "file": "debates2012-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "c1d249036bc52ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — European Union (Croatian Accession and Irish Protocol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. I would if I could get extra time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-18", "file": "debates2012-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "c1d249036bc52ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — European Union (Croatian Accession and Irish Protocol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You’ve done it twice now!”", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron) for securing the debate. It has prompted a wonderful outburst of regimental ties, which cannot be a bad thing, and has resulted in probably the smartest turnout in the Public Gallery that we have seen for years. Although we are not allowed to mention the Public Gallery, the whole House pays tribute to the service and gallantry of those seated up there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-18", "file": "debates2012-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "c1d249036bc52ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — European Union (Croatian Accession and Irish Protocol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Not for a third time. He would not give way even once. Can we crack on? We have to deal with that hole in the budget, and the hole in the defence budget, if we want to put the defence of this nation on a sound and sustainable footing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-18", "file": "debates2012-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "c1d249036bc52ebb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — European Union (Croatian Accession and Irish Protocol) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “That’s you.”", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "nce, he was turned around. Although I respect the Chilcot review and its conclusions, I have to say that in the light of the evidence made available both in this country and abroad by people who have taken a big picture, overarching and strategic view, I cannot accept that intercept is not of serious and substantial law enforcement value. My right hon. Friend the Member for Esher and Walton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-18b.577.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-22", "file": "debates2012-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d5936d297513bdbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " popularity, which he has built up over the past two-and-a-half years? That takes me to the real problem the Prime Minister faced at this summit. At home last week, he was starring in his own version of “The Thick of It”. In Europe he was offering another chapter in his handbook of “How to Lose Friends and Influence”. This is what Finland’s Europe Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-22", "file": "debates2012-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d5936d297513bdbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "said— [Interruption.] Those on the Government Benches do not like to hear about their lack of influence in Europe. This is what Finland’s Europe Minister said at the summit: “Britain is…putting itself in the margins...the boat is pulling away and one of our best friends is somehow saying ‘bye bye’ and there’s not really that much we can do about it.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-22", "file": "debates2012-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d5936d297513bdbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " and influential player…right there in the vanguard.” If he thinks that, the problem is not that he is isolated, it is that he is completely deluded about the arguments going on in Europe. Last October, he said: “This is not the time to argue about walking away”.—[ Official Report , 24 October 2011; Vol. 534, c. 27 .] But that is exactly what his Cabinet is now doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-22", "file": "debates2012-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d5936d297513bdbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point about the European budget is that we need to maximise our negotiation leverage on that specific issue, as we are part of this union and we want it to have a sustainable budget. As I wrote in the letter of 18 December 2010 , “payment appropriations should increase, at most, by no more than inflation over the next financial perspectives”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-22", "file": "debates2012-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d5936d297513bdbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "There is a case for saying that the institutions that Europe put in place after the second world war—and I would include NATO as well as the European Union—have played a role in making sure that we settle our problems around conference tables rather than on the fields of Flanders. To that extent, yes, I think that it is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-22", "file": "debates2012-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d5936d297513bdbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.708.6", "colnum": "708", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I did not have a dinner that evening, so the hon. Gentleman’s question was wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.708.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-22", "file": "debates2012-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d5936d297513bdbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.714.4", "colnum": "714", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "That is an absolutely excellent suggestion. Labour Front Benchers also ought to consider the effect of a financial transactions tax, because that will be pushed ahead by some EU members. It would be a great mistake to start piling on extra taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.714.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-22", "file": "debates2012-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d5936d297513bdbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Hillsborough", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Walton.”", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": "I should like to start by praising the families who fought on and on for 23 years to get to where we are today. I want to talk to the public about the impact of what we are discussing. Football is a great joiner of people. Since I have come to this place, I have developed an excellent friendly relationship with the hon. Member representing Liverpool, Wavertree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-22a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "preceding_text": "The arguments presented by the hon. Gentleman are fatuous, and the previous Government endorsed regional bandings for London workers. If today he is saying that he does not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.818.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are grateful to the Minister but some of these answers are simply too long. If they are drafted by officials, Ministers are responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Chapman", "preceding_text": "The former Secretary of State wanted to make age the only factor in the formula, which would have totally ignored poverty and the local cost of care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "My information is that any 40% reduction is a result of cuts in administration—and that, if I may say so, seems the right way to go about things. This Government are determined to make sure that when we make cuts of that nature, they are not actually cuts —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "preceding_text": "Let me bring the hon. Gentleman back to planet earth for a while —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.826.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": " cull would cost farmers more than it saved them, put huge strain on the police and spread bovine TB in the short term as badgers move out of cull areas. It would cost half a million pounds a year to police per area, and all for a 16% reduction in bovine TB over nine years. Bovine TB is a terrible disease for farmers, their families and their communities, which is why we, when in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is too much noise coming from both sides of the House. Mr Kawczynski, I have had reason to indicate this to you before, but you must calm down. I think that you need to go on an anger management course, man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "esults were similar to those of the RBCT we might expect a 12 to 16% reduction in bovine TB over an area of 150 km sq after nine years relative to a similar unculled area. It will be important to monitor the results and to subject them to rigorous statistical analysis to assess humaneness, safety and efficacy.” That is exactly what the pilots were for: they were the logical conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.838.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-23", "file": "debates2012-10-23c.xml", "sha256": "6f6d1eaebc2ad056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.889.6", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Careers Advice in Schools for 12-16 Year Olds", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right and I apologise for having failed to respond to that part of his excellent contribution. I am not sure I have at my fingertips the exact number of dual-registered vehicles in the UK, or the number of those likely to enter the UK, or the likely growth in the number of dual-registered vehicles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-23c.889.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.912.4", "colnum": "912", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "I happily praise the efforts of my hon. Friend the Minister and, indeed, the shadow Minister, who I know has had a long-standing interest in HMS Caroline. I also thank the National Heritage Memorial Fund for providing £1 million to secure the future of HMS Caroline in Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.912.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Let us talk about my record as Energy Secretary. I want to thank the Prime Minister for the Conservative party briefing document issued last Thursday—after the chaos at PMQs. It reveals something very interesting. While I was the Energy Secretary, the average dual fuel bill fell by £110; under him, it has risen by £200, so I will compare my record to his any day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.916.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.916.4", "colnum": "916", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Even the Prime Minister is taking his habit of not answering questions to a new level. I asked him a question— [Interruption.] If he wants to swap places, I am very happy to do so. I asked him a question about the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.916.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I would argue that Members across this House would recognise that the record of my right hon. Friend the Member for North West Hampshire (Sir George Young) stands for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.921.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mowat", "preceding_text": " Afghanistan. Three months later, she gave birth to Daniel’s baby, Lexie- Mai. The Army will not accept paternity without evidence; nor will it release the DNA without a court order. As a consequence, Lexie-Mai receives nothing. Will the Prime Minister help to expedite this case? Will he also require that the Army routinely holds DNA, as happens in other countries, such as the United States?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.921.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.935.6", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "That is exactly why this needs to be tackled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.935.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.945.5", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “How many?”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I have already. I explained how the number of companies fell under Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.945.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": " Change told our Select Committee that it could not intervene and that it was down to the companies, but now it says it can intervene. The regulator is, unfortunately, very poor at delivering. It is not that it does not want to do the right thing—it does—but the Government set the agenda for Ofgem. If the direction is poor and the regulator is not given the power to impose fines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I am going to have to drop the limit to six minutes to get everybody in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "roken, therefore, and I welcome the action that has been taken. The hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr Whitehead) is clearly very learned in respect of the issues under discussion. He talked about a modern version of the pool—that sounds like something somebody would propose for planning permission—but that was scrapped in 2000, and neither was it in the 2010 Labour party manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Justin Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justin Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "f choice—there are already hundreds of different tariffs and unravelling them is an extremely complicated process—a few simple tariffs, or one flat rate per company. In the responses, 18% voted for lots of choice, 37% for a few simple tariffs and 46% for one flat rate per company. That shows clearly that the Prime Minister was on to something. Consumers do not want to be diddled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "e most sorrow about this motion and the Labour party is the fact that with real pathos they have made the worst mistake of all for an Opposition: they have confused opposition with opportunism. They have put party interest above national interest and short-term instincts above long-term interests. They are about fiction, not facts—and for fans of shale gas, friction, not fracts——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "Indeed, only one Liberal Democrat is present: the hon. Member for Burnley (Gordon Birtwistle) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.993.5", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ved them, and reducing reoffending. She will not find much joy in Stourbridge about what has happened in terms of those policies. Labour Members believe that the policing settlements for this year, last year and the year before have caused great damage to the communities that we represent, and that next year’s settlement, through the comprehensive spending review, is likely to be much worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.993.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. We support some aspects of the Winsor reforms, as I have said publicly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.998.5", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Gentleman should listen to what I say. The claim is, I think, that forces are facing 20% cuts, but no force is facing cuts of that level. As he knows as well as anyone in the country, the police service receives about a quarter of its income from the police precept element of council tax, the exact proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.998.5", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " the living retreads. The confusion on the Opposition Benches is summed up with a pleasing touch of nostalgia by a dispute between Blair and Prescott. Prescott is having an argument with a new Blair, Lord Blair, who is arguing that people should not vote—I think that is disgraceful, and I hope the Labour party will agree that to tell people not to vote in a democratic election is deplorable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "se if they fail to represent their communities, engage properly and deliver on their priorities, the public will tell them what they think at the ballot box. Policing matters to the public and people want their forces to respond to their concerns. The advertising campaign the Home Office has been running this month will be seen by 85% of the public. It tells them how to get more information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.999.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-24", "file": "debates2012-10-24c.xml", "sha256": "180a901f496acc52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Karl Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karl Turner", "preceding_text": "h so monumentally failed to deliver for the Olympics? There is nothing intelligent coming from the Government in terms of police policy. They have been terribly incompetent. The alleged “I’ll have your job” comment from the former Chief Whip now seems somewhat ironic, given recent events. I wear with pride today my new cufflinks, “Plebs” and “Toffs”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-24c.1012.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-25", "file": "debates2012-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "c565fb541a519de6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1059.4", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "preceding_text": "Halfpenny Green vineyard in my constituency has over the past 30 years been producing some of the finest quality English wines. It has become an important local employer and is a perfect example of the importance of farm diversification. Indeed, Mr Speaker, the wine is so good that I am sure I would even be able to provide you with a bottle—if I was able to get called earlier in statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-25", "file": "debates2012-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "c565fb541a519de6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1066.8", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Lady is being pretty unfair. The minute we heard about this, we launched a consultation. That will report tomorrow. On the basis of evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1066.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-25", "file": "debates2012-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "c565fb541a519de6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "are independent and I see no reason at this stage for us to think that there would be any merit in seeking to overturn those inquiries, which are making progress. We must simply make sure that, as I know they will, they all respect and understand the fact that the police’s criminal investigation must take precedence. The shadow Leader of the House also asked about business relating to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-25", "file": "debates2012-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "c565fb541a519de6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "his afternoon that we are convinced there can be both a healthy badger population and healthy livestock. I will restrict my remarks to the positive role that I believe the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee can play. Only two hon. Members who served on that Committee during the previous Parliament remain—my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson) and myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-25", "file": "debates2012-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "c565fb541a519de6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": " problem was that badgers can get into sheds. He also said that famers grazing cattle in fields cannot prevent badgers from getting to them. That is not what the cattle husbandry issue is about—the Secretary of State was focused totally on badgers, rather than on what happens when cattle spread disease. The fact is that many of the badgers that carry TB are not particularly infectious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-25a.1107.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "is more to do. The first round of the employer ownership pilots included funding for a bid by engineering companies across the country specifically to support engineering apprenticeships and engineering training. I entirely accept the size of the challenge in engineering and ICT. If we say that engineering is not for half of our population, we are never going to have enough high-quality engineers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.9.1", "colnum": "9", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman) has been chuntering from a sedentary position, to no obvious benefit or purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.11.4", "colnum": "11", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "It is early days, but 98% of pupils at the JCB academy, which was our first university technical college, got an A* to C in engineering in their first exams this summer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.20.8", "colnum": "20", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the hon. Lady would welcome the additional investment in making sure that the very poorest two-year-olds receive 15 hours of free pre-school education—something that was never achieved under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.20.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "cautions. The hon. Lady asked why nothing was done in February. Of course something was done in February—we acted straight away under the previous Secretary of State. Once the first United Kingdom finding of Chalara was confirmed in March, plant health authorities prepared a pest risk analysis. No previous national or international pest risk analysis existed, partly because until 2010—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "This episode is a terrible indictment of the Government, and also the Opposition, because the Horticultural Trades Association first warned about the disease back in 2009—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.26.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman is right in this instance. In fact, had the “cap and share” arrangements introduced by the last Government been allowed to operate, they could have manifested themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": " of public service schemes receive their pensions should be regularly and independently reviewed. I am told that the Government agreed in negotiations that such reviews would take place, but that is not enshrined in the Bill. I will be more than happy to give way to the Chief Secretary so that he can clarify whether he is going to make a concession by providing for such a review in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-29", "file": "debates2012-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb348017bdd2ae1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "nomic backdrop to these reforms. During its last year in government, the Labour party burdened the UK with the largest budget deficit since the second world war and the largest in the developed world. It amounted to £159 billion. Labour was borrowing £5,000 a second, which means that it would have borrowed about £90 million between the moment we started today’s debate and now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-29a.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-30", "file": "debates2012-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "107411f2b3f31b36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-30a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr Kelvin Hopkins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-30a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-30", "file": "debates2012-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "107411f2b3f31b36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-30a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I am happy to discuss the matter further with the hon. Lady. It is clear, though, that when a care home provider seeks to recruit a member of staff to work with people in a care home setting, they have to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-30a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.222.5", "colnum": "222", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "It has been a busy first few weeks in the Department. I have attended the United Nations General Assembly, where I was able to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria. I have travelled to a World Bank meeting in Tokyo, where I met the Indian Finance Minister, as I have just said. I have taken the opportunity to meet my counterparts at the European Council of Ministers in Luxembourg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.222.5", "colnum": "222", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "have travelled to a World Bank meeting in Tokyo, where I met the Indian Finance Minister, as I have just said. I have taken the opportunity to meet my counterparts at the European Council of Ministers in Luxembourg. [Interruption.] I have introduced new financial controls and instigated a review of consultancy in the Department. I have also managed to visit country programmes in Kenya and Somalia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "When it comes to consistency, the Prime Minister seems to have forgotten what he said as Leader of the Opposition just four months before the last general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "It is good to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ernment needs to set out a definitive and unambiguous energy policy”. This is obviously an appropriate day to consider that recommendation on energy. By the way, it is good to see the Business Secretary in the Chamber, and I am sorry that that growth committee he is on is so unmemorable that he cannot remember it. This is an appropriate day to be considering this recommendation so his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "s good to see the Business Secretary in the Chamber, and I am sorry that that growth committee he is on is so unmemorable that he cannot remember it. This is an appropriate day to be considering this recommendation so his— [Interruption.] I am rather enjoying this. The Prime Minister’s Energy Minister says he is against wind farms and enough is enough, while his Energy Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.229.4", "colnum": "229", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have one thing to say. Not you, Mr Speaker, but the right hon. Gentleman—he’s no Michael Heseltine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jones", "preceding_text": "As the Minister said, many of the amendments in this group are technical. I do not wish to take up too much time on them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "ome two-tier areas work, while in others there are tensions. We need to ensure that they work better in future, and I believe that the Bill and the Lords amendments will be one means of helping them to achieve that. My hon. Friend’s point about perception is important too. I experienced some frustration when I was first elected as a councillor in the London borough of Havering in 1974—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "I note that the hon. Gentleman has both read them and counted them. Anyway, I cannot pretend to have read all of Lord Heseltine’s tour de force of a report, but the cursory reading that time allowed me while I was preparing my brief notes for the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "wer to every question for Lord Heseltine involves banging the table, big figures, big organisations and big macho approaches to local government, but that does not always reflect the nuances of the different power structures and checks and balances in modern local government in a 21st-century country. I hope that I have not been too unkind to Lord Heseltine, but I am sure he has heard worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.262.5", "colnum": "262", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "ows about. There was never a more excellent local government Minister than him, and it is a great loss to local and central Government that he no longer occupies that position. However, he will do a fantastic job on behalf of his constituents as a diligent and community-focused Member. There is an intellectual coherence in the Bill, because when we examined the regional development agencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.262.5", "colnum": "262", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": " central Government that he no longer occupies that position. However, he will do a fantastic job on behalf of his constituents as a diligent and community-focused Member. There is an intellectual coherence in the Bill, because when we examined the regional development agencies— [ Laughter. ] Labour Members laugh, but the RDAs were bureaucratic and wasteful, and they failed to deliver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "221; They say they want to reduce the deficit, but they will not tell us when or how they will do so. Failing to reduce the deficit damages the underlying economy, real and sustainable growth, and the prospect of real and sustainable jobs for the very people about whom they claim to be concerned. Locking people into a massively complicated benefits system, which they created, is not helping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.281.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": " to use the default scheme is a local choice. The ability to design schemes in different ways is, and should be, a local choice. It is strange that there should be any objection to that. The Government have provided help, of course, and not only through the transitional scheme, which I regard not as a mark of weakness but as a mature and sensible reflection on how to proceed in a constructive way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.283.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The two Government parties have a lot of history to confront, but I do not want to be as partisan as the Financial Secretary, except to say that in a week when 1 million letters are being sent clawing back child benefit, when police budgets are being cut by 20%, when pensioners are having their tax allowances frozen, and when some of the poorest in society are being asked to pay more in tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I want to address the motion and the amendment, if I may. The Government’s motion, for all its rhetoric, has such meagre ambitions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.302.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is entirely right, and that is why the Government do not get it. They need a negotiating strategy to get the best deal for the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": ". Friend is entirely right, and that is why the Government do not get it. They need a negotiating strategy to get the best deal for the taxpayer. [Interruption.] The Minister laughs, and the Chancellor is next to him puppeting him along in his hilarity, but I say to the Chancellor that this is an incredibly serious issue. It is about taxpayers’ money, and incredibly large sums of it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.303.6", "colnum": "303", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Dan Byles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Byles", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point, but I do not think any Government Members are saying that we should go into the negotiations saying that we will use the veto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.303.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The new Chief Whip will have his own strategy for twisting arms and using his powers of persuasion. The amendment is straightforward and similar to the position the Opposition took in July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way, as I know that many other Members want to speak. I resent the Minister’s answer to my earlier question, as I think he simply misunderstood it. When the Government increased VAT in this country to 20%, it increased the amount of money we would have to pay to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": " Union, and the increased trade and prosperity from which British workers and British companies benefit, is the fact that countries such as Spain and Portugal—and, increasingly, countries such as Slovenia—are growing and benefiting by their membership of the EU. The EU also makes a contribution to democracy and stability in Europe, for which the Nobel prize committee has rightly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh, oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. It is time we started to be grown up. I am sorry if I sound like an old stager but, having lived through the Major years, I must say to my Conservative colleagues that we simply cannot carry on with the sort of self-indulgence that we see on the Order Paper today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "ce that we see on the Order Paper today. [Hon. Members: “Oh, oh!”] No, no. We cannot continue with this self-indulgence. The reason Blair was able to give away the rebate was largely because we lost the general election in 1997, and one reason we lost the general election was because the nation was not prepared to vote for a party and a Government that they saw as being deeply divided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.337.4", "colnum": "337", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "Well, there we are. Contrary to what the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) said, I do not think that this manoeuvre is entirely cynical. We have come a long way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-10-31", "file": "debates2012-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "ed8b7ee13f6209d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "European Union Free Movement Directive 2004 (Disapplication)", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": " red line. We will deploy a veto if our conditions are not met. That is widely understood. This debate will be watched outside the Chamber and everyone can be clear about that. We have seen total confusion on the part of the Opposition as to what is a red line. The Leader of the Opposition, the shadow Foreign Secretary and the shadow Chancellor would not confirm that they would even deploy a veto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-10-31c.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-01", "file": "debates2012-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1774af0c214043d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.392.5", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "As a relatively new business manager, I will of course be very glad to discuss these matters with colleagues, not least the House authorities and my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne (Mr Walker) —he is no longer in his place—who chairs the Procedure Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.392.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-01", "file": "debates2012-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1774af0c214043d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.397.6", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "preceding_text": "A regrettable statistic—and I remember the days—is that one used to be able to buy six pints for a fiver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.397.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-01", "file": "debates2012-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1774af0c214043d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Will he reconsider his previous answer to me? Scotch whisky is the heaviest taxed of all the spirits, beers, ciders and wines in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-01", "file": "debates2012-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1774af0c214043d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": " about the impact of the beer duty escalator on working men’s clubs—this was also raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian (Mr Hamilton) . Nobody in this House can be in any doubt about the impact of the current economic climate and, in particular, the beer duty escalator on the pub trade—the Minister certainly cannot, unless, like the Olympic flame, he does not go out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-01", "file": "debates2012-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1774af0c214043d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": " sure he is well aware of the importance of jobs in the industry to his local area, as I am in my area. I want to put the Opposition’s position on record. I do not want to introduce a discordant note, because everyone has spoken in favour of the motion so far. I hope that the Economic Secretary will take that on board. However, it is incumbent on me to explain why we will support the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-01", "file": "debates2012-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1774af0c214043d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": "y support that proposal. I would suggest, however, that any such duty should not be frittered away, as many of the tax receipts obtained by the Scottish Government are. I would suggest that, if it were devolved, it should be hypothecated so that the money could be put into the airports, rather than into some of the other high-falutin’ schemes that happen north of the border at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-01", "file": "debates2012-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "c1774af0c214043d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Minister recognises that his words are extremely disappointing to many of my constituents who travel regularly to the Caribbean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-01a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-02", "file": "debates2012-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "bc72ad02599cf44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-02a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that making a statement on a Friday is not ideal, because not all colleagues can be here, but such was the gravity of the situation that I felt it was important to come to the House at the earliest opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-02a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-02", "file": "debates2012-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "bc72ad02599cf44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-02a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": " who they were. Scott led the advance party himself; the second party was led by the geologist Mr Ferrar, with whom went two men, Kennar and Weller. He says: “The original scheme was that the whole party should journey together to the summit of Victorialand, and it was said that there should be an absence of nine weeks calculated for the advance party.” To cut a long story short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-02a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-02", "file": "debates2012-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "bc72ad02599cf44d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-02a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "I associate myself with my hon. Friend’s comments about the work of colleagues who are not here, as well as those who are, in highlighting the important work of the BAS. Will he also draw attention to the work of the Science and Technology Committee, which undertook an investigation and published a report this week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-02a.531.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.576.6", "colnum": "576", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "I am getting weary of the charge that this contract is somehow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.576.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "To correct my hon. Friend, what the contract said was, “Should we win the contract, the sort of people we would look to negotiate with would be Disability Cornwall”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.588.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "There are obviously national policy statements—full stop. In addition, we are consulting on where these should bite in. We will be looking most carefully at those authorities that have not been able to meet these targets, but there is a big distinction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ere is the evidence? This will be a familiar theme in this debate. We are told that there are 1,200 sites and 75,000 homes that are stalled. Apparently the figure comes from something called the Glenigan database. When I asked the planning Minister if he would publish it so that we could see for ourselves the information on which the statement is based, he refused to do so. So we cannot see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.613.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ployees and think it a jolly good thing. We do not, however, need the Bill for that because companies are already perfectly free to give shares to their workers. The clause does something completely different, and, for the first time that I can recall, employers will be allowed to buy their way out of legislation that protects their workers. The legislation is explicit and there is a tariff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "e rights. Many of them will ask, “How lucky do I feel today and when I think about the future of the company?” The Government have made it crystal clear that in future employers will not have to get an agreement and will be able to offer only contracts involving shares. It means that the only way someone will be able to get a job with that company is if they give up their rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "sition that it is a choice, but one feature of this Bill seems to be that those who are sponsoring it have not actually read it. A Treasury background note published at the same time as the Bill states that “new start-ups can choose to offer only this new type of contract for new hires.” The English is a bit dodgy, but I think it refers to new workers that a company is taking on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "omatically result in a reduction of the amount of business rate paid. I therefore hope that Ministers will not be put off course on that. It is also worth bearing in mind the other assistance that this Government have given, particularly through small business rate relief, which we extended for an unprecedented period—again, something that Labour did not do. The democratic centralists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-05", "file": "debates2012-11-05b.xml", "sha256": "3264ef3ba17d6a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "preceding_text": " Wells (Greg Clark) , said that “we should move away from a system of planning by development control, where recourse is made to the Planning Inspectorate rather than local decision makers, which is how the future of our communities has been developed. I want fewer appeals to the Planning Inspectorate and more decided locally.”—[ Official Report , 17 May 2011; Vol. 528, c. 273 .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-05b.655.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.724.8", "colnum": "724", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "several reasons why the out-turn has been different from the forecasts, including “deteriorating export markets…impaired credit conditions” and “euro area anxiety”. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can welcome yesterday’s report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research, which said that Britain would be the fastest-growing economy in Europe in 2013 and 2014.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.724.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.730.8", "colnum": "730", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "The Government make a great deal of creating 1 million private sector jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.730.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16)", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "There are within the treaties articles that can be invoked. For example, if a member state departs from fundamental standards of human rights and democratic values that are embodied in the articles of the treaty, ultimately its full rights as an EU member can be suspended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16)", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I call Michael Connarty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16)", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "re “that only British authorities can initiate criminal investigations in Britain”. The Prime Minister showed brilliant prescience. He knew what this country needed and what it ought to get back. The Bill could have brought it back, because we could have said to our European partners that we will not agree to Croatia’s entry or Ireland’s protocols if we are not given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.778.3", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "I understand the emotions that are running among those who have been pro-EU in their —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16)", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Mr Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.790.5", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16)", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "If the intervention by the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Wayne David) is in order, Mr Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.790.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "olls off the tongue—has yet to be agreed, the benchmark has been set by how this accession has been handled. The UK played a role within the Council of Europe in assuring it. If Conservative Members are as worked up as they were last week, they might want to give credit where it is due, and approve of the financial implications of this accession. The hon. Member for Glasgow Springburn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Free School Meals (Children Over the Age of 16)", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": ", we will stand a real risk of allowing others adversely to affect the City’s interests and, in the end, our prosperity as well. I look to hear from the Minister what those concrete guarantees are. If, as I believe, they are not forthcoming, I will have no hesitation, having put my name to the amendment of my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr Cash) , in supporting him in the Lobby —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-06", "file": "debates2012-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "565f113133b5a4e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "POLYCYSTIC KIDNEYS", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "t raised by the hon. Member for Bridgend. I will ask the national clinical director for kidney disease to see what further action can be taken accurately to determine national incidence in England. If the hon. Lady is good enough to make the same representations to the Welsh Assembly and indeed the Scottish Assembly, we will have a far better picture of the situation throughout the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-06b.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.852.5", "colnum": "852", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "Government spending on advertising and consultants of all kinds is nearly always wasteful, profligate and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.852.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.853.6", "colnum": "853", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": " Prison Service officer who was shot and killed last Thursday. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland said in the House on Friday, we utterly condemn this cowardly crime. Our thoughts are with David’s wife and children at this distressing time. I am sure that the House will also want to join me in congratulating President Obama on his election victory last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.853.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "use of the cuts in tax credit, and having instead to be on benefits. I asked him about the child care element of the tax credit, and he has not answered. Why will he not admit that the cut he voted for has cost families £500, and 44,000 families are losing out? If that was not bad enough, the Government are cutting £1 billion from Sure Start. In his e-mail, he said he would reveal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.855.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The junior Minister in the back row—the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) —thinks her views are relevant, but we are not interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am beginning to have quite a lot of sympathy with the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Nadine Dorries) and her experience of all those rats and snakes—even before she went to the jungle. In the Deputy Prime Minister’s e-mail, he said he would reveal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.856.6", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "At least people can trust the Conservatives and Lib Dems on the economy. Let me explain. The shadow Chancellor is not here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.856.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend may not have been able to catch up with this morning’s Adjournment debate in Westminster Hall, but it is more than “silence from Ministers”. The Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) , who responded to the debate, admitted that the Department had known about the south-west cartel when it happened, and that she supported it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "This debate is flushing out the Government’s position, is it not? The Under-Secretary of State keeps heckling from the Front Bench, but we now know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.872.6", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "He says he does, so let me refer him to table 1.8 of the Treasury’s “Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2012”. On NHS spending it shows the following: for 2010-11, a 0.6% real-terms cut; for 2011-12, a 0.1% cut. Those are the facts. How on earth can the Secretary of State say today that he stands by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.872.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.877.5", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "May I gently remind the hon. Lady that she stood for election on a manifesto that did not include abolishing the 2003 Act or the Health Act 2006, which gave foundation trusts the freedom to set their own pay and conditions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.877.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.879.5", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "be reached is encouraging some employers, such as those in the south-west consortium of NHS and foundation trusts, to examine alternative provision. Sadly, it appears that the people who bankroll the Opposition—particularly Unite—would rather put their members’ jobs at risk than work with employers to find an acceptable solution to help the NHS meet its financial challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.879.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.881.6", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "en developing the NHS south-west pay, terms and conditions consortium. This morning, I asked the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) whether the Government knew about the consortium before it was established and whether they encouraged the trusts to set it up, and it was interesting that she said, “My understanding is we were involved”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.881.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "I very much hope that when the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me say to the Minister once and for all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Coventry South (Mr Cunningham) said “paymasters”. I am sure that he would not want that to be on the record, and that he would want to withdraw it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that the Labour Government gave too much to nurses and midwives in pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "preceding_text": "No, I think that the right hon. Gentleman is misrepresenting what I said. The fact is that we have got to the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "ncing my argument. As has been pointed out, the limited flexibility that was introduced by the Labour Government has been used by only one hospital to date, Southend, and in that case it was to raise, not reduce, pay. Abandoning a national pay framework for the NHS is likely to be inflationary for NHS pay. Let us start with doctors. We know from experience that doctors are tough negotiators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "preceding_text": "g out of national pay structures. And that is not all. The Treasury’s own figures show that real-terms NHS spending has been reduced under this Prime Minister year on year, as broken promise follows broken promise. Regional pay in the NHS is opposed by the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives, NHS Employers, the British Medical Association and more. More importantly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.942.5", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I can only repeat to the right hon. Gentleman what I have just said to the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Katy Clark) : if the injuries are serious and long lasting, people will still be eligible for the scheme. There is a genuine misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.942.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "As I have just said, the money will be spent on victim services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.944.3", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is in danger of enticing me to draw attention to the present Government’s fiscal inheritance. We simply cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "They are not “not eligible”; each case will be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "They are not “not eligible”; each case will be considered. [Hon. Members: “Why?”] Because it is sensible to allow discretion in those periods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "They are not “not eligible”; each case will be considered. [Hon. Members: “Why?”] Because it is sensible to allow discretion in those periods. [Interruption.] We cannot and will not simply continue pouring out taxpayers’ money to little effect. I must again emphasise that the Government are committed to improving support —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. The irony will not be lost on hundreds of thousands of USDAW members and other trade unionists. The Government have argued, and we heard it from the Minister, who has now left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "I am no longer responsible for policy, so the right hon. Gentleman will have to ask my colleagues on the Front Bench about what will happen in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "Let us be quite clear: tough decisions have to be taken, as the right hon. Member for Oxford East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could explain why 90% of future victims will have to lose their compensation because of the 35 pre-1996 cases. Is he suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-07", "file": "debates2012-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "008d599f14fe135d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "e me a chance to do so rather than heckling from a sedentary position. The hon. Gentleman was the architect of this appalling scheme. He has confessed to the House today that it is about cuts and nothing else. We heard from him about the financial situation, and he asked where the money will come from. It is quite simple. We will work alongside the Government to look at ways to address this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-07a.969.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-08", "file": "debates2012-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "868cd35a87e92335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "turning officers and all political parties need clarity about the boundaries on which the next election will be fought—and the sooner, the better. So may we have a statement from the Deputy Prime Minister to confirm that the implementation of the new boundaries will not now go ahead before the next election? While we all enjoyed the Deputy Prime Minister’s contribution yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-08", "file": "debates2012-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "868cd35a87e92335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ually Prime Minister’s Questions. Rather conveniently, the Prime Minister managed to avoid Prime Minister’s Questions again this week; he made it back in time for dinner with Mrs Merkel, but not for his appointment with this House. It is not just Prime Minister’s Questions that he has taken to avoiding. He has not held his monthly news conference since July—July 1911—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-08", "file": "debates2012-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "868cd35a87e92335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "s somewhat counter-intuitively, every reservist I have spoken to welcomes that greater rigour and discipline. They want to be part of a serious disciplined military force, and they want also the recognition that will come with that greater level of rigour and discipline. The new kit is already being rolled out. As I said, I saw some of it last night, and some more of it last Friday in Corby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-08", "file": "debates2012-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "868cd35a87e92335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "preceding_text": " will recognise the incredible work that he has done in the Commonwealth and elsewhere, but if we asked taxpayers whether we should shave a few percentage points off overseas trips—I will come on to savings in a moment—or give people privileged access to the Houses of Parliament, I know what they would say. Once we set the precedent, where do we stop? Do we have rollercoasters outside?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1069.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-08", "file": "debates2012-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "868cd35a87e92335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "er this afternoon, they can make planned visits. They will have free access to me and to this Parliament. Indeed, I am sure that each of us spends considerable amounts of time taking people on tours around this splendid, wonderful building—we all share an immense sense of privilege to be able to work here—and we show them whatever paintings they want to see, which are freely available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-08a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-09", "file": "debates2012-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "0d5214c849df039f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-09b.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": " figures on that. The feeling is that such people are rarely caught, that if they are caught, they are very rarely prosecuted, and that if they are prosecuted, nothing really happens to them. That is why the problem perpetuates. A minimum custodial sentence of three months would not only send out a message about how seriously the House takes this problem, but would act as a useful deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-09b.1120.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Frankly, the right hon. Gentleman should know better. We replied to his question, and it is clear that such changes can take place only through secondary legislation. We have made it absolutely clear that we are only concerned with broadband, so his rather ridiculous posturing concerning 4G—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.18.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "I will leave the public to decide whether flogging fromage to the Chinese is more important than explaining to the British people what action the Secretary of State is taking on a major environmental and ecological disaster that is unfolding on his watch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "It is much more likely that the disease spread from imported seedlings transplanted from nursery stock than that it blew in, on great gusts, over the North sea. We will examine that in more detail later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.51.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": ". Lady understand epidemiology? The dots are all different colours: the red ones represent mature woodlands, and there are others for trees planted out in newly planted sites and nursery sites. The ones in the south-west are in nursery sites: there are no red dots in the south-west, ergo the disease seems to have spread from— [ Interruption. ] My theory, and it has yet to be disproved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman’s theory—it is also the theory of the hon. Member for Wakefield—does not accord with the advice of the leading experts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.61.3", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ches the 30 km mark and feels it cannot go any further. That is not what the science is saying; what the science is saying is that this is the most likely outcome. Anyone who looks at the distribution will see that it is entirely consistent with wind-blown spread. In fact, many people have said to me that it looks very similar indeed to the distribution of blood tongue, when that hit these shores.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.61.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.61.3", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "his is the most likely outcome. Anyone who looks at the distribution will see that it is entirely consistent with wind-blown spread. In fact, many people have said to me that it looks very similar indeed to the distribution of blood tongue, when that hit these shores. [ Interruption. ] I see the right hon. Member for Leeds Central is nodding, because he knows that that is the case, and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.61.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "preceding_text": "me. One thing many of us can do is ensure that, when we plant trees, they are UK-grown and disease-free. It seems absurd that we are importing ash trees, when there are hundreds of millions in the UK already. The famous Mrs Beeton advised in her “Book of Household Management”: “No matter how small your garden, always ensure you leave at least three to four acres for trees”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "urglar breaking into a neighbour’s house and responding by writing a stern and urgent letter to the local police to ask their opinion on local crime-prevention initiatives, and then posting it with a second-class stamp. Of course, the current Secretary of State cannot be held entirely to blame for his Department’s peculiar reluctance to act when it should have done so seven months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.91.8", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "No. I have given way already and I want to make some progress. It is important that people hear why we are proposing the motion tonight. Almost 20% of FSB members identified fuel costs as a barrier to growth. Not only those organisations but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.91.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady is patient, I will give way in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.100.6", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "It would be great if the Minister spoke to the fuel duty motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.100.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.102.4", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "Scottish National party Members always use that line on fuel duty, and I am not going to waste my time on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.102.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.102.8", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "I will not give way—I want to make progress. VAT is hurting families and businesses. Hauliers and small businesses in my constituency are paying extra fuel duty and VAT on their fuel. The impact is on goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.102.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "FairFuelUK’s argument is that money is lost to the Exchequer because of the serious impact of fuel duty on businesses. If we had growth in our economy, which all hon. Members want, the Exchequer would get more money, and businesses would be able to reinvest. That is one way. I would like the 4G windfall money to be used to help to alleviate small businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-12", "file": "debates2012-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "0b5232761ad63af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.126.2", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "And that is when the country faces the toughest economic situation of modern times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-12a.126.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-13", "file": "debates2012-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab704f15b84df48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.163.8", "colnum": "163", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.163.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-13", "file": "debates2012-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab704f15b84df48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.165.7", "colnum": "165", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Henderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Well done!”", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Henderson", "preceding_text": "I have three prisons in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.165.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-13", "file": "debates2012-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab704f15b84df48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": ". Today, people will have been hoping for a mandate for common sense to restore sanity to an NHS that is in danger of losing the plot, and for instructions to protect the front line. Well, they will have been disappointed. The Secretary of State glosses over finance, but let me give the House the facts. He and his predecessor promised to reinvest all efficiency savings in the NHS front line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-13", "file": "debates2012-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab704f15b84df48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "t worked to Labour’s NHS budgets. There was an underspend in that year, as there was in each of the last four years that Labour was in control. In three of those four years, the underspend was higher than it was when my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House was Health Secretary. Let us talk about redundancy payments. The reforms introduced by my right hon. Friend will save the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-13", "file": "debates2012-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab704f15b84df48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Suicide (Prevention)", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "In agreeing with that point, may I ask the hon. Lady whether she thinks it was therefore a good idea not to proceed with ContactPoint, which was designed so that that data could be shared easily by professionals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-13", "file": "debates2012-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab704f15b84df48c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Suicide (Prevention)", "cue_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "preceding_text": "h more detail. We can have as many inquiries as we like into a particular care home or into what happened at the BBC, but there has been no concentration on the greater problem of abuse within the home. I was hoping not to have to go into the issue of sexual exploitation being somehow linked with religion or culture, but in light of the speech by the hon. Member for Keighley (Kris Hopkins) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-13a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “The Tory candidate lost.”", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I agree very much with my hon. Friend’s second point, but less with the first. The police and crime commissioners, including the very good commissioner who has just been elected in his own county—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "deration, was appointed to conduct a review of police bureaucracy and identify how it could be cut. She well understood the need for a balance between keeping the spirit of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and doing away with needless paperwork. How many of her recommendations have, in fact, been adopted by the Government? If the Minister cannot answer today, will he send me a note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman’s question is rather long and it is only tangentially related to the matter on the Order Paper. I have indulged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "It sounds as though it would be helpful if I looked at the details of the case, so I would be happy to hear from the hon. Gentleman. In most cases, visa applications are processed very quickly. We say yes in most cases and deliver a timely service. Without knowing the specifics, such as which country the students are from, it is difficult to give a specific answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed by the tone that the hon. Gentleman has taken on this important matter, and by his attempt to politicise something that is of deep concern to hon. Members on both sides of the House. I can assure you, Mr Speaker, that, as you know, I make written ministerial statements whenever we believe them to be of a substance that is warranted in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "inister is chuntering from a sedentary position, but the argument is whether financial penalties should be in the Bill. If they are, the Secretary of State could then propose that fines be within certain parameters, or up to the adjudicator, or a proportion or a multiple of the loss achieved by a particular supplier. There are a plethora of ways for an adjudicator to determine a financial penalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "s, naming and shaming actually boosts supermarkets’ sales, as we saw with the Competition Commission’s inquiry into the 7p loaf. Our experience is thus not only that large conglomerates can ride out a naming and shaming campaign but that some actually benefit from it. From my reading of the Bill, it looks as though the fines order will be brought into play only on a case-by-case basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "aming can indeed be powerful on occasions, but it is not always the most appropriate tool for the job. If it is the only tool available, I guarantee to Ministers that it will fail. One after the other, Members of all parties have raised instances where name and shame has been completely ineffective. Name and shame was not a rip-roaring success this spring and summer in respect of the dairy crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": " us on this one. We will help Ministers to become heroes if they listen to those voices, as they cannot all be wrong. Even if I am, they cannot all be wrong. Those organisations represent people right across the supply chain. They include the Federation of Small Businesses for goodness’ sake; it is everybody. I will not read out the early-day motion that the Minister signed once upon a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-19", "file": "debates2012-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed84929659d19059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "e Public Bodies Act 2011, so that is a perfectly proper provision. The hon. Lady asked what the list of designated retailers was and it might be helpful to the House if I simply say who the 10 are. They are Asda Stores Ltd, the Co-operative Group Ltd, Marks and Spencer plc, Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc, J Sainsbury plc, Tesco plc, Waitrose Ltd, Aldi Stores Ltd, Iceland Foods Ltd and Lidl UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-19a.406.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.424.7", "colnum": "424", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I know the right hon. Gentleman thinks otherwise, but being a member of the Liberal Democrats is not yet a crime. By the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.424.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, and I would be very happy to pay him to take his moustache off as soon as he wishes to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "to closed material proceedings. Let me make it clear that the Government’s view—it is certainly mine, as I would find this unacceptable otherwise—is that the provision will apply only to those cases where at the moment the evidence is not heard at all. It is not a question of a choice, with evidence held in open court being moved into closed court, as nothing will be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for a carbon-copy question of one asked earlier. I would suggest a little liaison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ly respectable and legitimate case for saying that it would be right to pass such a motion because this has gone on for so long and because Palestinian frustrations are so intense, for understandable reasons. I believe, however, that the balance of judgment comes down on the side of saying that to do so would be more likely to retard efforts to restart the peace process than to advance them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.453.5", "colnum": "453", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is it not interesting that when Assad lethally represses the Syrian people, he is the bad guy, yet when Netanyahu lethally represses the Palestinian people, he is the goodbye —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Representation of the People (Members’ Job Share)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "Yes, we have covered that. The hon. Gentleman is obviously going to take part in this debate and may well find himself on the Public Bill Committee in due course, so he will be able to cover that point in much more detail. I am glad that the Committee is tempting and am sure that the Opposition Whip has made a note of his details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "r long, because I understand that many hon. Members wish to contribute to the important debate that will follow. I will deal briefly with some of the issues raised by hon. Members because, as those aficionados who attended Second Reading and Committee will know, there has been a thorough debate and considerable engagement between those with differing views and opinions, not least in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-20", "file": "debates2012-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "26683c30ede16a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "ble and will achieve the objectives set out, provided that they are the right course of action and the correct way forward. Let me pick up the points made by the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St Edmunds (Mr Ruffley) , because I think that I dealt with the matter raised by the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) in my intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-20b.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "ures look at the issue confronting Scots—the most important political decision in 300 years—time and again they say that they think Scotland would be better off as part of the United Kingdom. Secondly, the report he highlights is significant as it shows the strength of Scotland’s economy as part of the UK, both in terms of its opportunity and in reducing the risks attached to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.570.7", "colnum": "570", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Before I list my engagements, the whole House will wish to join me in sending our sympathies and our condolences to the family of Captain Walter Barrie, of 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland. He was described as a fantastic, engaging and professional soldier. He will be truly missed by all who knew him. Our nation must never forget his service and his sacrifice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.570.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister came to power, according to the figures published this morning. I asked him a specific question about the promise made a year ago by the then Health Secretary—the Prime Minister sacked him and he is now the Leader of the House—that there would be no rationing on the grounds of cost alone, but the president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists said recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ked him and he is now the Leader of the House—that there would be no rationing on the grounds of cost alone, but the president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists said recently— [ Interruption. ] Government Members should listen, because he said that “PCTs are not following government guidelines.” Half of health commissioners are restricting access to cataract surgery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Last Thursday the people of Humberside spoke for the whole nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point. In fact, he must have seen my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Campbell", "preceding_text": "The Brits out awards!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I think there is evidence to that effect and he should discuss it directly with his colleagues who serve in the Northern Ireland Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "laying field. I do not care who someone is employed by; if they are doing a job, protecting people and are at risk, the situation should be the same for everyone. The system does not operate that way at the moment, and we will look carefully at the issue. I could not go further without addressing the two points made in interventions by my friend the hon. Member for North Down (Lady Hermon) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.658.7", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Fund!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "I have not intervened purely to mention the Newark Patriotic Front—oh look, I appear to have done it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.658.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-21", "file": "debates2012-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "14fbc49afab17125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Well, that is what the then Minister told the Howard League. It did not include reservists, those under 21 or those who had served in Northern Ireland—that is what the Minister at the time told the inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-21a.661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-22", "file": "debates2012-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "660189835b4204e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "We are making good progress, and I can confirm the good news, which I know the hon. Lady will welcome, that the European Commission has now approved the UK umbrella state aid notification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-22", "file": "debates2012-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "660189835b4204e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I know that we have become used to the word “shortly”, but it may well have been used a year ago, when we were told that there would be a response shortly. Is that this year? Is it next year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-22", "file": "debates2012-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "660189835b4204e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "ferent countries are doing this on a voluntary basis, but we are calling for something more: for it to be compulsory as part of education. I had the privilege of administering CPR during the last conference recess. Most Members—certainly of my generation—will know the tune of “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. That is the kind of rhythm one should use to administer CPR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-22", "file": "debates2012-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "660189835b4204e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "bution of manufacturing to output halved. That is a figure that the public will understand as indicative of what was happening. I want to be positive, because the United Kingdom has historic and current industrial manufacturing flair and capability. I single out just two companies—JCB, a brilliant private family company in Staffordshire, and Dyson, the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-22", "file": "debates2012-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "660189835b4204e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Andy Sawford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Sawford", "preceding_text": "e vulnerable residents: the families affected by cuts to special needs services; those who rely on disability benefit who feel unfairly treated by these Atos reviews; and the pensioners, who want to know that their MP is on their side. Thank you for the warm welcome, Mr Deputy Speaker, from the staff of the House and MPs on both sides, and from my right hon. Friend the Opposition Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-22b.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-26", "file": "debates2012-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "e87c8f26731774b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": ", which one would expect with such moves. Mark Carney is not a British citizen, but he is a subject of the Queen. His wife is British, his four children have dual British citizenship and he has lived, worked and studied in Britain for a decade. Although not required of the role, he will apply for British citizenship in the normal way, with no special favours. Let me also say something about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-26", "file": "debates2012-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "e87c8f26731774b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.30.6", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will not make the mistake of the last Prime Minister and claim to have abolished boom and bust. I do not know which young adviser of his put that idea into his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.30.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-26", "file": "debates2012-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "e87c8f26731774b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "members of his Cabinet openly to undermine his position on membership of the EU? It is no wonder that everyone, from British business to our European allies, believes that we are drifting towards the exit door. As we look ahead to the next round of budget negotiations, is not the reality of the situation that the Prime Minister has a divided party on Europe? Instead of confronting the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-26", "file": "debates2012-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "e87c8f26731774b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, may I congratulate my hon. Friend on his absolutely superb piece of Movember fundraising? He would not look out of place in a spaghetti western, and I am sure that a number of film studios near Enfield will want to call on his services. So excited was I by his facial hair, however, that I have forgotten his question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-26", "file": "debates2012-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "e87c8f26731774b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "Unpredictable weather events are one of the main consequences of climate change. Does the Secretary of State not understand that if he continues to resist the scientific evidence and refuses to take sensible policy measures to prevent climate change, his successors for years to come will have to come to this House to make statements such as the one he has made this afternoon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-26", "file": "debates2012-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "e87c8f26731774b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Small Charitable Donations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "uilding and the definition of a community building. The powers are currently assigned to HMRC, but we now think it would be more appropriate to assign them to the Treasury. That is because they could be used to make significant changes to what is in or outside the scope of the rules. I hope that that helps explain why we have tabled those amendments. I come now to my conclusion, Mr Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-26b.91.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-27", "file": "debates2012-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f383cc3b99c2a3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "preceding_text": "It is worth pointing out to the hon. Lady, who raises a legitimate point about that gentleman’s case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-27", "file": "debates2012-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f383cc3b99c2a3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "preceding_text": "It is worth pointing out to the hon. Lady, who raises a legitimate point about that gentleman’s case— [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) says “Do something”, but this type of rationing of varicose vein surgery occurred when the previous Labour Government were in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-27", "file": "debates2012-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f383cc3b99c2a3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "preceding_text": "Whether he has recently reviewed how access to health care treatment can be made easier for vulnerable groups; and if he will make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-27", "file": "debates2012-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f383cc3b99c2a3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.131.4", "colnum": "131", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I am so sorry, Mr Speaker, I was getting carried away. It is my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) who has asked a question, is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-27", "file": "debates2012-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "f383cc3b99c2a3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.142.6", "colnum": "142", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disappoint colleagues. As they know, I could happily listen all day to them asking questions and to Ministers answering them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-27a.142.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.214.10", "colnum": "214", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "The Government have taken action to protect the economy and have set out a comprehensive strategy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth. Because of this action, we have seen over 1 million private sector jobs created across the UK since we came to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.214.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "But the scheme is supposed to create sustained jobs for people, and in a whole year of the programme just two out of every 100 people got a job—that is a success rate of 2%. The Government estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ What does it cost?”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ting document. The Prime Minister spent two years rubbishing the future jobs fund but what did this document say? It said that the scheme provided “net benefit to participants, their employers and society as a whole.” In other words, it was a success. The Prime Minister rubbished the programme yet it helped 120,000 young people into work. His Work programme has helped only 3,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.217.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will be aware that tomorrow’s business on the Order Paper includes a debate in my name to mark the 40th anniversary of the expulsion of Asians by Idi Amin from Uganda and their arrival in the UK. However, because of the need for a statement on the Leveson inquiry, it is likely that my debate may not now take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "Research by the charity Save the Children reveals, shockingly, that one in seven children in our country do not have a warm coat this winter. The Government are now cutting child benefit support to 100,000 families who look after disabled children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.252.4", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "ntroduced to help to reduce the deficit because the last Labour Government thought that it was right that those with the broadest shoulders paid a little bit more towards achieving that. The fact that this Chancellor has reversed that and is reducing the top rate of tax shows that he thinks exactly the opposite—that his priorities are not with ordinary working people but with the richest 1%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.252.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "ng in an economy whose recovery has been throttled by the Chancellor, while another Cabinet colleague, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, is implementing the biggest cuts to those local councils where there are the fewest jobs. So yes, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions faces a difficult challenge, but it was his Department that set out the bald statistic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "preceding_text": "Is not the reality even worse than my right hon. Friend paints it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t the Opposition would do if they were in office. It also lays yet more spending commitments on an Opposition whose programme is littered with huge cost increases. I will take no lectures from the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr Byrne) . I remind everyone again that he is the man who thought it was a joke to write a letter to the incoming Government saying there was no money left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Yet again, the right hon. Gentleman has defeated the first point that he made. In other words, the figures that he has produced in the motion are wrong and he has just proved it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "roved it. [Interruption.] If he wants to listen, he might learn something. No wonder he ended up as the man who told us there was no money left—with his kind of arithmetic, I am surprised that there was anything left at all. The reality is that in a year—if we want six-month referrals—a number of people will not have been in the programme for six months. So 315,000 people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.301.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-28", "file": "debates2012-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "8f29e1eae57530b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "I have three minutes left, so I am going to continue. The other thing in the motion that neither the right hon. Gentleman nor the shadow Secretary of State referred to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-28b.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.353.8", "colnum": "353", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that one of this Government’s priorities is to improve rail links throughout England, Wales and Scotland through electrification. On his specific question about improving services in Scotland, that is a matter for Arriva and the Scottish Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.353.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "ine I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for that kind and generous question. May I reassure her that we place great importance on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the rail network? I can confirm that freight is included in the review that I have asked for on the Newbury to Westbury line. I do not want to hang around on this matter, because it will get bogged down in bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is a great campaigner for his area. In my job as Secretary of State for Transport, I am learning a lot more about roads I have never travelled on. I will certainly look at his request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.365.8", "colnum": "365", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State revisit the issue of electrifying the Barking to Gospel Oak section of the North London line? Electrification would make freight transport much more efficient and cheaper and enable much greater integrated working of the whole London overground system with the same trains, rather than having to switch to diesel on one section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.365.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.386.10", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should resume his seat. He was not here and that is the end of the matter. We come now to the statement on energy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.386.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.386.10", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should resume his seat. He was not here and that is the end of the matter. We come now to the statement on energy. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.386.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.406.4", "colnum": "406", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Yes, it does. I entirely accept that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.406.4", "colnum": "406", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Yes, it does. I entirely accept that— [ Interruption. ] Before the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) reminds me that I have not always accepted that, let me say that I accept it now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "preceding_text": "Indeed I am. All three—Sir Chris Hoy, Andy Murray and Katherine Grainger—train and reside in England and clearly benefit from Scotland being part of the United Kingdom. Of course, we pay tribute to those athletes as part of Team GB and wish them every success in the BBC sports personality of the year award.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.412.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "uld be “pretty limited”, and he warns that much of Scotland’s defence industry would migrate southwards. The defence of our nation is of paramount importance, and it is hard to comprehend why the SNP, a political party predicated on separating Scotland from the UK, cannot answer some of the most basic questions about what defence policy in an independent Scotland would look like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-29", "file": "debates2012-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "c4196d7f367af2fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I never made any such claim; everybody here is a proud Scot, and I said no such thing. The SNP has managed to get just one 10-minute speech in a three-hour debate. We have heard one side of the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-29b.438.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-11-30", "file": "debates2012-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "05842961cbd6e06c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-30a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Mental Health (Discrimination) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "iers in their way. Indeed, putting up such barriers might inadvertently undermine their authority in the prison among the inmates. If the inmates thought, “Well you can’t do anything about this, so I’m not really interested in what you think,” that would be a rather unfortunate consequence of what my hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey is trying to do. We come to amendment 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-11-30a.504.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "That is a very good point, and I wish I had thought of it myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.605.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So it’s working!", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "I was just going to ask the right hon. and learned Lady how many cases had been brought under the Irish law. I think she will find that the answer is absolutely none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "As it happens, I have over the past 35—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.615.2", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I think I might be permitted to know a little more about that case than my hon. Friend does. As it happens, I have over the past 35 years or so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.625.5", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do—that has been the theme of what I have been saying for the last seven minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.625.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "I am hardly likely to disagree, am I?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman was not doing that, but like the Secretary of State he was trying desperately to find an argument for supporting the Prime Minister. I gently suggest to the hon. Gentleman that on this point it might be better to leave that alone. In truth, we have been here before. We could replace all those in this Chamber with those who were here in 1947 for the royal commission, or in 1962—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.655.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman if he stops standing up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "to deal with the police first. Secondly, there is a much-changed policing landscape since the issues highlighted by Lord Justice Leveson came to light. He recognises not only that, but the continuing improvements that are being made. We have created the college of policing to drive up police standards across the board and it will have a particular focus on working to ensure police integrity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-03", "file": "debates2012-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "02172e89f9039903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Leveson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " to ensure police integrity— [ Interruption. ] I feel sorry for those Labour Members who do not regard police integrity as important. They are completely out of touch with what the public want. Police and crime commissioners are now in place to hold chief constables and their forces to account on behalf of local people and to ensure that they meet the high standards that people demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-03a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-04", "file": "debates2012-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "37aab9eec92645aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Human Rights Act 1998 (Repeal)", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "t Association about legal ambiguity. I do not doubt that the Minister has no intention of creating a closure that would crystallise the debts of a scheme. That was always the basis on which I approached such negotiations when I was a Minister, and I am certain that nothing has changed in that regard. However, this was one area in which some of the nuttiest legal advice needed to be obtained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-04", "file": "debates2012-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "37aab9eec92645aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Human Rights Act 1998 (Repeal)", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "make sure that we get the best possible design for those matters. Finally and more generally, I ask the Minister not to be deterred by undue reference to Henry VIII clauses. When I was taking the Localism Bill and the Local Government Finance Bill through the House, if I had £5 for every time I was criticised about Henry VIII clauses, I would have retired to some tax haven as a very rich man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-04", "file": "debates2012-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "37aab9eec92645aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Human Rights Act 1998 (Repeal)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "ense in legislation, but this is one of them, and I pay tribute to him. It is a mark of distinction for him that we have managed to have him think afresh about the argument, reflect on it, and bring matters forward in the House of Lords. When our constituents receive these annual letters in the post, they can thank him for that extra information, as well as the hon. Members who have argued for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-04", "file": "debates2012-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "37aab9eec92645aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Human Rights Act 1998 (Repeal)", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": " reasonably fit, but I have 10 years on the sergeant. I have accepted the challenge of doing the shield run—of trying to run 1 km in not more than six minutes in full riot gear. Perhaps the Government and Opposition Front Benchers would like to join me. If they are keen to take up the challenge, I will happily arrange it. Both the Minister and the shadow Minister have 10 years on me as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.799.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-04", "file": "debates2012-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "37aab9eec92645aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "MINDFULNESS-BASED THERAPY", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "I wish to make a speech about mindfulness and unemployment. I have given up a lot to be here tonight according to my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty) . I could have gone to the Irish ambassador’s Christmas party. That is how important my speech is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-04a.840.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.857.4", "colnum": "857", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "is important, both today in the House and next week when the de Silva review is published, to remember all the victims of the troubles. There were far too many despicable murders and tragedies, and the focus on individual cases should not blind us to the gravity of the suffering imposed on so many people across so many years. We will be emphasising that next week when we look at the Finucane case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.857.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.857.7", "colnum": "857", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "Of course, the review is about finding the truth and obtaining justice, but whether prosecutions follow will, of course, be a matter for the prosecution authorities, not the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.857.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Let me just say to the Prime Minister that, even by his standards, that was the most slippery answer we could possibly imagine. He is unbelievable. He has come to this House 26 times since he became Prime Minister and boasted about how he is increasing health spending every year of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.861.5", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I will give the right hon. Gentleman the answer, because of course he did not give it to us. Next April, everyone earning over £1 million will have a tax cut of £107,000 a year—£107,000 a year!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.861.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "Whatever announcements the Chancellor makes on pension tax relief shortly, is it not a fact that when this Government came to power, they made changes to pension tax relief that gave a tax cut of £1.6 billion to people earning more than £150,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ern world, and we face a multitude of problems from abroad—the US fiscal cliff, the slowing growth in China, and above all the eurozone, now in recession. People know that there are no quick fixes to these problems but they want to know that we are making progress, and the message from today’s autumn statement is that we are making progress. It is a hard road, but we are getting there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.871.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Today, after two and a half years, we can see, and people can feel in the country, the true scale of this Government’s economic failure. The economy this year is contracting. The Chancellor has confirmed that Government borrowing is revised up this year, next year and every year. The national deficit is not rising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "he deficit are revised up this year, next year and every year; and the national debt is rising, not falling. It is people who are already struggling to make ends meet, middle and lower-income families and pensioners, who are paying the price, while millionaires get a tax cut—a £3 billion welfare handout to the people who need it least. Let me spell out the full facts to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.882.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "ing that the Chancellor failed to give us the cash figures adjusted for borrowing this year, next year and the year after. The unusual thing is that, just a few weeks ago, the independent forecasters were saying that borrowing would be £6 billion higher this year. We will examine the detail of those figures to see whether there has been any dodgy dealing. We will find out in the coming hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "e figures to see whether there has been any dodgy dealing. We will find out in the coming hours. [ Interruption. ] I do not know because I have not seen the figures, but I do know that there is more borrowing this year, more borrowing next year and more borrowing the year after. The result is that the OBR shows more borrowing and higher deficits means higher national debt. The national debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.882.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "recasts show. Indeed, his prescription is to borrow even more. He complains about debt, but he wants to put it up. It is completely hopeless. The shadow Chancellor talked about the substance of policies. Here are some simple questions that the Labour party will have to answer. If it is against the cut in the income tax rate from 50p to 45p, will it reverse it? It is the simplest possible question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " simple question. Will the Opposition support us or vote against a welfare uprating Bill? What are they going to do? Will they vote for or against the Bill? It is a simple question. For the first time, we have spending plans for 2015-16. He said nothing about whether he supported those plans, even though he hopes to be Chancellor that year. Does he support those spending plans? He talked about 3G.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.887.2", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The 4G licence, yes. We are using the 4G licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.887.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "How can the Chancellor seriously pretend that he is cracking down on tax avoidance when the £7 billion he referred to today will take up to seven years to realise, at a rate of about £1 billion a year, against a rate of tax avoidance of £35 billion a year? The general anti-avoidance rule that he mentioned is far too narrowly drawn to be effective and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We have provided billions more for social care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-05", "file": "debates2012-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d88a2b2eb1a83a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Lady to the House of Commons and congratulate her on her by-election victory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-05a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman appears not to know the procedure of the House. He is asking a supplementary question. I cannot sit down and ask my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State to stand up in my place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ntary question. I cannot sit down and ask my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State to stand up in my place— [ Interruption. ] Mr Speaker, I am sure that you will be able to advise the right hon. Gentleman on the procedures of the House at some time. I can say to him that we take the matter seriously, and I am sure that the Under-Secretary of State is taking the appropriate measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.986.7", "colnum": "986", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I note the point about responsibility. There are quite a lot of hand gestures going on, but we must now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.986.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.995.5", "colnum": "995", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anyone is telling the Church of England what to do. I have a very privileged position in this House; I think I am the only person other than Ministers who has the right to answer questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.995.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ogether. Somebody working full time on a minimum wage will have seen their tax bill more than halve. When the hon. Lady talks about fairness, I think that we should talk about that kind of fairness too. I did not hear from the hon. Lady, on a practical question about the business of the House, whether the Opposition will vote for or against the welfare uprating Bill when it comes before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1005.5", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "On 10 July , the then Minister for Disabled People slipped out a written statement on Remploy and had to be dragged to the House. This morning, the current Minister for Disabled People, the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Wirral West (Esther McVey) , sneaked out another statement on Remploy, announcing 875 potential redundancies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1005.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1008.5", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Can I put in my own bid to be creep of the day? It is of course the seventh anniversary of the Prime Minister’s taking up leadership of the Conservative party, so it is a chance to congratulate him too—I know which side my bread is buttered on. On the right hon. Gentleman’s question, synchronicity being what it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1008.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am interested that the hon. Gentleman has an insight into the policy of future UK Governments wishing to withdraw troops from different parts of the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "t absolutely to echo from the Dispatch Box what my hon. Friend has just said. I pay tribute to his work as chairman of the all-party armed forces group in helping to organise the homecoming parades. I have seen for myself, on the faces of the troops, how much they appreciate those parades. I endorse the value of these exercises and celebrate the achievements of the men who came back to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-06", "file": "debates2012-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "aee7a550702b995b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Colvile", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Colvile", "preceding_text": "final point, too. Reservists do not necessarily live on camp; they often live elsewhere, and so their opportunity to talk to their wives or fellow reservists is limited. We need to ensure that our reservists are better informed. Finally, I completely agree with the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) on how important it is that as a country we are not sea blind. My final point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-06a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "I know that this issue is of great interest to the hon. Lady, sitting as she does on the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, so I listened with great interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.15.8", "colnum": "15", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "I will reiterate what a household is: a household is a basic family unit, and for the purposes of paying out-of-work benefits that will be a single adult or a couple and children, so once another adult is in the house, that is a separate household.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.15.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.15.8", "colnum": "15", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "hold is: a household is a basic family unit, and for the purposes of paying out-of-work benefits that will be a single adult or a couple and children, so once another adult is in the house, that is a separate household. [Interruption.] That has been the definition for a very long time. However, in the instances the hon. Lady mentions, discretionary payments are available and will come to fruition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.15.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.15.8", "colnum": "15", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "ther adult is in the house, that is a separate household. [Interruption.] That has been the definition for a very long time. However, in the instances the hon. Lady mentions, discretionary payments are available and will come to fruition. [Interruption.] There is no point in Opposition Members huffing and puffing. That is the situation, and an extra £30 million has been put in place for this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.15.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. The figure I gave in my response to the last of the questions showed that, in actual fact, the pilots are beginning to show categorically that if there is proper management by local authorities, the number of people defaulting is very low. That we can deal with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "I am quite taken aback by your bluster and, I have to say, false words. Your words would have far more emphasis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "he country, Tower Hamlets is one of the lower spenders on institutional care because it is doing things the right way. Tower Hamlets has not referred a single person from the borough to an assessment and treatment centre for three whole years. Tower Hamlets has demonstrated not only that that is possible, but that it often ends up costing much less to provide the right care in the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Financial Services Bill (Money) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": " to be followed by the banking reform Bill and possibly even a banking standards Bill—to be determined—so we will probably have plenty more opportunities to chew over these issues then. It is a little preposterous to have a knife coming down at 7 o’clock, by which time we have to put the Question on 150 or so of these Lords amendments. That gives us about 25 seconds per amendment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.66.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Financial Services Bill (Money) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Never!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "I promise not to test your patience, Mr Deputy Speaker, or that of the House by speaking for too long. Some, I know, will be of the view that indices and benchmarks are dry, dull, technical subjects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-10", "file": "debates2012-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "33af5fc96f9e738b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Financial Services Bill (Money) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "nts from covering just companies within the UK to an agreement between the United States and the UK that the Bank of England seems to have struck which will mean, for the first time, that there is a template for larger, serious, significant international financial institutions to have resolution arrangements that span across borders. Clearly that is relevant to these amendments on clearing houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-10a.121.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:“ Like the promise about tuition fees?”", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": " to the Exchequer helps those people to deal with pressures related to the cost of living. I can certainly assure my hon. Friend that I will continue to push that policy, along with my Liberal Democrat and Conservative colleagues. At the time of the last general election I made a key promise to lift the income tax threshold to £10,000, and I intend to deliver that promise as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "al Studies, as a result of the autumn statement measures a working family—the average one-earner couple—will be £534 a year worse off by 2015. Those are the very families who pull up the blinds and go to work. Every Tory constituency has, on average, over 6,000 of those families who will lose out. In answer to his question, we will look at the legislation, but if he intends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "o a newly discovered error made by Northern Rock—an error made, I hasten to add, under the previous Government, starting in 2008—that could cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds. Does my right hon. Friend agree that this is yet another example of the previous Government’s total failure to regulate the banking system properly costing this country dearly? Could he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.149.6", "colnum": "149", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "t at half-past 11 today because of an error originating in 2008, when Northern Rock was in public ownership. Some customers with certain types of mainly unsecured loans were not given all the mandatory information in their statements to which they were entitled by law. As a result, interest payments on these loans are not legally enforceable. UK Asset Resolution, which manages Northern Rock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.149.6", "colnum": "149", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ern Rock was in public ownership. Some customers with certain types of mainly unsecured loans were not given all the mandatory information in their statements to which they were entitled by law. As a result, interest payments on these loans are not legally enforceable. UK Asset Resolution, which manages Northern Rock— [ Interruption. ] Can I just make this point? One hundred and fifty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not require any help from the hon. Gentleman; he should concentrate on the pursuit of his own duties to the best of his ability. I would say to the Chancellor that if the written ministerial statement has been made it is not entirely obvious to me why we need its terms to be repeated before the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Teresa Pearce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Teresa Pearce", "preceding_text": "New research from Which?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "e to impugn motives, and I do not do so. However, was it a good idea to handle this matter via the device of topical questions in the way that it was done? The answer is no, it could have been better done. I am sure that the hon. Member for Braintree (Mr Newmark) was doing his best, according to his own lights, but it was unwise to deal with it in that way. Secondly, I simply make the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Equal Marriage Consultation", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He has been hiding.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has perambulated around the Chamber. If he assures me that he has at all times remained within it, we must hear him. It is a very curious approach, but it is not of itself a breach of the Standing Orders of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.195.2", "colnum": "195", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": ", will my right hon. Friend invite Her Majesty’s loyal Opposition to apologise for the debt millstone of the private finance initiative in the national health service, which amounts to more than £63 billion? The right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) is aware of that, because it was all about hiding the debt off balance sheet and ensuring that our children struggle with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend adds another item to the long list of items for which the people of this country deserve an apology from the Labour party. We have had no such apology yet, but we live in hope. Perhaps the shadow Chief Secretary will begin her speech with an apology for the many and various mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "The Government are trying to move to a system of payment by results. Too often the model of spending under the previous Government was payment for absolutely no results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.198.5", "colnum": "198", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "ake efficiency savings along with the rest of the Government. It had to make savings when the Labour party was in office and it continues to have to do that. We have increased investment specifically in the part of HMRC focused on tackling tax avoidance and evasion—an area that saw underinvestment during Labour’s time in office. As a result, 2,000 extra specialist tax inspectors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.199.5", "colnum": "199", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot confirm that. I do not recognise those figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "ext year and for every year of this Parliament. The Government are borrowing £212 billion more than they planned. They said that five years of austerity would be difficult, but that it was necessary to support our economy, and they said that it might hurt, but that it would work. Well, it has not worked, but it has hurt, and we are no closer to clearing our deficit than we were two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.202.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "tish workers are going to waste, with one in three of our 2.5 million unemployed out of work for more than a year and 3 million of those with jobs wanting to work more hours, but unable to find the work. In reality, we are falling behind, and the Chancellor has nobody to blame—not the snow, not the royal wedding, not the eurozone. I agree with the chief economist of UBS, George Magnus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He’s gone!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " going to waste, with one in three of our 2.5 million unemployed out of work for more than a year and 3 million of those with jobs wanting to work more hours, but unable to find the work. In reality, we are falling behind, and the Chancellor has nobody to blame—not the snow, not the royal wedding, not the eurozone. I agree with the chief economist of UBS, George Magnus— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " we are just like them. We have this single-minded focus on austerity and the lack of growth is basically crippling our ability to meet our fiscal targets.” I agree that the Chancellor and his economic plan are to blame. Two and a half years of austerity, two and a half years of this Chancellor, and what do we have to show for it? We have no growth, more borrowing and a tragic waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "The Scottish Government have been putting more and more money into capital investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-11", "file": "debates2012-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "056fb26796326e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What about the mansion tax?”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "2;they will no longer pay any income tax—while the income tax bill for an adult on the minimum wage will be halved from £1,020 when we came to office to £520 now. That makes a significant difference to people on low earnings. Liberal Democrats also want fair taxes on the wealthy. The coalition Government have increased capital gains tax and stamp duty on expensive properties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-11a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": " for a better future, and I saw for myself the challenges that ethnic communities continue to face. Will DFID Ministers work with the Foreign Secretary to apply maximum pressure to the Burmese Government to protect the Rohingya community from violence, create an urgent and transparent process to establish their citizenship rights, and begin a serious political dialogue with all ethnic communities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer the question!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The fact is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that we have not got the detail right. We know his approach to detail. It is to take a 2,000-page report and accept it without reading it. That is his approach to detail. Specifically on the Institute for Fiscal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "pproach to detail. It is to take a 2,000-page report and accept it without reading it. That is his approach to detail. Specifically on the Institute for Fiscal— [ Interruption. ] I am surprised that the shadow Chancellor is shouting again this week, because we learned last week that like bullies all over the world, he can dish it out but he cannot take it. He never learns. The figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I want to hear the Prime Minister’s answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "No, I can reassure my hon. Friend that we do not intend that. I am sure that he would understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What I said very clearly to the Committee yesterday is that we want the Bill to pass through Parliament, having listened to the Joint Committee and to all the excellent points made in the House of Lords. I am sure we will be listening even more carefully in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.291.4", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I would take that from the hon. Lady if her plans were not to borrow even more. The point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " Opposition day debate to bring some much-needed honesty to the public debate on the NHS, particularly on NHS spending. Across the country, people can see the signs of an NHS in increasing distress: cataract operations are restricted; A and E departments and walk-in centres have been closed; hospitals are full to bursting, some struggling for survival; over 7,000 nursing jobs have been lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "Mr Dilnot may be watching; the Minister needs to be careful in what she says. That promise was carried into the coalition agreement, which said: “We will guarantee”— guarantee, mind— “that health spending increases in real terms in each year of the Parliament”. The Secretary of State has stopped nodding; he was nodding earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " what they have delivered. Until recently, this appeared prominently on the Conservative party website: “We have increased the NHS budget in real terms in each of the last two years”. Then, on 23 October , the Secretary of State said to the House: “Real-terms spending on the NHS has increased across the country”—[ Official Report , 23 October 2012; Vol. 551, c. 815 .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ecause last week, he received a letter from the chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Andrew Dilnot CBE. Let me quote the key sentence, which puts Mr Dilnot and the Secretary of State at odds, if I heard the Secretary of State correctly a moment ago: “On the basis of these figures, we would conclude that expenditure on the NHS in real terms was lower in 2011-12 than it was in 2009-10.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.324.8", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ttle one, as though that is okay—“It’s really an increase, because it’s only a little cut”—but one has to add £1.6 billion to that to see the full extent of the diversion of funds from the NHS front line. As the chair of the UK Statistics Authority has established, NHS spending was lower in the first two years of this coalition than when Labour left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.324.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "s and it had nothing to do with the reality in the NHS, but the problem for the present Secretary of State is that he has presented this false version of events to the House. On 13 November he said that “there has been a real-terms growth in spending—actual money spent in the NHS, compared with Labour’s plans.”—[ Official Report , 13 November 2012; Vol. 553, c. 188 .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "State to stop. Cuts and reorganisation are a toxic mix. According to the Government’s own figures, a full £1.6 billion has been diverted away from patient care and the NHS front line and spent on back-office restructuring. Look at the waste already: a full £1 billion spent on managerial redundancies—1,300 six-figure pay-outs and, scandalously, 173 pay-outs over £200,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "s consequences for patient care. I want to end by focusing on four such consequences. First, let us look at staffing levels on the NHS front-line. For two years, we have had the mismatch of Ministers making boasts about rising spending while the number of staff was dropping at an alarming rate. A full 7,134 nursing posts have been lost since the coalition came in, with 943 in the past month alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "e A and E at Trafford to be picked off in advance. In St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust, will he reverse the comments of the previous Secretary of State, who told the clinical commissioning groups that they had no obligation to honour financial commitments to the hospitals entered into by the previous primary care trusts? It is chaos out there. The Secretary of State urgently needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "preceding_text": "I am very disappointed to hear the right hon. Gentleman talk down the NHS. As he has just acknowledged, before the election the NHS knew that it was facing an unprecedented efficiency challenge. He will also know that under Labour productivity in the NHS fell continuously. I wonder whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend might not be aware of another point. The patients who use the Greater Manchester passenger transport service are coming to me regularly and crying their eyes out in distress at this decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "onsense today. At its heart is an extremely uncomfortable truth for the Opposition: this Government are spending more on the NHS than Labour would have spent. That spend has moved away from consultancy and the back office to the front line, so the NHS is now performing better—I know that it is uncomfortable, but it is true—than it ever did under Labour. That means more treatment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "at this afternoon’s motion, because I would have thought that the last thing the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) would have wanted to do was remind the nation of his opposition to our increasing the NHS budget. The motion is about spending, but we can spend only what is in our budget. What did he say about budget and spend during his failed bid for the leadership of his own party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I will confirm for the hon. Lady that the nurse-to-bed ratio has gone up so that nurses are spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.334.8", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "It is because we have protected the NHS budget that the number of clinical staff in the NHS has gone up and not down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.334.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.335.8", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "orfolk (Norman Lamb) , who has a constituency in the east of England. I follow that situation carefully. Let me now deal with the substance of the motion. I have always talked about spending going up from the first year of the comprehensive spending review—the first year when this Government had full control of the budget and were responsible for setting the spending plans. In 2011-12—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.335.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I am struggling to believe what I am hearing. The Secretary of State is saying that Andrew Dilnot agreed with him that there had been real-terms increases in every year of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.336.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "our. Let us look at those decisions. There was the decision to reduce the number of managers by 7,000 and transfer resources to the front line. There was also the decision to cancel Labour’s disastrous attempt to embrace the technology revolution that cost billions and set the NHS back by years. Then there was the decision to end the wasteful consultancy spend, which has now been cut by 39%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "llions and set the NHS back by years. Then there was the decision to end the wasteful consultancy spend, which has now been cut by 39%. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman needs to listen to this. There was the decision to stop the scandal of unsustainable private finance initiative projects that left the NHS with a £73 billion debt and £1.6 billion-worth of repayments every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. If all hon. Members are honest in providing a record of what is happening on the ground, we will see that the reality is, indeed, cuts and reductions in services. It is a case of not only how much money we spend on the NHS, but how wisely we can spend it, and there may be agreement throughout the House on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I agree completely with the hon. Gentleman’s characterisation of the challenge. I was looking forward to him congratulating the Government on taking a step in the right direction, although it is not a total solution, by investing in prevention some of the resources in the health care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "er for Stevenage mentioned. There are other forms of therapy that are far more cost- effective. I might add that we in the northern region have no access to such therapies. Indeed, whole regions of the country do not. The one remaining proton machine in Germany is at the university of Heidelberg, and it treats a maximum of 1,200 patients each year. The German Radio-oncology Society has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "7 November this year in a debate on the NHS mandate, the new Health Secretary told the House: “Cancer networks are here to stay and their budget has been protected.”—[ Official Report , 27 November 2012; Vol. 554, c. 127 .] Those promises have been broken. In response to a freedom of information survey from Labour, cancer networks report budget cuts of 13% in 2011-12 alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-12", "file": "debates2012-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "158020a971f662ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "The budget for cancer networks has been cut by a quarter. The Secretary of State is not expanding those networks but merging them and diluting their specialist expertise, as I will show. The cuts and the Government’s NHS upheaval mean that cancer networks have lost one fifth of their staff, withdrawn or scaled back current work, and put future projects on hold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-12a.367.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-13", "file": "debates2012-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "b3a5b6c48e043812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-13a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "t majority of which, I am pleased to say, have already been implemented. As I have made plain publicly, and as other Members have said today, essentially I am asking for zero tolerance of lapses in animal welfare standards and rigorous checks on all journeys where there is a risk that we can identify. The hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) asked about a fit and proper person test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-13a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "then for before the EU budget negotiations. We now hear that he has delayed it again until the new year. Of course, never knowingly undersold in his normal modest way, the Prime Minister says that it is okay because it is “a tantric approach to policy making.” Parliament’s answer to Sting sits before us, Mr Speaker. It is true that they have both fallen out with the Police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Well, the jokes were better. The right hon. Gentleman has obviously spent a bit of time running through his old Police albums. Given his policy on Europe, I would recommend, “So Lonely”, and given his general approach to policy, he is going to have to get used to “I can’t stand losing”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman has obviously spent a bit of time running through his old Police albums. Given his policy on Europe, I would recommend, “So Lonely”, and given his general approach to policy, he is going to have to get used to “I can’t stand losing”. [ Interruption. ] That was the best I could do given the notice. He should give me more warning next time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "cy on Europe, I would recommend, “So Lonely”, and given his general approach to policy, he is going to have to get used to “I can’t stand losing”. [ Interruption. ] That was the best I could do given the notice. He should give me more warning next time— [ Interruption. ] Don’t stand so close to me—very good. The bed’s too big without you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I will be making the speech in the middle of January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.572.6", "colnum": "572", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I warmly congratulate the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.572.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What I would say to my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "the issue was discussed in the margins, as it were, because a number of countries take an interest in it. The letter from José Manuel Barroso is pretty clear: Scotland would have to apply to join the European Union. Obviously, Britain is the only country that has a legal, binding, copper-bottom opt-out from the euro. All the other countries, by and large, are committed to join the euro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.588.6", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the new year will bring new challenges, and it would be wise to embark on them then, but not now. In the hallowed words of the late Lord Whitelaw, “I generally find that it is better to cross bridges only when I get to them.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.588.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.589.4", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Growth and Infrastructure Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Somebody says “Excellent”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.589.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Growth and Infrastructure Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "preceding_text": "d permitted development rights and whether the proposal should go ahead at all. The Opposition believe that the new clause is important. It is in keeping with localism, which the Minister says he supports, and we therefore cannot see any reason he would not accept it. That is also the view of the LGA, which the last time I checked, which was not that long ago, was under Conservative control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-17", "file": "debates2012-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c038fc96a8f71a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Growth and Infrastructure Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "ints raised during the consultation, on Second Reading and in Committee. I hope that they fulfil the undertaking I gave the shadow Secretary of State to ensure that amendments, whether or not he agrees with them, were at least produced before the Bill leaves the House. First, amendments 22 to 28 would amend the Bill to change the name of the new status to “employee shareholder.”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-17a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-18", "file": "debates2012-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "7c5cf07d1314d792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.696.6", "colnum": "696", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Helen Grant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Her?”", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Grant", "preceding_text": "Victims will certainly be part of the heart of the justice system. An announcement will be made imminently to confirm the name of the new victims commissioner and I look forward to working with her very closely indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.696.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-18", "file": "debates2012-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "7c5cf07d1314d792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her point of order, but my earlier statement still applies: it is a matter for the Government. I say that not least because we are in the presence of the esteemed Minister without Portfolio, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-18", "file": "debates2012-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "7c5cf07d1314d792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Justice and Security Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "House can elect whoever it likes, subject to a prime ministerial veto, is that it would be an Exocet that was hugely embarrassing to use. It is not impossible—I hope that it is not too fanciful—to envisage a case where the security services have satisfied the Prime Minister that there is some problem with a particular Member of this House of which the wider world is completely unaware.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-18", "file": "debates2012-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "7c5cf07d1314d792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.812.4", "colnum": "812", "heading": "JUSTICE AND SECURITY BILL [LORDS] [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "That is an alarming report and I am grateful to my hon. Friend for passing it on. That matter will be on the Minister’s desk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.812.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-18", "file": "debates2012-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "7c5cf07d1314d792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "JUSTICE AND SECURITY BILL [LORDS] [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "or storage. I cannot remember anybody getting any of the wine out of the wine lake, but that problem went away when the basis of subsidising the CAP was changed and there was a move away from all the payments relating to production. Production fell to be more in balance with demand, so the lakes and the mountains dissipated. Once the EU as an organisation has its hands on a particular power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-18b.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-19", "file": "debates2012-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "620893af5cd394b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is quite simply wrong. Serco has had no involvement whatsoever. It will be involved in some of the regions in the forthcoming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-19", "file": "debates2012-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "620893af5cd394b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "umber of our property holdings fell by 11%; and we sold Admiralty Arch, which is an unsatisfactory office building but will be a very good hotel building. We are making enormous savings. We have achieved total savings of £360 million in annual running costs. If this had started when the Leader of the Opposition had my job, the country would not have been in the mess that we inherited in 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.839.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-19", "file": "debates2012-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "620893af5cd394b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Charities Act 2011 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "preceding_text": "hat does that phrase mean in practice? Is it just a warm aspiration that can be set aside when the going gets a bit tough? If it is not, it seems essential that a target level of emissions should be included in the Bill, but there is no such target. The Secretary of State favours a target, but I am afraid that we have a bit of a problem with what we might call Liberal Democrat capture and storage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-19", "file": "debates2012-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "620893af5cd394b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.920.3", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Charities Act 2011 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": "As far as I am aware, the £1 billion that was promised for CCS is still on the table. I am not sure where that 80% figure comes from, although I would be disappointed if what the hon. Lady said was true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.920.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-19", "file": "debates2012-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "620893af5cd394b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Charities Act 2011 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr Hayes) could call the CBI left-wing academics—there may be one or two; the CBI is very much the voice of business, and business is asking for decarbonisation targets. It is a mistake for the Government not to put a clear message about decarbonisation in the Bill and not to honour the Climate Change Act in full. Having a target of 2030—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.925.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-19", "file": "debates2012-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "620893af5cd394b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.956.4", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Charities Act 2011 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ness that prices can be driven down. It is curious—I will put it no more strongly than that in the interests of creating a consensual approach to the Bill—that the Labour party should say that, given that the number of energy companies fell from 14 to six on its watch. It is still more curious that Labour Members are advocating a return to the pool. I do not agree with them about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-19a.956.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-20", "file": "debates2012-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7bd0cfed6b3da5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-20a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why not?”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I must confess that I was not aware of the street light situation in Corby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-20a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-20", "file": "debates2012-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7bd0cfed6b3da5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-20a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "structure, so that we have a first-class, fit-for-purpose railway network that can compete with our European competitors and ensure that we get a higher standard of journey for passengers and more freight on to the railways. In recent years, since privatisation, we have seen freight on our networks increase by 60%, with all the benefits that follow on from taking the freight off our road networks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-20a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2012-12-20", "file": "debates2012-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "7bd0cfed6b3da5d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-20a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "000 and Oxford Economics projects that total job losses will be 68,000, whereas 46,000 new jobs will be created. So, in 10 years’ time, we will be left with a jobs deficit of 20,000. The Government talked a lot about rebalancing the economy but have tipped the scales further against the north. Given the opportunities for growth in the north-east, that is at the whole country’s expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2012-12-20a.1066.0"}